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Shrink
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Re: Easier Than Cubes!!! [Re: Rose]
#10669709 - 07/13/09 03:08 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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I was only expecting to harvest stones that were against the glass, but when I broke the sucker open I shat bricks. Huge stones hidden in the grain.
I just dumped a scoop of coffee and gypsum in with the grains after they had soaked. Averaged 10-15 dry grams per jar.
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Re: Easier Than Cubes!!! [Re: Shrink]
#10669751 - 07/13/09 03:14 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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What sized jar?
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Re: Easier Than Cubes!!! [Re: Rose]
#10669828 - 07/13/09 03:26 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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pint, harvested at about 2 months
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Re: Easier Than Cubes!!! [Re: Shrink]
#10670069 - 07/13/09 03:59 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ah, that's what I was thinking. Since I put in an agar wedge in each (both had seperate MS drops on them) I was thinking I couldn't have had two horrible sets of genetics. I was sure coffee made a huge difference in it.
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I used 4 agar plates, with 4 sections on each, from one print's scrapings.
So there was genetic variety. Some jars sucked, some jars it was like waking up on christmas morning and your parents got everything you asked for But all in all none really produced under 10 dry grams.
Still have one plate left in the fridge. It is pretty much brown and old now but still intact.
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Re: Easier Than Cubes!!! [Re: Rose]
#10670721 - 07/13/09 05:42 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Cervantes said: What sized jar?
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Shrink said: pint, harvested at about 2 months
Is jar size critical? Any consensus?
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Mephistophelian
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Jar size is irrelevant. Bigger jar = more scelortia. That's all.
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Doc_T
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My half pints didn't seem to work well. Quarts performed perfectly. For what it's worth.
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Rose
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Yup... I just wanted to know how big the jars were. That is about par for pints. Quarts should have yielded more, I wanted to make sure he got a good harvest.
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Re: Easier Than Cubes!!! [Re: Rose]
#10670972 - 07/13/09 06:29 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Thanks. Kinda figured, since people have had great results in bags. How much inoculate do you guys recommend for a given volume of substrate?
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Doc_T
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I did mine just like regular LC- 1 mL per cup of cooked grain. So 1 for a pint, 2+ for a quart.
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hammy
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Anyone tried whole brown rice for a stone producer, just curious if it would work decent.
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Rose
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Re: Easier Than Cubes!!! [Re: hammy]
#10671166 - 07/13/09 07:01 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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I would want something else. Rice turns to mush when cooked. Dense and unshakable.
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Re: Easier Than Cubes!!! [Re: Rose]
#10671462 - 07/13/09 08:03 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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good to know thanks.
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Re: Easier Than Cubes!!! [Re: Rose]
#10698286 - 07/18/09 07:14 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Any reason to use rye grass seed in particular, not just any grass seed? Also, I think grass seed often comes with treatments for moisture retention-- bad? and/or fungicide [I assume way-bad].
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Quote:
chucklehead said: I like your enthusiasm. I've always wondered about them. I just never took the time to expand my horizons with them. This hobby has so many new things to try every day that one can hardly find the time to keep up. So far the extent of my successful experience is with who knows how many strains of cubes a dozen or more I think, two strains of copelandia, and several oysters.
So tell us more about these wonderous critters. I'm interested. What is their mycelium like? Thin and whispy? Thick and cottony? Something altogether different? What do they eat in bulk? Poo? Compost? Wood lovers? What is the colonization time like compared to cubes for both the spawn and the bulk? Is it fast on the rye? Don't the sclerotia take forever? I thought I read that takes quite a while to form invetro. Not that I care. I'll let those lil guys sit around. I got the jars that's for damn sure. Are the sclerotia easily differenciated from your spawn? The pictures I've seen ... well I guess I just can't tell what I'm looking at.
You mind sending me a couple of prints? I don't have a credit card and haven't had mushies in bloody 6 months!
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myceleus_rex said: Any reason to use rye grass seed in particular, not just any grass seed? Also, I think grass seed often comes with treatments for moisture retention-- bad? and/or fungicide [I assume way-bad].
Any grass seed will do... just buy the cheap, untreated stuff. If you live in a humid area or in the subtropics, you may not be able to find the untreated stuff... but if you can, it is very cheap.
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Re: Easier Than Cubes!!! [Re: Rose]
#10700917 - 07/18/09 07:03 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thanks, C. I came to that conclusion after some extensive thread searching. It seems to be standard to refer to "rye grass seed", but maybe it might be better to just say "grass seed". All the rye grass seed I've seen is far more expensive than general-purpose lawn seed and is more likely to be treated in some manner, plus, I found LOTS of threads where people were confused about rye grass vs. rye berries, so why say rye grass when any generic grass seed will do just fine?
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myceleus_rex said: so why say rye grass when any generic grass seed will do just fine?
Tradition.
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Re: Easier Than Cubes!!! [Re: Doc_T]
#10701058 - 07/18/09 07:42 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Doc_T said:
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myceleus_rex said: so why say rye grass when any generic grass seed will do just fine?
Tradition.
HaHaHaHaHa!!!!!! Nuff Said!!!!!!
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