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Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming)
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I forgot to loosen the lids when i steamed my jars for sterilization. Is this going to contribute to the effectiveness of the sterilization.

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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: dankcrop]
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If you have holes in the lids, then no, it shouldn't.


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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: dankcrop]
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I never loosened the lids when I sterilized, and I never put holes in the lids either.

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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: Skikid16]
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I have 4 holes sealed with duct tape. Hope this dosent matter..

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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: dankcrop]
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Ok, then it shouldn't matter, thanks guys for the help :wink:

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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: Skikid16]
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That's an area i'm not sure of yet..

I'll be boiling my jars in water to sterilize, now do I have the lids tight, or loose? And the water level? do i want the jar's covered or whats the deal? don't tell me to read the FAQ though I want a first hand answer....

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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: Anonymous]
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In reply to:
and I never put holes in the lids either.

How do you inoculate, G2G?


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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: funkymonk]
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Read the PF Tek.

tight or loose, your preference
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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: Skikid16]
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Skikid16,
Are you familiar with Mass spawning using brf? I was thinking about putting 1 colonized jar into a ziplock oven bag with 2 sterile brf/verm jars, and mixing it up.
You know if oven bags can be steamed? So i can skip a step to reduce contams.

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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: dankcrop]
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Are you familiar with Mass spawning using brf?

Nope. IME, large amounts of BRF takes too long to colonize which ups the chance for contams, I read about the method that you speak of, but if I were to do a bulk substrate for spawn, I would jus use millet.


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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: dankcrop]
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I did a little home experiment to find out which was better, b/c I read both ways to do it. So I did one set(2) with tapes over the holes while steaming, and the other set(2) without the holes covered. I found MUCH faster colonization in the ones w/out the holes covered. I figured it just let's more moisture into the jar, and gives it a stronger chance to survive.

So I would recommend leaving some way to let the steam in, wether keeping the jars loose, or leaving tape off the holes.


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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: Skikid16]
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I was resorting to this method b/c of the lack of a pc ;(
otherwise i would use a wbs or millet.

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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: dankcrop]
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I was resorting to this method b/c of the lack of a pc

Why not just do a bunch of jars, then spawn them into poo. I think this would be easier than trying to colonize in a ziplock.


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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: Skikid16]
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To come to think of it, i've never really read up on dung. Can you hook me up with a link. thanks

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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: Skikid16]
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>How do you inoculate, G2G?

I just open the lid up and innoculate.

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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: Anonymous]
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I used some wide-mouth "Self-Sealing" mason jars. I read somewhere that if they are "self-sealing", meaning that they have disc-and-ring tops, then you should indeed screw the lids on tight. Make sure if you use these types of jars that you don't poke holes into them until you are ready to innoculate.

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Re: Tightness of Lid during Sterilization (steaming) [Re: daba]
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For a poo tek look into my topic about small fruits to find the link to Roadkill's topic.


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