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ShroomingMan
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Ralphster's Spores Poor quality?
#13021211 - 08/08/10 10:57 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hey all, I was just wondering if any of you Ralphster customers have noticed a a decrease in the quality of spores from ralphsters? I've been doing this for about 2 years now and I've always purchased my spores from ralphsters. At the start every syringe was high quality no contamination but these past months the syringes ive gotten from Ralph have almost all been duds.
I'm talking contamination and in some cases ive waited and waited and no mycellium growth at all let alone contamination. He does send over other syringes when asked as a compensation but it is a pain having to wait and waste ingredients on contamination problems etc... Have any of you noticed this? I'm thinking of maybe trying a dif spore vendor. Any suggestions?
PS: the contaminations were are definetly syringe related, trust me.
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Re: Ralphster's Spores Poor quality? [Re: ShroomingMan]
#13021229 - 08/08/10 11:02 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ive had the exact same problems, I only trade for my spores now, But thats not to say I haven't had good viable spores from ralph either
self sufficiency FTW
and this would do better in the sponsors forum,
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Edited by Pscientist (08/08/10 11:02 AM)
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ShroomingMan
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Re: Ralphster's Spores Poor quality? [Re: Pscientist]
#13021315 - 08/08/10 11:23 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Glad I know im not alone. Ya maybe ill try making my own syringes is it tricky? The thing is when I actually grow my terrarium usually gets moldy after the first flush and I just dump it . Thats why I never bothered getting my own spores, I thought Id just be waisting my time. Yeah Ill post this in the sponsors. Anyone else know of any decent spore vendors?
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Re: Ralphster's Spores Poor quality? [Re: ShroomingMan]
#13021360 - 08/08/10 11:38 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well, I have to admit that I had trouble with a run of syringes from Ralphster.
Now, the syringe of Texan was very clean and very strong. I am posting about it elsewhere.
I just want to be fair.
But the syringes that I have used from Ralphster in the last six weeks or so are: KSSS, Texan, Elephant Dung, Cambodian, and African Transeki.
I made a point of handling the syringes carefully, and using sterile procedures (alcohol lamp, flowhood, etc) and also have Sporeworks syringes, stored in their own ziplock, right along with my Ralphster syringes.
None of the Sporeworks syringes have failed. None of my five syringes from HawksEye failed.
Well, long story short, the KSSS, Cambo, E Dung, and AT syringes produced contaminated LCs, repeatedly, and have shown bacterial infection on an agar test that I decided to do to investigate. (these are also posted in a thread that I started, with photos)
I hope to clean up these strains on agar, and will call it all an interesting experiment if I am successful.
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Re: Ralphster's Spores Poor quality? [Re: Javadog]
#13021374 - 08/08/10 11:42 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I have to agree with the decrease in quality. I've ordered from him a couple years ago and they were great but I ordered about 6 months ago 7 strains and they were very weak growers, all the strains looked exactly the same. A cube is a cube but when I've ordered spores in the past, even originally from ralphsters you could see a clear difference between strains consistently this time it just looked like a bunch of the same strain labeled differently. Hate to talk him down cause they've been great in the past, just sharing my experience.
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Re: Ralphster's Spores Poor quality? [Re: ShroomingMan]
#13021396 - 08/08/10 11:48 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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First of all, Wrong forum for this. You kids need to take it up with Ralph, personally and quit talkin' shit. I have had a few problems recently as well with the similar issues and whatnot. Like a man I contacted him personally through email and he promptly replaced my order.
If any of you all were real men you would have some empathy and understanding. Maybe Ralph's just going through a transitional period with the folks he is co-op'ing with, who he gets his spores from. I have been ordering from Ralphster's for 6 and a half years, I have been aware of Ralf for 10. Ralph is a stand up mother fucker. Kids who can't confront the man and who bitch about him over the very internet forum from which Ralph pays good money to support, are sissies. HL
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Re: Ralphster's Spores Poor quality? [Re: hamloaf]
#13021405 - 08/08/10 11:52 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hey Ham,
I am making the best of it.
I would like to avoid having to question my growing procedures where possible. I have enough questions already.
It was for that reason, to confirm a potential reason for another growers issues, that I posted.
I posted my petri dishes in an effort to learn more about cleaning strains on agar.
It's all good. I have no reason to whine to Ralph at this point.
JD
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Re: Ralphster's Spores Poor quality? [Re: hamloaf]
#13021411 - 08/08/10 11:54 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
hamloaf said: First of all, Wrong forum for this. You kids need to take it up with Ralph, personally and quit talkin' shit. I have had a few problems recently as well with the similar issues and whatnot. Like a man I contacted him personally through email and he promptly replaced my order.
If any of you all were real men you would have some empathy and understanding. Maybe Ralph's just going through a transitional period with the folks he is co-op'ing with, who he gets his spores from. I have been ordering from Ralphster's for 6 and a half years, I have been aware of Ralf for 10. Ralph is a stand up mother fucker. Kids who can't confront the man and who bitch about him over the very internet forum from which Ralph pays good money to support, are sissies. HL
In my opinion its not about being a man, he can keep every cent hes made off me, he earned it, and Ive used his spores to further my mycological understandings, He doesn't owe me anything, nor I him,
This is just a fair warning, that maybe not all vendors meet the same standards of excellence,
and losing money/supplies and getting upset doesn't make us sissies, it makes us completely logical ,
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Re: Ralphster's Spores Poor quality? [Re: Pscientist]
#13021430 - 08/08/10 11:59 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Pscientist said:
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hamloaf said: First of all, Wrong forum for this. You kids need to take it up with Ralph, personally and quit talkin' shit. I have had a few problems recently as well with the similar issues and whatnot. Like a man I contacted him personally through email and he promptly replaced my order.
If any of you all were real men you would have some empathy and understanding. Maybe Ralph's just going through a transitional period with the folks he is co-op'ing with, who he gets his spores from. I have been ordering from Ralphster's for 6 and a half years, I have been aware of Ralf for 10. Ralph is a stand up mother fucker. Kids who can't confront the man and who bitch about him over the very internet forum from which Ralph pays good money to support, are sissies. HL
In my opinion its not about being a man, he can keep every cent hes made off me, he earned it, and Ive used his spores to further my mycological understandings, He doesn't owe me anything, nor I him,
This is just a fair warning, that maybe not all vendors meet the same standards of excellence,
and losing money/supplies and getting upset doesn't make us sissies, it makes us completely logical ,
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I might have sounded a bit harsh in my original post. Woops I love ralphsters he's my favorite and only vendor. Just wondering if it was me that was getting bad luck on my syringes or if others have had this problem. No hard feelings man.
Edited by ShroomingMan (08/08/10 12:02 PM)
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Re: Ralphster's Spores Poor quality? [Re: ShroomingMan]
#13021448 - 08/08/10 12:03 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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This thread has been closed.
Reason: off topic!~ No Vendor talk in the Mush Cult!~
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