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EvilMushroom666
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Re: EvilMushroom's Wedge Tek [Re: Doc_T]
#13562569 - 11/30/10 11:57 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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There is not enough data to notice a big pattern. Sometimes wedges did not get to the destination for one member, but worked out for another member in the same state. It appears(Time will tell better) that the further away it goes, TX,AZ,CA, the less chances of the wedge surviving using the method I have used. I will be sending out a wedge today I overlooked and will make a cardboard cutout and affix it to the note card. See what happens!
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Doc_T
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Exactly. Take California- send a letter from Canada to San Diego, and it goes direct to the local SD sorting center. Send one to Escondido, and it's going to get sub-sorted into the San Diego area, then possibly again to get to the local station. Or possibly it goes a whole other route, maybe incoming letter to smaller places go through some vast sorter in Sacramento or somewhere.
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EvilMushroom666
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Re: EvilMushroom's Wedge Tek [Re: Doc_T]
#13562772 - 11/30/10 12:49 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Lets see if this ends up arriving fine.
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Doc_T
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Looks good. That ships at letter rate? Fits through the gadget?
also, let me know if you need a data point for Colorado.
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csmandpking
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Looks good to me
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EvilMushroom666
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Re: EvilMushroom's Wedge Tek [Re: Doc_T]
#13562820 - 11/30/10 12:58 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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I tossed a $1 U.S stamp on it and it will hit the mailbox later tonight. We shall see if it arrives or not, has a bit more bulk to it then the other letters but not by much. The gadget iv seen used only on manilla envelopes.
The letter all done up feels like it simply has a few cards or something of that kind inside. We shall see if it arrives, and I would of course love a data point from Colorado in the future. When I get a bit of time I will make up some more wedges and prepare a few using this method. We shall see.
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EvilMushroom666
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Picture of a wedge that has made it through the rollers and is still sealed. Thanks for taking it total!
Another wedge that has made it using this method. I sent the new design out today so we shall see if that arrives ok. If so I might make up a few and send out a small sampling. When I am sure it is a method that works 99% of the time I will edit the TEK in OP.
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Doc_T
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Quote:
EvilMushroom666 said: The gadget iv seen used only on manilla envelopes.
As long as Canada Post lets you ship it, USPS won't care what you paid for postage. So anything that fits within your guidelines is ok. But it's going to get processed as a letter.
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EvilMushroom666
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Re: EvilMushroom's Wedge Tek [Re: Doc_T]
#13629019 - 12/13/10 09:57 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Update:
Have gotten a few more messages here and there, a couple make it, a few more do not.
Interesting tho, out of the 6 wedges that got sent international only 1 had problems. The letter in question contained 4 wedges. 2 popped, two made it across fine. Also took a month and a bit to get from Canada to India.
The us statistics are mixed, more getting through then not. I have sent out 1 letter of a new design and have not yet received any conformation. There are still some letters that have not arrived for whatever reason.
Funny Side Note:
I recently sent a wedge package to a friend within Canada and it did not make it intact, the wedges had popped and squirted the colonized agar onto the card stock, and then dried. Also had obviously been through some trauma the results of what we speculate to be getting stuck in the sorting machine.
"I think I may have got the Pink Oyster after all. I scraped the dried inside of the envelope and put on agar. Got myc and I do not see any contams."
I have sent him a asking if he could take a picture.
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Another update for you evil... Just last night, i took my squished wedge(which had reformed in the bag:lol), and "re-squished" it into a gel, sanitized the package, snipped a corner, and plated... Ill let you know how it goes! I bet it turns out just fine! TBH, the hole squirting a little dot onto each plate was quite convenient... Prob could easily done plenty of plates that way!
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EvilMushroom666
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Re: EvilMushroom's Wedge Tek [Re: total]
#13639981 - 12/15/10 11:56 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Here is a picture of the plate grown out from dried agar scrapped off the card stock.
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Javadog
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Cool.
For all that there seem to be so many ways to do these things wrong, fungi are surprising hardy.
Keep spreadin' the love bro.
JD
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Re: EvilMushroom's Wedge Tek [Re: Javadog]
#13641130 - 12/16/10 09:34 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Maharishi_2_U
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Very good thread! I was sent S75 from one of the members in this thread (speak up if u want) It was goo... I plated five dishes..... got three good ones.... Now, when I was a boy in school my mom sent school photos to family (pre email) She always wrote "photos please hand cancel" She worked for the USPS for years... Maybe this would work??? Best... BC
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i hate when the boxes tell me what to do. i get yelled at enough by my manager about rando shit. and then the boxes will do it too
THIS SIDE UP!@#!@$#!
HANDLE WITH CARE@!$@#
PLEASE DO NOT DROP (with a smiley face in the O)
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EvilMushroom666
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Got a message today regarding wedges I had sent, felt like I would share it here:
"When I got the wedges (to US) the were squished just like everyone else was saying but appeared to still be sealed. I put the wedges to agar nearly 10 days ago and.... nothing. Not even any contamination. It was worth a try anyway, I'm thinking the rollers musta killed the myc as I would have expected to see something by now. Mad respect for the effort though! "
Odd but I thought I would document it here. Would exposure to freezing temps for an extended period of time kill the mycelium...Funny how these wedges did not revive when placed on agar, yet dried agar on card stock of the same strains lept off when placed on agar.
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EvilMushroom666 said: Would exposure to freezing temps for an extended period of time kill the mycelium...
No. Mycillium can survive freezing temps. Even Ps. Cubensis mycillium.
In fact some commercial growers keep culture slants frozen that are being stored for long periods.
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RogerRabbit said: The main reason cubes don't survive outside of tropical habitat is due to summer rainfall amounts, not winter freezing. I've seen six inches of snow on the ground and 0F in east texas where cubes grow wild, while in Seattle, the winters are much milder and rarely freeze, but cubes don't grow back year after year even when patches are started.
They need those summer thunderstorms to prevent the substrate(cow manure) from drying out totally. In a climate with dry summers, the cubes don't survive unless watered. RR
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EvilMushroom666
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I remember reading about freezing damaging mycelium so I went back and found the info posted by Damion5050. Do not know what the consensus is but thought I would post it here. As well we are not talking about cubes, but legal edibles.
"If you freeze them it will almost always kill them you have to remember mycelium is only a single cell thick. And when frozen the ice crystals that are formed will usually puncture the cell wall and since it is only one cell thick you are then in turned by definition FUCKED !! "
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thats why they are cryo-frozen.
That is how they avoid the problem you just addressed.
I don't know about reishi though? It likely can't survive the type of freezing you are describing at the post office.
If the temp is dropped at a slow rate then yea, serious cell damage.
If you drop it quick enough...... thats a different story.
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EvilMushroom666
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With the winter being here who knows how long it sat in the mailbox, sat in a cold ass truck, for how long, at what temps ect ect. A LOT of variables are at play here. First time that it has arrived sealed and did not recover tho. Just brainstorming ideas of why this happened.
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