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ranonar
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Pollocks' lost method - myth or reality?
#14534157 - 05/30/11 01:50 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I am doing some literature research on the history of Psilocybe mushroom cultivation. One of the key figures of the rice cake method is Stephen Pollock. He was killed in 1981 and all of his notes have been destroyed.
I am looking for any kind of material regarding his company Hidden Creek / The Perpetual Garden. I have Pollock's book and a couple of old ads of his company but there also existed a poster and a t-shirt depicting his method. I would love to see those (I do not need the originals, scans are fine).
The reason: I have a feeling that Pollock knew about some technique which astonishes me if it really exists. It sounds impossible but I want to know for sure. Because if it does exist it may be a technique which, with the death of Pollock, has been lost for over thirty years. It is the technique for starting brown rice substrate cakes by free pouring LC's in an unsterile environment without causing contamination.
so... if there is somebody who has 30+ yeas old material about Pollock and his methods please scan it and publish it on the net somewhere.
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Re: Pollocks' lost method - myth or reality? [Re: ranonar]
#14534191 - 05/30/11 02:14 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I've never heard of this guy until just now. Sounds interesting, though I am skeptical.
Sorry to be an ass, but I haven't got the time to read up on him at the moment, so I'm just commenting here to see how this thread develops. Good luck man!
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Re: Pollocks' lost method - myth or reality? [Re: ranonar]
#14534214 - 05/30/11 02:26 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I forgot this. The reason for my curiosity are the following lines from an ad of TE PERPETUAL GARDEN:
"Our Garden Starters: Liquid (20x125mm screwcap tube) Liquid Mycelia Starter inoculates up to 100 chambers. No probe or lighter required."
My comments: the screwcap tube looks a lot like a syringe. Read 'jar' for 'Chamber' and pipette for probe. But a syringe inoculates ten, perhaps twenty jars. Not 100. That is mystery 1)
And then the "no probe required" In earlier versions of his technique used a pipette to draw the liquid mycelium from a vessel and transfer it to a jar of substrate. Nowadays we use syringes because they are liquid inoculum vessel and pipette in one utensil.
But Pollock only had a vial without needle. And the ad says "no probe required" So no pipette either. Plus, the dry vermiculite contaminant barrier was not invented yet. There were only (not self -healing) filter disks back then.
...so how did Pollock get the liquid mycelium from the tube into the substrate without contamination? That is the real question. To me the ad suggests at free pouring. Or to be truthful I do not have the foggiest idea because how can you inoculate 100 jars with one test tube with only a free pouring technique at your disposal?
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