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Freyja
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Trying an experiment
#15895154 - 03/03/12 03:33 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I had seven stalled pf cakes sitting in my fc for about a month now. I think when I dunked them after birthing I used water that was too cold which caused them to stall. Well after sitting there for about a month they looked really dry and pretty dead, and I have given up hope of them ever fruiting. At this I figured why not try an experiment just to see what happens. So I mixed up some coir/vermiculite (about 1/4 of a brick coir to 1 1/2 cup vermiculite) sub and placed that in the bottom of three ziplock trays to about half inch deep. I placed the lids on them and microwaved for 5 minutes on High. While the trays were cooling I mixed about 1 1/2 cup of dry horse poo with the rest of the coir/vermiculite. This was really old dry stuff that was almost dust like. And placed that in a baking pan, wrapped that in tinfoil and placed that in the oven 300 for an hour. then left to cool overnight. After the trays had cooled I broke up two cakes in each tray and misted the top, replaced the lid and put in incubation. The next day I placed a 1/2 inch top layer of the poo/coir/vermiculite on each one, replaced the lid and placed back in incubation. The next morning (today) I looked at them and found a bit of new mycelium growing. I'll look again in a few days to see what is happening.
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one shroom, two shroom, green shroom ... wait how did that get there?
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Durban.Poison
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Re: Trying an experiment [Re: Freyja]
#15895471 - 03/03/12 04:49 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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good luck...let us know how it goes...I'm really interested in this experiment...from what I hear, you need to crumble the cakes at the time of birth or your asking for contams...like all the stuff that has landed on it over the last month is just getting mixed in
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Freyja
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Contamination is definitely going to be something to watch for with this.
-------------------- The future did not look good for Schrodingers cat.
one shroom, two shroom, green shroom ... wait how did that get there?
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jimmyjame1
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Re: Trying an experiment [Re: Freyja]
#15899081 - 03/04/12 01:03 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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. So I mixed up some coir/vermiculite (about 1/4 of a brick coir to 1 1/2 cup vermiculite) sub and placed that in the bottom of three ziplock trays to about half inch deep. I placed the lids on them and microwaved for 5 minutes on High.
i microwave will not pasturize your substrate( which is needed for using coir) i assume since your cakes have been out and your coir isnt properly pasturized your gonna end up with a big old bacteria ridden moldy log of not much.
i would maybe bury it in a couple inches of soil outside if it starts getting really cntaminated (weather permiting) and hope for fruits!
good luck
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Freyja
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Re: Trying an experiment [Re: jimmyjame1]
#15913946 - 03/07/12 01:08 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well I checked the trays today and have about 75% colonization of the sub. No contamination, just lots of fluffy white mycelium.
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jimmyjame1 said: i would maybe bury it in a couple inches of soil outside if it starts getting really cntaminated (weather permiting) and hope for fruits!
good luck
jj~
I prolly would have in the first place during the warmer months, But it's still snowing where I live.
-------------------- The future did not look good for Schrodingers cat.
one shroom, two shroom, green shroom ... wait how did that get there?
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