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Jackthetripper7



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Proper Gas Exchange
#18442887 - 06/19/13 03:11 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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What's up shroomerites? I've just nocced' up 5 pint jars with P. Costa Rica last night, and they're sitting snugly on my bookshelf behind a row of books. I wiped everything surface/dusty looking object in my room down with Lysol, washed my bed sheets, vacuumed, and vigorously sprayed the room with oust (For those of you who like to read as much as I do, I'm sorry but the books had to get it ). I know it may sound OD, but since I'm using pint jars I'm trying to take every precaution in my power to ensure a sterile environment for them to colonize in. My question about gas exchange is, is it okay to open my windows and let in fresh air? I know they need gas exchange to thrive, but I feel like I'd be introducing airborne contams into my OD sterile environment. I know the dry verm barrier is a filter for contams, but I guess I'm just paranoid . I've read through the forums, but none have addressed this specifically. Let me know what you guys think I should do.
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PussyFart
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The cakes have a dry verm layer, which is the contam filter.
They will be fine in a dusty ass room on a shelf, sitting next to a pile of shit, as long as the dry verm layer is intact.
Open the windows if you want, it will not affect anything.
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Re: Proper Gas Exchange [Re: PussyFart]
#18442965 - 06/19/13 03:28 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Notahacker420 said: The cakes have a dry verm layer, which is the contam filter.
They will be fine in a dusty ass room on a shelf, sitting next to a pile of shit, as long as the dry verm layer is intact.
Open the windows if you want, it will not affect anything.

If the tek you're using relies on your bedroom being sterile, you've already lost. If you're doing PF cakes, the verm is the filter. If you're doing grains the polyfill is the filter. Both of these are very effective, and as long as you don't hose them down with shitwater or shake a PF cake, any contamination will likely be from the inside due to improper sterilization.
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StygianKnight
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Jackthetripper7 said: ensure a sterile environment for them to colonize in.
Your room is cleaner, but it's not sterile. Opening a window is fine. As long as the barriers don't get wet, they should work fine.
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Jackthetripper7



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I'm using pf tek, I know I'm just very paranoid about contams (it's been a while since I've done a project!) I just want to do everything and anything I can to make my chances of success go up. using probability, there's a 1/3 rate of success. 1st probability is that they fully colonize, 2nd is that they contam, 3rd is that they stall (thank you algebra 1!) but yeah I'm just gonna open my windows and just leave them be, besides my weekly check on em'.
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poisoned
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You got probability wrong it's more like 0.9x0.9x0.9=0.72 = 72% considering you'd have 90% success rate at each of those points.
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PussyFart
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Re: Proper Gas Exchange [Re: poisoned]
#18443416 - 06/19/13 04:56 PM (11 years, 6 months ago) |
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poisoned said: You got probability wrong it's more like 0.9x0.9x0.9=0.72 = 72% considering you'd have 90% success rate at each of those points.
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THIS HOBBY IS NOT FOR THE IMPATIENT! PLEASE BE PATIENT, DON'T BE A PATIENT!
A Tale of 10 Isolates, GT Cluster Clone Monotubs, RR's Let's Grow Mushrooms DVD,
SGFC(Shotgun Fruiting Chamber), Monotub Tek, Damion5050's Coir Tek, TL's Tek List, Frank's Tek List,
EvilMushroom666's Pasteurization Tek, How It Should & Shouldn't Look - NEW CULTIVATORS GUIDE
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