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OfflineJohn in WI
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Dunkin' question
    #19367689 - 01/04/14 11:30 AM (10 years, 26 days ago)

FINALLY my brown rice and rye flour/vermiculite jars are colonized.  I'm going to do it right and give them several more days to consolidate before moving forward. They took forever because I used 1pt jars with only 2 inocculation holes and being covered in a dry vermiculite layer there was no shaking either.  That and the less than ideal temperature made it slow going.  I have to say--it was sort of Zen watching the mycellium creep along like that.

In any case, I understand what needs to happen now--to replenish the moisture I lost over the past weeks by dunking.  I also understand that it's better to submerge them a little bit to increase the water pressure.  The extra pressure should help force the water deep into the cake.

I'm curious now about the temperature of the water.  From what I read, they say about 40F is ideal.  Unfortnately my fridge is one of those tiny dorm room sized ones (and not terribly clean, I'm ashamed to admit).

Since I live in an arctic wasteland, I can easily and quickly produce ice for cooling the water.  Do you think it would work if I just submerged the cake, covered in a plate, and put a chunk of ice on top of that?  The ice would melt, running ice cold water into the bucket. 

Also--is the cold water required to "shock" the mycellium, or is it more a problem of retarding bacterial growth?

Thanks for all the help on here--so far the grow is going well.  Probably should have read some forums before I started knocking up jars, but all's well that ends well I guess.


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Re: Dunkin' question [Re: John in WI]
    #19367697 - 01/04/14 11:33 AM (10 years, 26 days ago)

Just use room temp water don't worry about it being cold :thumbup:


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Re: Dunkin' question [Re: Skinty]
    #19367735 - 01/04/14 11:43 AM (10 years, 26 days ago)

Thanks--although I have to say, ice is something not in short supply around here these days.

Also--what variety is that beautiful monster in the right-most picture?


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Re: Dunkin' question [Re: John in WI]
    #19369344 - 01/04/14 05:23 PM (10 years, 26 days ago)

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John in WI said:
Thanks--although I have to say, ice is something not in short supply around here these days.

Also--what variety is that beautiful monster in the right-most picture?




Just forget about the ice :smile:

They are a variety of Cubensis that originally someone put a label saying "B+" on but I believe in that pic were several generations away from that. They were so potent my isolates are labelled destructo A, destructo B etc....:shrug:


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