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My invitro techinque
    #21943118 - 07/14/15 05:47 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Hi guys I want to share with you my in vitro cultivation method cause its really easy, maintenance free and contam free.

First I drill four holes into the top and two on the sides of an hermetic rubbermaid container with a 1/4" bit




Then I put two autohealing rubber injection ports in the top



Then I put micropore tape in the other four holes.



Then I fill it with BRF-vermiculae mixture (the same as PF Tek's), pressure cook the container, let it cool, then put a drop of isopropyl alcohol over the injection ports and inject it with contam-free liquid culture or spore syringe passing the needle through the alcohol while injecting.

Finally I put the container in a room with indirect sunlight and leave it there until it is ready to harvest.

This is the final result (one jar).







You can even harvest them some days after the caps opened and they will not spoil.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo]
    #21943190 - 07/14/15 06:01 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Cool man.

Do you inoculate in open air, or in a SAB?


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo]
    #21943306 - 07/14/15 06:25 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: Grey]
    #21944983 - 07/15/15 01:43 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Cool man.

Do you inoculate in open air, or in a SAB?



I inoculate in open air just passing the needle through the isopropyl alcohol and never had any contaminations.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo]
    #21946414 - 07/15/15 08:54 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

This is worth investigation, imho. What a boon it would be for someone who just wants a few for the occasional flight. Neat. Thumbs up for the idea.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: Ajahn Don]
    #21947384 - 07/15/15 01:26 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I would skip the alcohol, it can harbour contams. Just cover the lid with foil, and only remove the foil just before you are inoculating, so the injection ports will be sterile.

It will also stop any water getting on your lid and into the containers through the filters. It looks like your lid might have a ridge running around it which will possibly make a pool in the centre if water drips off the top of the PC.

I would also recommend people to drill plastic on top of some wood, the plastic in the pics looks thick and not too brittle, others will crack. I usually drill a small hole and hold a lighter up to it, this smoothens out the edges and enlarges the hole and makes it stronger and smoother.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: blackout]
    #21947853 - 07/15/15 03:09 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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I would skip the alcohol, it can harbour contams. Just cover the lid with foil, and only remove the foil just before you are inoculating, so the injection ports will be sterile.

It will also stop any water getting on your lid and into the containers through the filters. It looks like your lid might have a ridge running around it which will possibly make a pool in the centre if water drips off the top of the PC.

I would also recommend people to drill plastic on top of some wood, the plastic in the pics looks thick and not too brittle, others will crack. I usually drill a small hole and hold a lighter up to it, this smoothens out the edges and enlarges the hole and makes it stronger and smoother.




Yes you could too but the point of the isopropyl alcohol is to kill anything that might be in the needle and its really effective I dont care anymore where I do my prodecures, I do it in open air with the AC on, even in the kitchen where there is mold or with an open windows, and the alhocol doesnt make it trough the injection port, maybe some that might get caught inside the needle but never gave me any problems.

I keep my isopropyl alcohol inside a tincture bottle with a dropper.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo]
    #21948168 - 07/15/15 04:12 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Nice Cap bro...:mushroom2:


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: Darkhome]
    #21952506 - 07/16/15 03:38 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Nice Cap bro...:mushroom2:



Thx man, nice signature haha


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo]
    #21952606 - 07/16/15 03:56 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

How long did it take you from injection to harvest? Did you ever change its environment?


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: funkmastakush]
    #21952868 - 07/16/15 05:07 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I find grows like this absolutely fascinating because obviously, a couple of very small holes with micropore tape on them gives enough FAE for healthy mushrooms to grow.  Contrast that with a SGFC, fanning, misting to get the FAE and humidity right.  I mean seriously, how much "fresh air" can be getting into that little fruiting chamber?

How much effort, testing, trial and error does it take you to find a strain or culture that thrives with this method or do they all work equally well.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: funkmastakush]
    #21952875 - 07/16/15 05:09 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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How long did it take you from injection to harvest? Did you ever change its environment?




It took me like 2 weeks to make the liquid culture, then from when I injected the LC into the jar it took like 2-3 weeks in a dark place to fully colonize, then 1-2 weeks to harvest the mushrooms so it was total less that 1 and a half months from injection to harvest.

I only changed the environment once by getting it out of the dark room into a room with many windos over a cabine for indirect sunlight, I will upload the picture tomorrow.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: KauaiOrca]
    #21953016 - 07/16/15 05:44 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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I find grows like this absolutely fascinating because obviously, a couple of very small holes with micropore tape on them gives enough FAE for healthy mushrooms to grow.  Contrast that with a SGFC, fanning, misting to get the FAE and humidity right.  I mean seriously, how much "fresh air" can be getting into that little fruiting chamber?

How much effort, testing, trial and error does it take you to find a strain or culture that thrives with this method or do they all work equally well.




Well actually this was the first try.

One day I left a colonized jar in a table in the kitchen and a month later I noticed it had mushrooms in it between the cake and the glass so I decided to do this in a bigger jar with enough space for the mushrooms to grow.

I was having some contamination problems on my fruiting chamber so I thought it would be easier this way cause you pressure cook the entire thing and never open the jar until its ready to harvest.

The first jar I left in the kitchen had two 1/4" holes in the top but thisone is bigger so I added 2 more holes at the middle of the jar to let a little more FAE, I just left it over a cabinet in the kithen and some weeks later I noticed it was full of mushrooms =)

I will continue experimenting with different variables to see what happens and I will post my results.

By the way I used Psilocybe Cubensis B+ but since all the cubes have the same growing conditions I assume you can do this with any cube strain.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo] * 1
    #21953032 - 07/16/15 05:49 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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I find grows like this absolutely fascinating because obviously, a couple of very small holes with micropore tape on them gives enough FAE for healthy mushrooms to grow.  Contrast that with a SGFC, fanning, misting to get the FAE and humidity right.  I mean seriously, how much "fresh air" can be getting into that little fruiting chamber?

How much effort, testing, trial and error does it take you to find a strain or culture that thrives with this method or do they all work equally well.




Well actually this was the first try.

One day I left a colonized jar in a table in the kitchen and a month later I noticed it had mushrooms in it between the cake and the glass so I decided to do this in a bigger jar with enough space for the mushrooms to grow.

I was having some contamination problems on my fruiting chamber so I thought it would be easier this way cause you pressure cook the entire thing and never open the jar until its ready to harvest.

The first jar I left in the kitchen had two 1/4" holes in the top but thisone is bigger so I added 2 more holes at the middle of the jar to let a little more FAE, I just left it over a cabinet in the kithen and some weeks later I noticed it was full of mushrooms =)

I will continue experimenting with different variables to see what happens and I will post my results.




I'm into invitro methods as well and really have no desire for big tubs of bulk grows and thousands of mushrooms.  I'm going to post three really good threads for you on this that you'll get a lot out of. Especially Violet's V-Tek … She's got this method totally dialed in.  The Muda Bottle look like they could yield a lot but they involve a fruiting chamber.

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/19035262#19035262

Sclerotia (magic truffles) is totally invitro and this guy is the wizard of sclerotia
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/13431948/page/1

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21168958#21168958


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: KauaiOrca]
    #21953141 - 07/16/15 06:17 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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I'm into invitro methods as well and really have no desire for big tubs of bulk grows and thousands of mushrooms.  I'm going to post three really good threads for you on this that you'll get a lot out of. Especially Violet's V-Tek … She's got this method totally dialed in.  The Muda Bottle look like they could yield a lot but they involve a fruiting chamber.

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/19035262#19035262

Sclerotia (magic truffles) is totally invitro and this guy is the wizard of sclerotia
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/13431948/page/1

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21168958#21168958




Wow thx man I will check it out, I was wondering if I could use brown rice as substrate cause I cant find RGS where I live and theyre a little expensive on internet but they use rice in your link so I will try it.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: KauaiOrca]
    #21953191 - 07/16/15 06:27 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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but they involve a fruiting chamber.




Cron's Growing without a Fruiting chamber

teaches you very well how to read the mushrooms. read the whole thread for lots of good input on how to pull it off.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo]
    #21953444 - 07/16/15 07:31 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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I'm into invitro methods as well and really have no desire for big tubs of bulk grows and thousands of mushrooms.  I'm going to post three really good threads for you on this that you'll get a lot out of. Especially Violet's V-Tek … She's got this method totally dialed in.  The Muda Bottle look like they could yield a lot but they involve a fruiting chamber.

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/19035262#19035262

Sclerotia (magic truffles) is totally invitro and this guy is the wizard of sclerotia
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/13431948/page/1

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21168958#21168958




Wow thx man I will check it out, I was wondering if I could use brown rice as substrate cause I cant find RGS where I live and theyre a little expensive on internet but they use rice in your link so I will try it.




You will have to open it up and case it if you use whole grain brown rice, which is no big deal once it's all colonized and the yields are better according to Violet.  But, after you case it, you close it up and grow it the way you are now. 

Rye grass seed is hard to find?  What do people where you live use to seed their lawns?


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: KauaiOrca]
    #21953471 - 07/16/15 07:38 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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I find grows like this absolutely fascinating because obviously, a couple of very small holes with micropore tape on them gives enough FAE for healthy mushrooms to grow.  Contrast that with a SGFC, fanning, misting to get the FAE and humidity right.  I mean seriously, how much "fresh air" can be getting into that little fruiting chamber?




I would temper that fascination with the understanding of what healthy cubes grown in abundant FAE actually look like. OP has some nice results for what he is attempting to do but the small caps, stretching stipes and fuzzy feet are signs that the FAE was indeed very poor. Compare to the cap sizes that are seen outdoors. I like to use that as a target for how I want my indoor grows to look (tho its really not possible).

Outdoor cubes.



At any rate it does appear like OP has some results. I bet however that he makes a few tweaks as he gains experience with it. Good luck on your future experiments :thumbup:


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #21953545 - 07/16/15 07:57 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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I find grows like this absolutely fascinating because obviously, a couple of very small holes with micropore tape on them gives enough FAE for healthy mushrooms to grow.  Contrast that with a SGFC, fanning, misting to get the FAE and humidity right.  I mean seriously, how much "fresh air" can be getting into that little fruiting chamber?




I would temper that fascination with the understanding of what healthy cubes grown in abundant FAE actually look like. OP has some nice results for what he is attempting to do but the small caps, stretching stipes and fuzzy feet are signs that the FAE was indeed very poor. Compare to the cap sizes that are seen outdoors. I like to use that as a target for how I want my indoor grows to look (tho its really not possible).



Outdoor cubes.



At any rate it does appear like OP has some results. I bet however that he makes a few tweaks as he gains experience with it. Good luck on your future experiments :thumbup:




Absolutely no doubt you are right and we see pictures day after day of incredible grows with huge mushrooms … Some people really have a touch with it and their constant experimenting and refining generates better and better results.

I think there are a lot of people that have no desire for that level of experimentation and all those tubs and steps, etc.  Just want an easy way to grow enough mushrooms for their own use which isn't all that much and Invitro can be a good choice, especially if you find the right culture for it.  But, if you want a big grow with lots of big giant mushrooms the way a lot of you guys do it and you're one of the best, then FAE,  no doubt is a huge piece of the equation.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: KauaiOrca]
    #21953562 - 07/16/15 08:05 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Agreed. Invitro has its merits, I have done a few that way myself :thumbup:


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    #21953610 - 07/16/15 08:17 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Agreed. Invitro has its merits, I have done a few that way myself :thumbup:




I think, Invitro, there is absolutely nothing that comes close to how easy Sclerotia is … ultimate set and forget method.  I'm trying to perfect a combination of Violet's culturing method with RGS and Muda's grow bottles with a SGFC or if I get it going right, maybe a mini mono for 4-6 bottles.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: spacechildo]
    #21953819 - 07/16/15 09:06 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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but they involve a fruiting chamber.




Cron's Growing without a Fruiting chamber

teaches you very well how to read the mushrooms. read the whole thread for lots of good input on how to pull it off.




Thanks for posting this. A breakthrough! I would never had found this using the search engine here--should I blame the engine or the would be engineer? Anyway, an inspiring link. Double :thumbup: to you.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo]
    #21954651 - 07/17/15 02:46 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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I would skip the alcohol, it can harbour contams. Just cover the lid with foil, and only remove the foil just before you are inoculating, so the injection ports will be sterile.

It will also stop any water getting on your lid and into the containers through the filters. It looks like your lid might have a ridge running around it which will possibly make a pool in the centre if water drips off the top of the PC.

I would also recommend people to drill plastic on top of some wood, the plastic in the pics looks thick and not too brittle, others will crack. I usually drill a small hole and hold a lighter up to it, this smoothens out the edges and enlarges the hole and makes it stronger and smoother.




Yes you could too but the point of the isopropyl alcohol is to kill anything that might be in the needle and its really effective I dont care anymore where I do my prodecures, I do it in open air with the AC on, even in the kitchen where there is mold or with an open windows, and the alhocol doesnt make it trough the injection port, maybe some that might get caught inside the needle but never gave me any problems.

I keep my isopropyl alcohol inside a tincture bottle with a dropper.




So...are you one of those people that believe alcohol kills mold/bacteria efficiently?


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: Buck513]
    #21957222 - 07/17/15 05:53 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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durxo said:
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I would skip the alcohol, it can harbour contams. Just cover the lid with foil, and only remove the foil just before you are inoculating, so the injection ports will be sterile.

It will also stop any water getting on your lid and into the containers through the filters. It looks like your lid might have a ridge running around it which will possibly make a pool in the centre if water drips off the top of the PC.

I would also recommend people to drill plastic on top of some wood, the plastic in the pics looks thick and not too brittle, others will crack. I usually drill a small hole and hold a lighter up to it, this smoothens out the edges and enlarges the hole and makes it stronger and smoother.




Yes you could too but the point of the isopropyl alcohol is to kill anything that might be in the needle and its really effective I dont care anymore where I do my prodecures, I do it in open air with the AC on, even in the kitchen where there is mold or with an open windows, and the alhocol doesnt make it trough the injection port, maybe some that might get caught inside the needle but never gave me any problems.

I keep my isopropyl alcohol inside a tincture bottle with a dropper.




So...are you one of those people that believe alcohol kills mold/bacteria efficiently?




Well at least for me it works really well, Ive never flame sterilized anything, I dont know if its my alcohol cause I have a laboratory grade 99% pure, so maybe is that but I dont believe it, Ive seen it many times, maybe Im wrong but I will keep doing it as long as it gives me good results.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: KauaiOrca]
    #21957240 - 07/17/15 05:56 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I know, Im trying to cultivate truffles but I inoculated my bag with P. Mexicana like 6 weeks ago and nothing, I have the bag in a dark place at about 77-80 fahrenheit but I dont see any truffles, heres a picture.



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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo]
    #21957246 - 07/17/15 05:58 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

how do you know flame sterilizing wont give you even better results if you havent tried it? :derfase:


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo]
    #21957249 - 07/17/15 05:58 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I mean....its a fact that alcohol doesn't kill all that it needs to.
Alcohol sanatizes, heat sterilizes. There is a tremendous difference.

Someone posted this awhile ago in another thread, the facts are right here why you shouldn't use alcohol like that

http://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/Disinfection_Sterilization/6_0disinfection.html


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo]
    #21957283 - 07/17/15 06:04 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Just because you get mushrooms to fruit, doesn't mean it was a success, or that it wasn't contaminated.
Many don't seem to realize that


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo]
    #21957304 - 07/17/15 06:09 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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I know, Im trying to cultivate truffles but I inoculated my bag with P. Mexicana like 6 weeks ago and nothing, I have the bag in a dark place at about 77-80 fahrenheit but I dont see any truffles, heres a picture.






Bags always look sketchy but I think that looks bacterial. . .


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #21957318 - 07/17/15 06:12 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

that's majorly bacterial.

but I have no exp with bacteria and stone formation so IDK if that's why :shrug:


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    #21957528 - 07/17/15 07:12 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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I know, Im trying to cultivate truffles but I inoculated my bag with P. Mexicana like 6 weeks ago and nothing, I have the bag in a dark place at about 77-80 fahrenheit but I dont see any truffles, heres a picture.






Bags always look sketchy but I think that looks bacterial. . .




I agree, that bag doesn't look good.  I got a Galindoi bag about that size going exactly 30 days ago and there are carmel and brown colored stones everywhere.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: KauaiOrca]
    #21957546 - 07/17/15 07:17 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

:ilold:

I guess alcohol doesn't make such a great sterilizer after all :tongue2:


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: KauaiOrca]
    #21957600 - 07/17/15 07:32 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Is possible you maybe didn't inject Mexicana into it, but maybe P.C. Cubensis Mexican?


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    #21958734 - 07/17/15 11:38 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Is possible you maybe didn't inject Mexicana into it, but maybe P.C. Cubensis Mexican?




Yeah its possible cause I bought the loquid culture on internet.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: Buck513]
    #21958740 - 07/17/15 11:40 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

So you guys think it could be bacterial? I said alcohol does a good job cause when I cultivate shrooms everything looks fine, mycellium looks white and no strange odors.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo]
    #21958747 - 07/17/15 11:43 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I've managed to get more than 4-5oz from 1 flush on a contaminated sub.

Looks can be deceiving.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo]
    #21958756 - 07/17/15 11:45 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

To me, it looks like overcolonized grains by cube mycelium. If it's a 100% trim the bag and case the grains.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: Grey]
    #21961311 - 07/18/15 04:40 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Yeah I also tought it could be a cube strain and not P. Mexicana, I will do that to see what kind of fruit grows from it, thanks guys.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: durxo]
    #21961370 - 07/18/15 04:52 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Uh yeah that bag is extremely bacterial. That thick white look, and the wet grains.. i can't believe all you do is just use alcohol. Try using just alcohol on your scalpel for agar. I used to and it doesn't work. At all. Then I bought a blow torch. What a difference!

Oh BTW lab grade 99% alcohol is actually worse than 70% alcohol. Pure alcohol is nowhere near as good at sanitizing.


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Re: My invitro techinque [Re: Mad Season]
    #21961555 - 07/18/15 05:41 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Ok next time I will flame sterilize


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