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tryptkaloids
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: mushroomnate]
#25721553 - 01/03/19 06:51 PM (5 years, 27 days ago) |
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ShaperDreaming said: Scalpels... So, what do ya'll use?
solid spear scalpel from fungi perfecti
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: tryptkaloids]
#25721568 - 01/03/19 06:57 PM (5 years, 27 days ago) |
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I use a scalpel I ordered on Ebay, but I find myself going back to my exacto knife a lot. I like the fine point.
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ShaperDreaming
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: tryptkaloids]
#25721583 - 01/03/19 07:02 PM (5 years, 27 days ago) |
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Subfinder said: Use a propane torch...leaves no carbon
I just got this puppy after waiting a month for it to ship,think it'll be enough?

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tryptkaloids said:
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ShaperDreaming said: Scalpels... So, what do ya'll use?
solid spear scalpel from fungi perfecti
So... I saw that pretty one. It's good? Did you try others or just got that first and never went back?
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Subfinder
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ShaperDreaming said:
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Subfinder said: Use a propane torch...leaves no carbon
I just got this puppy after waiting a month for it to ship,think it'll be enough?

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Man, I hope so. My cheap alcohol burner can't hold a candle to that bad ass unit, but my burner doesn't get used anymore because of the carbon issue.
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tryptkaloids
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Subfinder]
#25721637 - 01/03/19 07:27 PM (5 years, 27 days ago) |
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It's nice to not have to replace the blade. It could use a sharpen
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Yesum
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: tryptkaloids]
#25721658 - 01/03/19 07:42 PM (5 years, 27 days ago) |
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Exacto knife. FTW
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Yesum]
#25721726 - 01/03/19 08:11 PM (5 years, 27 days ago) |
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Ok ok, I'm grabbing my crafting xacto knife and changing functions.
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Thedillestpickle
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I find I never really need a sharp cutting edge. I just use a hooked dental pick. I use it for agar transfers, cloning, and swabbing spore prints. It's a good multitool
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How do you make transfers with s dental hook? Just by pushing down into the agar to cut it and hooking on to pick up? Sounds like it works well for transferring, especially getting the agar off easily.
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Pyrotek]
#25721993 - 01/03/19 11:30 PM (5 years, 26 days ago) |
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You can get 100 sterilized scalpel blades for 10$, I change mine every time I go to work in my sab.
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Yesum
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: MH5109]
#25722247 - 01/04/19 06:12 AM (5 years, 26 days ago) |
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Damn. If I changed my blade everytime I'd be sitting on a shit load of old blades only used once. I mean I guess I could understand if we were cutting something other then super soft agar.🤷♂️
Mine currently and still going strong 

Idk mane. U can send me some of your old ones. Shiaaaat
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Yesum]
#25722272 - 01/04/19 06:44 AM (5 years, 26 days ago) |
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Its not necessarily the factor of it being sharp, I like to use clean blades. I worked in a lab for a while and that instilled certain habits, new blades, new needles, and so on. I have a sharps container that's where my used blades go, most hospitals give them out free.
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Yesum]
#25722350 - 01/04/19 07:46 AM (5 years, 26 days ago) |
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Yesum said:
Mine currently and still going strong 

That looks like the same one I have, and the blade looks familiar too lol. I put my last one in a few weeks ago and unless it snaps itll be in there a good while yet.
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Bumholio]
#25723738 - 01/04/19 07:50 PM (5 years, 26 days ago) |
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anybody ever collected a spore print from a polypore? Guess you probably just cut off a chunk and put it on foil like anything else.
Wanting to try to get artist conks on my property. They're oddly absent from the area.
edit: Or wait, maybe I could just wash the spores that collect on the top of the cap into some water and spray that on logs. see if the dirtiest possible method will work.
Edited by Psilosopherr (01/04/19 08:26 PM)
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Psilosopherr]
#25723753 - 01/04/19 07:59 PM (5 years, 26 days ago) |
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Only thing I suggest looking out for when using really short blades like an exacto knife blade is try to not have the wedge ever touch more then the blade. Like if I'm transferring a wedge from a plate to a jar and the wedge moves and somehow touches the bottom part of the handle (it happens) I won't use that wedge. So that being said sometimes I wish the blade was longer like a scaple blade but I manage.
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Yesum]
#25723803 - 01/04/19 08:21 PM (5 years, 26 days ago) |
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I use the same exacto but run the blade further out to avoid that. seems to heat up faster too.
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: grainbrain]
#25723827 - 01/04/19 08:37 PM (5 years, 26 days ago) |
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grainbrain said: I use the same exacto but run the blade further out to avoid that. seems to heat up faster too.
That's a great idea. I'm going to try that tomorrow.
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ShaperDreaming said: Scalpels... So, what do ya'll use?

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tryptkaloids
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I like to use a stainless steel blackheads popper for small transfers. It's my innoc loop
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: tryptkaloids]
#25724988 - 01/05/19 11:20 AM (5 years, 25 days ago) |
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I'm thinking I need to go back to proper petris and ger several transfers deep before I inoculate anything.
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