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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Inocuole]
    #27942014 - 09/09/22 01:47 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

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I'm gonna try my 3rd cultivation ever and I've choose the following way: LC + popcorn grains with no PC in shoeboxes. My doubt is: it's enough to spawn the grain in just plain coco coir (as substrate) in the shoebox? Will that be enough or do I need also vermiculite and gypsum? I'd gladly avoid also having to find these last 2, are they necessary?



You’re not going to sterilize your grains? I’m not sure you’ll see much success that way, to be honest.

Yeah straight coir is a fine performer. Vermiculite is good to have to adjust moisture content, but if you get field capacity right in your coir then you don’t need verm. Gypsum isn’t really used much anymore, so don’t worry about that.




I think popcorn can be done without a PC.. you do a steam sterilization similar to PF Tek without a PC


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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Nerex] * 1
    #27942085 - 09/09/22 02:41 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

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I'm gonna try my 3rd cultivation ever and I've choose the following way: LC + popcorn grains with no PC in shoeboxes. My doubt is: it's enough to spawn the grain in just plain coco coir (as substrate) in the shoebox? Will that be enough or do I need also vermiculite and gypsum? I'd gladly avoid also having to find these last 2, are they necessary?




I feel so guilty having trained so many guys in corn. Oats may contam weirdly but it's better nutrition.

Anyways, focus on good grain prep (dry exterior) and good coir field capacity (no drops of water when coir is squeezed)

use the vermiculite to make the mix airy. Coarse verm is best imo.

No visible grains on top.

You can drop the lime/gypsum for cubes, i dont think anyone can verify that it matters

Good luck cornist, I'm oats now

Also, buy a pressure cooker.
You need one of those


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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: smalltalk_canceled] * 1
    #27942205 - 09/09/22 04:01 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

I use calcium sulfate & calcium carbonate at different times and I do know the way I use them seems to help.
Those are things that go into my mixes and I will continue to use them.


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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Smellyhobbit] * 1
    #27942268 - 09/09/22 04:43 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

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Nerex said:
I'm gonna try my 3rd cultivation ever and I've choose the following way: LC + popcorn grains with no PC in shoeboxes. My doubt is: it's enough to spawn the grain in just plain coco coir (as substrate) in the shoebox? Will that be enough or do I need also vermiculite and gypsum? I'd gladly avoid also having to find these last 2, are they necessary?



You’re not going to sterilize your grains? I’m not sure you’ll see much success that way, to be honest.

Yeah straight coir is a fine performer. Vermiculite is good to have to adjust moisture content, but if you get field capacity right in your coir then you don’t need verm. Gypsum isn’t really used much anymore, so don’t worry about that.




Oh yes of course I will, with the pot method, like I did with the BRF cakes. I discovered just few days ago that I'll be able to sterilize that grain without the PC which I don't have. My doubt was about the nutrients (some say that popcorn doesn't have many, but I don't know if that's true or not). I want to keep it simple: LC for fast colonization and coco coir as fruiting substrate with a layer on top. : )


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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Hobbit GDF]
    #27942289 - 09/09/22 04:53 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

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I use calcium sulfate & calcium carbonate at different times and I do know the way I use them seems to help.
Those are things that go into my mixes and I will continue to use them.




Okay, im open to this, just been influenced by the hard hate for this in the woodlover thread.(?)

I don't see much active threads lately discussing lime and pH but I'm sure it's part of a lot of teks and the knowledge of some.
Haven't seen it much

In my experience growing a few lil psilocybes and taking them to coir, they only tolerate slight amounts otherwise HARD dislike

Compare to CV, CVG is kinda dead


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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: smalltalk_canceled] * 2
    #27942509 - 09/09/22 07:06 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

Here are 4 malmac bags. Starting to pin.


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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Hobbit GDF] * 1
    #27942585 - 09/09/22 08:03 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

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Here are 4 malmac bags. Starting to pin.





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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Nerex]
    #27942601 - 09/09/22 08:14 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

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Nerex said:
I'm gonna try my 3rd cultivation ever and I've choose the following way: LC + popcorn grains with no PC in shoeboxes. My doubt is: it's enough to spawn the grain in just plain coco coir (as substrate) in the shoebox? Will that be enough or do I need also vermiculite and gypsum? I'd gladly avoid also having to find these last 2, are they necessary?



You’re not going to sterilize your grains? I’m not sure you’ll see much success that way, to be honest.

Yeah straight coir is a fine performer. Vermiculite is good to have to adjust moisture content, but if you get field capacity right in your coir then you don’t need verm. Gypsum isn’t really used much anymore, so don’t worry about that.




Oh yes of course I will, with the pot method, like I did with the BRF cakes. I discovered just few days ago that I'll be able to sterilize that grain without the PC which I don't have. My doubt was about the nutrients (some say that popcorn doesn't have many, but I don't know if that's true or not). I want to keep it simple: LC for fast colonization and coco coir as fruiting substrate with a layer on top. : )




I don't know much, haven't even gotten my first batch of rye berries fully colonated yet, but I see how easily things can get contaminated and how important water content on grains is.  I don't think I would want to risk waisting all the time that I put into this by cutting corners on these extremely important parts of the process.  But again, I don't know really know anything


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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Rabbit84] * 1
    #27943037 - 09/10/22 05:10 AM (1 year, 4 months ago)

Well you’re right even though you’re doubting yourself. Homie needs to pc his grains or he’ll be looking at jars of green. Lc is fast but mold is faster


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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Inocuole]
    #27943398 - 09/10/22 09:03 AM (1 year, 4 months ago)

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Well you’re right even though you’re doubting yourself. Homie needs to pc his grains or he’ll be looking at jars of green. Lc is fast but mold is faster




Yeah, I had 2 out of my first batch of 20 agar plate get contaminated.  Not bad for my first time.  But then I used 2 plates that had absolutely no growth to attempt T1 transfers.  And I reused the parafilm... So I ended up stretching it a little too much and tiny holes ripped between the top plate and bottom plate that I didn't notice.  3 days later, the whole plate is contaminated.  I learned my lesson and how easily contamination can happen.  They were even stored in another air tight container.



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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Wall.E]
    #27943416 - 09/10/22 09:20 AM (1 year, 4 months ago)

I was also thinking of start doing agar, so I many be using that (also) to be sure to have a clean inoculant to work with and also experiment a bit in the future. I'm still not willing to get a PC though, considering that I wouldn't cultivating really that much at all.

That said, with agar and "sterilizing" popcorn with the usual 90 minutes in the pot, do you still see THAT much of a risk of contamination compared to PCing the popcorns?

I was looking for other grain relatively safe to use without the PC, but it seems that there's only the brown rice other than the porcorns.


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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Nerex]
    #27943433 - 09/10/22 09:30 AM (1 year, 4 months ago)

Gotta have a pressure cooker.
My must haves are pressure cooker & flowhood.

It changes the game completely.


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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Hobbit GDF]
    #27943442 - 09/10/22 09:35 AM (1 year, 4 months ago)

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Gotta have a pressure cooker.
My must haves are pressure cooker & flowhood.

It changes the game completely.



As much as I’d love the space and funds for a flow hood, I can’t have one right now. One day. Sure will make agar a more pleasant experience.


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Re: Shoebox, to progress? [Re: Inocuole]
    #27943462 - 09/10/22 09:49 AM (1 year, 4 months ago)

Hiya,

So, I saw some stuff on on here about shoebox/lunchbox, so decided to give it a go.
This is were I'm at - got here with a lid on the tub, offset not clamped shut.
I was wondering how best to meddle - or not.
Should I put lid back on till they touching it?
Should I start weeding some out?

Any advice appreciated.

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Re: Shoebox, to progress? [Re: new2u]
    #27943502 - 09/10/22 10:27 AM (1 year, 4 months ago)

Leave lid on until they touching it or get another shoebox and put on top like a dome.

Don't need to "weed" any out.


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Re: Shoebox, to progress? [Re: Hobbit GDF]
    #27943542 - 09/10/22 10:59 AM (1 year, 4 months ago)

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    #27943706 - 09/10/22 12:49 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

These tp growing fast.



That's the biggest one in all 4 bags


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Re: Shoebox, to progress? [Re: Inocuole]
    #27943992 - 09/10/22 04:17 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

Learned I don’t have experience enough to make and use LC yet. Had a plate that looked clean, chopped it up, threw it in some broth. Growth looked great. Posted it here, got good feedback. Instead of testing it on a Petri, since I lost all my plates to contam, I just made a few quarts of millet and noc’d it up. Figure that’s as good as a plate if you’re just seeing if it’s contaminated.

Boy was it contaminated. All I grew was some sweet smelling green mold. This stuff looks identical to pictures of healthy LC here on shroomery, but it was totally worthless. I suppose my plate wasn’t as clean as I thought, but if it wasn’t then it really fooled me.

Anyway, I haven’t had back luck inoculating with agar to grain, so I’m just going to keep doing that. LC might save a little time, but if you do new grain every week it hardly matters.


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Re: Shoebox, to progress? [Re: Smellyhobbit]
    #27944009 - 09/10/22 04:28 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

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Learned I don’t have experience enough to make and use LC yet. Had a plate that looked clean, chopped it up, threw it in some broth. Growth looked great. Posted it here, got good feedback. Instead of testing it on a Petri, since I lost all my plates to contam, I just made a few quarts of millet and noc’d it up. Figure that’s as good as a plate if you’re just seeing if it’s contaminated.

Boy was it contaminated. All I grew was some sweet smelling green mold. This stuff looks identical to pictures of healthy LC here on shroomery, but it was totally worthless. I suppose my plate wasn’t as clean as I thought, but if it wasn’t then it really fooled me.

Anyway, I haven’t had back luck inoculating with agar to grain, so I’m just going to keep doing that. LC might save a little time, but if you do new grain every week it hardly matters.




iirc you don't use a FH?
i didn't consider doing LC without one, josex poke could help you out tho
sorry for the loss :sad:


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Re: Shoebox, to progress? [Re: monkey_accident]
    #27944013 - 09/10/22 04:31 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

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Smellyhobbit said:
Learned I don’t have experience enough to make and use LC yet. Had a plate that looked clean, chopped it up, threw it in some broth. Growth looked great. Posted it here, got good feedback. Instead of testing it on a Petri, since I lost all my plates to contam, I just made a few quarts of millet and noc’d it up. Figure that’s as good as a plate if you’re just seeing if it’s contaminated.

Boy was it contaminated. All I grew was some sweet smelling green mold. This stuff looks identical to pictures of healthy LC here on shroomery, but it was totally worthless. I suppose my plate wasn’t as clean as I thought, but if it wasn’t then it really fooled me.

Anyway, I haven’t had back luck inoculating with agar to grain, so I’m just going to keep doing that. LC might save a little time, but if you do new grain every week it hardly matters.




iirc you don't use a FH?
honestly not recommended doing LC without one, josex poke could help you out tho
sorry for the loss :sad:



It’s ok. Maybe that’s really the answer, waiting until I have a solid lab. I find it, so far, pretty easy to clean agar under a SAB as long as you know you have good plates. I’ve cleaned up a handful in short order since getting my agar working.

I love the idea of liquid culture. But for now I’m very comfortable with not having to introduce several more vectors for contamination into an already clean workflow. A2G is perfectly serviceable.


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