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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: altford78]
#28352831 - 06/09/23 02:41 AM (7 months, 18 days ago) |
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sprocket said: Harbor freight has a small wet saw for like $60 that would work very well for you.
That's pretty cool. Thank you.
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altford78 said: nah you don't need a saw right now, just pick shit off the ground and hit it with a hammer.
you can try the hose thing, I did that with a diamond blade on an angle grinder for a while. It was messy and annoying 
I dont remember what it's called, but there are special blades for rocks that aren't diamond. They go onto those larger bench mounted saws(chop saw? Drop saw?) Something like 10 inch blades on them.
Angle grind does sound tedious af, glad I have some bigger stuff that's not free hand to use.
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: LtLurker]
#28352837 - 06/09/23 03:14 AM (7 months, 18 days ago) |
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you can't put a hose to miter/table/chop saw without fucking it up though (or you have to really mod it), that's why they use the cheap wet tile saws since they are made for wet cutting. i have both a metal chop saw and a wood miter saw, there's no way I can get them to cut wet without destroying them, wet cutting is a very messy process
anyway you don't need a saw
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: altford78]
#28353226 - 06/09/23 12:36 PM (7 months, 17 days ago) |
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altford78 said: I get that for A2G, one wedge vs a whole petri doesn't shave off more than 2-3 days total but there is something magical about shaking a jar 3 days after inoc and seeing sooooo much mycelium in there. And 24 hours later it's already picking up again, fast.
Compared to the jars that only got one wedge it's like watching the Apollo mission launch and then watching a backyard toy rocket you got at the dollar store.
Went to bed. You say I don't need to use a saw at all? How would I get straight cuts or breaks against the grain into even slabs? Smashing It could get various size stones to tumble and would look nice I guess. Seems ashame to smash all of it though, and probably worth little money.
A friend with a setup hit me up. I'm gonna check it out little later.
On that agar to grain comment; you may have seen/done this already, but cutting up plates into like 6 or 8 pieces is something I think you'd like. Definitely a little quicker when spreading the myc aeound.⁷
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: LtLurker]
#28353265 - 06/09/23 01:34 PM (7 months, 17 days ago) |
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yeah , if you want proper slabs to polish then yeah you need a saw of some kind. if you get the fancy saws they kind of polish the cut themselves.
I meant that you don't need a saw to begin with, if you find a good area with quartz or something like that, you hit it with hammer and it doesn't matter how it breaks, it's full of crystals inside. I'll take a pic of my shit at some point so you see what you can do without a saw.
I deal with mostly bigger stuff but there is a dirty way to do it without a saw. you get a cold chisel and a hammer, and just mark a line where you want the cut with the chisel, and then start hitting the chisel on that line, advancing it as you go along the line. if you are lucky and the rock doesn't have any crosscutting internal stresses, it will break on that line like magic. for the real big stuff you drill holes and put feather wedges in them, smack the wedges which expand and break the rock.
but yeah for your petrified wood I'd get your buddy's saw, it will turn out nicer.
oh man that's an old post of mine, I remember those jars. yeah I do the tic-tac-toe cuts sometimes, it works. What I found works even better is to make a softer agar (like a germ agar, 1.3% -1.6%) and shake the ever loving fuck of that jar. It completely smashes the agar apart into invisible bits and spread it everywhere. It's kinda like LC/SSLC in how it colonizes. I actually did that a few days ago with one jar out of 6, shook that one ~16h later than the rest and it caught up with them and then out-colonized the rest. It's a bit of a bitch to take the agar out of the plates since it's so soft and sticky but it's worth it if you know those transfers are going to grain.
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: altford78]
#28353839 - 06/09/23 09:40 PM (7 months, 17 days ago) |
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Might have been ur thread. I know there's a couple.
Sometimes the universe provides.. pocket gull of caps helps. Loaner wet saw, and found these taking a closer look at stones we used around yard. I think most is petrified wood, a quarts piece
    
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: LtLurker]
#28353864 - 06/09/23 10:12 PM (7 months, 17 days ago) |
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Hey guys, hoping someone can shed light on my situation here with PF-tek jars and Pressure Cooker cooking times.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/28353863
Thanks
Please reply to the linked thread if you have an answer, thanks.
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: EpicMyco10] 2
#28353898 - 06/09/23 11:15 PM (7 months, 17 days ago) |
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EpicMyco10 said: Hey guys, hoping someone can shed light on my situation here with PF-tek jars and Pressure Cooker cooking times.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/28353863
Thanks
Please reply to the linked thread if you have an answer, thanks.
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Pickle Rick] 5
#28353918 - 06/09/23 11:36 PM (7 months, 17 days ago) |
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Pickle Rick said: are there other reasons shoeboxes are worthwhile?
Yes. This is more one for noobs but could occasionally apply to non-noobs:
If you get contam you don't have to throw out as much. With a big tub you'd be throwing out 4 times as much for the same contam in one corner.
I asked a question on here maybe a year ago if there was any reason why to use a single monotub over 4 shoeboxes, answer seemed to boil down to "monotub looks cooler."
I've never done a monotub. I've mostly only done shoeboxes. I've done a couple 16 quart tubs, it's like 2 shoeboxes or half a monotub, but I love everything about growing in 7 quart shoeboxes.
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: LtLurker]
#28354015 - 06/10/23 04:30 AM (7 months, 16 days ago) |
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LtLurker said: Might have been ur thread. I know there's a couple.
Sometimes the universe provides.. pocket gull of caps helps. Loaner wet saw, and found these taking a closer look at stones we used around yard. I think most is petrified wood, a quarts piece
     
nice! yeah that's quartz and chalcedony, I think I also see some chert nuggets in the first pic. Not sure if it was wood before the quartz replaced it, I'm not that good with identifying that one since I don't have any in my area.
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: altford78]
#28354682 - 06/10/23 04:34 PM (7 months, 16 days ago) |
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altford78 said:
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LtLurker said: Might have been ur thread. I know there's a couple.
Sometimes the universe provides.. pocket gull of caps helps. Loaner wet saw, and found these taking a closer look at stones we used around yard. I think most is petrified wood, a quarts piece
     
nice! yeah that's quartz and chalcedony, I think I also see some chert nuggets in the first pic. Not sure if it was wood before the quartz replaced it, I'm not that good with identifying that one since I don't have any in my area.
I'll do more when I'm home later if image won't upload while out. That first pick I definitely tree, its the biggest by far, like 1.5 ft by 1ft and like 6inches deep. Probably little bigger really, was heavy af. It's pic wouldn't upload
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: LtLurker] 2
#28354695 - 06/10/23 04:50 PM (7 months, 16 days ago) |
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 Got it. Other image was left corner. Back is like bark, edges got rest and some black. This face bit boring in pick.
Edited by LtLurker (06/10/23 04:51 PM)
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: LtLurker] 3
#28355084 - 06/11/23 12:27 AM (7 months, 16 days ago) |
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Whoa, splitting rocks looks fun. Stop posting! I don't need another hobby!
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Yuggoth] 2
#28355284 - 06/11/23 07:38 AM (7 months, 15 days ago) |
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Lol. Gonna try to get to some cutting today. I'll have to show some examples, but won't be a regular thing to post. It seems to only make sense round here to pick it up as a side hustle since we live around all kinds of valuable minerals amd whatever. Just smoothing layered stones you can make a lot of pretty stones to top off flower pots.
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: LtLurker]
#28355343 - 06/11/23 09:01 AM (7 months, 15 days ago) |
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You have a lapidary saw?
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: nektar61]
#28358579 - 06/13/23 03:12 PM (7 months, 13 days ago) |
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For me, the monotub is the least work of any tek I've tried, and yields great results! Once you are comfortable that you wont get premature contamination, this is way less work. You can sometimes get 8 dry oz out of one tub over the course of a few flushes.
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Inocuole] 1
#28359984 - 06/14/23 06:19 PM (7 months, 12 days ago) |
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I am getting ready to start a storage project and am wondering which method i should choose. I'd like to hear everyone's preferred storage media, slants, centrifuge tubes, cryovial, etc. Right now I am leaning toward centrifuge tubes/cryogenic vials because they seem easier to work with and i've heard good things, but there are also those who the centrifuge tubes are not good for long-term storage (~5+yrs) because they dry out too quick and wonder if this is true. Some of the threads I've read
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=27778467&page=0&vc=1 https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/18182209/fpart/all https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/25018245/fpart/all https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=25911960&page=0&vc=1
couldn't find anything too recent on centrifuge tubes:
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/26383816 https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/25175060#25175060
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: fiddle_head] 8
#28360071 - 06/14/23 07:19 PM (7 months, 12 days ago) |
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I'm trying a couple different methods:
Mycelium->distilled water in 2ml cyro tubes. I haven't tried reviving any yet but this method has been used for years.
Drying colonized grains. So far, so good with this method, seems good for at least 1+ years and different species. Great for sharing.
In an attempt to extend the storage time of dried grains, I've also added some dried grain to 5ml cyro tubes, displaced the atmosphere with wine preservative (argon).
I've also vacuum sealed bags of dried grains too in hopes of extending their shelf life.
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: YoshiTrainer]
#28363246 - 06/17/23 12:09 PM (7 months, 9 days ago) |
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SHOEBOX HELP
Hi everyone, First time doing shoeboxes. Have 2, both look the same. Substrate is not fully permeated and the surface is also not covered all white with myc but they are pinning already.
What is going on here? Is this ok, or not so much? What do i do? Leave it and cross all extremities or is there something that should be done here?

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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: drVetker]
#28364006 - 06/18/23 04:06 AM (7 months, 8 days ago) |
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Id say that tubs about to go green
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Re: Cultivation General Discussion [Re: Smoothcat]
#28364139 - 06/18/23 08:28 AM (7 months, 8 days ago) |
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Smoothcat said: Id say that tubs about to go green 
Hey, thanks for answering. I'm trying to learn, would you mind saying what do you see that indicates to you that this will blow up with mold?
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