Anyday,

Each mini loaf pan has 1/2 of a 1/2 pint cake in it. About 3/4in of damp vermiculite on the bottom, then the crumbled cake and about 1/in
of casing soil on top. I just use Shultz Potting Soil without fertilizer. Its pretty much the SOS Tek in bread pans.
The Pans are about 5 2/3in x 3 1/3 x 1 7/8 (14.5cm x 8.4 x 4.7cm) btw.

Shaker

Time to make the honuts!

Didjya deep scratch or anything? I want to know exactly what you did here. I have a few half pinters ready to birth, but if I can get these results, I want to do this instead. That would mean I would have 4 trays (2 cakes=4halves). Please explain in depth....

[This message has been edited by melter8or (edited July 11, 2000).]

Also, did you let the casings recover in the tub?

Plankton88

[This message has been edited by plankton88 (edited July 12, 2000).]

melter9or,
Yep, 1/2 of a 1/2 pint.Here is what I did for you and planky.

For each 1/2 pint cake I took two small bread pans (W-Mart or a dollar store) and put about 1/2 to 3/4 of and inch of vermiculite wetted with a 50/50 mix of water and h202 solution. On top of that I crumbled 1/2 a cake and gave it a misting with the 50/50 mix. Next I put on a 1/4 inch layer of casing soil (Shultz Brand potting soil) that was also wetted with the 50/50 mix.
After casing I covered each pan with plastic wrap and a rubber band around the rim and stuck them in a clean crawer for two or three days at about 75F, until the mycelium really started coming out of the casing. I didn't deep scratch but I did knock down the mycelium with some h202 solution, about 10% h202 - 90% water, until it was coming up in quite a few places.
Once it was breaking the surface good I put the pans in a Sterilite box with damp perlite on the bottom and a drip shield then kept them at room temp for about another two days, but I'd put them at 80F next time.
Thats pretty much it. I misted twice a day, morning and night with the 10/90 mix and fanned them maybe three times a day, morning, evening and late. Took about a week from putting them in the box to getting the first fruit.

I just hope I can dream as well next time!

Shaker <--- High.....so high.

Plankton,

They are on perlite and I fanned about 3 times a day. I assume you mean letting them recover after casing? No, it was in a drawer. More detail above.

Shaker

Thanks for the kind words! I had to really step on the pics to be able to post them...20k limit and all. When I get time to work on it again I'm going to finish my Tek.

Still, good work though

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