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Dabrit



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Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes?
#23866022 - 11/25/16 01:16 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Can they just be kept out in the open on a table or shelf at room temperature?
Or do they need to be kept in a plastic container/mini monotub style with holes taped off with duct tape?
Am just using the pastyplate tek first time around using glad mini rounds
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Dabrit]
#23866039 - 11/25/16 01:23 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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i use mini rounds. i keep them next to the jars. old pic but sums it up..
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: mushboy]
#23866051 - 11/25/16 01:29 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I stick em wherever. Never heard of anybody keeping them in a mono, there's no reason to.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Psilosopherr]
#23866053 - 11/25/16 01:30 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I keep mine on my coffee table. Treat em like you would a jar of spawn, keep em dry and between 70-80f and you're good.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Psilosopherr]
#23866093 - 11/25/16 01:48 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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rbalzer said: I stick em wherever. Never heard of anybody keeping them in a mono, there's no reason to.
Agree with this.
Some more scientific folks keep them in a special petri dish 'cabinet' type deal which keeps the temperatures from fluctuating even 1 degree, which prevents them from getting condensation and maintains perfect growing temps. But none of that is necessary.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: krypto2000]
#23866104 - 11/25/16 01:54 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I keep mine in my cupboard, next to any spawn I have.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Ferather]
#23866123 - 11/25/16 02:00 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Tmethyl said:
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rbalzer said: I stick em wherever. Never heard of anybody keeping them in a mono, there's no reason to.
Agree with this.
Some more scientific folks keep them in a special petri dish 'cabinet' type deal which keeps the temperatures from fluctuating even 1 degree, which prevents them from getting condensation and maintains perfect growing temps. But none of that is necessary.
Thanks now that we are on the conversation of condensation. I used the pastyplate tek using the mini rounds and since they came out of the pressure cooker they have had condensation on the insides of them is this ok? Will it eventually disaepate?
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Dabrit]
#23866129 - 11/25/16 02:03 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've heard TC's say condensation is fine. Never dissipates for me
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Dabrit]
#23866133 - 11/25/16 02:05 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Dabrit said: Or do they need to be kept in a plastic container/mini monotub style with holes taped off with duct tape?
That is not a good thing to do to your fungi friends, they are living organisms and they need air to survive .)
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Tira]
#23866215 - 11/25/16 02:41 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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keep them on my grain shelves in a labeled area.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Th3Issu3]
#23866232 - 11/25/16 02:46 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Stacked in the SAB.
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Dabrit



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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Mycolorado]
#23866385 - 11/25/16 03:39 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Also just ordered a sleeve of proper petri dishes. in the RR Let's grow mushroom videos it shows him using some kind of empty whiskey bottle with a 1/4 hole drilled in the lid and then a synthetic filter disk cut to fit in the cap.
I'm assuming it's ok to just use poly fill and stuff that into the cap instead? Or could I even just leave the cap off completely and just stuff the neck of the bottle with polyfill?
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Psilosopherr]
#23866438 - 11/25/16 03:55 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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rbalzer said: I've heard TC's say condensation is fine. Never dissipates for me
It is fine, it's just annoying. It can prevent you from seeing your culture clearly.
It will dissipate and reappear over and over if the temps keep fluctuating. Never a big deal imo.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Tmethyl]
#23866545 - 11/25/16 04:22 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Tmethyl said:
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rbalzer said: I've heard TC's say condensation is fine. Never dissipates for me
It is fine, it's just annoying. It can prevent you from seeing your culture clearly.
It will dissipate and reappear over and over if the temps keep fluctuating. Never a big deal imo.
Ok cool thanks. I asked the following question above any ideas :
" Also just ordered a sleeve of proper petri dishes. in the RR Let's grow mushroom videos it shows him using some kind of empty whiskey bottle with a 1/4 hole drilled in the lid and then a synthetic filter disk cut to fit in the cap.
I'm assuming it's ok to just use poly fill and stuff that into the cap instead? Or could I even just leave the cap off completely and just stuff the neck of the bottle with polyfill?
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Dabrit]
#23866574 - 11/25/16 04:31 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Bad forum manners to ask a question twice, especially when you just posted it a little bit ago.
A filter is a filter, polyfil included
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Psilosopherr]
#23866584 - 11/25/16 04:33 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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rbalzer said: A filter is a filter, polyfil included
Yeah polyfil and felt have never failed for me. Pack is tighter if you want to keep more out.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Tmethyl]
#23866598 - 11/25/16 04:37 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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 Some people don't trust polyfill for some reason. It is very cheap and effective IME. Does not look beautiful but it works like a charm. If I don't have .22 filter stickers around I like to use polyfill.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: enlightenment]
#23866609 - 11/25/16 04:40 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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enlightenment said:
 Some people don't trust polyfill for some reason. It is very cheap and effective IME. Does not look beautiful but it works like a charm. If I don't have .22 filter stickers around I like to use polyfill.
Ok but just to confirm can I just stuff the opening of the bottle as opposed to stuffing the cap for the bottle with the polyfill? Obviously I would put foil over the top of that.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Dabrit]
#23866636 - 11/25/16 04:49 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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That should work. Stuff it tight + aluminum foil.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Dabrit]
#23866647 - 11/25/16 04:53 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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think about it for all of 5 seconds and you'd have your answer.
A filter is a filter
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Psilosopherr]
#23866664 - 11/25/16 05:00 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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sorry I'm bein hard on you. Just that its better for you if you learn the logic of it and how to answer your own questions than hanging on the words of others.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Psilosopherr]
#23866762 - 11/25/16 05:31 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Newer growers just get really nervous and want to make sure everything is 100% perfect, and don't trust their own judgment very much. This to will pass.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Tmethyl]
#23866913 - 11/25/16 06:20 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeahh I remembered that shortly after making my huxley facepalm post.
I know I used to be like that and then some. Can't blame em.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Tmethyl]
#23867544 - 11/25/16 10:44 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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rbalzer said: sorry I'm bein hard on you. Just that its better for you if you learn the logic of it and how to answer your own questions than hanging on the words of others.
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Tmethyl said: Newer growers just get really nervous and want to make sure everything is 100% perfect, and don't trust their own judgment very much. This to will pass. 
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rbalzer said: Yeahh I remembered that shortly after making my huxley facepalm post.
I know I used to be like that and then some. Can't blame em.
It's all good guys I've got thicker skin these days...I'm sure in the future there might be times where I may be asked what would seem to me to be such a simple question with a common sense answer and I may get a little sarcastic myself...but I shall try my best not to lol.
And you're right I just want to make sure I'm not making mistakes trying out a new method failure sucks and I know it's inevitable in some instances in order to grow and learn but avoidable in other instances where you have the wealth of knowledge available to you on this forum.....
Ps excited just ordered my first PE syringe from unnamed source today got a black Friday special on it. Can't wait to start my first grow of that variety. Also grabbed a syringe of GT to go with it.
Still have a ton of B+ ms solution left, I wished I would have taken pics of the successful monotub grow I had because it was gigantic over 8oz dry on one flush!! Unfortunately for some reason it was a dud flush and nobody really got high off them so I tossed it before the 2nd flush. But man did it look good.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Dabrit]
#23867597 - 11/25/16 11:10 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I think you will like PE, it's not a myth that they are far more potent than regular P.cubensis. They are still just as easy to grow, and fun to watch.
Some things you may or may not already know about PE that I experienced personally: 1) They colonized slower, no dramatically but noticeably. 2) Sometimes the first flush of PE is mostly blob mutations, which are still fine to eat. On substrates like 100% straw PE seems to produce less blobs, leading me to believe the blobs are a response to highly nutritious substrates. 3) Spore production is very poor, something about the mutated genetics of PE cause it to either produce no spores or very little, and even sometimes the gills(lamellae) produce many spore-producing basidium but the basidium fail to launch the spores. Which is why you don't see many PE spore prints, but PE 'swabs' which are made by swabbing the gills with a sterile cotton swab. Then you use the spore covered cotton to make syringes with.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Tmethyl]
#23867668 - 11/25/16 11:53 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Tmethyl said: I think you will like PE, it's not a myth that they are far more potent than regular P.cubensis. They are still just as easy to grow, and fun to watch.
Some things you may or may not already know about PE that I experienced personally: 1) They colonized slower, no dramatically but noticeably. 2) Sometimes the first flush of PE is mostly blob mutations, which are still fine to eat. On substrates like 100% straw PE seems to produce less blobs, leading me to believe the blobs are a response to highly nutritious substrates. 3) Spore production is very poor, something about the mutated genetics of PE cause it to either produce no spores or very little, and even sometimes the gills(lamellae) produce many spore-producing basidium but the basidium fail to launch the spores. Which is why you don't see many PE spore prints, but PE 'swabs' which are made by swabbing the gills with a sterile cotton swab. Then you use the spore covered cotton to make syringes with.
Aha good to know. They also don't seem to give you huge yields from what I've seen but the fruits you do get tend to be special.
I'm looking forward to it.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Dabrit] 1
#23867675 - 11/26/16 12:01 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: azur]
#23867702 - 11/26/16 12:26 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Holy shit well those are huge flushes of PE.
What substrate/ What ratio of spawn per monotub?
To case or not to case?
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Dabrit]
#23867737 - 11/26/16 01:05 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Take the vendors name out of your post. We don't talk about vendors in cultivation. Those spors are for microscopy.
You'll like PE. It generally does pretty well even from MS. I've found it to be one of the better yielding varieties.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: MudaFuka]
#23871580 - 11/27/16 10:28 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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MudaFuka said: Take the vendors name out of your post. We don't talk about vendors in cultivation. Those spors are for microscopy.
You'll like PE. It generally does pretty well even from MS. I've found it to be one of the better yielding varieties.
My bad edited post removed name.
Glad to hear PE's can be good yielders likely as you isolate from grow to grow.
What's opinion on GTs?
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: azur]
#23871614 - 11/27/16 10:39 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Azur you're a dick!! let me dig around in your petri-dishes bro!!
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Th3Issu3]
#23871733 - 11/27/16 11:23 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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PE tend to yield pretty well from MS.

I like GT. They are the first mushrooms I grew. They're a run of the mill cube.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: MudaFuka]
#23872472 - 11/27/16 03:33 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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MudaFuka said: PE tend to yield pretty well from MS.

I like GT. They are the first mushrooms I grew. They're a run of the mill cube.
They look really nice, how do you get thick stems like those? I mean I don't get skinny long fruits but those look thicker than what I'm used to see.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Tira]
#23872487 - 11/27/16 03:37 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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They are PE.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: MudaFuka]
#23872844 - 11/27/16 05:29 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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MudaFuka said: They are PE.
Oh ok, that explains it then. Thought they were GT .)
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Tira] 1
#23881773 - 11/30/16 01:57 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Seems as though many of the TC's long time shroomery members just love the Cock....
Seems like it's the go to variety to grow.
Have never myself dose myself with PE is the high different/ special in any way compared to other cubes?
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Dabrit]
#23881946 - 11/30/16 02:55 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I keep mine on my computer desk so I can look over every few minutes to see if my damn spores have germinated yet
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Dactylium]
#23882006 - 11/30/16 03:10 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I keep the current ones in the sab until transfer, old ones on a shelf in my closet, and anything i dont pkan to transfer from in the trash
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: Dabrit]
#23882432 - 11/30/16 05:23 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Dabrit said: Seems as though many of the TC's long time shroomery members just love the Cock....
Seems like it's the go to variety to grow.
Have never myself dose myself with PE is the high different/ special in any way compared to other cubes?
Yes.
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Re: Where do you guys keep your colonizing/germinating petri dishes? [Re: MudaFuka]
#23882697 - 11/30/16 07:03 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Didn't eat them many times but they were sure different for me. Could've been the potency though
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