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KauaiOrca
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Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ???
#23923751 - 12/13/16 06:31 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've found that since I switched to RGS as my grain of choice, I never get contamination problems anymore. Don't think I'm being more cautious with sterile precautions and, in fact, I may be getting more lax in some ways because of how little a problem it has become.
I'm curious, does anyone know if RGS or any other grain has a tendency to be less likely to contaminate? Or are they all about the same?
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: KauaiOrca] 1
#23924508 - 12/13/16 10:20 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Any grains treated with endospores is a bitch and a half to get clean. Different brands/grains/sources might not have any endospore treatment, depending on your area rgs might be better, or wbs, or oats, or idfk any grain really lol
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: Mad Season]
#23924532 - 12/13/16 10:29 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yes i know that nothing will contaminate more then whole corn with bacterial issues. Oats, wheat. Wbs abd rye barries, millet all about the same with molds and yeast. Mad season is right its all brand and process based. Your grass seed might be clean since its meant for planting instead of feed.
P.s. if your stuck with corn do 3 hours at psi. Much better
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: tump]
#23924701 - 12/14/16 12:06 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I exclusively use whole corn when I can get it on sale haha
mad season nailed it though
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Intelligentxfruit2 said: I exclusively use whole corn when I can get it on sale haha
mad season nailed it though
Why whole corn. Cracked corn for the win. I've tryed most typles of spawn then 90% + of users on here. Including beans, cardboard, coffee beans, poppy seeds, all grains, fruit pits, nuts, dog food, cut up potatoes, many other seeds pumpkin, peppers, kale, plus more. Whole corn was the crappy grain its cost 5 cents a pound is nice but nothing else. Cracked corn was my go to grain at 5.5 cents a pound. Ive been. Through more then 250 bags of 50lbs before i switched. Its not shakeble but has the most knock points of any grain and Yeild is on par with the others. So op good luck with grass seed always be sterile when you relacks its when you contam a 100 jars.
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: tump]
#23924807 - 12/14/16 01:10 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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The rate it colonizes and when I can get it for cheaper than dirt theres no reason why not to use it. The colonization rate has to do with the surface area of the whole popcorn I believe
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Nope amount of set points that myc divide and recover. With whole corn is so few points. Im sure with slurry method of inoculate the spawn typle doesn't matter but with spores, lc or wedge it takes a dick year to colonised time and g2g is horrible. Rye grass seed actually is the best g2g ive done speed with even more then millet. Pictures of your spawn op and you. Intelligent fruit. Im sure op is twice as fast.
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: tump]
#23924919 - 12/14/16 03:13 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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lol no thanks buddy
have you even tried corn? people give it a bad rep but I rarely have problems. never did I say corn was the best grain, just pointed out its advantages I've noticed.
why the call out?
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Because cracked corn if the bomb and i found whole corn to lacking. I have tried one 100lbs of it. Im always open to any advantages one spawn has to another. I just don't see any thats the call out.
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: tump]
#23924955 - 12/14/16 04:34 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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If you just grow in zip-loc jars and want a dead simple, have to be an idiot to screw it up method with just grain and some verm casing, RGS is tough to beat. Actually, don't really need the verm, but it keeps the top from drying out too quickly. No formula, no mixing... boil, drain, stuff, inoc and wait ... no fruiting chamber needed either.
Can't speak to yield, but if you're not an industrial grower, what difference does it make? Here, we get RGS for $15 / 50lb bag ... which will grow exactly 1.7324 bazillion fruits.
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: tump]
#23924959 - 12/14/16 04:39 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Intelligentxfruit2 said: I exclusively use whole corn when I can get it on sale haha
mad season nailed it though
Why whole corn. Cracked corn for the win. I've tryed most typles of spawn then 90% + of users on here. Including beans, cardboard, coffee beans, poppy seeds, all grains, fruit pits, nuts, dog food, cut up potatoes, many other seeds pumpkin, peppers, kale, plus more. Whole corn was the crappy grain its cost 5 cents a pound is nice but nothing else. Cracked corn was my go to grain at 5.5 cents a pound. Ive been. Through more then 250 bags of 50lbs before i switched. Its not shakeble but has the most knock points of any grain and Yeild is on par with the others. So op good luck with grass seed always be sterile when you relacks its when you contam a 100 jars.
Thanks for that. I may try cracked corn. Never tried it before. Brown rice is good too for zip loc jars but moisture's a little trickier. You really can't screw up the moisture with RGS even if you try.
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Edited by KauaiOrca (12/14/16 05:03 AM)
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: KauaiOrca]
#23924970 - 12/14/16 04:56 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Corn is garbage. I have noticed a lower yield with it and aside from higher endospore populations and next to no inoculation power, it's got very little nutrition compared to grains like rye wheat or millet. Plus cracked corn is nothing but spilled starch waiting to happen and we all know what spilled starch in your spawn turns into (bacteria food).
Tump doesn't your big government grant allow you to buy a better quality grain?
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: Pastywhyte]
#23924983 - 12/14/16 05:04 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've never understood the hate for corn, my yields have never notably suffered. This is making me want to do a side by side write up Maybe just straight cased grains you could see a difference but still for the price you can't beat it 
can't believe tump has a government grant, seems like a troll
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: Pastywhyte]
#23924995 - 12/14/16 05:13 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Pasty i switch to better grains but cracked corn yields fine. You have to cook it longer but still work it if you aren't needing to shake your grain. If i could ever pay $15 dallors for 50lbs of rgs id stock up. Also personal grows and not personal funding is different. I personally use oats or wheat now because of price. All grain prep is easy with practice so that should never be a issue. Never use most grains for bottle teks just spawning to bulk. Op should share the buying love.
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Maybe you don't think your yeild suffered but I assure you in a side by side comparison with controlled genetics corn loses. It simply doesn't have nearly as much nutrition by volume.
Tump has a grant from the US government to conduct a study on cubes. At least that is his claim.
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: tump]
#23925002 - 12/14/16 05:18 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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tump said: Pasty i switch to better grains but cracked corn yields fine. You have to cook it longer but still work it if you aren't needing to shake your grain. If i could ever pay $15 dallors for 50lbs of rgs id stock up. Also personal grows and not personal funding is different. I personally use oats or wheat now because of price. All grain prep is easy with practice so that should never be a issue. Never use most grains for bottle teks just spawning to bulk. Op should share the buying love.
Central Oregon at several aggriculture suppliers it's cheap. Price varies and I bought this bag (still have half of it) about 1 1/2 years ago. I think they grow a lot of it here, so it's cheap. It's got to be the ultimate grain for growing invitro jars. Set and totally forget until it starts pinning. The bottom watering technique is like magic.
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: tump]
#23925010 - 12/14/16 05:21 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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tump said: Pasty i switch to better grains but cracked corn yields fine. You have to cook it longer but still work it if you aren't needing to shake your grain. If i could ever pay $15 dallors for 50lbs of rgs id stock up. Also personal grows and not personal funding is different. I personally use oats or wheat now because of price. All grain prep is easy with practice so that should never be a issue. Never use most grains for bottle teks just spawning to bulk. Op should share the buying love.
If your premise is that using cracked corn is the best bang for your buck in a bottle grow then you need to try my straw method. It's just straw and whole wheat flour. Costs about 0.25 in materials per bottle and pumps out many flushes with high BE. In fact my straw bottles have yielded the highest BE of any method I have tried yet.
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: Pastywhyte]
#23925020 - 12/14/16 05:31 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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tump said: Pasty i switch to better grains but cracked corn yields fine. You have to cook it longer but still work it if you aren't needing to shake your grain. If i could ever pay $15 dallors for 50lbs of rgs id stock up. Also personal grows and not personal funding is different. I personally use oats or wheat now because of price. All grain prep is easy with practice so that should never be a issue. Never use most grains for bottle teks just spawning to bulk. Op should share the buying love.
If your premise is that using cracked corn is the best bang for your buck in a bottle grow then you need to try my straw method. It's just straw and whole wheat flour. Costs about 0.25 in materials per bottle and pumps out many flushes with high BE. In fact my straw bottles have yielded the highest BE of any method I have tried yet.

P - What sized plastic bottles are those that fit on your zip-loc jars? I ended up making my own "hoods" but that's way better. To they fit perfectly or did you have to do something to them?
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: KauaiOrca]
#23925028 - 12/14/16 05:49 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Never even used corn for bottle tek pasty only wheat, oats, flours. Ive tried all the grains or seeds much earlier then your tek. Straw is a good food source and your bottles are great. But are you really saying that if corn is 5.5 cents a lb and that oats are 14 cents a lb that your Yeild in bulk would be 254% better?
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Re: Is RGS more contamination resistant than ... ??? [Re: KauaiOrca]
#23925030 - 12/14/16 05:50 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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They look like regular 2L coke bottles
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