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DeathPosture
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lovelaughlibs said: It's the only common factor that I've found in ridiculously slow colonisation times that don't involve contams 
I do have central heating but the radiators are positioned very wastefully directly under bay windows so the heat just merrily rises from the radiator and dissipates into the atmosphere. Easier to leave the fucker off and put another layer of clothes on 
My jars are always absolutely freezing to the touch and I don't buy the thing about the mycelium making it noticeable hotter inside - tell it to my colonisation times. Sure, it'll rise a few degrees, but jars are utterly icy.
It's the same for me, my heating is badly positioned and the sun barely hits indoors. Even in summer I get cold humid air in my flat! I live in the West Country, south of Cardiff. My jars are cold too, I have 4 rye jars that have been colonising for over a month now, they look healthy albeit very slow.
do yourself a favour and make a heatbomb, put the jars in a cooler box along with the heatbomb = profit
and let the word @subtropical@ echo in your mind
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Re: UK supplies thread. *DELETED* [Re: Aero]
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if i was you i would prepare a couple sterile cotton swabs for the journey, in south america cubes growing everywhere where u can find cattle or horses
its a cool thing to collect wild cube spores
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Re: UK supplies thread. *DELETED* [Re: Aero]
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lovelaughlibs
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Be very careful. A lot of wild cacti have tracking devices to stop exactly that, and how on earth are you gonna get a big fuck-off cactus cutting through customs?
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Re: UK supplies thread. [Re: Aero]
#24259669 - 04/20/17 01:23 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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lovelaughlibs said: It's the only common factor that I've found in ridiculously slow colonisation times that don't involve contams 
I do have central heating but the radiators are positioned very wastefully directly under bay windows so the heat just merrily rises from the radiator and dissipates into the atmosphere. Easier to leave the fucker off and put another layer of clothes on 
My jars are always absolutely freezing to the touch and I don't buy the thing about the mycelium making it noticeable hotter inside - tell it to my colonisation times. Sure, it'll rise a few degrees, but jars are utterly icy.
It's the same for me, my heating is badly positioned and the sun barely hits indoors. Even in summer I get cold humid air in my flat! I live in the West Country, south of Cardiff. My jars are cold too, I have 4 rye jars that have been colonising for over a month now, they look healthy albeit very slow.
do yourself a favour and make a heatbomb, put the jars in a cooler box along with the heatbomb = profit
and let the word @subtropical@ echo in your mind
is it literally just an aquarium heater you can get from anywhere? How hot do you keep yours?
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lovelaughlibs said: It's the only common factor that I've found in ridiculously slow colonisation times that don't involve contams 
I do have central heating but the radiators are positioned very wastefully directly under bay windows so the heat just merrily rises from the radiator and dissipates into the atmosphere. Easier to leave the fucker off and put another layer of clothes on 
My jars are always absolutely freezing to the touch and I don't buy the thing about the mycelium making it noticeable hotter inside - tell it to my colonisation times. Sure, it'll rise a few degrees, but jars are utterly icy.
It's the same for me, my heating is badly positioned and the sun barely hits indoors. Even in summer I get cold humid air in my flat! I live in the West Country, south of Cardiff. My jars are cold too, I have 4 rye jars that have been colonising for over a month now, they look healthy albeit very slow.
do yourself a favour and make a heatbomb, put the jars in a cooler box along with the heatbomb = profit
and let the word @subtropical@ echo in your mind
is it literally just an aquarium heater you can get from anywhere? How hot do you keep yours?
same just get a massive bottle get a heater fill it with water, turn it on full heat thats around 30C and place it in a closed insulated box with the jars not too close no direct contact
thats it should provide a decent 24-25C in the box
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Re: UK supplies thread. [Re: Aero]
#24260024 - 04/20/17 04:37 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think I'll give it a try, nothing to lose and it could shave so much time off my colonisation.
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lovelaughlibs said: I think I'll give it a try, nothing to lose and it could shave so much time off my colonisation.
yea mate, just let me know if u need more info with that, its a godsend when ur house is cold.
jars gonna be ready in 10 days
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Re: UK supplies thread. [Re: Aero]
#24262164 - 04/21/17 04:12 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Sure thing, do you just tape the heater to the top of the bottle?
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Re: UK supplies thread. [Re: mrmazdarx9]
#24262560 - 04/21/17 08:03 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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mrmazdarx9 said: Let us know how you get on Josex. Ill put up a pic of the PEU that i couldnt get to germinate on the premix pda or in a lc that finally on literally the the very last few drops i had left in the syringe i got to germinate on this agar I used the two good plates and left one that i forgot about in my grow tent.
 Left this plate since the end of january lol it did have much more clear rizo sections but left under 600w cfls for two months made it go a bit thick lol
Fuck to the yeah mrmazdar!
I bought that agar you recommended me and finally my cultures look like they're supposed to look on agar, also full colonization in ten days or less. 
The consistency and even the color of this agar powder is totally different from the fucky one I was using and finally I can see rhizos with this agar... again, fuck to the yeah
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Re: UK supplies thread. [Re: Josex]
#24263349 - 04/22/17 03:53 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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yeah ive got some sexy rizo ape going at the mo after one transfer.
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lovelaughlibs said: Sure thing, do you just tape the heater to the top of the bottle?
yepp
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Re: UK supplies thread. [Re: mrmazdarx9]
#24264624 - 04/22/17 05:47 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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yeah ive got some sexy rizo ape going at the mo after one transfer.
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FractalXplora said: sup base ickes, long time mate!
   
Pm me man I'm not on a lot but i do try. just trying to get back in the hobby. Just poured plates for the first tim e in like 7 years!
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mrmazdarx9 said: I got mine from spore works in the us fractal peu and ape. All peu went no where ape seems lively on this agar run.
Can recommend sporeworks. shipping is expensive but yeah. You can get the cube 3 pack of PE PEU and APE if you want. PE trinity haha
These jars are typical canning jars. I'm quite familiar with Ball and Kerr canning jars from the states and these are very similar. They are still soda lime glass, but nice and thick, and no visible bubbles or faults are visible in the 4 dozen of these 1L and 500ml from Home bargain.
Soda lime glass it not as shock resistant to heat change as borosilicate(Pyrex) due to the chemical make up. No glass likes massive heat differences which can cause the glass to pull away from its self if it contracts in certain parts too fast.
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yeah ive got some sexy rizo ape going at the mo after one transfer.
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Re: UK supplies thread. [Re: Base Icks]
#24264646 - 04/22/17 05:53 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well the ape syring seems really clean every plate has been clean from first drop and grow really well but the peu took a whole syringe to get 3 plates and they werent great and when i put them to oats they took an age to colonise then never recovered thats every jar. APE always works well though.
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Re: UK supplies thread. [Re: mrmazdarx9]
#24272255 - 04/26/17 04:25 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hey guys, the 59p Home bargain jars seem fine, I went to wilko after and looked at the Kilner jar's which were £2.50 and they felt extremely similar but obviously there might be a difference is glass quality. The B&M WBS was fine as well, I left it overnight to soak and the red pellets just dissolved and I rinced the red colour out and used a sieve to get rid of the sunflower seeds and floaters.
I'm doing whole oats now which is a lot less messy but for a budget the B&M WBS seem great.
Pics for Eerin jar and B&M WBS.
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Re: UK supplies thread. [Re: Kevlar123]
#24272270 - 04/26/17 04:56 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Maybe just the picture but that looks pretty bacterial to me
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Re: UK supplies thread. [Re: mrmazdarx9]
#24272276 - 04/26/17 05:13 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hey every jar I've done so far looks like that, this one was shaken a couple of days ago and the lumps at the top are lumps of grain clumped together. The mycelium on my King Oyster on oats is much less thick, but I just thought it was because it was a different species.
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Re: UK supplies thread. [Re: Kevlar123]
#24272294 - 04/26/17 05:32 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Anyway here are some pics of the WBS vs the oats. They both smell fine and have been colonising at a steady speed.
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