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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: Staticshox]
#27896757 - 08/10/22 12:47 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Should field capacity be reached before or after adding the BRF?
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: LtLurker]
#27897071 - 08/10/22 08:35 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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The bigger jars you posted won't work that well if your intending on doing cakes as they both have lips that would make the cake impossible to get out. The small ones will work though.
And for the lids it depends if you wanna do cakes or grains. If doing grains which you would want a pc for then you can use the polyfill lid tek which is what I use and love. You could use it for brf cakes as well but it would make it harder to inoculate all sides of the jar. When it comes to inoculation alot of people prefer to go on the side like you asked about but I've also seen people who only inoculate into the very middle of the cake and have had success as well.
As for questions 4 and 5 you want to use as little spore solution as possible basically. Each drop contains 100's or 1000's of spores and the more solution you use the more likely you are to get contam like bacteria since no spores are really clean from the beginning. Best way to store them is to put the cap back on the needle then store them in a cool mostly dark place. Some people use a fridge some people put them in there dresser drawer and both are OK. When you use it after storage treat it the same as you would by flaming the needle to sterilize it then once it's cool inoculate away.
#6 I'm not familiar with vermicomposting so someone else may have to chime in on that one.
Thanks and appreciated.
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1) Grain jars only need 1 hole for the GE. 2) With a single inoculation point, it's probably most effective to go for the center. This way growth can continue in all directions and not stopped by glass. 3) They are grain jar lids. IDK what you think is alternative about them? 4) With a spore syringe, less is best. They all contain some amount of contams, so less liquid means less chance of contam. I suggest single drop per hole in a standard brf jar, most guides write 1/4cc since most people want a measurement to aim for. 5) Somewhere clean with the lock cap on, not the needle or capped needle. 6) Any compost or burying is fine. It's not unusual to get some outdoor shrooms from tossed cakes. 7) The half pints are perfect for typical brf jars. The tall one will work, but you will want to use a grain jar style lid, only fill it about half way, and yes it will be a pain to harvest a top fruit from it but you can also easily cut out the cake and put the spawn in another container that'll be easier to harvest from and re-use the jar sooner. Here is a write up from when I was working with some pint jars and practicing agar before i got my pc to do grains properly. This may be helpful to you. https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/25110988 8) spend the 30-40 bucks on a cheap dehydrator. It's the best way to ensure proper drying. An oven is firstly dangerous. Secondly it's gonna make you either want to rush and under dry your shrooms(water weight makes dosage inaccurate and can go bad in storage), or burn them and ruin them that way.
Thank you.
Referred to Bod's easy polyfil lid TEK as an alternative, cause lids seen prior to this method used either, 2 hole gas exchange or the brf 4 hole.
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: Wamailusi]
#27897455 - 08/10/22 01:49 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Interesting. Its probably just the lid designs you happened to pull up first. The majority grain lids just use a single hole for ge.
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: Wamailusi]
#27911262 - 08/20/22 12:51 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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First timer here, going to start the process tomorrow when my Pressure Cooker arrives.
Question on after I sterilize the jars and I let it cool to room temperature. How long is that usually? Like 24 hours?
Also when its cooling to room temperature, do I leave the aluminum foil covers on the jars or take them off?
Do I need to be concerned where they cool down? Just on a shelf anywhere OK?
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: nowayjose7]
#27911271 - 08/20/22 12:56 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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My jars cool down in hours. Depending on what you use PFTEK or grains I would assume they are cooled by 4-6 hours. Do your jars have filters or dry layer verm on them? If yes/no either way you can leave the foil on. Cool then down anywhere. On your crotch if you feel like.
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: Screwup]
#27911732 - 08/20/22 07:07 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Soon I will be birthing my cakes, rinsing them, skipping the dunk, And sticking back into the jars for the fruiting period with baggies on top.
How much new verm do I put on top? do I mist the new verm right away? How wet should I make the new verm layer ?
Ty so much
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: Staticshox]
#27929563 - 09/01/22 07:17 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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Staticshox said: Soon I will be birthing my cakes, rinsing them, skipping the dunk, And sticking back into the jars for the fruiting period with baggies on top.
How much new verm do I put on top? do I mist the new verm right away? How wet should I make the new verm layer ?
Ty so much
Just soak the hell out of it then squeeze out the excess. You don't need to be at all careful with verm. Just wash you hands.
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: Staticshox]
#27930985 - 09/02/22 05:25 PM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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After you inoculate, do you need to put something like micro-spore tape back over the the holes? Or do you leave those holes open to the air?
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: nowayjose7]
#27933135 - 09/04/22 06:05 AM (1 year, 4 months ago) |
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No need for tape, the dry verm layer ontop serves the same purpose
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: bodhisatta]
#27994430 - 10/11/22 08:49 PM (1 year, 3 months ago) |
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Thank you! Iβve used this (or a similar) method a long ago and my only jar turned out well. Just getting back into it again now that Iβm back in a legal area
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: bodhisatta]
#28094856 - 12/12/22 05:20 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Hey,Thanks for this. I bought 2 big bags of popcorn kernals, i got a big bag of organic vermiculite,two bricks of coir,12 pack of 1 oz jars,4 syringes.. Im kind of low on money at this point. I was going to get a used pressure cooker but it fell through. I would have to wait a week before i could get enough money to buy one new.I dont really want to wait. It sounds like contamination happens easily but surely there is a way without a pressure cooker,so here i am now. I will be reading through all of this information tonight&Im sure I will have a lot of questions along the way. Thanks for posting this, this looks to be a pretty cool community.
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Re: The cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: Skee87]
#28094901 - 12/12/22 05:52 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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What have you guys heard about the popcorn kernal method?
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: bodhisatta] 1
#28158846 - 01/26/23 06:28 PM (1 year, 1 day ago) |
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im really new to this all, this post really helped me get a better understanding of what the process really looks like. thank you for this!
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: bodhisatta]
#28182421 - 02/11/23 01:51 PM (11 months, 9 days ago) |
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I'm grateful for all of the guidance here and hoping for an opinion on in vitro fruiting as described here vs. spawning to bulk as reference in the OP.
I'm gaining proficiency with agar and have a dozen PF jars inoculated with agar to LI that are looking really good!
Meanwhile, along the way, I inoculated a single jar (with grain lid - no verm layer) with an MS syringe that someone gave me. The jar took almost 6 weeks because colonization started only on one side. Now it'll be fully colonized by morning. The cake is about 6 fluid ounces in a wide mouth pint - so the size of a standard cake with extra headroom at the top. The jar has a Ball brand unmodified plastic lid (the grey kind that can be PC'd).
I plan to clone the first (or best?) fruit from this MS jar. Will I be better off fruiting in vitro, or might it be better to spawn to bulk (coir) to spread things out, make it easier to pluck out an individual fruit, and perhaps(?) increase yield a bit?
Either way, I plan to do it the simple AF way - if fruiting in vitro, probably just water, add verm, dampen, and leave the lid loose, and if spawning, use a somewhat wider container and cover or enclose with a perforated bag.
Thanks!
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Re: The cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: aja_d]
#28194472 - 02/19/23 12:32 PM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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Thanks for the awesome tek!
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Re: The cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: Mycodemus]
#28208751 - 02/28/23 09:09 PM (10 months, 23 days ago) |
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Giving this tek a whirl to see if I can make the sgfc obsolete. However after birthing, fresh Verm layer and bagging things are moving extremely slowly.
Went agar to brf cake (half pint, widemouth) back in Dec, they colonized fairly slowly and only got around to birthing about a week and a half ago when I had the time. However since then growth has been slow to none at all. Over the past 10 days there is very little fuzzy mycelium growth in one of the jars and almost none in the other two. Things seemed to progress much faster in the sgfc.
Any ideas what the lack of new mycelium over/around the verm points to? Too little humidity? Too much? Stalled cakes? They should be long consolidated considering how long ago they appeared fully colonized. Contam? Nothing visible on them.
Figuring if I donβt see much movement in the next week Iβll throw em in the sgfc and see if that changes things, but any ideas are appreciated. Thanks all!
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Re: The cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: LazyLightningBug]
#28209163 - 03/01/23 08:18 AM (10 months, 22 days ago) |
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Of course no sooner do I post this then I wake up the next morning and see a pin or two on 2/3 of the jars Popping through the verm. Still a little worried about the overall slow nature of these jars during the colonization period but looks like things are on the right track. I had more expected to see myc take over the verm layer similar to how it had in the sgfc, but maybe that points to a deficiency not a rule? Still learning of course. Letβs see if these bad boys flush out.
Thinking Iβll give a shoebox a try next.
Thanks again Bod and all for the wealth of information.
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: bodhisatta]
#28257186 - 04/01/23 07:20 AM (9 months, 22 days ago) |
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to all: do u have to sometime swap the old bags for new bags in cake method?
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: generalelectric]
#28258235 - 04/01/23 08:16 PM (9 months, 22 days ago) |
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If you mean the bag on the jar for top fruiting, just give them a wash in soap and water between cakes.
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Re: Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker [Re: bodhisatta]
#28258823 - 04/02/23 08:42 AM (9 months, 21 days ago) |
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to all: after some days for the same cake, do u have to sometime swap the old bags for new bags in cake method? for the same cake
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