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OfflineDcevLearn
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Any ideas on how to salvage this failed bottle tek?
    #25512994 - 10/04/18 08:36 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

So I prepared two bottles based on the bottle tek thread.  This includes rye berries, wheat bran, verm, & coir.  The tek mentions leaving some head-space for an eventual casing layer once you open it up for fruiting, so I left about a 3/4" gap at the top.  Little did I know wet rye and substrate expand, A LOT.  Within a few days my 3/4" gap was gone and the contents were pushing against the lid.  Now 18 days later both bottles are about half colonized (top of bottle only) and they feel like a stuffed sausage casing ready to explode. 

Any ideas on what I can do with this mess?  Keep waiting?  Dump it out and try to separate out the colonized portion?



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Re: Any ideas on how to salvage this failed bottle tek? [Re: DcevLearn]
    #25513074 - 10/04/18 08:56 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

If they stalled it's probably because the grains are so squished together the mycelium can't penetrate it, I think.

Have you got gas exchange on those?  If not, they'll stall.

Someday soon you may have to scoop out the colonized portion and use it as spawn on some coir.  That's all I can think of to salvage something.  You could make a little cake to fruit from.

What kind of containers are those?  They look plastic, did you pressure cook them?


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Re: Any ideas on how to salvage this failed bottle tek? [Re: VroomerMcZoomers]
    #25513083 - 10/04/18 09:00 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

thats muda bottles. you can top fruit them and still get fruits. check this thread out about fruiting em with uncolonized grain on the bottom.


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Re: Any ideas on how to salvage this failed bottle tek? [Re: VroomerMcZoomers]
    #25513085 - 10/04/18 09:00 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

Quart twist top Ziploc.  They pressure cook no problem.


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Re: Any ideas on how to salvage this failed bottle tek? [Re: JHOVA]
    #25513099 - 10/04/18 09:04 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

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thats muda bottles. you can top fruit them and still get fruits. check this thread out about fruiting em with uncolonized grain on the bottom.




This is exactly what I was imagining, thanks!!! :hug:


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Re: Any ideas on how to salvage this failed bottle tek? [Re: DcevLearn] * 1
    #25572197 - 10/27/18 06:42 PM (6 years, 2 months ago)

3 weeks later I have a really nice update...  Thanks JHOVA & AK1000!!!



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Re: Any ideas on how to salvage this failed bottle tek? [Re: DcevLearn]
    #25588558 - 11/03/18 08:45 AM (6 years, 2 months ago)

Another update, this time Great White Monster:





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Re: Any ideas on how to salvage this failed bottle tek? [Re: DcevLearn]
    #25588711 - 11/03/18 10:00 AM (6 years, 2 months ago)

Wow congrats man, those are some pretty fruits!  :thumbup:


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