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Step up from PF TEK?
    #26098918 - 07/09/19 07:38 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Well, I have made nearly 100 brf cakes without contam now, so I am feeling ready to move on to larger jars with grains or popcorn. Could someone point me to a good guide for such a venture on here? :-)


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Re: Step up from PF TEK? [Re: ChardRich]
    #26098945 - 07/09/19 07:48 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)



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Bods Easy AF Oat Prep Tek
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Re: Step up from PF TEK? [Re: DnDRnD] * 1
    #26099003 - 07/09/19 08:09 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Might wanna start with agar to make clean cultures for your grain.
Bod has a great write-up for agar too. https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21922023

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Re: Step up from PF TEK? [Re: El Chupacabra]
    #26099048 - 07/09/19 08:23 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

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El Chupacabra said:
Might wanna start with agar to make clean cultures for your grain.
Bod has a great write-up for agar too. https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21922023




Good call, definitely start with agar next! I totally spaced that part


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Re: Step up from PF TEK? [Re: DnDRnD]
    #26099063 - 07/09/19 08:27 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Yeah... I have thought about it, but I have some clean LC, so I will probably make some grains in the meantime!


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Re: Step up from PF TEK? [Re: ChardRich] * 1
    #26099373 - 07/09/19 10:53 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Tho it's possible to easily spot a contaminated LC, it may prove almost unpossible to determine that a LC is completely clean unless it has been tested :thumbup:
Just giving you heads up, maybe don't inoculate 20 grain jars right away with LC made from spores :super:


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ChardRich said:
Yeah... I have thought about it (agar), but I have some clean LC, so I will probably make some grains in the meantime!



:lol: it sounds so innocent the way you say it. God bless you :bongload:

But...
The first rule of LC club, always use clean live culture to inoculate the LC solution keeping sterile conditions inside the LC jar at all times. Second rule of LC club, never inoculate an LC with spores that have been grown and printed in unsterile conditions (basically every spore print ever printed) gl :goodluck:


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Re: Step up from PF TEK? [Re: Mateja]
    #26099381 - 07/09/19 11:03 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

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Mateah said:
Tho it's possible to easily spot a contaminated LC, it may prove almost unpossible to determine that a LC is completely clean unless it has been tested :thumbup:
Just giving you heads up, maybe don't inoculate 20 grain jars right away with LC made from spores :super:


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ChardRich said:
Yeah... I have thought about it (agar), but I have some clean LC, so I will probably make some grains in the meantime!



:lol: it sounds so innocent the way you say it. God bless you :bongload:

But...
The first rule of LC club, always use clean live culture to inoculate the LC solution keeping sterile conditions inside the LC jar at all times. Second rule of LC club, never inoculate an LC with spores that have been grown and printed in unsterile conditions (basically every spore print ever printed) gl :goodluck:




I tested it... which is why I said it's clean...  :howyoudoing:


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Re: Step up from PF TEK? [Re: ChardRich] * 1
    #26099394 - 07/09/19 11:11 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Two shay! Ba dum TSS! :hatsoff:

May I inquire suspiciously abuuuuuut what what kind of medium or substrate you tested the LC? :popcorn:

If you answer "BRF cakes" that you fruited successfully then I will interject with a HA! and post a meme of Nelson from Simpsons and eat more popcorn :popcorn:

Maybetry out some no pour agar container while you wait to order petris?
Agar will be essential when you start working with grain anyway so might as well dive in to that too if you're going grain :rockon:


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Re: Step up from PF TEK? [Re: Mateja]
    #26099405 - 07/09/19 11:19 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Well... I guess the Nelson meme in incoming. Tested it on some BRF cakes that I have yet to fruit  :whiteflag:

Why would BRF cakes not be suitable for testing LC?


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Re: Step up from PF TEK? [Re: ChardRich]
    #26099429 - 07/09/19 11:42 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Aah, the Nelson Mandala affect :bongload:

For example BRF cakes and other solid substrates do not provide a very good climate for propagation of bacteria. Bacteria thrives in wet places like liquid.
Your LC may actually be clean even tho it has been inoculated with spores even tho that's as mentioned a big no no, mostly because it's not so easy to always spot how clean a LC is and it need to be tested on a medium like agar that provides close to optimal conditions for a variety of organisms such as molds, bacteria, yiest and whatnot.


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Re: Step up from PF TEK? [Re: Mateja]
    #26099431 - 07/09/19 11:45 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Haha, well, I just picked up a presto 16q PC for $32 at walmart, $32!!!!!!!

Might as well give it a shot for now and work on agar in the near future :-)


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Re: Step up from PF TEK? [Re: ChardRich]
    #26099446 - 07/09/19 11:53 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

For example if you have wet spots in your too wet prepped grain then even a tiny bacterial colony that you introduce during inoculation might critically affect your spawn jar. If the same bacterial colony was inoculated into perfectly prepped grain with minimum or zero moisture inside the jar or on top of the grains then your chances of successfully colonizing the jars with intended organism increases a lot. Grain prep takes a time or two to of doing it to get it right but it's easy peasy with good grain and harder with other grains :goodluck:


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Re: Step up from PF TEK? [Re: Mateja]
    #26099451 - 07/10/19 12:00 AM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Understood. I’m going to go with bod’s easy af horse oat method


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