mushboy said:

someone awhile back did the same thing. now i kinda wanna try it

if you have a flowhood i cant imagine any reason to ever do this

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Those with stoves opt to make SpaghettiOs...

primelines said:

Ok I'll try it just gotta find it. Dont see it on amazon.
Gotta figure a good way to pour lc in and seal it good.

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CapSense said:

You should be able to find it in most supermarkets in the rice aisle.

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It can be in odd places too, like beside the jars of curry sauce, or in ready meal sections.

Searches will bring up previous peoples ideas. Similar things have been done and seem to not get popular, maybe due to price.

This thread is 14 years old and I was posting saying I had tried Uncle bens a few years before that, saying I was put off by price. No own brands did it where I live back then.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/4170612#4170612

I did a grow with tesco brown rice a few months ago, trying to find simple methods for a friend. It is much cheaper than uncle ben, there is no added salt but there is veg oil. The veg oil makes it not stick together. I put 2 pouches in the microwave with pin holes and heat until steaming. I then have a filtered tub/container which was steamed with water inside it in a microwave too, inside a plastic bag with some water. The rice is then added to the tub and put in the bag and microwaved again on defrost. This is to drive off moisture and heat treat it again as it was done in open air. By weighing you can calculate the moisture loss, this allows you to add loads of LC, I shake it well. The huge amount of LC added meant it needed no further shaking, it all colonizes in place, think it was done in 10 days, then and I just add a casing layer on top. With regular rice it will usually be fused into on big block, this is why the oil is good.

There are several options on using the pouches. You can put a blob of silicone down as an injection port, inject your liquid and then put in a needle with a syringe filter on it, I have used syringe needles with unfiltered long silicone tubes instead too. I have cleaned a pouch with bleach and stuck on a filter patch with silicone and then put a dot of silicone in the middle of the patch. This means a needle can pass through the filter and into the pouch too, with the needle still passed through the filter you can poke lots of small holes in the pouch for better air exchange than just a single small hole. I have also heated the pouch with a filter like this in place with out bothering to use bleach, I then microwave the pouch on low so the filter gets steamed and I drive out moisture, again allowing for lots of LC. I guess the bags could also have the filters stuck on and steamed just to heat treat the filters and the bag underneath them.

These days you can get pouches of mixed rice with other grains. Hippie3 grew on hominy. Stephen L Peele used tinned corn, I have grown on tinned sweetcorn too.

Here are colonising tinned kidney beans and peas, nothing came of these.

Fun-G said:

Potency comes from genetics, the food source those genetics start on can play a role....others argue its strictly genetics but I highly doubt the rice was the culprit for weak mushrooms or no potency.

I had a similar experience while using popcorn as the spawn to coir/verm...they were wild so the next time I upped the nitrogen as suggested by RR using worm casings, although different genetics the mushrooms were significantly more potent then the previous culture...

You could try spawning to worm casings or coffee grounds for the high nitrogen content. That should aid in any kind of potency issues in furthering developing the fungal colony...nutrient boost never hurt anything, give it a try.

Super cool tek btw, if I was still living in a room I'd have 30 packets going already lol

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ThisIsMyShroomAcct said:EDIT: I found an old account of this being done in nearly identical fashion and the resulting shrooms had zero potency.

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As a leader of the anti-masturbation movement, Kellogg promoted extreme measures to prevent masturbation. He circumcised himself at age 37. His methods for the "rehabilitation" of masturbators included measures up to the point of mutilation without anesthetic, on both sexes. He was an advocate of circumcising young boys to curb masturbation and applying carbolic acid to a young woman's clitoris. In his Plain Facts for Old and Young,[37] he wrote:

A remedy which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed.[51]

further

a method of treatment [to prevent masturbation] ... and we have employed it with entire satisfaction. It consists in the application of one or more silver sutures in such a way as to prevent erection. The prepuce, or foreskin, is drawn forward over the glans, and the needle to which the wire is attached is passed through from one side to the other. After drawing the wire through, the ends are twisted together, and cut off close. It is now impossible for an erection to occur, and the slight irritation thus produced acts as a most powerful means of overcoming the disposition to resort to the practice

and

In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid (phenol) to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.

He also recommended, to prevent children from this "solitary vice", bandaging or tying their hands, covering their genitals with patented cages and electrical shock.[37]

In his Ladies' Guide in Health and Disease, for nymphomania, he recommended

Cool sitz baths; the cool enema; a spare diet; the application of blisters and other irritants to the sensitive parts of the sexual organs, the removal of the clitoris and nymphae...

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