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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: Ballzagna]
#27114791 - 12/29/20 07:11 PM (3 years, 29 days ago) |
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Ballzagna said: edited my main post, just switched the PE for LPEU, gonna keep that PE to my journal I don't want to make too much work for myself because I needed to restart LPEU anyway.
HOWEVER I just got huge a wave of excitement for this grow/thread after reading Gypsy's post about the spirit of LAGM in regards to the start time and what not, it just really pumped me up, anyone else super excited??

Yes. CRazy excited.
I've only been (attempting) to grow for a few months and have finally gotten to a point where I have confidence in the cleanliness of my work. The outrageous generosity of the folks on the board here means I'm going to get to work with a bunch of strains I probably wouldn't have gotten to touch otherwise because of a lack of cross-border shipping and general crappy availability and prices in Canada.
My goal for this is to grow out a bunch of different strains, make a metric fuckton of prints, and do a massive giveaway as my way of saying thanks to all for the help.
... and my backup plan is to win the prize for the prettiest trich tub.
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: Buddaking]
#27114809 - 12/29/20 07:21 PM (3 years, 29 days ago) |
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Buddaking said: How about 2 Mak TP swabs 2 Hawlk PE swabs 2 BHT prints
For the prettiest contam on Agar. Lets say 2 weeks in Jan 14th US only guys Sorry 
This gives me hope for my baeo grow. I’m starting by scraping gills of year-old dry fruit.
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: Tankie_J]
#27114835 - 12/29/20 07:43 PM (3 years, 29 days ago) |
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LAGM2021 
I'm in!!
Species: P. Cubensis Variant: B+ Homemade spore print to swab to agar.
Species: P. Cubensis (I think) Variant: Whyte Gold from The Tribe EOY Giveaway mystery bill print
Species: P. Cubensis Variant: Texas Orange Caps Light print from a trade
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Using no-pours in Mr. Alien's Holy Grail Plates to start.
500 mg water 9.5 g Telephone Brand Agar-Agar 9.5 g Light Malt Extract 10 drops of Kroger Neon Blue Food Coloring
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01-01-2021



4 plates innoc'ed with homemade B plus spore print from early August, 2020. 1 with zig-zag method 3 with a light push and twist into the center of the agar.
I've never used the 'Z' method.
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1/8/2021 Week 01 Check in...

Tough to get a decent pic but we have germination on all 4 plates. It will be a while before we get to T1s but I'll take it.
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1/16/2021 Week 02 Check in... Germ Plates before the Punches

Germ Plate group shot after the Punches

Happy with the germ plates, so it's Time for T1s! Punches taken and transferred per D3monic's excellent tek. No real trouble in the SAB and made 4 T-1 plates. I always look at my old plates afterwards and second guess where I should have taken the punches. The plate I didn't take any punches from actually looks the best to me.
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1/24/2021 Week 03 Check in... T-1 Plate

WBS Prepped FooMan style

T-1 on Seed

Two of my T-1 plates looked good to me... so I took a couple of punches from each plate, put them on Pasty Plates and then put the pucks on Wild Bird Seed, prepped FooMan Style This is my first go at WBS but we've got the Pasty Plates as back ups if a) I was too aggressive putting T1 on seed or b) I jacked up the WBS tek.
In other news, I tried swabbing The Tribe - EOY Giveway Mystery Print!

GypsyBastard, would you add 'The Tribe - Mystery Print' to my LAGM2021 list? Thanks, man. I appreciate you putting this thread together and keeping it running!
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1/30/2021 Week 04 Check in... T-1s on WBS after 7 days

The wild bird seed still looks wet but the Myc likes it. Good growth. Once the Myc in the jar on the left reaches the top of the seed, I'll shake the jars.
I am also interested to see what happens with the myc hits that sunflower seed on the left. If it colonizes okay, I'm going to try a couple of using all black sunflower seeds.
My plates from my Tribe mystery bill print print show some growth but I can't get a new picture yet.
And my B+ T2 backup plates are not looking symmetrical. I'll mix up more Agar tonight and transfer to T3s. These will only be used if my WBS doesn't make to spawning
See you next week!
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02/07/2021 Week 05 Check in... T-1s on WBS after 13 days (pre-shake), not a huge change from last week

But I shook'em anyway

And one of my germ plates from The Tribe EOY Giveaway mystery bill print

I did 4 transfers from the germ plates from the Tribe print. I also did 4 transfers from the t2 plates from my B+. I should have transferred those last week - the agar was very thin, very dry. Like paper thin, paper dry.
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02/13/2021 Week 06 Check in... B Plus on WBS, 48 hours after the shake. Recovery under way

B Plus on WBS, 7 days after the shake. WBS seems to recover faster than oats

The T1 plates from my Tribe mystery bill print have good growth and I will be able to get some transfers next week. I am starting think the worst thing about no-pours is how tough it is to take a decent picture.
And my B+ T3 backup plates are looking better than the T2 pates but still not as symetrical as I would like. I'll probably keep the transfers going but these will only be used if my WBS contams before spawning
See you next week!
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02/20/2021 Week 07 Check in...
No Check in. Texas Cold-pocalypse 21. Dealing w/ power and water issues.
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02/27/2021 Week 08 Check in...
Tough week! Recovering from Texas Cold-pocalypse 21. The loss of water issue did not bother my grows but it got down into the mid-50s in the house.
My no-pours went all wisp-y and my WBS basically stopped colonizing.
I still transferred my Tribe mystery bill print to T2's and backup B+ plus plates to T4's.

On my WBS, I'm unsure what to do. Basically no growth during the cold week and not much during the week afterwards. Would you shake something that was this far along? Just go ahead and spawn it? Wait another week? I'm leaning towards just waiting another week.

03/06/2021 Week 09 Check in...
No Check in. House guests all week, all cult activities on hold.
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03/13/2021 Week 10 Check in...
B+ on WBS recovered fine after late (90%) shake

So off to the shoebox it went!

A no-suprises week! (No fucking Texas freeze-pocolys, no "hey, I need to stay with you for a couple of days" guests)
The B+ recovered just fine after the late shake, so I mixed up some bucket tek coir last night and added the B+ WBS this morning. This is my first spawning of WBS, so I'm interested to see how it compares to oats.
My Tribe mystery bill print T4s look a little light but they will go to WBS in the morning.
Happy growing! See you next week. ---
03/20/2021 Week 11 Check in...
Things are growing along fine but no check in.
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03/27/2021 Week 12 Check in...
B+ on WBS shoebox a little slow for 2 weeks and looks a little bacterial on one end

Tribe Mystery Print - before shake

and two days after
 Another keep-on-keeping-on week...
The B+ shoebox is colonizing right along and I think I will see knots and/or pins in the next week or so. One end looks a little discolored, I am keeping an eye on it but it's tough to see the discoloration through the box. Overall, my coir may be a little too wet.
My Tribe mystery bill print WBS jars hit the 30% mark on Wednesday, so I gave them each a good 30 second shake. They are recovering very well. It definitely seems like WBS recovers faster than oats for me.
I also have a clone from my first successful Purple Mystic grow on agar that I will be transferring this week. If I grow that out and print it successfully, I will use the spores to be my 3rd LAGM2021 entry.
Happy growing! See you in the next week or two.
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04/03/2021 Week 13 Check in... (posted after the 21 day outage of 2021)
My first LAGM21 Flush!

Tribe Mystery Print WBS jars - just about ready to spawn

Very excited to get my first LAGM21 fruit. The B+ shoebox yielded 157g wet, 12.6 gram dry. Not fantastic efficiency but more than enough for personal use. It took me 3 months and 3 days to go from spores to agar to oats to spawn to dehydrator.
My Tribe mystery bill print WBS jars will go to spawn in the next day or two.
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04/11/2021 Week 14 Check in... (posted after the 21 day outage of 2021)
Tribe Mystery Print - a week after spawning

My Tribe mystery bill print shoeboxes are colonizing nicely.
In other news, tried spore-printing from my Purple Mystics. They don't seem to be dropping spores... and I really want to add purps to my LAGM21 spore run list. This batch is going into the dehydrator and I'll try making swabs from my next batch from my 'cluster' clones.
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04/17/2021 Week 15 Check in... (posted after the 21 day outage of 2021)
Pin blobs from the Tribe Mystery Print - shot 1

Pin blobs from the Tribe Mystery Print - shot 2

I have blob pins! This is my first blob experience. I'm leaning towards guessing that this is APE or maybe Rusty Whyte because these definitely are white and the spore print looked red to me...) I am super excited to see these!
See you next week! Mush Love!
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04/25/2021 Week 16 Check in...
Fruit the Tribe Mystery Print - shot 1

Fruit the Tribe Mystery Print - shot 2

I still don't know what these are, but this shoebox will be ready to harvest tonight or tomorrow. Looking forward to see if they are hollow and how much they weigh wet and dry.
Also, trying to decide what spores to put on Agar next. Maybe Texas Orange Caps?
See you next week! Mush Love!
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05/01/2021 Week 17 Check in...
Whyte Gold Box 2 - shot 1

Whyte Gold Box 2 - shot 2

Texas Orange Caps - soon to be swabbed

The Tribe Mystery spore print was confirmed to be Whyte Gold. The first flush of the 2nd shoebox came in big - 320g wet, which is my biggest shoebox haul yet. A couple of these were the biggest individual mushrooms I have grown - I guess these would have been monsters in a mono-tub. Thanks again to The Tribe for these spores.
And I am trying Texas Orange Caps for my 3rd spore type in LAGM21.
See you next week! Mush Love!
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05/08/2021 Week 18 Check in...
Whyte Gold Box 1 - Flush 2

170g Wet 2nd Flush from my first Whyte Gold shoebox. These Whyte Gold are the best genetics that I have grown. Looking forward to sampling them in June! (I'm on a 6 week dosing schedule...)
3 out of the 4 Texas Orange Cap agar plates have good growth but I will probably give them another week before I do T-1s. I am using Mr. Alien's Holy Grail plates and have good visibility but I just can't good photos.
Have a great week! Mush Love!
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05/15/2021 Week 19 Check in...
Whyte Gold Box 2 - Flush 2 - before finishing in the dark

Whyte Gold Box 2 - Flush 2 - after finishing in the dark

Texas Orange Caps - germination plates

The Whyte Gold keeps on giving - 132g Wet 2nd Flush from the 2nd shoebox. This flush had an interesting "twist"". We had an unexpected house guest and the box spent two days in a dark cabinet before harvest. Pic 1 shows everything nice and straight. In Pic 2, the stems and shrooms are fine but all the smaller ones finished in odd curls and twists. I guess that happens when they can't reach for the sun. Both boxes are working on Flush 3 now -- box 1 already has pins.
Three of Texas Orange Cap germ plates looked good, so I made 2 transfers from each - so now I have 6 TOC T-1 plates started.
Hope the week goes great! Mush Love!
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05/23/2021 Week 20 Check in...
Whyte Gold Box 1 - Flush 3

Texas Orange Caps - T1 Plates

Can you believe we are 20 weeks into the year? It's been a weird one at la hacienda -- strangers in and out of the house almost every day, SWMBO and I have been fighting like cats and dogs, and work notified me that I'll have a drug test next month. All of that made me edgy and I ended up harvesting WG Box 1, Flush 3 early and dumping Box 2, F3. F3 of Box 1 was 130g - almost as big as Flush 2 of Box 2. Since my grows is for personal / friend use, it didn't go to the dehydrator -- just straight to the composter. Also dumped the bulk of my stash and relocated the rest.
Four of the Texas Orange Cap T1 plates showed good growth, so I transfered and now have 6 T2 plates going. I'll probably just do agar work for the next couple of weeks - it's easier to hide a few agar plates than a bunch of shoe boxes and grain jars.
Have a great week and Keep your Grow on the Down Low! Mush Love!
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05/30/2021 Week 21 Check in...
No check in but lost 3 of my TOC T2 plates to infection.
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06/06/2021 Week 22 Check in...
Texas Orange Caps - T2 Plate to WBS

Little bit of a lull in my LAGM21 action. I lost 3 of my TOC T2 plates to some type of invader. I think it was because I let my plate area get dusty and then I was handling the plates too much. It's hard to resist picking them up and turning them over and lookking at the myc. The 4th plate looked okay. I should have taken transfers to T3 but... I split it and dropped it into two 1/2 pint WBS jars. Growth seems a little slow, so it may be infected, but I'm going to let it grow out.
Trying to decide if I want to re-start TOC just in case these jars don't make it or if I want to try APEU or PESA. If I don't restart the TOC, I'll have to do some reading to make sure I have handle on the right shoebox conditions for APEU or PESA. The good thing about starting for spores, I'll have plenty of time before I have to put it to grain.
Have a great week and Keep your Grow on the Down Low! Mush Love!
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06/13/2021 Week 23 Check in...
Texas Orange Caps - WBS after first shake

Gave the TOCs a good shake at 30% and they are recovering okay. Jars still look a little shaky. I'll give them another shake in the next day or two.
Have a great week and Keep your Grow on the Down Low! Mush Love!
Edited by jay.ach (06/13/21 03:06 PM)
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: jay.ach]
#27114857 - 12/29/20 07:54 PM (3 years, 29 days ago) |
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I’m excited for this grow along and for everyone’s enthusiasm!
I’m deciding a great variety to try out for this grow is the Texas White Cap that I will be receiving soon from the wonderful Ted for the Tribe end of the year giveaway! (If you haven’t gotten anything yet, get yer ass over to the marketplace and scoop up some prints and other cool stuff!)
Gypsy, if you can add the TWC to mine I’ll make sure to get those going as well! Thanks for all that you have done to help make this happen! We love you
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: mind.at.large]
#27115284 - 12/30/20 12:53 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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Decided to change my cube grow to x7x. Maybe I will get lucky with a pink spore print?
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: D3_Myc] 1
#27115317 - 12/30/20 01:50 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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D3monic said: Oof, hopefully mine didn’t fall into that category. I’m like a doting mother, I wanna know they germed good, no bacteria on the swab ect.. I’ve gotten like zero feedback other than pretty packaging 🥺
My bad... Some RW feedback. It's not just the packaging that's pretty. Nipples are beautiful especially when they're blue.  
  
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: tiptrippy]
#27115319 - 12/30/20 01:51 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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tiptrippy said: Decided to change my cube grow to x7x. Maybe I will get lucky with a pink spore print? 
I hope so!
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: roarkell]
#27115336 - 12/30/20 02:10 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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roarkell said:
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tiptrippy said: Decided to change my cube grow to x7x. Maybe I will get lucky with a pink spore print? 
I hope so! 
Thanks again man!
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: tiptrippy]
#27115346 - 12/30/20 02:29 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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No problem! I figure the more people looking, the better chance we'll find some pink spores!
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: roarkell]
#27115420 - 12/30/20 04:30 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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Good to hear that we can start later, something unexpected came up and I've been delayed by two weeks
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: LemonTekno]
#27115506 - 12/30/20 06:17 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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This seems like a cool deal. I read that the agar will cool quicker. So far there's quite a difference between the reading on the jars and the temp of the water in the pot. 
10g 2% Agar, 7.5g 1.5% LME, 500ml Split 2 jars grn & blu/red 🍒 325ml LME in cold water for 12 min simmer Agar & LME PC 20 min
Wow cooled really quick, gonna have some lumpy plates! Maybe time for a sous vide...
Could have a plate that's a contender for the ugliest plate!
Edited by Inthepit (12/30/20 06:41 AM)
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: Inthepit]
#27115524 - 12/30/20 06:40 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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100% sous vide is the way to go! I can't imagine pouring 5 sleeves without one... but most people don't burn thru plates like I do... lol
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: roarkell]
#27115528 - 12/30/20 06:43 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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Hi Roarkell!
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: Inthepit]
#27115539 - 12/30/20 06:50 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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I do the pot o water, I heat the pot to 145 then take it down to the lab with the media bottles in it. A sous vide is on my radar though for the kitchen and what not.
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: Inthepit]
#27115546 - 12/30/20 06:54 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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Haha... whats up! Going for a new personal record tonight... gonna see if I can pour 6 sleeves (150 plates) after work... 2 sleeves each of my standard MEA, a modified PDA and diluted grain soak water...
I'm even considering making a "tea" outta some hardwood sawdust I have on hand... let it steep for a day and then filter out the solids... use that "tea" to make special plates for those Gyms... probably supplement a little bit of MEA in there just to be safe...
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: D3_Myc]
#27115595 - 12/30/20 07:19 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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Ya D3, I think I got that idea from you. It really was faster, like a couple hours faster! Next time though, I'll heat the water better and not be goofing off elsewhere...
Lucky me, the wife's all over getting a sous vide, she likes to cook...
Edited by Inthepit (12/30/20 07:25 AM)
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: roarkell]
#27115597 - 12/30/20 07:20 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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What up peeps! I have all my agar ready. Have my 20 first ever pasty plates. Going to do 5 strains, two plates each. Saving 10 plates for transfers... I know people transfer a couple times, but I'm going to shoot for a single agar transfer, then a josex style poke and LC.
Unfortunately I have to put the spores on them today, because I'm gonna be tripping balls on the summit of a frozen mountain for the new year. Ringing it in with style boys.
Fuck you 2020, let these agar plates stand as an act of defiance.
Roarkell, keep us posted about those gyms, I am watching anything wood lover related super closely.
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: anatomality]
#27115661 - 12/30/20 07:53 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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Its my first go with them so I would take anything im doing with a grain of salt... im doing a lot of reading but im also really good and saying fuck it and just wingin it... lol
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: D3_Myc]
#27115690 - 12/30/20 08:14 AM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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What, what's that you say, what the hell is that on top-0-the stack!

Why it's cat litter of course! ( Hi Ted ) Yes boyz 'n girly girls I'm onnit!
Can't find the post, but someone poured cement pucks, heated them in the oven and puts them on the stack to reduce that top plate's condensation.
So ever the one to "improve", those are PP plates filled with cat litter and sealed with red RTV. Not real impressive so far, but I didn't heat them.
I waited an hour and wrapped in stacks of five. Which fit inna dresser drawer.
Edited by Inthepit (12/30/20 08:26 AM)
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Re: LAGM2021- Official Let's All Grow Mushrooms 2021 [Re: Inthepit]
#27116508 - 12/30/20 02:53 PM (3 years, 28 days ago) |
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Just curious what the point of the cat litter plates is if they aren't heated to draw condensation up anyway?
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