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How to safely pause colonizing BRF jars?
    #27302237 - 05/09/21 11:06 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

I have several pint and half-pint BRF jars (PC’d for 90mins each, inoculated with MSS) that have been colonizing since 4/3 at the earliest and 4/15 at the latest. So just about a month ago for the most part. Some of them have just about finished, many of them are very close to finishing. Some are still very far behind but the majority are nearly colonized and will be ready to be birthed or spawned to bulk within the next few days.

Anyway, something came up and I now have an unexpected trip I need to take. I’ll be leaving in about a week and will be gone for another week and a half after that. So I’m not sure what to do right now. My original plan was going to spawn the completed jars to bulk this weekend and then spawn the remaining jars as they finished colonizing over the next several days/weeks. But I didn’t think I had enough time between yesterday and my flight to be able to do anything worthwhile. And I didn’t want to leave a partially colonized shoebox unattended for 10 days.

So is there any way to safely “pause” the growth on these jars? Ideally I’d like to pick up right where I left off when I return from my flight. I’m not sure if the fully colonized jars will be able to survive for another 16 days minimum in jars. I’m slightly more hopeful on the mostly colonized jars but even that I’m not sure what my options are. Maybe the refrigerator? But that seems like it will contaminate or kill/dry out my jars.

All of my jar lids have a micron filter secured over a 1/4” hole for GE or they have the standard PF tek style lids with micro pore tape covering the inoculation holes on top for GE. So far I haven’t seen any signs of contamination on any of my jars luckily but I’m worried I’ll have to start over from scratch when I return from my trip.

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Re: How to safely pause colonizing BRF jars? [Re: shakezilla]
    #27302245 - 05/09/21 11:14 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

You can refrigerate you cakes and this will slow colonization down to a virtual stop, and they will continue to colonize after you take them out of the fridge :thumbup: GL


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Re: How to safely pause colonizing BRF jars? [Re: Mateja]
    #27302266 - 05/09/21 11:39 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

Personally i would never store jars in the fridge that haven't finished colonizing.
Keep in mind a fridge has a lot of stuff going on,
waiting to colonize something.
I'd wait to let them finish, and put them into ziplocks, then to the fridge.
Also cling wrapping lids. Better safe than sorry.
But that`s just my opinion though :wink:

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Re: How to safely pause colonizing BRF jars? [Re: Goatrider]
    #27303256 - 05/10/21 04:46 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

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Goatrider said:
Personally i would never store jars in the fridge that haven't finished colonizing.
Keep in mind a fridge has a lot of stuff going on,
waiting to colonize something.
I'd wait to let them finish, and put them into ziplocks, then to the fridge.
Also cling wrapping lids. Better safe than sorry.
But that`s just my opinion though :wink:

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Won't the ziplocks suffocate the jars? I'm very concerned with contams in the fridge but I have no idea what will happen if I basically eliminate GE.

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Re: How to safely pause colonizing BRF jars? [Re: shakezilla]
    #27303647 - 05/10/21 11:26 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

There won't be much going on in the jars as they lay dormant.

But honestly, if we are talking about just 10 days,
i'd set up some shoeboxes the day i leave.
Even a week more i wouldn't be afraid,
possibly you return to a nearly finished flush.
I'd set them up in a ziploc bag tent style, with the lids loosely on,
this will keep up good microclimate, they may also finish on their own,
pushing the lids up if they need to.
Prepared right, it's set and forget and after 10 days there'll rarely be pins.
Your decision brother :wink:

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Re: How to safely pause colonizing BRF jars? [Re: Goatrider]
    #27303750 - 05/11/21 02:34 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

That's exactly what I'd do too. Make the shoeboxes the day before I left. Like he said shoeboxes are basically spawn and wait til harvest nothing in-between haha. These are a run of some other 6qt boxes I got off the Amazon. In both sets ( these and the ones most people run that are $1 a piece ) I don't need to touch em til harvest. If your jars aren't fully colonized before you go I'd just leave em to finish normally. People usually give them a week of consolidation after full colonization so I think you'll be good. I've only ever put a few grain jars in the fridge at full colonization cuz I was waiting for tub space but they were there for about a week and bounced back fine. I've never put em in when there not 100% though.


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