msuwabbit said:

Quick Question:  What am I doing wrong.  temp is mid 70s and humidity is 99.



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TillerG said:

I am getting back into it after a two year break. A friend had a jar of grain colonized with “The Lucy”. I did a G2G, seemed to colonize well in about a week, spawned to CVG sub in 4 shoeboxes and it started to surface after about 10 days. All seemed to be going well….
But now it has been 6 weeks and the surface is still colonizing, one of the boxes has had pin for about a week and getting more each day but dang it is going sooooo slowwwww. Each day of can barely see any progress at all.  I’ve been misting, checking humidity, seems like my conditions are right.
Anyone have any experience in “The Lucy” variety?

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shroomsurf said:

Hi, I've read, watched video's and even had nice people message me about PC stuff...

I'm only gonna do 4qt/4lb unicorn bags and I've heard, read and watched different times from 1-2hrs to 3.5hrs...

How do I know when I'm probably going to get a 23qt presto, which I think will hold 4qt/4lb unicorn bags...

Is there a formula..

I know there is the issue with not running out of steam and some techniques to keep the PC with water in it but I'm mostly concerned with the time to PC for the 4qt/4lb unicorn bags with red milo...

Any help since PC at first is a little knarly but I'm wanting to be free of vendors for agar and grain so I'm probably going to get a PC and try it...

Thanks,

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I've been watching this video and feel a little better about PC'ing...

acapulcogold said:

Are these little dark colored cap ones aborts?

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CowsPoopShrooms said:

At 11:04 when the lid lock pops up is when I start my vent timing (15 mins). He considers it vented when the lid lock pops up, but gives it an extra 5 mins. Anyone know which is correct?


EDIT: The manual isn't clear, but it does appear that he may be correct. Page 15-16 #10-11 in my manual.

"Using a high setting, heat the pressure canner until a steady flow of steam can be seen, heard, or felt
coming from the vent pipe (Fig. H). Exhaust air from the canner for 10 minutes by allowing steam to
flow from the vent pipe. Reduce heat, if necessary, to maintain a steady, moderate flow of steam.

10. Place the pressure regulator on the vent pipe. If heat was reduced for exhausting, adjust to a
relatively high setting and heat canner. As pressure develops in the canner, the air vent/cover lock
will lift and lock the cover on the canner. The air vent/cover lock is a visual indicator of the presence
of pressure. When in the up position, there is pressure in the canner; when in the down position, there
is no pressure in the canner (Fig. I). Also, as pressure builds, the pointer of the gauge should move
across the face. If the pointer does not move and the regulator begins rocking, see step 11 below to
process at 15 pounds of pressure. Replace the gauge before using the canner again.

11. Continue heating until the pressure dial gauge registers the correct pressure. Adjust the heat to
maintain the correct pressure on the dial gauge for the duration of the processing time."


Presto 23 quart manual PDF page 6 #9-11:
Download Instruction Manual PDF

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I'll be, once the thing pops up, be giving it 10 minutes+ to let the air venting to steam venting then I'll put the jiggle on, and as far as I can tell the video says to crawl up to 15psi and try to not have it go back down as to suck back steam form the bags/qts etc and then back into them again...

Since I have to do 3.5hrs, my only concern, next to not exploding, is to keep water in the PC!

I might put a little more than 3qts water unless someone suggests otherwise?

And of course, without the psi lowering turn the heat down and level out the psi at 15 as the bags get filled with steam!?