abductee said:

I used to use lysol to spray in my sab prior to using, but recently heard lysol isn't good for mycelium. I've been using water and dawn soap in a spray bottle. I put my sab over a fresh towel and spray the towel and insides of my sab. I've heard this will keep contams down if they float in or something by them staying to the soap. I also wipe down hands jars and tools with iso.

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San Pedro Girl said:

Way said:

Where do you store your unwrapped plates?

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Maybe unwrapped is the wrong word. I used to take my poured plates out of their zip lock bags, inoculate, and then wrap with Parafilm M. Now I just throw them right back into the same ziplock.

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Smellyhobbit said:

So I’ve seen some good growers here talk about using less and less cleaning solutions as they get better at cultivation.

I usually wiped down everything with 70% iso and then sprayed the inside of the SAB with Lysol, letting it catch particles and drag them down before waiting for the air to settle.

Last session, I wiped the inside of the box and I wiped the table. That was all the cleaning I did. No gloves.

So far nothing has contamed out. I’ll be keeping an eye on it, though.

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smalltalk_canceled said:

17.03.2023


Since banning myself at the shroomery

I have mixed roughly 6000 sawdust bags

i have inoculated them in a overpressurized room,

by literally pouring grains into sawdust substrate bags,
from fully colonized grain bags

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the first 2 months were so physically hard,
shoveling up the sawdust into farm sacks
movning them from a to b
then lifting them above shoulder height
to mix into the substrate mixer,
then bagging and packing into a pasteurizing chamber

this was so muscle demanding and taxing

that i lost 6 kgs, and im looking fitter than ever
in response to my hardship,
but also in response to my CHANCE
ive betting focusing realy hard

its all eating, sleeping,

making oysters, lions mane, shiitake

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I will now ban myself again

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seekercc said:

Is this blueish color OK?  It looks pretty black in the pic, but it looks dark blue

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abductee said:

Hey guys, I've been wanting to start using bags. Is it a pain to work with in the sab, should I get an impulse sealer or does folding and tape work fine for spawn bags? Anything to avoid when buying syringes for liquid culture?
Thanks for any tips or info.

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