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gogomogo
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Beginner trying cardboard TEK
#28678340 - 02/27/24 02:44 PM (10 months, 14 days ago) |
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Hey all,
So I got myself a nice first ever flush!
Fruits seem to be sporeless. I will keep one cap on tin foil to try and get some spores. However, I'm planning to clone the biggest specimen. I don't have much gear except for a dryer and a pressure cooker (soon will build a SAB).
So, I read about the cardboard TEK, however one thing is unclear to me - if I want to do it using a PC, instead of a microwave (I don't have one), what exactly do I need to do? Will this work?:
I put two pieces of peeled, clean, non-ink cardboard in a glass jar, fill it with water until it covers the carboard, close it with a lid, and then put it inside the pressure cooker. Fill the pressure cooker with water up to maybe half of the jar. Then pressure cook for 2 hours. Afterwards, put a piece of the mushroom's stem deeply into the cardboard as explained in the TEK, and keep it all moist.
What differs from the TEK is pressure cooking instead of microwaving, and the fact that my jar's lid will be metal and there will be no polly-fill lad.
Will this work? Thanks!
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Re: Beginner trying cardboard TEK [Re: gogomogo]
#28678352 - 02/27/24 02:52 PM (10 months, 14 days ago) |
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Congrats on the harvest. What variety are you growin? If you’re harvesting as the veil breaks and not seeing spores you may just need to wait for the cap to open up a bit more until it started dropping spores.
The cardboard has some potential to work but cloning to agar would be your best bet. And just hydrating the cardboard would be better than having a bunch of water in the jar. If you have a PC you should try agar, it’s easy and such a good tool to have as you keep growing. Getting a nice internal tissue sample will be a lot cleaner than spores, dirty LC, etc. so it would be a good opportunity to get you’re agar confidence up.
Edited by TPython (02/27/24 02:55 PM)
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Re: Beginner trying cardboard TEK [Re: gogomogo]
#28678368 - 02/27/24 03:04 PM (10 months, 14 days ago) |
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Quote:
gogomogo said: Hey all,
So I got myself a nice first ever flush!
Fruits seem to be sporeless. I will keep one cap on tin foil to try and get some spores. However, I'm planning to clone the biggest specimen. I don't have much gear except for a dryer and a pressure cooker (soon will build a SAB).
So, I read about the cardboard TEK, however one thing is unclear to me - if I want to do it using a PC, instead of a microwave (I don't have one), what exactly do I need to do? Will this work?:
I put two pieces of peeled, clean, non-ink cardboard in a glass jar, fill it with water until it covers the carboard, close it with a lid, and then put it inside the pressure cooker. Fill the pressure cooker with water up to maybe half of the jar. Then pressure cook for 2 hours. Afterwards, put a piece of the mushroom's stem deeply into the cardboard as explained in the TEK, and keep it all moist.
What differs from the TEK is pressure cooking instead of microwaving, and the fact that my jar's lid will be metal and there will be no polly-fill lad.
Will this work? Thanks!
Sporeless? Assuming it hasn't mutated to have no gills; it should drop spores. You should definitely get some spores by waiting-- if not you can scrap the gills gently to get some which are still lodged in there.
The PC will work; it's just a matter of what settings.
If theres no polyfill hole you may want to leave the jar one or so twists loose with some tinfoil over the top.
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Re: Beginner trying cardboard TEK [Re: 2Lazy2Bee]
#28678684 - 02/27/24 06:00 PM (10 months, 14 days ago) |
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Thanks for the replies!
It’s the golden teacher.
As for agar, it is not available in stores I’ve checked, and by the time it arrives by online request I think my specimen could dry out. Also, I don’t have much time currently and agar seems to be more time consuming with its preparation. Also don’t have petris and so on.
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Re: Beginner trying cardboard TEK [Re: gogomogo]
#28678762 - 02/27/24 06:39 PM (10 months, 14 days ago) |
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Golden teacher will drop spores. If you haven’t harvested everything yet wait until the cap flattens out and you see the gills darken up before decapitating it to print.
I’m not sure what cloning tek you’re referencing. Do you have access to pf tek materials? I’d drop a tissue sample onto a brf puck before I’d try the cardboard.
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