mushboy said:

i used micropore tape once to keep the bags folded down during the cycle and the glue melted and everything was sticky. the tape fell off and was floating in the water.

thats the only basis for my comment.

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DERRAYLD said:

mushboy said:

i used micropore tape once to keep the bags folded down during the cycle and the glue melted and everything was sticky. the tape fell off and was floating in the water.

thats the only basis for my comment.

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Strange, you would thick Mp would work considering it works on jars.

I have tested packaging tape and it didn't melt or the adhesive fail during the pc cycle.

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Phaethon said:

It'd probably be just fine as spawn. You'll be sterilizing it, and you can always rinse it if it's physically dirty. Some blends are probably better than others (e.g. corn can be too starchy and sunflower seeds don't really hydrate) but if you aren't planning to use it to feed birds, you may as well at least try it for spawn. Millet (typical main component of WBS) is easy to prep and pretty nice as spawn (especially for g2g donors) because there are so many tiny seeds in a given volume to act as inoculation points.

Wheat was a bit cheaper than millet at the feed store I went to, so I'm mostly using that. I also bought a bag of milo, and I'm not fully sold on it, mostly because the bag has so much chaff and other debris. Better for Muda bottles since it's mixed with coir at sterilization time (I used 2:1 coir:grain, was able to shake just fine after inoculation). I mixed it with wheat once, all boiled together, and I might try that again to see if I can get away without skimming off a bunch of debris.

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ansr said:

I want a second opinion on these jars.

Different sides of the same jar.


Three other jars.


Contaminated?

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curenado said:

ansr said:

I want a second opinion on these jars.

Different sides of the same jar.


Three other jars.


Contaminated?

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Beautiful with visible rhizos extending and the text book cake....unless they just stopped or i missed something?

what made you think something was wrong?

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I made a spore syringe today and I put a whole print into it () and I posted a picture of it in the daily pictures thread and it turned into a conversation. The syringe is full of spores, it's black, and the much much muuuch more experienced than me says it was a bad idea to inoculate jars with it, but I also did these jars 15 days ago with another print, it was my first try to make a syringe from a print, and then inoculated them with a lot of spores, and again they said it was bad and they say all these jars are full of bacteria.

They have not stopped growing, they are growing fast but have lots of condensation, that's why they said it's full of bacteria I think but that don't make sense to me.
If they were, wouldn't they stop growing? Or at least slow down?


This is the syringe I made today and inoculated 6 jars with.


The conversation started here, second message from the top.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21171549/fpart/7633/vc/1

mushboy said:

wouldnt the glue melt during the cycle?

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TPython said:

Yeah they will but that price is crazy

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Arkyhog said:

TPython said:

Yeah they will but that price is crazy

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Yeah unfortunately I'm in Arkansas and wheat is a northern state product. Found out that TSC's Producers Pride has an acid in it that works as an antifungal, so i will be feeding it to the deer along with their corn. We have plenty of rice, soybeans and corn down here but not much in the grains department grown here.

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