Seriously_trippin said:

Yeah the only real goal is to work in there so arms straight out does sound very cumbersome. Raising your seat sounds like a good option. I actually used my dad's shower chair to get some more height. Practice makes perfect.




Speaking of which I got my own 5 alarm crap fire now possibly. I think I'm on Day 7 of colonization and the first 6 days my jars looked like they were straight out of a time-lapse of perfect mycelium growth. They still are looking great but we just had a day where the humidity got up to damn near 100% and it looks like my jars unfortunately caught some of that moisture in the air. They're on a wire rack in a shelf in a closet I only opened once today.


And they look like this:


Should I be worried? Is there any place I can put them to be protected from the humidity?

Before today there was no visible moisture. All of it was at field capacity and growing perfect. Fuck. I also got my dad's GroMagic bag coming in tomorrow. Wondering if I should wait to inoculate now :smh:

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Seriously_trippin said:
And they look like this:



Should I be worried? Is there any place I can put them to be protected from the humidity?

Before today there was no visible moisture. All of it was at field capacity and growing perfect. Fuck. I also got my dad's GroMagic bag coming in tomorrow. Wondering if I should wait to inoculate now :smh:

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space.madness said:

Coconutz said:

Hey guys, can you stack jars on top of each other when doing a steam bath for PFtek?

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Yes, but you will reduce the amount of surface area that absorbs heat from the steam, so it will take longer for each jar to reach temp, reducing the amount of microbe reduction that occurs

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Coconutz said:

space.madness said:

Coconutz said:

Hey guys, can you stack jars on top of each other when doing a steam bath for PFtek?

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Yes, but you will reduce the amount of surface area that absorbs heat from the steam, so it will take longer for each jar to reach temp, reducing the amount of microbe reduction that occurs

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Thanks!

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Jrey16 said:

Once a jar is fully colonized is it okay to open it up very quick in front of an FFU to smell it before setting everything up to make sure it's good and doesn't smell bad? Or does that risk contamination?
Because the other week I set everything up to spawn but once it was time to pour the grains into the tub I opened up the grain jar and it smelled very sour. Wasted my time. The jar looked good but it smelled bad. I have jars fully colonized right now so I was just wondering. Don't wanna waste my time setting up again

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Phaethon said:

StophJS said:

GenesisCorrupted said:

Stopping you right there.
Why make a post about you not wanting to use the very easy (less than a dollar) method.

Buying grain or lc sent through the mail wouldn’t make me feel better.
I want to see a pic of these “fine” lids.

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Thought I did a good job with them, but perhaps not. As I said I will use agar next time. But I don't want the same thing to happen, and I suspect it will.

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In addition to the earlier recommendations to test LC before using it and avoid the injection ports (you can just open the lid in your SAB and add liquid culture), I am a little suspicious of the almost see-through filter. At least the ones I've used are quite thick, and when placed on a table like that you can't see the hole in the lid.

I think the other things are more likely culprits, but you could run a control with an unmodified lid, left just a bit loose while colonizing. Unmodified has some nice advantages - notably, you can dishwash them, you never need to worry about the filter getting wet, and there is no seal around the filter that can fail - you might find you prefer it anyway.

If the filter is one of those SFD stickers, you might at least put one on the inside of the lid as well.

Edit: another control you should run is leaving a jar uninoculated, but shaken on the same schedule as some inoculated ones. If the uninoculated jar gets contaminated, you have a problem with grain prep or lid/filter efficacy.

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Thanks for that food for thought. I think the thing that strikes me about how these jars have gone is just how instantly the oats seem to reject mycelium growth. They end up colonizing but are almost rubbery in the end. Here's a couple of pictures for reference.





There's nothing normal about it even for a minute. Kind of funny but I did send some if these to bulk as an experiment. I got a handful of healthy mushrooms after a month and then the rest began aborting and having slimy deformed caps.