Phaethon said:

I don't think your stick-on SFD is going to heal the way silicone or rubber does when you stick a needle through it.

You are trying to make it too complicated. Just open the lid for a moment to draw water in. Using shallow jars (e.g. 4 oz or maybe wide mouth half-pints) makes it easier.

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Smellyhobbit said:

You’re kinda overcomplicating getting water in a syringe ain’t ya? PC your liquid, then open it and draw fluid into a sterile syringe. The filter is a whole extra step that’s just going to introduce contam, no?

Like the side of the filter you’re penetrating isn’t sterile at all

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Nichrome said:

Yeah the GE filter is unnecessary and possible fail point.

As stated, sterilize water, open the vessel and fill the syringe.

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ThurmanMurman said:

Ill explain what led me to the idea in the first place, so you have an idea of the issues I'm trying to work around.

1. Im clumsy with small tools and fine movements and still very unsure of myself during SAB work.

2. I dont feel confident in my ability to completely open a jar and draw from it with a syringe. I dont think I could extract the plunger on a syringe without both hands, and there's no way for me to keep from hovering over the open jar with my hands, in that scenario.

3. I want to use a syringe for innoculating grain instead of pouring it right off the LC jar/bottle bc I have zero faith in my ability to keep the pour to anywhere in the ballpark of 1cc per jar. I will turn my spawn jars into soup.

4. The single use nature of LC is kind of a bummer. If I could create the LC inside the syringe, I could do small batches of grain and still have the leftovers for the next batch. I'm not at a point yet where I'm innoculating a ton of grain all at once, so if I could make one or two syringes in one shot and have the ability to get many uses out of it,  I would really only need to make LC once in a blue moon.

So yes, the way I want to do it myself might differ from what someone with a steadier hand and more experience might do, but right now, I just want to find out if it will work out well, as a concept. I'll gladly do extra work to ensure the results are accurate and not due to my rookie ass botching the whole thing. I just want to find out if it will work as intended. Id love to be able to contribute something useful to the community instead of feeling like I'm just riding coattails and asking to have my questions answered, ya know? I'd love to figure out it works and then have someone more skillful fine tune the whole thing and do a write up on it, but I'm not that guy...yet.

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The Tao said:

Seriously_trippin said:

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GenesisCorrupted said:

I use a quite small dehydrator.
I intend to get a nice freeze dryer at some point but for now I don’t see an issue just throwing it into the dehydrator for about 12 hours.

Mine doesn’t go up that high, but everything comes out cracker dry.

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Hells yeah I'll get a normal food dehydrator then and I can make my apple chips ^^ it does say you can set it to 95-104 degrees.

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I dry at 160 Fahrenheit for 24 hours minimum. Give this a read. Notice the responses from the TC’s Cracker dry comparison

Edit: fixed a word

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Arkyhog said:

I dry 165°F for 24 hours. Always cracker dry. Everyone I have shared my grows with trip their balls off for 4 to 5 hours with only 2 grams of dried B+. I have yet to try my PE grows but they are dried the same way.

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Both very good information to have I'm going to really have to study. Thanks

ThurmanMurman said:

Smellyhobbit said:

You’re kinda overcomplicating getting water in a syringe ain’t ya? PC your liquid, then open it and draw fluid into a sterile syringe. The filter is a whole extra step that’s just going to introduce contam, no?

Like the side of the filter you’re penetrating isn’t sterile at all

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No, Im going to put LC in a syringe, do a Josex Poke, and instead of expelling the myc, I'm going to suck up a bit of sterile water and if all goes as planned, I will have a syringe of LC. I dont trust myself to maintain sterile procedure while drawing from an open jar with a syringe, so I want to solve the potential for user error with a port that I can punch through,for the sake of ensuring that if this fails, it's bc my idea sucks and not bc I sucked at executing it. I was under the impression that a virgin inoculation port would be safe if I kept it covered with foil until I was in the SAB, thereby making it safe for one time use. All input is welcome!!

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ThurmanMurman said:

Smellyhobbit said:

You’re kinda overcomplicating getting water in a syringe ain’t ya? PC your liquid, then open it and draw fluid into a sterile syringe. The filter is a whole extra step that’s just going to introduce contam, no?

Like the side of the filter you’re penetrating isn’t sterile at all

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No, Im going to put LC in a syringe, do a Josex Poke, and instead of expelling the myc, I'm going to suck up a bit of sterile water and if all goes as planned, I will have a syringe of LC. I dont trust myself to maintain sterile procedure while drawing from an open jar with a syringe, so I want to solve the potential for user error with a port that I can punch through,for the sake of ensuring that if this fails, it's bc my idea sucks and not bc I sucked at executing it. I was under the impression that a virgin inoculation port would be safe if I kept it covered with foil until I was in the SAB, thereby making it safe for one time use. All input is welcome!!

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