The Tao said:

I precut foil and parchment and bake in Tupperware at 400f for 20 minutes and store them sealed.  I like having printing material available before I need it. The parchment was for prints going to a country that postal services might take a closer look at foil in a letter.
The spores do slip off more than a foil print but the print was viable. I tested one after 6 months and it germinated fine.

0.5 gram Semp chocolates. The hazelnut doesn’t didn’t melt the same as straight chocolate.
Bit funky.

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Bigdogg said:

The Tao said:

Water tub. Millet 1:2 to coir. 1/4 inch coir top layer at spawn. Temperatures 15-19 Celsius. 6500k light on somewhere between 12-18 hours depending on what else I’m growing.
I usually get prints but I wait forever. The parchment paper prints were a request from overseas.


Edit: Post was a reply to Dorrocks, not to A.k.a.

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Is the parchment paper to provide easy swabbing off of. I was just using


Do dry prints swabs off of it easily?

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Dorrocks said:

Yo RR- On the CVG does it matter what kind? Can it be manure based?
Im not at the point where I make anything myself yet- I just order premade online

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Dkeppel said:

So are we spawning to straight coco coir with semps? 1:4 for clean spawn OK?

I'm embarrassed to admit I have not done enough research on semps, they seemed to move slow on agar I thought I had plenty of time but today I checked out my jars which were inoculated on the 24th of August and they are almost fully colonised.

Now I'm in panic mode

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Dkeppel said:

So are we spawning to straight coco coir with semps? 1:4 for clean spawn OK?

I'm embarrassed to admit I have not done enough research on semps, they seemed to move slow on agar I thought I had plenty of time but today I checked out my jars which were inoculated on the 24th of August and they are almost fully colonised.

Now I'm in panic mode

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Dorrocks said:

RR and thats literally ALL i Need for the substrate? Ive got that!

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RockinRobot said:

Dorrocks said:

RR and thats literally ALL i Need for the substrate? Ive got that!

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Yes Coir is all you need for the substrate. I only add verm to coir if I mix it a little too wet. Easier to add some dry verm than break up more coir.

That being said the casing I use is Peat/verm/lime you can also use ph adjusted cactus soil but someone else would have to help you with how to case with the cactus soil.

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The casing I'm going to have to buy, i developed a loathing of peat decades ago when everybody had the idea you cased everything in trich, I mean peat. Ready to try again. I think shoeboxes and trays instead of tubs probably makes a big difference in the trich?

But I was planning on using brf/verm cakes for the spawn. We're given to think brf is more contam resistant and energy for the long haul is what I am trying for. Sound reasonable?

RockinRobot said:

NO not really reasonable. The reason that BRF cakes are not prone to contam is their design. If you break them up and spawn them to bulk any contam that was held at bay by the Tek will be freely available to your new substrate.

IMHO the biggest thing with Semps is CLEAN SPAWN and I just wouldn't trust PF TEK cakes shredded. Semps take way too long to fruit, which gives contamination lots of time. Usually by the time someone gets around to growing Semps they already have agar and grain down firmly and I haven't heard of many doing PF tek.

If you have cakes I would spawn them the normal way in a watertub and not spawn to bulk. But that's me

I would see if any of the others have done Semps with PF tek and perhaps they can help more.

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Thank you I can go back a little and look at what is being used for spawn