QuantumZ00 said:

I mean if I cared about legality I'd probably have taken a lot different roads in my life including not growing shrooms lol



Argh maybe just one weed plant then... I already have a grow tent...

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LewDoja said:

When you do lemon Tek do you throw away what's left over in the filter when you squeeze the juice out afterwards or do you eat that as well?

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Sinopense said:

It is not a grow kit.

It’s grain spawn with a casing layer of vermiculite. I placed it on perlite because I always get side fruiting, and this way I achieve better pin growth.

I’ve grown them a few times before, but this is the first time the caps have broken.

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Mustache Spinner said:

Churpee Choozle said:

As has been said before, the grains probably haven't had enough time to get properly sterilized. Wouldn't throw in my most valuable stuff...

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Is pressure sterilization able to be achieved in stages?

Say 90 minutes required could be completed in 60 and then 30 later?

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Churpee Choozle said:

You can PC them again for at least 90 minutes, let cool and use. It isn't a cumulative thing. Plus, (speaking from my experience, not saying you're going to), it seems cool to just wing it and see what happens, until you're super excited over your nice myc and your jars turn to shit.

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Churpee Choozle said:

All this talk about fresh shrooms... And it's Xmas holidays goddamnit... Tomorrow the kids are going to their mom's place for a week...

I greatly prefer fresh too. More intricate visuals. Faster come-up. I sincerely hope that next year I'll be growing woodlovers year round, just for the fresh shrooms. I mean, ovoids, IWL, cyans, azures, it must be possible

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LewDoja said:

I think that's  a decent recipe...  I've never strained it before. And it doesn't fully dissolve so you might want to add a touch more (1.25g total)
though it's not necessarily going to help with old spore germination.  The pressurized syringe might be worth trying if the regular route doesn't work out.

I've had 10yr+ spores on agar germinate with a hot pour (about the same consistency as this recipe).

Is there a reason you're wanting to change?

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Meanwhile said:

(...)
500ml of dh20
7g lme
8g living jin agar
0.5g of nutritional yeast(boiled for 5 minutes then strained in 100/500ml of water)
(...)

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KauaiOrca said:

If I was to store spores in a sealed medical vial suspended in water, how long would they likely be good for?  And should they be kept at room temp or in the fridge?

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cybork said:

LewDoja said:

I think that's  a decent recipe...  I've never strained it before. And it doesn't fully dissolve so you might want to add a touch more (1.25g total)
though it's not necessarily going to help with old spore germination.  The pressurized syringe might be worth trying if the regular route doesn't work out.

I've had 10yr+ spores on agar germinate with a hot pour (about the same consistency as this recipe).

Is there a reason you're wanting to change?

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So, based on what Meanwhile said, 14% of LME sounds good? 14% sounds like very much, but I just fuck around really. And I haven't revived anything older than a year yet. But I'm interested in if so, what are the benefits of higher percentages than I do now.

I also use 4% agar by the way. 8gr = 16%. Sounds like way too much. But I can be wrong there as well.

This is what Meanwhile mentioned:

Meanwhile said:

(...)
500ml of dh20
7g lme
8g living jin agar
0.5g of nutritional yeast(boiled for 5 minutes then strained in 100/500ml of water)
(...)

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Meanwhile said:

KauaiOrca said:

If I was to store spores in a sealed medical vial suspended in water, how long would they likely be good for?  And should they be kept at room temp or in the fridge?

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https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/27778467/fpart/1/vc/1
It's an ongoing experiment but the read is worth it. It's how I've been cataloging everything I have. It's also great because when I transfer I also make a 'save point', IE after I transfer to a new dish I also throw a couple of small cubes of agar in a vial just in case. No need to store in a fridge.

To reply to everyone else's comments concerning what I ended up doing I went:
1000ml h20
20g agar
16g lme

No yeast or anything like that. I'm wondering if I went too hard on the agar to be honest..

cybork said:

LewDoja said:

I think that's  a decent recipe...  I've never strained it before. And it doesn't fully dissolve so you might want to add a touch more (1.25g total)
though it's not necessarily going to help with old spore germination.  The pressurized syringe might be worth trying if the regular route doesn't work out.

I've had 10yr+ spores on agar germinate with a hot pour (about the same consistency as this recipe).

Is there a reason you're wanting to change?

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So, based on what Meanwhile said, 14% of LME sounds good? 14% sounds like very much, but I just fuck around really. And I haven't revived anything older than a year yet. But I'm interested in if so, what are the benefits of higher percentages than I do now.

I also use 4% agar by the way. 8gr = 16%. Sounds like way too much. But I can be wrong there as well.

This is what Meanwhile mentioned:

Meanwhile said:

(...)
500ml of dh20
7g lme
8g living jin agar
0.5g of nutritional yeast(boiled for 5 minutes then strained in 100/500ml of water)
(...)

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It'd be 1.4% no?

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Ah yes. Indeed. Pff. And then actually 8g of agar sounds a bit low to me .