ThurmanMurman said:

If I made tea with fresh fruits and then froze it for later, would the experience still be on par with eating fresh fruits?

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LadysKnight said:

ThurmanMurman said:

If I made tea with fresh fruits and then froze it for later, would the experience still be on par with eating fresh fruits?

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I'd say no, there are still losses. But much less than drying.

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ThurmanMurman said:

LadysKnight said:

ThurmanMurman said:

If I made tea with fresh fruits and then froze it for later, would the experience still be on par with eating fresh fruits?

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I'd say no, there are still losses. But much less than drying.

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I was worried about the heat...I'll still give it a shot. If nothing else, I'm preserving for later while skipping the dehydrator. 🤷‍♂️

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LadysKnight said:

ThurmanMurman said:

LadysKnight said:

ThurmanMurman said:

If I made tea with fresh fruits and then froze it for later, would the experience still be on par with eating fresh fruits?

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I'd say no, there are still losses. But much less than drying.

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I was worried about the heat...I'll still give it a shot. If nothing else, I'm preserving for later while skipping the dehydrator. 🤷‍♂️

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Unlocked: Storage cheat code

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tree frog said:

SFDs are hydrophobic.  I imagine this has some impact on steam moving through it.

Anyway, I do back my lids off a half turn.  It seems to reduce warping.  Which doesn't exactly ruin the lids, but does make them harder to screw on and off (the grey ones).

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Ok, leaving the lids slightly lose it's

Hope I can remember after years of not doing it

Fauchinger said:

I have some suspicious BRF jars:

Jar 1: Can’t tell if these are completely healthy or not, especially the part with the fuzzy myc. Don’t know if it’s from lack of FAE inside or if it’s something else growing on the myc.




Jar 2: There’s a patch of more „thinly“ colonized verm/BRF with these large rhizos, but the rest of the jar is more densely colonized, generally looks rather chaotic though. Also, puffy spots again.




Jar 3: I don’t know, maybe it’s just chaotic growth. But there’s different patches of varying density that irritate me.



Jar 4: Here’s a better example of how these puffy spots look across jars.



Important notes: They took weeks to colonize, because I used only one inoculation point on the outer edge, so maybe time is a factor to consider.
Also, the agar plates I made by streaking spores or squirting dirty syringes also show cobweb-like wispy puffy spots on them.

The syringe I used to inoculate these jars was made with rather faint spore prints (so less spores than ideal).
It’s definitely possible this might have gone wrong.

Most of them are pinning, but not 100% colonized yet.

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LadysKnight said:

ThurmanMurman said:

If I made tea with fresh fruits and then froze it for later, would the experience still be on par with eating fresh fruits?

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I'd say no, there are still losses. But much less than drying.

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Mr Piggy said:

Those look colonized to me.  Why do you think they are not?  Is there a part of them not in the picture that is not colonized?  From here they look good to go.

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ThurmanMurman said:

Paranoid/potentially stupid question incoming - media bottle of LC, I inoculated some grain and when I capped the bottle, I was sloppy about it and caught the top of the rim with the underside rim of the cap.

Whatchu guys doing here? Toss it or roll the dice?

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The Tao said:

The jars are doing fine. Why did you only do one inoculation hole? How are you intending to fruit?

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Fauchinger said:

Mr Piggy said:

Those look colonized to me.  Why do you think they are not?  Is there a part of them not in the picture that is not colonized?  From here they look good to go.

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Yes, there’s still an uncolonized part, albeit small. They are very close to full colonization, but I‘m worried about them being somehow contaminated because I worked with my last non-ideal spore prints to make a non-ideal syringe (which was the final straw for me to immediately jump to agar).

Since I‘m not that experienced and my technique was lacking in sterile work, these colonized parts worry me.

Is that fluffy myc just tomentose and I‘m just paranoid?

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Fauchinger said:

The Tao said:

The jars are doing fine. Why did you only do one inoculation hole? How are you intending to fruit?

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When I first followed Zirans PF tek guide I caught the part where he cites a suggestion by CBK, which is using only one inoculation hole in the center of the lid.
I thought this would save me some spores, so I could inoculate much more jars.

Long story short, this takes too long. But it’s possible to angle the needle in such a way that I can inoculate multiple sides of the jar anyway (which I didn’t do), and in addition to that I can put those SFD stickers on the single hole and use these lids for bigger grain jars. Hope it works out.

I‘ll let them fruit in a water tub, this already worked for the cakes where the spores for these new ones came from. So far, this worked out kinda fine, except for some really stupid stuff I did because of inexperience.

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Mr Piggy said:

It is odd that they are fruiting before full colonization, but I'd probably send them anyway.  The great thing about cakes is if one goes bad you can simply throw it out while the others continue to fruit.  Just fruit them individually like cakes are supposed to be fruited instead of trying to spawn them to bulk and see what happens.

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