tryptkaloids said:

len53 said:

Why do we need to 'revive' or transfer an old culture onto agar plates? Isn't grain a type of medium too? What's the difference between doing that and just using the old culture directly?

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Agar is easier to sterilize, cheaper, and a 2 dimensional surface that you can see contams grow on.  It's not about revival. It's about maintaining culture viability.

Read "agar, what, why and how"

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AZ Starman2112 said:

Gilmour Hendrix said:

Are you down with ACC? Yeah you know me!

My ACC shoebox is acting like it's trying to pin but they look odd. Is this what blobs look like?

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Mine blobbed and then turned into beautiful shrooms! Look at the pic of them today. They are becoming chonkers!

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Gilmour Hendrix said:

AZ Starman2112 said:

Gilmour Hendrix said:

Are you down with ACC? Yeah you know me!

My ACC shoebox is acting like it's trying to pin but they look odd. Is this what blobs look like?

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Mine blobbed and then turned into beautiful shrooms! Look at the pic of them today. They are becoming chonkers!

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Awesome! Thanks, AZ!

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Tartanmyco said:

Here’s the oats from agar, haven’t spawned them yet was considering dumping them

The two on the left look best

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callmehippie said:

Hot and cold temp fluctuations that are exaggerated? Definitely... Mushroom Yawns? definitely.


How about the whole watery eyes constantly tearing up  thing?

Anybody else experience that? Actually it doesn't happen to me as much anymore.

But when my wife was able to trip it pretty much happens to her every time. at some point or another her eyes just start dripping tears like crazy.




For me instead of the watery eyes now I just get really bad congestion. My nose and throat tend to get all stuffy and congested.  It can be really distracting.

And then there's the trips where I feel like I have to pee every fucking 10 minutes..

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callmehippie said:

Hot and cold temp fluctuations that are exaggerated? Definitely... Mushroom Yawns? definitely.


How about the whole watery eyes constantly tearing up  thing?

Anybody else experience that? Actually it doesn't happen to me as much anymore.

But when my wife was able to trip it pretty much happens to her every time. at some point or another her eyes just start dripping tears like crazy.




For me instead of the watery eyes now I just get really bad congestion. My nose and throat tend to get all stuffy and congested.  It can be really distracting.

And then there's the trips where I feel like I have to pee every fucking 10 minutes..

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Kloakk said:

CaptainTrips420 said:

What PSI are you running? 4 quarts had maybe 200ml left after 1 hour 20 minutes going in between 15-16 PSI in a 24 quart pressure cooker for me.

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I put 3 qt in my presto and after 15 minutes of venting and 2 hours and 30 minutes cycle around 17-18 PSI I might loose up to 1/2 qt, half of it probably during venting.

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callmehippie said:

I'm about to hurry up on my supply of coir.  One of the options they have is "buffered"

Its a few bucks cheaper



Here's the description for what buffered means.



The question- would this be at all beneficial for cubes?

or would it be bad for them?

if I were to get it just to save the few dollars.

Or should I just go for the normal unbuffered product?

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Kloakk said:

nektar61 said:

It's a feature AND a bug. haha

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yeah, and it's great for some applications, but for others it's a pita It's a pretty cool classic looking cube, but that is hard to show anybody because they're mostly black by the time the caps open up enough to get a good picture

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It's great if you love giving spores away, but I would honestly say if anyone has asthma, or allergies to dust, they probably shouldn't grow x7x+, or at least wear a good mask while harvesting if they harvest after spore drop.

I didn't consciously select for heavy spore drop at first, but did in the sense that I would think "Oh, that one has lots of spore dump, that will be easy for me to work with for the next generation."

But it was showing its bukakke tendencies early on. This is a pic of F2 while selecting x7x+ (F8 is what shipped as the first giveaway):


I don't know if a cosmic ray caused a mutation or what, because the parent variety, x7x did NOT splort like this. Here's the print of the pink spore "classic x7x" I was sent by Redbee that I started with:


She hasn't been on here since 2022. I wish she'd come back, I'd love to give her a print.

Ikarus21 said:

....could adding h2o2 during pasteurization help?

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Proposition 122 said:

Same here.
Once it starts venting I lower the heat to low/med. I think people lose water by venting on high heat.

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It certainly could be, I vent on medium(1600w) heat, and when it gets to 15 PSI I turn it to low(600w). But it's pretty easy to controll the cycle with induction and magnets on my PC weight so I believe that helps a lot

nektar61 said:

It's great if you love giving spores away, but I would honestly say if anyone has asthma, or allergies to dust, they probably shouldn't grow x7x+, or at least wear a good mask while harvesting if they harvest after spore drop.

I didn't consciously select for heavy spore drop at first, but did in the sense that I would think "Oh, that one has lots of spore dump, that will be easy for me to work with for the next generation."

But it was showing its bukakke tendencies early on. This is a pic of F2 while selecting x7x+ (F8 is what shipped as the first giveaway):


I don't know if a cosmic ray caused a mutation or what, because the parent variety, x7x did NOT splort like this. Here's the print of the pink spore "classic x7x" I was sent by Redbee that I started with:


She hasn't been on here since 2022. I wish she'd come back, I'd love to give her a print.

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I would probably do the same thing if I was trying to stabilize a new variety so that makes a lot of sense. If I grow x7x+ again I'll just harvest a little early and it'll be fine.

"Bukkake tendencies"

Kloakk said:

"Bukkake tendencies"

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nektar61 said:

Ikarus21 said:

....could adding h2o2 during pasteurization help?

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No. Hydrogen peroxide has no place in growing. 

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nektar61 said:

--agar
--grain-
--box (though if it's clean in the first two it will be clean in the third, and if it's clean in the first, it will be clean in the second.

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