Huskies said:

If you have the jars, just make cakes. You can crumble those to bulk.

Only one worth trying to do as grains is brown rice, use Lo-z's tek

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tripdawg420 said:

i would just fruit them as cakes a tub of cakes will out preform a mono fruiting cakes is the most powerful tek in modern times

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You're not joking? I'm bad at detecting sarcasm. I thought spawning to bulk, either mono or sb's is the best way to get the most mushrooms.


Wait... what are cakes and what do you do with them?

Huskies said:

Check this Out

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/24179086

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/29610907

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Huskies said:

I see them recovering well, and they looked very healthy before. They will explode today and tomorrow.

Just wait until everything is fully white, I don't think you need to shake again.

Only when everything is colonized can you spawn to bulk.

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Huskies said:

I've become a bit paranoid about my agar, someone mind checking the outer rims for regular extension of mycelium in action vs bacteria?

Golden Halo T1



Unused Swab plate, gonna have to sample 11pm.



Now, is this something to worry about? I remember reading about a halo in the contamination forum, but this just looks like the extension of the mycelium, in this case?



This is Purple Mystic Clone, not sure if this one is just wetter agar or this one is a sign of bacteria.



Here's another pic from another plate.



GWAM (AA+ x Australian), gonna grab from 9o clock



and an Eungella one that is gonna get archived, wedged, and put to LI to inoculate cakes.

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Blueberry Muffin said:

Huskies said:

Check this Out

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/24179086

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/29610907

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Oh... There are some things I don't like about pftek. Namely syringes, holes in lids and verm. Also my jars have a slightly narrower neck so I wouldn't be able to spawn them in cake format. Thank you for the suggestion!

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I haven't used anything other than brown rice and so far I've had quite a bit of success. If you have any questions on using brown rice feel free to jump into the Brown Rice Grain Prep tek thread or just send me a PM if you don't want to ask them publicly.

My Current Brown Rice Success
JMF


Also JMF


PE


Reishi


I also have Pan Cyan (TTBVI) going but the culture was bacterial from the vendor. (its still pushing fruits though.)




I Brown Rice

Agar Wedge said:

Or you can prep 10 qt jars and yield just as much if not more provided you are proficient with agar or LC. Which of course, requires some extra work over spore printing + syringe

Really a preference that's dependant on situation. One is not necessarily better than the other. Though if we are talking yields... Bulk yields more for the effort put in

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I tried PF-Tek once, but I used full pint jars, and every one of them ended up stalling. So i just went al in on shoeboxes and then tubs. But now since i have bacterial TTBVI, I've been thinking about running PF-Tek just to get spores and clones that are happy in my environment.


P.S. Miss you Wedge we haven't talked in a few weeks