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niteowl
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niteowls Dunk TEK
#3039305 - 08/23/04 11:31 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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This is the way that I prefer to dunk my cakes.
All my cakes are from pint jars not half-pints.
First I wash my PC out good. Then I put the cakes that Im dunking in to it.

Then I put the spacer on top of the cakes with a bottle of water to help hold them underwater.

Then I put warm water w/about 5% peroxide in. I fill it up untill there is about 2in of water over the spacer.

I let them soak for 10-18 hours and them put in FC.
Edited by niteowl (01/19/07 05:49 AM)
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: niteowl]
#3039755 - 08/23/04 01:38 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ingenious!
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: niteowl]
#3039954 - 08/23/04 02:24 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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so do you dunk them before or after the first flush?
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: ]
#3040018 - 08/23/04 02:47 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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I just took these out of the jar.
I dunk between each flush.
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: niteowl]
#3040069 - 08/23/04 03:09 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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so the spacer is resting directly on top of the cakes? it is in direct contact with them? no worries about contams this way?
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: myndreach]
#3040087 - 08/23/04 03:19 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yes it is sitting on the cakes, I washed it and the PC real good right B4 I dunked them.
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: niteowl]
#3040152 - 08/23/04 03:45 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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if you had a pod set up.. bucket w/ geolite + top and aquarium pump..
dunk for a few hours in cool water then plop them in and see how it goes? what do you think?
sorry if this is a bad place to ask questions, just been browsin and didnt see any kind of answer.
thanks.
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: ]
#3040269 - 08/23/04 04:30 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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I have found that dunking in warm water for 12-15 hours works better.
I have a pod set-up w/lava rocks instead of geolite. Tomorrow I will put the dunked cakes in a lid w/wet verm in the bottom, and some wet verm on top of the cakes and place in my pod.
Edited by niteowl (06/17/06 03:04 AM)
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: niteowl]
#3040452 - 08/23/04 05:28 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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nice - that's a good idea.
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: niteowl]
#3042065 - 08/23/04 11:25 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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You could always put some clean foil over the spacer if you are concerned about your spacers cleanliness.
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: niteowl]
#3042170 - 08/23/04 11:55 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
niteowl said: I let them soak for 24-36 hours and them put in FC.
I read somewhere here that dunking past 24 hours wasn't very good for mycelium and in fact would begin to kill it. Have you experienced anything like that when dunking past 24 hours?
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: iamgod]
#3042187 - 08/24/04 12:01 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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I have changed my dunking times to 6-8 hours for 1/2 pints 10-12 hours for pint jars.
Adding the verm top and bottom will give enuf water during fruiting.
The long 24-36 hours was not as beneficial as I thought
Edited by niteowl (05/23/06 06:11 AM)
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: niteowl]
#3060549 - 08/28/04 12:07 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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what is the purpose of the coir on top of your cakes? by your big flush im thinking it MIGHT have something to do with.. i dunno nutes?....
-------------------- In the dawn my toes are cold They spread their little trinkets on the ground In the hall By the closet door They creep into my bed without sound On a cube In a plastic egg A hundred fabric figures in a pile See them march Toward me And dance across the floor trippily Little faces keep no track of time Little faces speaking out in rhyme Little faces smiling in my mind Tiny doors For walking through sticky fingers clutch forbidden things the phone For talking through Sinking ships On a foamy sea That tumbles from the motion of filthy Little hands In the dark When eyes are wide listen to secrets that I tell In a ball On tiny beds Or beneath them where the shadow people dwell moon Beams split the night Leave bars of yellow pasted on their faces As they drift into a dream
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: sillysimon]
#3060550 - 08/28/04 12:08 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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i was told coir is tottaly nutrtion-less
-------------------- In the dawn my toes are cold They spread their little trinkets on the ground In the hall By the closet door They creep into my bed without sound On a cube In a plastic egg A hundred fabric figures in a pile See them march Toward me And dance across the floor trippily Little faces keep no track of time Little faces speaking out in rhyme Little faces smiling in my mind Tiny doors For walking through sticky fingers clutch forbidden things the phone For talking through Sinking ships On a foamy sea That tumbles from the motion of filthy Little hands In the dark When eyes are wide listen to secrets that I tell In a ball On tiny beds Or beneath them where the shadow people dwell moon Beams split the night Leave bars of yellow pasted on their faces As they drift into a dream
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: sillysimon]
#3060603 - 08/28/04 12:29 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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mushrooms are approx. 90% water. so...more water = bigger fruits.
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Re: niteowls Dunk TEK [Re: sillysimon]
#3060747 - 08/28/04 01:16 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
sillysimon said: what is the purpose of the coir on top of your cakes? by your big flush im thinking it MIGHT have something to do with.. i dunno nutes?....
Actualy it is verm.
It acts as a mini casing layer, adding water to the shroom.
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