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Offlineoojijoo
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    #3635950 - 01/16/05 06:08 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

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Re: KARO TEK [Re: oojijoo]
    #3636130 - 01/16/05 06:56 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

The quicker you use it the better. Liquid is contam prone and myc will die eventually.
I usually wait until its about the size of a coin.

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Re: KARO TEK [Re: oojijoo]
    #3636189 - 01/16/05 07:15 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

Get some decent sized clouds going, and then use it.

The great thing is you can put it away in the incubator and it will re grow :grin: , however if it gets to big , and you havent used enough, just toss it in the fridge(in the butter/cheese (whatever) section, keep it dark :wink: )

And the culture will slow down again.

Easy.




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Re: KARO TEK *DELETED* [Re: oojijoo]
    #3638583 - 01/17/05 11:25 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

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Re: KARO TEK [Re: oojijoo]
    #3638597 - 01/17/05 11:29 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

I see many people's liq cultures in large jars and it makes me wonder how you get at it with a syringe?


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Re: KARO TEK [Re: NOS4A2]
    #3638636 - 01/17/05 11:38 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)



My foaf uses rubber tubing. Two installed on each jar lid. Stuff polyfill in both, provides gas exchange. Syringe fits perfectly in rubber tubing end. Insert syringe into tube, tip jar, pull plunger back. Lid example & jars shown above:


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Re: KARO TEK [Re: NOS4A2]
    #3638681 - 01/17/05 11:51 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)


Pic should explain it - better.


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Re: KARO TEK [Re: agar]
    #3638737 - 01/17/05 12:10 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

My only question about your setup as clever as it is- when you suck out from the jar you will be creating a vaccum and as soon as you pull that syringe out you'll be sucking contams won't you? Unless, you pinch off the tube before removing syringe, remove syringe, then fill tube with polyfill, then remove hemo.
Just thinking out loud, you prob already thought that thru. Just don't remember you telling anyone. So making a long enough tube would be very important to keep in mind when fabricating, right?
thanks for your ideas. What do you use to keep the tube attached securely to the jar?

GL ALL

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Re: KARO TEK [Re: NOS4A2]
    #3638802 - 01/17/05 12:21 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

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NOS4A2 said:
My only question about your setup as clever as it is- when you suck out from the jar you will be creating a vaccum and as soon as you pull that syringe out you'll be sucking contams won't you?
NOS




Other tube has polyfil filter material in it. No vaccum created.
Underside of lid, where tubing comes through, use RTV high temp silicone. Hole in lid is SLIGHTLTY smaller than tube - anyway. So it's a snug fit. Used silicone, just to insure no leaks.

This is the type silicone:


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Re: KARO TEK [Re: agar]
    #3639006 - 01/17/05 12:53 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

Sounds good. Now where do they sell surgical tubing in stores?


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Re: KARO TEK [Re: NOS4A2]
    #3639060 - 01/17/05 01:05 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

Judging by the size I would probably hit an auto parts store and check out the vacuum hose section. Most of them sell clear vinyl tubing there in a few sizes.

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Re: KARO TEK [Re: metasin]
    #3639082 - 01/17/05 01:09 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

Vinyl's kinda stiff rather have latex(surgical)


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Re: KARO TEK [Re: Psilocybeingzz]
    #3647325 - 01/19/05 07:33 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

I did something nasty, I would love and apreciate comments on it. I did karo, pc for about 30 min. Then I inoculate it, with mycelium, and here is the nasty part, but from a substrate that was out of the jar, in the fruiting chamber? I did this cause that cake its all I got.
I was obsessively careful with sterilization. I used anti germs wipes, soap, Lysol, spry with alcohol, used an airtight globebox, and a sealed jar, no holes. (I pc it with loosy lid and foil layer and then just sealed it after transfer)

Do I have a chance?
How does contams look like?
Has anyone done this?

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Re: KARO TEK [Re: cuatiklad]
    #3647429 - 01/19/05 08:28 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

Can you draw the liquid myc into the syringe and then store the syringe for later use? Or would one have to worry about the myc growing inside the syringe?

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Re: KARO TEK [Re: madsickpenguin]
    #3647560 - 01/19/05 09:16 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

that's what the cat. had myc stored in fridge and in syringe for almost two month before it noc'd up the latest batch of jars. no probs, no contams. do not know what max length of fridge storage in karo or syringe is, though.

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Re: KARO TEK [Re: Psilocybeingzz]
    #3647598 - 01/19/05 09:27 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

Psilocybeingzz said:
Get some decent sized clouds going, and then use it.

The great thing is you can put it away in the incubator and it will re grow :grin: , however if it gets to big , and you havent used enough, just toss it in the fridge(in the butter/cheese (whatever) section, keep it dark :wink: )

And the culture will slow down again.

Easy.






That looks like semen


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Re: KARO TEK [Re: tahoe]
    #3648439 - 01/19/05 01:37 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

Hi, me again.
mmm? could any one throw comments on what is four posts up?
I don?t mean to pressure. Its only that I?m a newbie and? well, I lost 12 jars, not even for contams, bat because nothing happened? and this cake, that is not even a cake, is a casing, its all I have, so I?m trying to get more jars from it?

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Re: KARO TEK [Re: cuatiklad]
    #3649002 - 01/19/05 03:34 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

after much reading, i still cant figure what the Karo tek is all about (whats the purpose?)

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Re: KARO TEK [Re: cuatiklad]
    #3649373 - 01/19/05 04:37 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

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cuatiklad said:
I did something nasty, I would love and apreciate comments on it. I did karo, pc for about 30 min. Then I inoculate it, with mycelium, and here is the nasty part, but from a substrate that was out of the jar, in the fruiting chamber? I did this cause that cake its all I got.
I was obsessively careful with sterilization. I used anti germs wipes, soap, Lysol, spry with alcohol, used an airtight globebox, and a sealed jar, no holes. (I pc it with loosy lid and foil layer and then just sealed it after transfer)

Do I have a chance?
How does contams look like?
Has anyone done this?




What you've described is theoretically possible, if as you say, your technique was obsessively sterile. Remember, all you're doing is transferring a clean piece of mycelium to a new medium.... as long as the mycelium is all you're transferring (no stow-aways) it should be fine. However, a cake/casing in the fruiting chamber has already been exposed to many contaminants... but if you dig deep enough into the substrate you might be able to find a "clean" area.

You've already done this though? correct?

If so, then it doesn't really matter what we say... just wait and see!

Give it 4 - 5 days in incubation conditions. You may get lucky.

Read the liquid teks for descriptions and pictures of what liquid contams look like. The best description of mycelium IMO is semen floating in water (sorry :smile:
Anything that's not white like se...mycelium, or not cottony fluff is a potential contam.

Edited by Shroomanton (01/19/05 05:31 PM)

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Re: KARO TEK [Re: candykid420]
    #3649464 - 01/19/05 04:54 PM (19 years, 2 months ago)

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candykid420 said:
after much reading, i still cant figure what the Karo tek is all about (whats the purpose?)




There are many purposes. I think the main purpose, with regards to people on this site, is getting the most out of a spore syringe/spore print.

Ie, 2 cc's of of 10cc spore syringe you've bought (even 1 cc) can colonize a 100 cc (or more) karo jar. So, you've made 50x more solution... for only 1/5th of your purchased spore syringe.

You can take this even further, and use 2 cc's of your colonized karo jar to colonize ANOTHER karo jar (usually this can be done to a maximum of 3 times) - all the while, keeping your original spore syringe (which still has 8 cc's) in long term cold storage (right next to the 50,000 karo jars you've made from the initial 2 cc's of spores)

However, you will eventually have to create new karo jars from spores... as the jars have a limited shelf/fridge life, and they can suffer from genetic drift/age (for lack of better words) after making subsequent generations of karo jars from the initial generation - do more reading on this for more info! - search for "senescence")

Also, another benefit, as you are inoculating with live mycelium as opposed to dormant spores, you speed up colonization time (as the spores do not have to rehydrate and "hatch")

Other benefits include ease of cloning and isolation.

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