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harborman
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a silly newbie question.
#3838743 - 02/26/05 07:43 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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i know this is my first post and i might get flamed but rest assured, I've done some research and slightly know what I'm talking about..
i might not know all the anagrams, or exact meanings of some words, but i do have a hand full of knowledge and willing to learn..
however, as i read through some of the FAQs two questions came to mind:
1. some FAQ's say to shake after you inoculate (correct me if I'm wrong, but inoculating is after everything is pressure cooked, you stick in the syringe and insert some spores, right?).. now some say to shake, while others don't even mention it..
what's the best bet?
and number 2, sorta mixed.
some FAQ's also say to add some dry vermiculite to the top of jars to stop contamination.. now if your shaking the jars, wouldn't that make the dried verm useless?
and a third, after all the mycelium grows and ready to make the cake, do you scrape off the dry verm.?
sorry again for posting this, but hopefully someone will help out..
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lemon_lw
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Re: a silly newbie question. [Re: harborman]
#3838768 - 02/26/05 07:49 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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#1 shake after about 66% colonized is how i do it #3 yes and then dunk/coldshock and roll
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Taskenti
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Re: a silly newbie question. [Re: harborman]
#3838769 - 02/26/05 07:49 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
1. some FAQ's say to shake after you inoculate (correct me if I'm wrong, but inoculating is after everything is pressure cooked, you stick in the syringe and insert some spores, right?).. now some say to shake, while others don't even mention it..
Shake when you are using grains.
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some FAQ's also say to add some dry vermiculite to the top of jars to stop contamination.. now if your shaking the jars, wouldn't that make the dried verm useless?
Same answer as above, but you don't use a top layer of verm when using grains.
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after all the mycelium grows and ready to make the cake, do you scrape off the dry verm.
Yes.
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XTCollection
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Re: a silly newbie question. [Re: harborman]
#3838771 - 02/26/05 07:50 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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If you over shake, you can end the colinization, at least it happened to a friend when he fist started. Shaking every 2-3 days is ok, but I just let it colinize itself. A couple of days longer is no biggee.
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harborman
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Re: a silly newbie question. [Re: XTCollection]
#3838782 - 02/26/05 07:56 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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if i ever go through with it i plan on using the brown rice flour.. so i should introduce the spors, wait until it starts growing then lightly shake?
and what is the dunk/cold shock and roll?
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Re: a silly newbie question. [Re: harborman]
#3838802 - 02/26/05 08:02 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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dunk-dunking a cake in water and h2o2 to rehydrate the cake for 24 hours. coldshock-placing your dunked cake in the fridge to lower temoerature to help initiate pinning. roll-after done dunking/coldshocking take cake out of water lay some sterile verm on sterile flat surface roll cake put verm on top and bottom of cake
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KaptKid
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Re: a silly newbie question. [Re: harborman]
#3838834 - 02/26/05 08:15 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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are you doing pf cakes or grains?
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Prisoner#1
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Re: a silly newbie question. [Re: XTCollection]
#3838858 - 02/26/05 08:21 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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XTCollection said: If you over shake, you can end the colinization, at least it happened to a friend when he fist started. Shaking every 2-3 days is ok, but I just let it colinize itself. A couple of days longer is no biggee.
shaking 2 or 3 times is ok, I usualy do it at about 10-15% colonized and again at 50%, every couple days doesnt give the mycelium time to recover, that could be why your friends stopped growing
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lIllIIIllIlIIlIlIIllIllIIl
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Re: a silly newbie question. [Re: harborman]
#3839648 - 02/26/05 11:43 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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harborman said: if i ever go through with it i plan on using the brown rice flour.. so i should introduce the spors, wait until it starts growing then lightly shake?
and what is the dunk/cold shock and roll?
Lets say you had a moldy loaf of bread, but it was moldy only on one side. If your goal is to get the entire loaf covered in mold, wouldn't it be better to mix up the slices? That way the mold is evenly distributed throughout the loaf and will spread faster.
The only time you shake is when you have a shakable mushroom foodsource (like birdseed). That way the infected birdseed (aka moldy birdseed) will be spread evenly and will infect the rest faster.
With the PF tek, once you've pressure cooked your brown rice flour / vermiculite mixture it will become hard (like a cake). Even if you were to shake it it wouldn't make any difference. And if you were to break it up youd defeat the whole purpose of having a cake. So shaking will do nothing.
As for cold shocking/dunking/rolling there are a lot of posts on this, you can worry about this later. Hope this helps
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