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Lets Play a Game, I Tell you What I Did, You Tell Me how To Improve IT And What i May Have Done Wrong ( this will benefit both you and me and everyone reading, a great learning experence all around)
And The Winners (intelligent posters offering sound advice that leads to a succefull crop) Get An Amazing Prize:
Free Spores, no, Money, Not quite, A paid vaction anywhere in the World, Getting Closer.
What you Get is: All the postive energy that i can summon forth in a Neo shamanic mushroom induced psuedo-ritual. This energy will then broadcast into your life. So you mean i get nothing? Well if you dont beleive in energy and the power of ritual and so forth, then yes you get nothing, after all if you cant touch or see or sell something then it doesnt really exist, right?
So Play Along, There Are No Losers, only Winners (no limit on winners)
Living at with my parents i year or two ago i attemped growing mushrooms using pf tek, but cutting many corners, using tupperware, boiling instead of pc ect. I only made up 4 cakes, 2 made it and i did get quite a few grams of mushrooms.
Jump to Present, decided to try again. Thought if i follow directions perfectly i should get a higher success rate. WRONG. And on with the story
I ordered 4 syringes from ryche , equador, bought everything i needed, even a p cooker, could not find verm so, decided to go with 9er tek. While i waited for the spores to arrive i practiced cooking the rice and getting in to the right consitancy so that it was nice an airy with no mush in the bottom, got that down to a tee. Punched holes in the tops of the wide mouth pint jars i used filled holes tightly with polyfill.
Rice Cooking:
I had 24 pint jars to fill so i bought quite alot of brown rice. Cooked in batches big enuff to fill about 3 jars, much bigger and i ran into problems with the rice getting all sticky by the the time i filled the last few. Once filled and looking just like pic in 9er tek:
http://hippie31.tripod.com/ninertek/main.html
i wiped down inside 1/2 inch with a bleach and water soaked dish cloth, Then filled the top portion with stuffed with pollyfill and put on lids (the ones with polyfilled holes), then tighten as much as i could, seal down, and finally cover tops with some tinfoil, two layers.
Sterilizing:
Only four fit at a time into the pressure cooker :( First four went in for 45 minutes of solid steaming then 30 minutes of cooling. Opened PC to find that i forgot tinfoil on these ones, damn, two looked kinda mushy, other two looked as when started. Due to time constrantaints the reamaining 20 were pc for 30 minutes then left into untill pressure went down(they all had tinfil on top). All jars once out of pc were put into a sterile(lysoled) box(the one they came in) which went inside a sterile(lysoled) garbadge bag which was sealed( opening melted closed with lighter)
Note: During above phases, i wore a dusk mask, clean clothes, room mainly sealed, no ac on, lysol in the air. Only prob i see is that jars werent allowed to cool in pc but that thakes 6- 12 hours making this procedure a week long event, also pc time could have been longer?? mmgg says 20 minutes some say 60 some 90, and yes i put a cloth in the bottom
Inoculation:
The following day, Room lysoled, dusk mask, ect, pretty much same as above. Used the open oven idea when inoculating the first 8 or so but i got too hot, and felt it unnecceary due to polyfill. 1 to 1 1/2 cc total spread over 4 inject holesper jar wre injected. Tried to makes a drip of spore solution that slid down the glass of the jar to bottom like stated in 9er tek, flame sterilzed after every jar. used 2 1/2 10-11ml syringes on 22 jars, 2 mushy ones from above not done. All jars put back in boxes and bags as per above, all re lysoled, left in closet un touched.
Incubation:
To try to boost up the temp a bit i but a big black t-shirt over the boxes and dangled a 300w bulb about 6 inches above this, which stayed on for a couple hours at a time, heat never really seemed to transfer to jars, but tshirt sometimes got quite hot.
Bad News Hits Home
After 4 days my curisoty got the best of me, i open up one box to take look, What i saw i did not like, It smelt sour in the box and at every injection point of most jars, excatly where the spore water had ran down the side of the jar, there was a nice colum of bateria growth, only 6 jars did not have this growth and i beleive they may have small amounts of it, i just can quite tell yet. THe weird thing, the 2 jars i didnt innoculate have no bateria growth whatsoever. This of course leads me to beleive that the innoculation step introduced the bateria, is it that the extra water added made a more favorable enviroment for bateria growth, bad syringe batch? Have i missd something entirely? Did i cut some corner i shouldnt have? Any one got any ideas on how to Tweak my version of 9er? Low tek Incubation Teks? Basically, i have 1 and one half spore syringes left and want to know what to do next time to make this work, i will probably use one in next attemp and save 1/2 syringe for honey tek cause ireally cant affrod more and need to get this to work, so that will give me lots of innoculant, to play with
About The Poster
The Poster(thats me) is the poster child for the information age. He loves to devour all types of infoRmation and apply thEm to his own life and is currently Practising dIfferent forms of energY manifestaion and transmition along with what some ppl might consider magick but what is reallY just what science has yet to explain, He also has interests in other areas,his name gives a clue to one such area. All these intersts he draws together into his own brand of neo shamanic ritual. Posting an intelligent responce to this post will allow you (and me) to experence some of the power of ritualized energy "magick" Which is really just the power of setting a powerful intent and beleiving in it 100% (That, my friends, is the biggest secret of "magick", never forget it)
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