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KitMarlowe
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New Taurus Tek - strange cakes! high yield!

#525749 - 01/19/02 06:13 PM (24 years, 3 months ago)

Perhaps this has been done before, I have not seen it. This method uses a unique cake shape to facilitate high fruiting. The shape of the cake is something like what three donuts would look like if stacked on top of each other, except with smooth tapered sides. Using a wide mouth quart jar (or any size), glue a 1.5 inch diameter dowel (plastic or glass pipe, etc.) to the middle of its bottom, standing up. It should be almost as high as the entire jar, coming up to just below the first lid-line. So what you now have is a quart jar with an upright 'column' in the middle.

Fill the jar with your substrate; I used standard brown rice flour and vermiculite. Level this substrate with the top of the dowel, and fill the rest of the jar with plain verm (just like PF Tek). Put the cap on (with the normal 4 holes in it), and sterilize (just like PF tek).

When cooled, innoculate the jar. Let it colonize. When fully colonized, remove top and scrape away the verm. Using a pair of grippers (anything like need-nosed pliars) grap the very top of the dowel and turn it, loosening it. Pull it up and out. Birth the cake, taking care to make sure you do not squash its shape (a taurus, and using the lid as a base. Pack clean verm around the base, rather tightly.

You can wait for a first flust, and then, INSTEAD OF DUNKING, just fill the inside hole with somewhat sterile water. You can leave the hole full of water for 24-48 hours, and then use a turkey baster to suck it up, or try tilting it out.
Repeat this rehydration as necessary. I have cakes on their fourth large flush, still white, producing large fruitbodies. I am going to experiment mixing nutrients into the water next.

Any criticism and innovation to this process is greatly appreciated. Tell me what you think! Kit

I will try to post pics is several days if people are interested

Edited by KitMarlowe (01/19/02 06:14 PM)

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