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OfflineDelinquentes
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Alternate PF Tek method's progress so far:
    #5417825 - 03/19/06 01:12 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

So I tried PF Tek, strictly following the directions for the most part and am really not happy with the results. I got 4 pint jars that are roughly 70% colonized. They were started back in February sometime and are creeping even at 85oF incubation temperature. A week or better after I started the PF jars, I started a pint jar of popcorn. Since that time, I have colonized that jar, cased it, re-incubated it and it's in for fruiting. I was wondering if there was hope for the PF method. I had really already written it off, but then came the 1/4 pint jars I had bought by mistake. Then the search was on.

So I found the thread about coir/vem/BRF and how well it worked. I had just gotten a block of coir from the Pets Fart store and I figured it would be cool to test out my new baby bottle LC's out on something small first. So I checked out the Teks and figured I could handle it.

I took a couple of handfuls of coir that I cut off the larger block and soaked them in hot water for a bit. I took 2 cups or so of fine vermiculite and brought it up to proper moisture. I grabbed up the coir out of the hot water and gave it a squeeze. I tossed it in the bowl and mixed it all around to loosen it, tossed in the verm and got it good and mixed. Then I added BRF ground like sand to the other stuff till it "looked" right, I think I added about a cup and a half, but I really didn't pay attention. I made it look like a picture someone had in a Tek. I loaded the tiny jars and left enough room for a layer of dry verm. Capped the jars and micropore taped them, covered with a bit of foil and PC'ed them for an hour. I also had enough left over to do a pint jar as well, I gave it the same treatment as the 1/4 pint jars.

I wanted to test my new baby bottle LC's on something small (like I said) so I hit up the pint jar first. I hit it late in the evening and by the same time next day, it had quarter-sized spots of actively growing mycelium. Right away, I was shocked. That was yesterday. Today, I hit 3 of the pint with the same LC and as of now, it's obvious where the mycelium was deposited and it's actively beginning to network. That happened in less than 24 hours.

I don't know if it's the PF altered with the cior and eyeball measurements or the LC's, but these suckers look like they are going to fly in the colonization part. I venture the 1/4 pint jars will be done before the ORIGINAL PF pints, and by that time I should also have fruit from my first grain jar ALSO started AFTER the original PFs.

Here are the pictures 36 hours after hitting the pint (bottom) and 48 from hitting the 1/4 pint (top) jars. I'm happy.






This is the spot on the 1/4 pint jar.



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Re: Alternate PF Tek method's progress so far: [Re: Delinquentes]
    #5417882 - 03/19/06 02:10 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

well for one obviously a 1/4 pint will finish before a pint jar. its not really a fari comparison unles syou had both mixes in the same sized jars. if you want fast colonizing cakes look into poo cakes. i just mix poo some verm and some brf. no scientific measurements enough verm to make it airy, and enough brf to coat the poo nicely.


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Re: Alternate PF Tek method's progress so far: [Re: skeletor]
    #5418064 - 03/19/06 07:33 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

pints takes considerably longer than half pints
which are pretty much standard for pf tek.
since one cannot shake pf jars
smaller= faster=better

that said
i dig your experiment,
playing with coir cakes myself ATM
nice pix, too
thx
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Re: Alternate PF Tek method's progress so far: [Re: Hippie3]
    #5418070 - 03/19/06 07:37 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

nice post indeed!


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