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shroomballa
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Registered: 03/26/06
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PF tek tape?
#5457566 - 03/29/06 10:46 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Right now my jars have masking tape over the holes, tight lids and a layer of foil over that. I'm letting them sit for several days in my TiT to make sure I dont have any issues with contams. Once I remove the foil and tape for inoculation, what should I replace with? I've read to re cover the holes with tyvek tape? Should I put the same, or a new layer of foil back over the top? (I assume the same piece)
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stelthvue
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tyvek, 3M micropore tape or polyfill. after that the foil can stay off altogether. the foil is mainly used to keep water out of the jars when PCing.
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Magash
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Just cover em with a coffee filter to keep dust off of em. (even that isn't needed) The dry verm layer is there to prevent contams.
It's in here some place
I know this belongs in the growlog forum but it seems more would see it here that can use it. That and I?m sure most have seen it already but maby somebody can use this to help them out.
Grow Log Tek : PF Strain : South American [SA] Spores : Came from homemade prints. 36 total jars to be injected. Substrate :Brown Rice Flour [BRF] and Vermiculite [Verm] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:15 PM 3/4/03 : Project is started. Jar prep is just putting small holes in the lids for the spore syringe and then taping them closed until inoculation. Tape used is the standard black electrical tape. First batch of jars is mixed. The mix used is 2 parts verm, 1 part water, and 1 part brf. [ This mix is the max fruiting formula by PF.] Mix is put into 1/2 pint canning jars lightly, not packed in, and left it airy. Put substrate in until it reaches the threads of the jar, then add dry verm the rest of the way. Jars are PCd at 10psi or 240f for a period of 45 minutes. Then jars were left to sit overnight to cool.
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8:39 PM 3/5/2003 : First batch of jars injected. (24 jars)
10:04 AM 3/6/2003 : Incubator is running to low 77F. Going to turn it up today.
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5:45 PM 3/6/2003 : Second batch of jars is in the PC will be injected tomorrow. Turned up incubator runs at 83F. 86F is the best and if the incubator is 83F and myc growing in the jars is suppose to create a little heat I figure this should work out well.
1:11 PM 3/7/2003 : Second batch of jars is done. (12 jars)
12:10 PM 3/9/2003 : Jars are doing good, no signs of contams
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2:54 AM 3/19/2003 : Tape removed from the holes today and coffee filters put over the top of the jars for added protection. Holes were opened so the CO2 in the jars could escape. I gave 12 jars to a friend who kept fucking up. 24 jar?s about 75%done.
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12:13 PM 3/22/2003 : Well it?s Saturday and the jars will probably be done by the 25th. So it was 36 jars. 12 were given to a friend, 24 done by Tuesday.
10:26 PM 3/23/2003 : 15 jars were done enough to put into dunk. I dunk and cold shock before birthing and after every flush. The other 9 jars have a spot the size of a pea that has to be covered so I?ll do those on the 25th.
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7:17 PM 3/24/2003 : 15 jars put into the pod. Put in and put a layer of moist verm on top. With geolite I just put the cakes on it. With some other chambers I put the cake on a lid filled with verm. This is done to give the shrooms on the bottom and the top of the cake some added moisture. The other 9 jars just finished so I?m going to give them a couple more days to make sure the middle of the cake is done.
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4:57 PM 3/27/2003 : 5 More cakes birthed today, 4 left going to do them tomorrow or 3/29/2003
3:58 PM 3/29/2003 : Well I lost another cake. My wife?s little 1 cake pod made from a 2 liter and a small fish pump and a little geolite used up her last cake so I gave her a SA to grow. The last 3 are in the cold shock dunk. So the total is 36 jars done all colonized with no contams. 12 given to a friend, 1 to the wife, 23 mine
12:08 PM 3/30/2003 : Last of jars put in
12:02 PM 3/31/2003 : The first 15 cakes are pinning nicely and some have shrooms coming from the bottom.
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11:01 AM 4/3/2003 : Things look to be going well.
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1:02 AM 4/4/2003 : Took the first flush from four of the cakes. More will be done later today. <a href="https://files.shroomery.org/files/040103-23/36336-Pic_9.jpg" target="_blank"> </a>
5/8/2003 : Total 23 cakes 164 grams dried.
From what I?ve seen this needs to be up for a little bit.
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hyphae
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All I do is cover with the foil (leave tape off!!!) this isn't so much for contams as it is to help maintain the proper moisture content throughout the substrate run better.
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