That is not looking good (but might actually work, I will get to this later).
I do not just add water to rice and PC, I cook the rice first, as said
waixingren said:
9er tek basicly. http://www.shroomery.org/index.php/par/7923/pag/3
cook like you're gonna eat it then pc.
I microwave my rice in shallow containers, and add a little more water as time goes on, to account for the water being boiled off, this is why I weigh my containers and rice, to easily monitor moisture levels. I microwave rice in shallow containers so it does not absorb too much water.
When you add grains to water in a jar and PC the bottom grains will get too hydrated and the top ones can be left dry. So in your jar the lower ones will take on water and explode and make a starchy mess.
Another way is to cook the rice in excess water and take it out and strain and weigh while its cooking, keeping the hot water. If it is not up to the weight it should be then dumped back into the water and cooked again, i.e. add 100g to lots of water and when it is 280g you know you have added 180g water. Some weight will be lost to the water, i.e. starches in the water so you can go a little less, like 275g rather than 280g. This can result in rice that is even easier to shake as you are rinsing some of the sticky starch off.
When cooked I fluff it up well and add to jars to be heat treated again.
However the mushy mess could well work. I got my 180ml recipe from the text in the first post.
http://www.fungifun.org/docs/mushrooms/Psilocybe/CULTIVATION%20AND%20ANALYSIS%20OF%20PSILOCYBE%20SPECIES%20AND%20AN%20INVESTIGATION%20OF%20GALERINA%20STEGLICHI.htm
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EXPERIMENTAL:
The strain of Psilocybe mexicana was obtained from the "underground mushroom movement" of the U.S.A. A successful fruiting experiment on rye grass seed (Lolium sp.) water mixture by using a casing layer (POLLOCK, 1977; STAMETS & CHILTON, 1983) and the subsequent microscopic examination of the few fruit bodies (GUZMAN, 1983) confirmed the identity of the species. Mycelium was kept as a stock culture on 4% malt agar.
Cotton - plugged 500 ml Erlenmeyer flasks were filled with 100 g grain and 180 ml water, sterlised by autoclaving, cooled, inoculated from stock cultures and incubated at 23 C in darkness to promote the formation of sclerotia. Rye grain, sfot rice grain and rye grass seed were used, respectively. Fruit bodies of Psilocybe natalensis (leg. O'Neill's cottage, Natal-South Africa, Jan. 22, 1994) were dried at 20-40 C.
Possible present residual water was removed from the mushrooms by freeze drying. Mycelium obtained from spore prints (STAMETS & CHILTON, 1983) was also kept as a stock culture on 4% malt agar. The mycelium from a cultivation on 100 ml agar was analysed after 4 weeks of cultivation.
Mycelium from Psilocybe azurescens (STAMETS & GARTZ, 1995) on 4% malt agar was used to inoculate a rye grain/water mixture identically to the cultivation of Psilocybe mexicana. After 3 weeks cultivation 500 g of sawdust soaked with water in plastic bag was inoculated with the mycelia on grain (STAMETS & CHILTON, 1983). The duration of the spawn run was 4 weeks.
In March commercial garden mulch in a shady outdoor bed was spawned with the mycelia on sawdust. A weekly water to keep the moisture content high. In September of the same year about 200 mushrooms appeared. Some were dried for anaylsis in the same way as Psilocybe natalensis.
Dried fruit bodies of Galerina steglichii from (BESL, 1993) were also analysed. It was possible to isolate a strain from spores on 6% malt agar. The extraction procedures of mushrooms and mycelia as well as the analysis by using HPLC and TLC are described elsewhere (GARTZ, 1989, 1991b).
They say nothing about precooking, and the way they word it this does sound like they simply add it like you did.
I cannot recall seeing people growing sclerotia on jars looking like yours, but the second reason I think it still might be OK is since Sporeworks, who developed several of the sclerotia types available today use to see bags for growing sclerotia, this was before most sellers distanced themselves from things like that.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/736237
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Uninoculated Philospher's Bag - Consistancy is like modeling clay and appears to consist mostly of rice. Syringe passed through the injection port and easily into the substrate. When the inoculate was added it flowed out of the substrate and into the space between the substrate block and the bag. I used a full 10 cc syringe since I had it available and I wanted to speed things up. A few spots of growth on the surface of the substrate were visible in 4 days at 85F and quickly spread. It reminds me of mycelium growing on the surface of an agar plate.
so it sounds like it was a starchy clump of rice with other additives. As the bag could be massaged it was easier to mix around. Your jar might never fully colonise, but I do reckon it could make use of the uncolonised areas as a source of moisture.
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