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inoculatedGreif
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Lc q.
#5690082 - 05/30/06 09:45 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have a jar of vanilla extract and water. it has ben in the dark and warm for about a week, and has a white film with specs in it. can I use this, or should I let it form a little longer. its mycilium just little specs, a bunch of them. no solid white clouds or anything.
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Snaggletooth
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Well a week is a long time, you should be seeing more, I think. I dont know about that vanilla extract tek, it works but I have never done it. The mixture could be off and that could account for the slow growth. If that is the case you could start a new LC and nock it up with the other one.
I always test my LC, before use, like on a small jar. Once it's cool I go nuts
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inoculatedGreif
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its a large jar, i dont know if that might have somthing to do with it?
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Snaggletooth
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yeah large jars to be why it's slower.
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kilroy
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I use pint jars for mine and do 200 ml of water and 2 teaspoon of natural honey. I usally see something within 3-4 days at incubator temps.
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inoculatedGreif
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Re: Lc q. [Re: kilroy]
#5690609 - 05/30/06 12:47 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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is it faster to use honey? The reason why I used vannila was becasue i was out of honey. I just recently got some, so should I just start all over? also I have part of a cake, can I use that to start a lc?
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kilroy
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I have heard of people using stuff from cakes but be very carefull be cause of contams. I would either wait and see if yours produce or just make a new one up, I dont know your situation, if you have some left in the syringe then do a small jar with 100ml of water and 1 teaspoon of honey or times it by what ever size you do use. Patiences is a big thing and I know you hear it a million times here but it really is true.
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Re: Lc q. [Re: kilroy]
#5690650 - 05/30/06 12:59 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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i know lol, I admit I have a little peak every day. Ill try the 100 ml wat and 1 teaspoon honey. I think im just gona make a new one up. Ive ben having alot of trouble with the heat in the incubating area. is there any good way to set up a incubation chamber with a fish tank?
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kilroy
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I use the TiT method with the underwater heater, and sometimes if you dont get the one with the temp dial(it has the degree posted on it) you can go nuts triing to get it dialed in. I use 2 small rubbermade ones since all I do is cakes and LC, then I have a pmp(poor mans pod) for my fruiting chamber. And just for the record I still peak once or twice a day as well(lol), I hated waiting at christmas time too(lol) so dont feel bad, I think alot of them do too but just cant admit it (lol)jk
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Re: Lc q. [Re: kilroy]
#5690712 - 05/30/06 01:22 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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i have had LC's take as long as three weeks to show sings of growth... of course other times it is much faster. I have never tried vanilla extract and don't intend to... something about it just seems wrong... besides.. who would waste a perfectly good bottle of vanilla extract... that stuff is for drinking by the dumpster behind the grocery store, not mycological experimentation. georgem
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Re: Lc q. [Re: georgeM]
#5690958 - 05/30/06 02:33 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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have you all been shaking the lc ? Coz its recommended to put a piece of Glass inside and shake so you break it and spread it around. I'm doing honey tek (200cc water+ 10cc of honey) and i shake it almost every day, it speed up things. good luck.
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kilroy
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I use a magnetic stirrer myself. But before I built one I put marbles in mine to break up the myc. Yes you are suppose to give it a shake every day from all of the post I have read. If you can get a magnetic stirrer, that is the best way to go, increases colonzation time usally in half if done right, no vortec just small nipple in the water till you need to break up the big stuff.
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inoculatedGreif
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Re: Lc q. [Re: kilroy]
#5691069 - 05/30/06 03:20 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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thats what I have, a few marble rocks at the bottom to break it up.
-------------------- one branch of man turns away what has made us who we are, the other,excepts it for how its made man. which path do you choose? ------------------------------------- Man takes advantage of who he is,nature is his home, where he evolved from. So why does he turn it down, defy, and mutalate his birth ground? why does he spread disease, murder his native animals,rape and torture his land, and still feel descent of who he is? live a life that is not true? excepts an artificial home?
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