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I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination
    #5733981 - 06/10/06 11:47 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Hey guys, Well I just dont know what to do anymore. I have tried to grow for the past 4 months with no luck I have bought pressure cookers, the martha stewART CLOSET THING that zips up, a vicks cool humidifier plus another one i cant remember the name, 2 hepa air cleaners with one I attached to a glove box, I tried Birdseed tek, rye, Pf, I bought jars on the web tried to make my own. etc, etc,. I know most are thinking like me saying,"you got to be doing something wrong", I just can t figure out what it is. I am wondering if it is maybe my house. My wife thinks maybe I am trying to hard the closest I have come is getting a a couple to jars to fully colonize but they are so dry , and after I did the dunking nothing happens. and yeah , I have thermometer/hydrometers. has anyone had the similar problems and found a sure fire way to get them to grow. MOST OF MY CONTAMINATION is either blue green or the white fuzzy, and sometimes wet spot. I also get my spores from reputable places (I guess) that i have seen on here. Any help or comments except for blasting me saying stupid sh*t is appreciated. BTW I live on east coast near NYC


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: garygenn69]
    #5733992 - 06/10/06 11:50 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

have you made liquid cultures?


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: Atheist]
    #5734079 - 06/10/06 12:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I'll bet the problem is the hepa connected to your glovebox. Use a still air glovebox and watch your problems go away.
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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: garygenn69]
    #5734123 - 06/10/06 12:27 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Like in a solution of malt? Yeah I think I tried once maybe but not enoughto cancel that out as an option. what do you suggest


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #5734150 - 06/10/06 12:33 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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I'll bet the problem is the hepa connected to your glovebox. Use a still air glovebox and watch your problems go away.
RR




Or a flowhood. I'm building one, and I think it's worth the investment (maybe 150$ if you build it yourself and buy everything new).

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Like in a solution of malt? Yeah I think I tried once maybe but not enoughto cancel that out as an option. what do you suggest





Yeah, if you grow mycelium in a culture you can isolate a nice rhizomorphic strain to use and insure optimal fruiting. I think not as many people use liquid cultures these days with the PF Tek and its derivatives, but it's probably the most interesting way from a mycological perspective. If you choose this route you'll need some good books though; I reccommend "The Mushroom Cultivator" by Paul Stamets and " Psilocybin Mushroom Handbook: Easy Indoor & Outdoor Cultivation" by L.G. Nicholas and Kerry Ogame.

You seem to either have a REALLY messy apartment or just bad luck, but I think if you build a flowhood and be extra careful with sterilizing ALL of your equipment you should be good. Some H2O2 helps too.

Good luck and happy growing =)


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: garygenn69]
    #5734152 - 06/10/06 12:34 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

why not just clean your workroom really well and do open air innoculations? It sounds like you went waaaaaaay overboard.


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: garygenn69]
    #5734159 - 06/10/06 12:36 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

well...

your blue/green whatever is either bruising from you cakes being too dry or it is mold.

If it is mold, your inoculation technique is bad.
RR is very correct, a glove box is a still air environment if done correctly.
disconnect that hepa and plug up all holes.
The air in your glove box is to be still (not moving at all)

the wet spot is either from not pc'ing at 15psi for 75-90 minutes or incubating over 84 degrees.
Don't incubate over 82 degrees.

PF, WBS, Rye, it is your choice.

Sounds to me like your problem is overwhelmingly your sterile techniques.

Pressure cook for 75-90 minutes at 15psi.
Study up on clean inoculation techniques.
Don't incubate your jars at a temp over 82 to be safe.

The white stuff is the good stuff, not a contam.

Try again.
Don't continue to do the same thing expecting a different result.


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: garygenn69]
    #5734165 - 06/10/06 12:38 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

yeah thanks , I sweAR I FEEL LIKE I HAVE TRIED to clean it well. actually the best results(meaning the closest I have ever gotten to fruiting) was cleaning with bleach instead of lysol and and that air cleaning stuff. Thanks for replying


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: garygenn69]
    #5734171 - 06/10/06 12:40 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)



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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: monstermitch]
    #5734248 - 06/10/06 01:06 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

One of the major sources of bacterial contamination is the breath of the cultivator. Never talk or even exhale when doing inoculations, even if you have a flowhood. Wear a surgical mask. Wear gloves and wash them with alcohol after putting them on. These are the precautions I take when using a laminar flow hood. You can't be too sterile. Failure is a lot more frustrating than the few extra steps to avoid it.
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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #5734296 - 06/10/06 01:17 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Yeah you can never be too cautious. Friggin stamets does inoculations with no glove s and no mask and he has them hairy ass arms and hands plus that beard has to trap all kinds of mold spore carrying dusts.

He says he doesn't like the restricted movement glove cause so he just cleans his hands with alcohol.


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[quote]KristiMidocean said:
Good now thats clear.WHO FUCKING CARES. If I am fat u all keep pointing it out like its suppose to be a secret.LIke u really have nothing better to do then make fat jokes. If o know its like I do I know yall can come up with NEW AND BETTER SHIT . This shit is old and boring . I left in the first place cause this shit got boring not because of the fat jokes . Fat jokes dont bother me but seriously its old[/quote]


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: Psychoslut]
    #5734322 - 06/10/06 01:24 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

He also has an entire wall of flowhoods three feet tall, but 20 of the 30 test tube cultures I got at the masters seminar contaminated before I even opened them the first time a year later. He knows better.
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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: garygenn69]
    #5734352 - 06/10/06 01:32 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

thank you!


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #5734356 - 06/10/06 01:35 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

:wtf: flowstone could make better cultures than that


ill bet its his retarded staff that does it. Ive heard nothing but bad news from fungiperfecti products, the bags barely produce etc. etc.


I highly doubt stamets personally makes everything.


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[quote]KristiMidocean said:
Good now thats clear.WHO FUCKING CARES. If I am fat u all keep pointing it out like its suppose to be a secret.LIke u really have nothing better to do then make fat jokes. If o know its like I do I know yall can come up with NEW AND BETTER SHIT . This shit is old and boring . I left in the first place cause this shit got boring not because of the fat jokes . Fat jokes dont bother me but seriously its old[/quote]


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: garygenn69]
    #5734364 - 06/10/06 01:37 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Man, I swore I read somewhere to have clean air blowing through, but that makes sense if the air is not moving no contams can hop on the syringe.. I know I am pc'ing long enogh. I bough one of the i think 12 quart prestos it says if the top is moving (rocking back and forth) that is the proper psi. thanks again for replying


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: garygenn69]
    #5734373 - 06/10/06 01:41 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

get some Oust and lots of it

the white can, unscented :thumbup:


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: garygenn69]
    #5734409 - 06/10/06 01:54 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

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Man, I swore I read somewhere to have clean air blowing through, but that makes sense if the air is not moving no contams can hop on the syringe.. I know I am pc'ing long enogh. I bough one of the i think 12 quart prestos it says if the top is moving (rocking back and forth) that is the proper psi. thanks again for replying




you did read that somewhere.
not everything written is correct or fool-proof.

live and learn.

you'll have much better success with still air.


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: monstermitch]
    #5737195 - 06/11/06 04:20 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

forget gloveboxes, waste of time and effort. oven tek is the boooomb. never had one contamination out of 30, try to see the germs in the air and your procedures will improve, gloves and mask a must they keep your hands from burning which can cause sudden movements which in turn doesn't allow the heat to do its job


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: PsyCode]
    #5737199 - 06/11/06 04:25 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

sorry dude but I have to disagree...


the oven tek is crap...

your just having some good luck!~


nothing beats a still air box, glove box or a flowhood!~



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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: Roadkill]
    #5737215 - 06/11/06 04:40 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I really don't think it's luck...lol. I was chosen for this by the shroom god as you all, well, most of you. I just think the effort involved won't work well with a newbie. I heard more problems with boxes than the oven tek. The flowhood, yeh I agree, but the oven tek is very similar and with care it works fine. I also use a rice cooker to pc with 17 psi, works every time.


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: PsyCode]
    #5737221 - 06/11/06 04:45 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I saw a photo doc on the air movement of using the oven tek...

written by Anno. <-- my mentor!~

and it wasn't good...the air movement went right into the jar.


and the shroom and fishing gods...

call me the chosen one!~

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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: Roadkill]
    #5737226 - 06/11/06 04:50 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

that may be true, but my oven dishes out a high degree of heat that dissapates all particles from the work area, disinfected gloves and mask can't contaminate the air, thus the air, although clean I might add, are stopped by the dry verm anyway. I don't know what it is but I never get contamination...even on my very first try, that must be a SIGN!


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: garygenn69]
    #5737254 - 06/11/06 05:41 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Hi Gary,

I know where you're comming from, It took me three contaminated attempts before I found a method that worked for me (BTW i'm a bit of a lazy bastard and cleanliness is much closer to god than it is toO me!). I hope the following works as well for you as it does for me.

assuming you have a syringe ready to go?

I made up some mya agar in little plastic pots with small holes drilled in them. I taped these with sellotape then pc'd for 10 minutes.

flamed the needle then inoculated the cooled agar through the tape. then quickly taped over the hole - gave each container a shake and left it alone for a week or two.

then I went to Rush Wayne's website and bought his 1st pdf book. He is the originator of the H202 method of myclelial cultivation and worthy of support (in my opinion) so I won't give you proportions of h202 you can find all that from Dr Wayne or from reading up on the shroomery.

I made up some agar with peroxide and transferred some of the first lot of unperoxided agar onto it. It looks really crazy for a few days - the myc grows away from the peroxide agar into little islands until it releases enough enzymes to break the peroxide down and start to spread.

The great thing about working with peroxide is you don't have to worry so much about hygine. Once you've got your myc growing on peroxide agar then you can just give your workbench a quick wipe down, close the windows and get to it.

next step is make up some substrate (I like WBS). let it cool then add some h202 in some water and give it a good shake around(compensate for the added water when you pack your jars prior to PC'ing). Do this step quickly - no point in tempting fate.

Then slice up your agar and throw a few pieces into the jars - and leave them alone until colonised. Don't be tempted to shake them, I tried and got contamination, but only with the ones I shook. The others were fine, they just took a while to colonise. It probably took about four weeks to completly colonise my pint jars. I know that a lot of the growers here have full colonisation in 5 days but I was just gratefull to have no contams after a month that I didn't care!

It worked for me, I hope it works for you too.

Good luck  :thumbup:


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: garygenn69]
    #5737288 - 06/11/06 06:55 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

thnaks, you are right


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Re: I have tried everything and still cant get one pin and contamination [Re: garygenn69]
    #5737341 - 06/11/06 09:17 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/favlinke...r=1&postmarker=

I'm with Anno, Roadkill, and agar on this one.
I really think you all should be too.
They are 100% correct.
The oven tek for inoculation is bogus.
Your line of thought is flawed.
sorry.
You are getting lucky in my opinion.
but whatever, just trying to help.
I suggest you all ditch the oven method for real.


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