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pinkfloydms
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Easy Step by Step Guide!
#7306078 - 08/17/07 09:04 PM (16 years, 6 months ago) |
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This is just a little guide I have written down on the steps I've used over the years. It is all borrowed from the teks on the boards here with a few little differences. This just puts them all in one place for you. Any of the words highlighted you can use the sreach function on and they will all be explained by different methods and in more detail. Anyway I hope it can help a few of you guys out. 
My Step by Step Guide 1) Jar Preparation:
a) Drill 2 1/8th holes in the lids on opposing sides.
b) Cut Tyvek and foil into square sheets big enough to cover the lids and come down past the ring when it is on.
2) Grain Preparation:
a) Rinse: Run warm tap water over your WBS and mix it up under the water, really well.
b) Wash: Place the WBS into a large pot and fill with water, covering the WBS completely over with about 2 inches of water on top.
c) Now, the ones that are floating on top of the water needs to be taken off and discarded, get them all. (Sunflower Seeds empty kernels)
d) Rinse: Dump your WBS back into your strainer (colander) and run warm tap water over it again to rinse.
e) Soak: Dump the WBS back into your large pot, fill with water, covering the seed with about 2 inches of water. Let soak for 12-14 hours. (Overnight)
f) Rinse: Run warm tap water over your WBS and mix it up under the water, really well.
g) Simmer: Return to pot with about 2 inches of water covering your seed, place on medium/low heat and allow water to start to steam at a slight simmer for about 20 mins.
h) Rinse: Run warm tap water over your WBS and mix it up under the water, really well.
i) Leave in your colander/strainer to drain for about 20 mins. keep covered so to not dry out the grain.
3) Filling Jars:
a) Scoop your prepared grain into your jars, till about 3/4 full.
b) Place your cut Tyvek over the jar, then place lid/ring on and tighten and cut away excess.
c) Place foil over the tops of your jars.
4) Pressure Cooking:
a) Load jars into pc on a rack (if you have no rack you can use a dishcloth). b) Fill pc with water up to about 1.5-2 inches above the bottoms of the jars.
c) Place lid on pc and turn heat up to med/high until it reaches 15psi then turn heat to med/low to be sure you don't let it over heat. pc for about 60 mins.
d) Turn off heat and allow the pressure to go down for about 15-20 mins.
e) Remove jars and shake good then let sit for about 12 hours or so to cool properly. (Do not place jars in fridge hot, they will crack)
5) Inoculation: (In your prepared inocc area of choice: glove box, flow hood, open air......)
a) Remove foil and place micro pore tape over the two holes wipe with alcohol.
b) Take your spore syringe and flame the needle, then take your alcohol soaked paper towel and wrap the needle after flaming. Repeat for every hole/jar.
c) In one motion remove the needle while injecting the syringe into the hole.
d) Put half of the spore solution in each of the holes that you would use for the whole jar.
f) Cover lid with a coffee filter and rubber band.
6) Colonization:
a) Place jars in warm/dark area and let sit. I like 78-83 degrees for colonization but room temp would be fine also.
b) When jars reach about 10% colonized shake well. Then let finish colonizing.
7) Poo/straw Preparation: a) Cut your straw into 1-3 inch lengths.
b) Make sure your poo is nicely shredded (no big chunks)
c) Mix your poo/straw together. (I use a 60% poo 40% straw mix.)
d) Load you mix into your bag. Then add water until the mix is at field capacity. I also like to let it sit for 30 mins or so to see how much more water the straw soaks up because you may need to add a bit more. Then seal/tie up the bag.
8) Pasteurization: (There are a few different methods, but this is the way I do it. I use an 18qt Roaster Oven I picked up at Wal-Mart and submerge my bag in water. You can also use a large pot on a stove or the oven pasteurization tek.) a) Place your poo/straw bag into the roaster oven fill with warm water until the top is covered. I set my heat at 175ish until the internal temp reaches 170, then turn heat down to 170 and let pasteurize for 2 hours.
b) When the 2 hours are up remove and let sit until it reaches room temp.
9) Spawning:
a) Have your fully colonized grain, substrate and tray/tub ready in your sterile area.
b) Wipe down your container you will be casing in with alcohol to make sure it is clean, and put your rubber gloves on. c) Open your pasteurized substrate and dump into the tray/tub.
d) Open your colonized jars and break up and mix in well with the substrate. I like to use a 1 to 4 ratio of spawn to substrate. (Some people like to layer)
e) After it is mixed well slightly press down on the substrate to make it even and to make sure there are no big air gaps in the mixture.
f) Cover your substrate and let colonize.
10) Casing: (Again many different ways and kinds of casings. Also optional. Some people don’t like using coir in there casing but I do and have never had any problems with it. I use a mix of about 70% verm and 30% coir plus ph buffers.) a) Take your verm and place it in a bowl of warm water and let soak until saturated.
b) Take your coir and do the same, remember it will only take a few small chunks of coir because it expands so much.
c) When they are both saturated and expanded you can mix them together and then squeeze Out all the excess water, again you want it to be at field capacity.
d) Now it is time to add the ph buffer of your choice. Calcium Carbonate works just fine for me, it’s easy to find and cheap. You can just add around 5% by volume some people say or you can get a ph meter and add it until you reach a ph of around 7.5-8.5.
e) Pace your casing into a microwave able safe container (one with a lid with vents preferably).
f) Clean out your microwave good (bleach and all that mess). Place in your container and microwave for 5 mins, take out your container, leave lid closed. Spray some Oust, Lysol whatever you want, open and mix it up well with a clean spoon, fork whatever. Replace back in microwave and let it go for another 5 mins. Let cool.
g) After it is cool take your colonized substrate and put on a layer of about ¼ inch thick.
h) Place your casing into your fruiting chamber and patch the first few spots of myc you see coming up, do this until you see the myc breaking through in many spots all over the casing. This will insure you a great pinset.
11) Fruiting: ( This will be very general because there are different types of fruiting chambers.)
a) I find it best for me to keep my fruiting chamber temps around 70-74 degrees.
b) RH of course we all know the higher the better so 95+% RH, just don’t let big water droplets drip on your casing all the time.
c) You want lots of fresh air exchange, just make sure your able to keep your RH up also. I still like using the Poor Mans Pod (modified a little) so I have air bubblers that are constantly moving air around but I also fan 3-4 times a day. d) I stop misting the casing as direct after I start seeing pinning, after I see pins I normally Just mist the side walls.
12) Harvesting:
a) I usually harvest all my mushrooms at one time, normally just after the veil breaks. When harvesting grab your mushrooms gently at the base and give it a twist, it should come right up with out ripping out too much myc.
b) If there are a few that may only be a half of a day to a day behind I’ll let them go a little bit longer. I also try and pick all the aborts (hopefully there aren’t a lot). If there are still a few pins that are decent size ½ inch or so I’ll leave those to mature.
c) After harvesting your first flush patch the holes with more casing material.
d) After the flush is complete I fill my casing up with sterile water and let sit for about 30 mins or so to soak up water and re-hydrate itself. Then dump out the rest of the water that is left in the casing.
e) Place back in the fruiting chamber and start again.
-------------------- Muppet Said: so yeah: - 'sex' five times - once with a man - once with a cadaver - and thrice with actual women(all of which were prostitutes) Best story ever! www.panicstream.com
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pinkfloydms
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Re: Easy Step by Step Guide! [Re: pinkfloydms]
#7307097 - 08/18/07 09:25 AM (16 years, 6 months ago) |
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No comments at all?
-------------------- Muppet Said: so yeah: - 'sex' five times - once with a man - once with a cadaver - and thrice with actual women(all of which were prostitutes) Best story ever! www.panicstream.com
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Re: Easy Step by Step Guide! [Re: pinkfloydms]
#7307185 - 08/18/07 10:11 AM (16 years, 6 months ago) |
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Edited by nw_shroomy (04/01/09 12:41 AM)
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pinkfloydms
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Re: Easy Step by Step Guide! [Re: nw_shroomy]
#7307331 - 08/18/07 11:00 AM (16 years, 6 months ago) |
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nw_shroomy said: If that was written for a noob,(like I am),then there is a few gaps. 1.When you put microspore tape on what happened to the tyvek?Did it get put back on the jar? 2.It says to Put half of the spore solution in each of the holes,Half of how much? 3.What type of poo? 4.(Load you mix into your bag)What size of bag?A gallon ? 5.During spawning,What size of trays to spawn to? I know some of these questions cause Ive been reading for weeks now but as a noob that just found this tek Id have to go look up that info.. You put a lot of time into that and Im going to try it after my first pf tek
1. Tyvek goes on under you lid and ring. The micropore tape goes on over the holes on top of the lid. 2. Depends on the size of jars you use. 3. Horse or Cow doesn't matter, but if you use horse you don't need to add straw. 4. Again depends on how much you are going to be using and pasteurizing. 5. Depends on how much you are spawning. A depth of 4-6 inches is optimal.
This is also why said at the top you can use the search function on the highlighted words for more in depth explanation. This is mearly like an instruction manual, to show the order of how things go.;)
-------------------- Muppet Said: so yeah: - 'sex' five times - once with a man - once with a cadaver - and thrice with actual women(all of which were prostitutes) Best story ever! www.panicstream.com
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Re: Easy Step by Step Guide! [Re: pinkfloydms]
#7307726 - 08/18/07 01:45 PM (16 years, 6 months ago) |
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pinkfloydms said: No comments at all?
My friend just usually glances over guides without pics. He's a very visual learner, so this doesnt do much for him. Sorry, buddy.
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Re: Easy Step by Step Guide! [Re: pinkfloydms]
#7307736 - 08/18/07 01:47 PM (16 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was reading it, and i got tired. thanks for the insight! 
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Re: Easy Step by Step Guide! [Re: pinkfloydms]
#7307925 - 08/18/07 03:01 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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I dig it man! Five of em!
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Re: Easy Step by Step Guide! [Re: kingboomer]
#7308017 - 08/18/07 03:39 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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is there a pictorial tek for this method ?
i was preparing to do a pf-tek but after reading the discussions on yields i would much rather do something like this and supply myself for a long long time.....
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pinkfloydms
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Re: Easy Step by Step Guide! [Re: HankHill]
#7309035 - 08/18/07 11:02 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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All you have to do is look at the topics highlighted. There are teks for it all pictorials. Example Jars, Grains and Pcing are all covered in Docs WBS TEKhttp://www.shroomery.org/9030/Docs-Wild-Bird-Seed-Tek. Pasteurization is covered in http://www.shroomery.org/8396/How-To-Pasteurize-Straw-Poo-Pillowcase-Method The only difference I use between now and then, is that I hydrate and then load in oven bags. Casing is covered at http://www.shroomery.org/55/60-40-Vermiculite-and-Coco-Coir-Casing-Tek and Hyphaes Pinning Stratagey.
Basically all it is, is a list of what order and the basics of how to spawn and case from Grain to Poo.
-------------------- Muppet Said: so yeah: - 'sex' five times - once with a man - once with a cadaver - and thrice with actual women(all of which were prostitutes) Best story ever! www.panicstream.com
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pinkfloydms
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Re: Easy Step by Step Guide! [Re: HankHill]
#7309059 - 08/18/07 11:11 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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For the teks I have learned from and used and these are the methods in the direction are. Docs WBS Tec Learning how to pasteurize. When I made the "How to Pasteurize Poo/Straw Pillowcase Method" There were only like 2 other teks at the time. So not a lot of info like there is today. I now recommend using plastic bags instead of a pillowcase, so not to leach out all the nutes. Next, spawning I learn a lil from Bulk neglect report a lot from Agar and Hyphae. And that brings the final part to growing casings. Which I learned from Hyphaes Pinning Strategy.
I basically just though this would be a good run down on how it's done. You do have to do research, learn. It's not all just about tripping.
-------------------- Muppet Said: so yeah: - 'sex' five times - once with a man - once with a cadaver - and thrice with actual women(all of which were prostitutes) Best story ever! www.panicstream.com
Edited by pinkfloydms (08/19/07 10:00 AM)
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Re: Easy Step by Step Guide! [Re: pinkfloydms]
#7309849 - 08/19/07 08:15 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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who wants to trip? i only grow edibles 
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pinkfloydms
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Re: Easy Step by Step Guide! [Re: pinkfloydms]
#7310246 - 08/19/07 11:12 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
pinkfloydms said:
I basically just though this would be a good run down on how it's done. You do have to do research, learn. It's not all just about tripping.
Thant didn't really come out right. I was way to fucked up last night to be on here.
-------------------- Muppet Said: so yeah: - 'sex' five times - once with a man - once with a cadaver - and thrice with actual women(all of which were prostitutes) Best story ever! www.panicstream.com
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