FEllas fellas!
BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE GIANT SYRINGE? aint it coo/
I've been messin around with this stuff for what, 3-4 years... trust me...
I've just simplified the maths. I mean Blue Helix has proved that you can inject 140 ml into a spawn bag and have a harvest 25 days after creating lc from spore, by compensating with dry verm in the suybstrate..
The reason why I half ass is well, its not really half ass, I mean i alcohol swab my rtv ports and all, now i got a bunsen burner today, i can flame the needle totally, I don't have to do stupid crazy lazy drunk shit like just opening the lid and "hoping" contams won't land...
But in a sense you are right I am doing my best to half ass it, dude/. guys... Its like maths. factorize factorize. Baby steps Bob. I'm not trying to Salsa, here =].
So you are right i do use alchol swab, correct. What I don't use is a glove box, coz in fact, i dont have a table, I have a huge safe, my dad's lawyer's safe, its so damn heavy i cant fuckin move it; trust me, we've tried... lol. we even hired some er... industrial cutting devices, but to no avail... hahaha. honestly, he's like an advocate, they're worth fuckin millions. maybe theres some skulls in it, i donno. or guns. I think there's guns but I wont know until civil war breaks out. but what I was saying is, I work on a safe, and its really a mean safe, coz its JUST *JUST* too fucking low to cooperate with my glove box, which I do have, but have divorced with no hope of remarrying the damn thing; bending over that god damn safe, looking into that glovebox gave me the worst back ache ever. Also I felt my arm movements greatly hampered by the thing, it was just stifling. Although honestly I felt marvellously clever; I took black rubbish bags, punched holes in the corners, and used them for sleeves, up to my shoulders. Then the corner where the hole and my hand went through is, i tuck the bag under surgical gloves, so I really looked like a turkey when I started working with my glovebox. It was just too uncomfortable to move shit around inside it... anyways, i dont need it coz i whipe the innoc ports with alcohol, and stick the needle in while still burning hot, melting the silicon port, which is fine, it still glooped over the hole. That way there is no exposure , and the culture remains isolated, and thus, pure ....
But perhaps i shouldnt have mentioned that when I'm depressed and lose sight of the big picture of a successful hobbyist, i use syringes whose needles keep falling out and opened lc jar lids coz it was annoying to syfen (syphon?) lc out , but I'm superglueing my needles, no im not buying new syringes, needles...
but like i said amidst all my miserable cultivation distasters, the least (the LEAST: ha!) was drinking an entire bottle of whiskey, and then being so drunk and full of gusto that I thought I could just 'grow mushrooms'; i dont even remember if I was making lc; or spawning or wtf... but coz i couldnt see contams, they wherent there. until a few weeks later. man that was dumb.
one half assed success is definitely the use of coir bedding at the bottom of a jar and/ or supplementation with dry verm, so that you can inject like what, 10-300 times more LC than you normally would, to speed up colonization. Ive succeeded at it in small scale. It is idealogically, and logically reasonable to assume that compensation for additional moisture can also be exponential...
I mean i injected 30 ml lc into so little substrate, it was ridiculous, into like a 100 ml wbs/poo, ontop of a lil coir bed, which suspended the wbs/poo above the 'pool' of excess lc, which stayed amidst the coir. when i looked again at those jars, the moisture was gone, the coir was totally colonized, and shrooms had started pinning before I had even noticed the damn things had colonized. Yes, there where some contams; but thats not because of excess lc; ive proven it is a technique in itself to use excess lc, for faster colonization, when compensated for with
a)coir bedding at the bottom to suspend the medium above any possible water pooling b) quantified dry verm that will sponge up all the 'exces'' lc, thereby attaining perfect moisture upon inoculation, i.e in a way the jars aren't totally prepped (like soaking grain before PCing... ) but rather, the inoculation is the final step of the PREP.... =]
but i had some contams coz my needles fell out the syringes (too much boiling to sterilize, i use em for what almost 2 years now...)
ive STILL been too lazy to superglue them... u know its little things like that that has really made me half ass, i think u r right, FRaggin, Nibin... and also the damn lighter to flame the needle that kept running out of fuckin gas so that I ended up only flaming like in many cases, the needle for like 2 in 20 jars. And also when the needle fell out the syringe, i just stuck it back in with my hand. Still I had pretty good success rates. But I mean that's trivial shit.
But its 2008. I've turned a new page.
From now on, my HALF ASSED TEK will be done properly; and guys, fellas, I *WILL* post you on it so that if I *AM* right , that i can rub your noses in it =]
of course if I'm wrong about it... then i will rub my own nose in it ... but my reason for wanting jus colonized vermiculite... to spawn to pasteurized STRAW, bulk. Thing is, I can't liquid inoculate straw.
mmm. i guess i could just shoot lc into pastuerized verm/poo mix, too. But i wanna really C if its possible to make LC&verm only spawn. I mean yz, there is food still in the lc liquid... and if i shoot that much lc into the bag, well, the mycelium will be all over the place. they will not have to colonize very far before its complete at that rate, so they wont need a lot of food i think. i dunno.
yz i talk the talk but do i walk the walk; er well tomorrow, yz.
My Goal: Growing Mushrooms with the Least Effort and the Least Money.
I consider laziness a virtue; for is it not economy of action?
I guess spawn to straw or something, then I will be using gloves again, but as long as its invitro lc transfers, I should technically be able to dust my hands with trichoderma and still have 100% success rates, coz the flame should sterilize the needle, if its hot when goin in its coo, and with a swab at hand, and also with gas exchange filters worth their weight (...), it should be granted that amidst invitro lc transfers, one should be able to be a trichoderma mould and still be able to grow pure mushrooms.
Every successful innovation I've ever had stems not from my wanting to be thorough, but from my being HALF assed, wanting an easier way. Counter intuitive, yes, some might say I learned the hard way; yes i did. I made all the damn mistakes. In fact some of them I was aware of doing while i was making them; but the real mistakes are the ones you didn't know about, and learn about later.
I mean if you know somethings wrong, and you do it still, it isn't really a mistake coz you did it on purpose, it was no accident.
Man o man, i jus smoked far too much weed. at least i din go into explaining how I would model trees and plants in povray (3d graphics engine)... sry.
i do lose it sometimes.
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