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galadar


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Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide
#7863201 - 01/11/08 01:14 AM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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OK guys, heres is a great way to use all them damn snapple bottles lying around. Snapple bottles are just pint jars with an obvious 1 piece lid. This guide will help cover preparation of the bottles as well as a simple and effective liquid culture technique. The prepared snapple jars are also a GREAT grain jar.
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Materials Needed Snapple Bottle(standard 1pint glass bottle) Hammer for punching lid hole and safely breaking glass bits Wood Block of any size It helps with hammering a nail into the lid Small nail (just tiny enough to make a tiny hole for the larger lid) Larger Nail No Larger than a bic pen's thickness Broken Glass Anything crystal clear, or any agitator can work Karo Light Corn Syrup Any light corn syrup should work but Karo is the #1 brand, this should cost you $2-3 Polyfill Rip up that dumb teddy bear or pillow Micro pore tape Optional Empty Syringe Optional Scissor Optional
Procedures
1. Wash out the peach iced tea from your snapple bottle and rinse well use soap and water. and remove the label.
2. While that is drying, Take your wood block, snapple lid and small nail. Have the snapple fact facing upwards and hold a nail towards the edge where the rubber seal ring is, don't get too close to it, leave it a few millimeters away. This helps in extracting ready liquid culture much easier than if the hole was in the middle. (The reason we use a small nail first and then the bigger nail is so that the metal lid doesn't warp or bend;it is thin and small.) Hammer your nail straight into the lid. and pull out.

3. Repeat with the Larger nail and pull out.
 Try to flatten out the spiky bits of metal if you can.
4. Grab some polyfill the size of a small cotton ball. and pinch it up. Then from the top of the lid push it a bit in and from under, grab it and pull about 2 centimeters in till snug.

 You can optionally snip off the excess fluff from the inside section, But keep the fluffy outside mess the way it is.when you do that make sure to rub your finger over it to get the tiny bits hanging off so they don't fall in later.
4. Take an old drinking glass or shot glass and wash it out nicely. put it into a plastic bag and hit it once or twice till you have dime to nickel size pieces. gram about 5-10 of em and rinse em of glass dust and place inside snapple bottle.
5. Measure out 200 milliliters of water into the bottle. or just fill about less than half way up. then cover lightly with foil so no dust falls in.
6. Here is what we need, Karo light corn syrup. it comes in a small bottle about the size of a snapple bottle.
 Now just gently wash out a syringe and take off the needle. Withdraw 10mL of corn syrup for your 200mL of water. Or just 2Teaspoons.
 Lift foil and squirt into bottom of snapple bottle(try not to get any on the sides or lip) Place Cap on bottle and voila! simple 5% LC solution.
 This is how a bottle should look, minus everything else ha ha
7. Cover top with foil and pressure cook for 45 mins at 15psi.
8. When jar is cooled, wrap 2 layers of micro pore tape around the edges just to be safe. this is totally unnecessary though but why the hell not!

9. Use your favorite spore syringe or LC syringe and favorite glove box or flowhood and poke the needle STRAIGHT through the polyfill. none of that push it to the side and inject bullcrap. Inject however much spores you want. i injected my last 4 or 5 ml into this. Pull out, and incubate at 75-80 degrees and you'll be golden.
10. When incubating, you'll start seeing white wispy puffy stuff near the bottom within a week. this is the point where you start stirring. To do so, Hold the top of the jar and swirl the bottom around. just do not get the solution to splash around. a gentle swirl with the glass bits should handle breaking up the mycelium greatly.

And there you have it. a Simple snapple/karo guide that has worked extremely well for me over the ages.
leave me plenty of comments and such guys
Edited by galadar (01/19/08 03:42 AM)
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budzeno
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: galadar]
#7863238 - 01/11/08 01:23 AM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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A + Idea, No more baby bottles for me!
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: budzeno]
#7863351 - 01/11/08 02:05 AM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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I assume you just tilt the jar to get the syringe in the liquid?
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: navyseals101]
#7863357 - 01/11/08 02:07 AM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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navyseals101 said: I assume you just tilt the jar to get the syringe in the liquid?
yes and that was the main reason to make a hole towards the side of the lid. and when extracting it out with a syringe, all needle injections should go through to polyfil as its self sealing and wont go anywhere as long as you have a pointy needle.
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: galadar]
#7863823 - 01/11/08 06:55 AM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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Sounds a little tall (deep), but a handy idea.
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: 04281969]
#7863847 - 01/11/08 07:10 AM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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and it stays liquid inside the snapple bottle?
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: Supplier]
#7863869 - 01/11/08 07:23 AM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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dont you think getting the poly wet while you extract lc will be a problem for contams?
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galadar


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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: blood4blood]
#7863932 - 01/11/08 07:57 AM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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well what you do is lean the jar till liquid comes close to the hole. and by having the hole on the side, it will make it much more easier to extract.
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: Supplier]
#7863935 - 01/11/08 08:00 AM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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Quote:
Supplier said: and it stays liquid inside the snapple bottle?
stays liquid? what are you talking about.
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: galadar]
#7863938 - 01/11/08 08:01 AM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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can anybody take lc's by themself? i was just wondering this because i tryed to pull one by myself the other day and no way was that happening... i had to have my wife help me.
im thinking og making some little device where you can do this on your own.
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: blood4blood]
#7863965 - 01/11/08 08:26 AM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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I'm sure it would stay liquid if you used it quickly enough, and kept it "shook". Maybe a marble or small quartz crystals in the bottom would be an alternative to broken glass.
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: blood4blood]
#7863970 - 01/11/08 08:30 AM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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blood4blood said: dont you think getting the poly wet while you extract lc will be a problem for contams?
How about putting the polyfill into the pinky of a nitrile glove first, then putting it through the hole?
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: 04281969]
#7863976 - 01/11/08 08:33 AM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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broken glass is most abundant haha. plus it shreds your mycelium into tiny bits very effectively. I also like a once a day 5-10 second shake to aerate and break myc up.
Edited by galadar (01/11/08 08:46 AM)
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: 04281969]
#7864728 - 01/11/08 12:06 PM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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Quote:
04281969 said:
Quote:
blood4blood said: dont you think getting the poly wet while you extract lc will be a problem for contams?
How about putting the polyfill into the pinky of a nitrile glove first, then putting it through the hole?
huh? and im pretty sure if youre smart, you wont get the filter wet. or at least significantly wet. as in less thna a drop
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: galadar]
#7864743 - 01/11/08 12:10 PM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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I can see even the smartest guy accidentally splashing the filter with a nice big drop from a sloshed "goik".
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: 04281969]
#7864760 - 01/11/08 12:14 PM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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it's a good idea, however those expensive BossaNova acai juice bottles look way sweeter. also, i don't even bother to punch a hole in the lid, i just kinda slosh some LC into a jar in my clean glove box. haven't had many problems yet.
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: Iolaa]
#7869688 - 01/12/08 04:31 PM (16 years, 20 days ago) |
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I wonder if you could get a really short baby bottle to work. The nipple would seal itself, more or less.
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: 04281969]
#7873810 - 01/13/08 03:16 PM (16 years, 19 days ago) |
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Yes you could do that. There is a Tek somewhere dealing with using baby bottles.
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: SofaKingGood]
#7873993 - 01/13/08 03:54 PM (16 years, 19 days ago) |
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i think i will try this in a day or two.
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Re: Snapple/Karo Liquid culture guide [Re: SofaKingGood]
#7877551 - 01/14/08 09:41 AM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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Quote:
SofaKingGood said: Yes you could do that. There is a Tek somewhere dealing with using baby bottles.
I have a tek using baby bottles in my sig
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