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Better luck with pc?
    #7905172 - 01/20/08 10:01 AM (16 years, 12 days ago)

Hello. I just have a quick question.

I attempted to cultivate mushrooms a little more than a year ago using PF TEK but no pc; contamination is all i ended up with. I now have a pc and so i was wondering if you guys think i will have better luck because of this

Thanks


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Re: Better luck with pc? [Re: MAllowMArsh]
    #7905183 - 01/20/08 10:05 AM (16 years, 12 days ago)

I didn't use a PC for over a year and had quiet good luck. But from time to time, contamination was a pain in the ass.
Anyway, after I got my PC I had exactly ZERO contamination, so it really pays off.
You should reconsider your way of "working", when all jars got contaminated but a PC will definitely help you, to succeed!


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Re: Better luck with pc? [Re: Fahkface]
    #7905253 - 01/20/08 10:27 AM (16 years, 12 days ago)

its not how you sterilized, its your sterile technique when you noc them up.. I NEVER use a pc unless I am doing grain... for pf teks, you can boil for an hour, and they will be cool... I NEVER have contams from boiling... about 1 in 200 will get contams... and thats not from the sterilizing, its because I dont have a flow hood or glove box... If you are clean and careful, you should have no problems with contamination if you are boiling pf tek jars...


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Re: Better luck with pc? [Re: DJYoshaBYD]
    #7905346 - 01/20/08 10:57 AM (16 years, 12 days ago)

Though a PC isn't necessarily needed for the PF tek (which is known), I have WAY better results, since I use a PC (even when using the PF tek)!
My house definitely didn't get any cleaner (maybe my tek has advance a bit, yeah) but the circumstances are the same, except for the PC.

Anyway, as I said, if all he achieved is contaminated jars, he should work over his tek in general!


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Re: Better luck with pc? [Re: Fahkface]
    #7905364 - 01/20/08 11:02 AM (16 years, 12 days ago)

thats right.... carelessness in your sterile technique is exactly what caused this... maybe you have a contaminated syringe or something?


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Re: Better luck with pc? [Re: DJYoshaBYD]
    #7905406 - 01/20/08 11:15 AM (16 years, 12 days ago)

Well, depending on the quality of rye you get you may need to preasure cook, re-soak and re-dry and pc again...

Sometimes the endospore content is way, way way to high for a single preasure cook cycle to kill everything even after a 36 hour soak...

as for pfcakes, easy stuff man. A pc will fully sterilize them in a hour without a problem. If you get contams it's because of something you did during the inoculation/transfer or it can happen if you remove your pc from the stove before it cools down, it will suck in alot of air.


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Re: Better luck with pc? [Re: Pr0_X]
    #7905494 - 01/20/08 11:48 AM (16 years, 12 days ago)

you FOR SURE have to PC grains... there is no way around it...


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Re: Better luck with pc? [Re: DJYoshaBYD]
    #7905563 - 01/20/08 12:16 PM (16 years, 12 days ago)

Yeah, that's what he said. Guess saying that grain sometimes actually needs more than one run in the PC, includes, that using a normal pod, would be a waste of time...


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Re: Better luck with pc? [Re: Fahkface]
    #7905616 - 01/20/08 12:37 PM (16 years, 12 days ago)

if you followed the pf tek and still contaminated without a pc than something else was wrong. Getting a pc probably will not help it


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Re: Better luck with pc? [Re: tahoe]
    #7905623 - 01/20/08 12:39 PM (16 years, 12 days ago)

explain followed teh pf tek to us.
1/2 pint wide mouth jars?
brf/vermiculite?>
metal lids with 4 small holes in them?
wiped sides of jars?
clean vermiculite layer?
cooked for an hour, no more, no less?
good syringe?
Left jars alone for a month after inoculating them?
DIdnt tip jars upside down?


If you said no to any of those questions than it was most likely you that fucked up


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Re: Better luck with pc? [Re: tahoe]
    #7907888 - 01/20/08 11:13 PM (16 years, 12 days ago)

Thanks for all the responses. One thing I want to clear up a little; I am not fully sure if all jars got contam, however, I know that I am going to have to be a lot cleaner this time around.

>>>Tahoe - I DID NOT let the jars sit for a month. After about three weeks I emptied them all out into the garbage and put everything in storage.


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Re: Better luck with pc? [Re: MAllowMArsh]
    #7907978 - 01/20/08 11:41 PM (16 years, 12 days ago)

youll definately get help from using a pressure cooker. any piss poor pressure cooker is 10 times better than a pot of water.

and youll really want to work on your sterility when inoculating.
thats like the #1 problem people have.


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