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OfflineThizz
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Aftershave alcohol lamp?
    #8122598 - 03/09/08 07:38 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

OK, well I finally got round to making up my PF Cakes(7)of Psilocybe Cubensis-Golden Teacher.

I popped them in my plastic vegetable steamer for 2 hour and 15 min(to make sure they sterilized properly as it is the first I have heard of a plastic steamer being used, it SHOULD have done the job though as it got VERY hot!).

I left them over night to cool to room temperature.

I do not have any Alcohol available in the house and cant get any for a good week or 2 so decided to use some Aftershave to sterilize my needle. It seemed to do the job, but just after doing it I thought about what I just did(given that there are perfumes etc added!) and am pretty worried that I have just jeopardized my whole grow.

Was this a stupid thing to do and will my jars fail as a result or should they be OK?

Ive popped them in my incubator at 25-26C in the hope that theyll be fine but I thought I better ask you guys here just to ease my mind(and use the other half of my syringe on a new grow in a few weeks if need be).

Cheers,

T.K

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Re: Aftershave alcohol lamp? [Re: Thizz]
    #8122708 - 03/09/08 08:56 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

Guess theres only one way to tell. Wait and see. However I would imagine you are fine. I wouldn't think the perfumes would effect anything.

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Re: Aftershave alcohol lamp? [Re: Frost000]
    #8122727 - 03/09/08 09:08 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

If it heated the steel red hot, sterilization was complete. Aftershave is mostly alcohol, but ten times the price of denatured alcohol, which is what you want for lamps.
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Re: Aftershave alcohol lamp? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #8122741 - 03/09/08 09:16 AM (16 years, 10 months ago)

Beside the fact, that the smell - no matter how much you like your after shave- would be very annoying after a little while, WHY on earth don't just use a lighter???
It works just as fine!

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