Materials Required:

Whatever material you wish to pastuerize

An Old pillow case(wash first!)

An Ice Chest(I use a 120 Quart Igloo that I picked up for $40 NEW at Sams Club)

A Little bit of some twine(small rope, I use synthetic)

Plastic Drop Cloth for painting

The process:
I'm gonna cover straw, because it varies a little bit from the others. At the end I'll clarify things with the others a little bit...

Day 1
First take your straw and stuff it into the pillow case pack it down as much as possible. You need to leave enough room at the top that you can twirl the pillow case at the top and tie it off with the twine. Now I put this in the ice chest and fill with room temperature water and let soak for 24 hours to germinate endospores.

Day 2
Take the ice chest outside and pull the plug to empty out the water from yesterday, now bring the ice chest in the kitchen, begin boiling water on the stove with as many big pots as you have, add the water to the ice chest until its about full, Then I hold down the pillow case with a 40lb dumbell(since straw likes to float) close the ice chest and leave it alone for about 3 hours, at this point I carry the ice chest into the bathroom(usually takes 2 people) and pull the plug to drain off the water. I then remove the VERY hot bag and put it in the bath tub, and then (with an old pair of shoes on) step on the bag allover until no more water comes out, this is the perfect amount of moisture for straw. I've tested it 8 times with the same results everytime. Now you want to cut the twine off the pillow case and spread the straw out on a drop cloth for rapid cooling, after about 15 minutes or so it should be pretty cool, stick your hand in to make sure theres no hot spots. Then spawn with cakes or rye..your choice...Also another tip is if you have two people you pick up the drop cloth (one on each side) and shake it to distribute the spawn.

Other pastuerizations

Manure: its not neccesary to "pack it" into the pillow case. Also its not neccesary to presoak for 24 hours. I do however let my manure sit in the ice chest for 4 hours cuz I'm paranoid about the shit(no pun intended) you may want to step on the pillow case a little harder with the manure because it needs to be "fluffy" not a brick so you want to get excess moisture out

Casings: Once again, no need to pack it or pre-soak for 24 hours. As with manure I recommend stepping on this alot more to get excess moisture out. Another tip I learned is when you spread it out on the drop cloth you can place a fan blowing on it to dry it out a little bit.

CLEANUP AND RE-USING MATERIALS
Well I just rinse my ice chest out with a hose to clean it up, as far as the pillow cases go, I first remove any excess shit inside and then hand wash them in the sink. After removing most shit from the inside I put them in the washing machine with a cup of bleach to sanitize them for further use. As far as the drop cloths go, I just toss em cuz their only $.50 a piece and well its not worth the trouble to re-use them

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The Alchemist:
"I just read your straw post and It reminded me of a lime bath w/out the lime." I don't see how this reminded you of a lime bath, lime baths do not have boiling water added to them.

"This is the same tec that the magic mushroom grow tent guy uses except you substituted a cooler for a trash bag and left out the lime the most crutcial step." DUDE READ THE TEK. This is nothing like a lime bath. And using an ice-chest vs. a trash bag is a big difference. The ice-chest is used to insulate the straw+water to keep it at the correct temperature.

"I have tried both methods and encountered green mold more then fruitful flushes. I think people will find that it is easyer to pasteurize straw on a stove." OK. YOU NEED TO READ THE TEK AGAIN. That's plain and simple. You're green mold problem is associated with human handling of the straw. I never get Trichoderma because I properly pastuerize the straw using the above tek, and use a waterless hand sanitizer when handling it. I also run HEPA filters which makes a big difference. The tek describes adding boiling water to the ice chest and leaving it for 3 hours.. This is the pastuerization part that I guess you didn't pick up on. Read it again.

Sorry for being a dick. But it upsets me when I can so clearly point out all the neccesary steps(except for how clean the old shoes have to be =P) and yet some person wonders along and bad mouths it! Go figure. I tested this tek with a 100% success rate 8 times before posting it. It works.

Happy Growing!

[This message has been edited by Condi1 (edited January 23, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by The Alchemist (edited January 25, 2000).]

Edited by Dirtmaster on 05/06/01 11:33 AM.