i love this stuff!

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I always thought that "Stop, Drop, and Roll" was a way to save your life if you caught on fire, but then I realized my grade school teachers were advocating my later drug use.

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-From a registered Mad Scientist

"From a certain point of view"
-Jedi Master Obiwan Kenobi (also a Mad Scientist tm)

i boiled some diced sweet potatoes (2 med) for about 35 minutes while preparing 1 cup of brown rice. After thinking, I had decided that a potatoe -- while a good source of nutrition -- might not keep moisture very well, especially once mashed. So I thought maybe a little rice (just enough, mind you, to aid in aeration and moisture -- about a quarter of the cooked rice) would help the substrate.

so, i put it all in a gladware tupperware dish and nuked the rest to sterility (hopefully) for eight min; fluffed it with a fork; put sterile foil over it -- which I then filled with a vermiculite seal; and finally put the lid on and waited for it to cool.

meanwhile, actually before mashing the potatoes, I had rinsed them and save the water in another gladware tupperware dish. this was boiled and cooled for sterility as well.

when the time came, i innoculated both with about 10cc of liquid mycelium from a previous honey/water experiment that went very well. i am hoping these two experiments go well too. as a back up, i have two cakes prepaired via the 9er tek that I also innoculated with liquid myc. -- about 5cc each.

so, here goes and lets see...

oh, and my first batch broke its first veil! harvest time just around the corner!

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I always thought that "Stop, Drop, and Roll" was a way to save your life if you caught on fire, but then I realized my grade school teachers were advocating my later drug use.

So long as you get what's called a "baking potato",
you shouldn't have any problems with aeriation.

They're fluffy.

However, the addition of sporewarer
and time may change that, but there's only
one way to find out.