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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: Base Icks]
#13796009 - 01/16/11 10:11 AM (13 years, 14 days ago) |
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WBS is 7 USD for 20 lbs. at your local hardware/feed supply store. It's significantly cheaper, I also can get 55 lbs. of organic rye for 20 USD.
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: br0skee]
#13796046 - 01/16/11 10:23 AM (13 years, 14 days ago) |
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Are you doing PF tek or grains? Basically, the rule of thumb is 1 cc per jar. You can go a little more or a little less depending on how you want to stretch it. Personally, for quart jars of grain, I use 1.5 cc's, because I'll do G2G's on them after they're fully colonized.
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: cyranode]
#13802118 - 01/17/11 01:10 PM (13 years, 13 days ago) |
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Yes, micropore tape will keep out contams. Be patient. That's the first thing everyone needs to learn to succeed/excel at this hobby. It took me 3 tries just to get something to take to my WBS.
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: IhrHase]
#13802322 - 01/17/11 01:57 PM (13 years, 13 days ago) |
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13shrooms said:
coffee filters are just that, they only filter coffee. no place in mycology at all.  https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/12543108
This is true, but if you keep a clean house and not a 100 year old mold fest like 13, Polyfill, Tyvek and even coffee filters give peace of mind where contamination is much less a factor.
Coffee filters don't filter anything but coffee & water. Get micro pore tape, polyfill or synthetic filter disks. Also, a cheap alternative to filter disks, is "Easy Felt" you can find it at your local hobby store/mega store. PS. DON'T USE COFFEE FILTERS FOR GE!
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: Radiated_Mind]
#13819739 - 01/20/11 11:00 AM (13 years, 10 days ago) |
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- Absolutely no asking for spores if you live in one of the US states where spores are illegal. You might even get banned for doing this.
Um, actually I live in the United States and the spores are legal to possess, sell, and buy. It is the chemical psilocybin that is illegal to possess sell or buy. All Spore companies on the net sell to the United States. So therefore there should be no banning for this.
Check your legal references again, buddy. Some states, Utah I think is one, it's illegal to possess cube spores.
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: biologys]
#13825704 - 01/21/11 12:09 PM (13 years, 9 days ago) |
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Standard (my old version, I don't have pics of my new one)  
LC no-tilt lids:
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: nootch]
#13847168 - 01/25/11 10:57 AM (13 years, 5 days ago) |
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What type of PC? How long you plan on PCing for?
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: nootch]
#13847373 - 01/25/11 11:35 AM (13 years, 5 days ago) |
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I have an AA 930 & I put around 5 cups in it for a 120 min PC & still have plenty left over. Just make sure not to let your jars sit in the water.
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: misfit78]
#13904334 - 02/04/11 10:26 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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dude, stop trying to take short cuts...this is part of the hobby.
You've used up all the nutrients in the mycelium. How is it going to colonize new substrate? It won't.
Start your grain prep & make another 10 jars, to avoid having this large lul between monos do a G2G on one of the jars when it's fully colonized. Then you have another 10 jars + 9 other ones...
Damnit bio...ya beat me to it..
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: cyranode]
#14103489 - 03/11/11 11:16 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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amazon... ...ebay....wallyworld.com....mynards.com....
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. *DELETED* [Re: jacobensis]
#14136397 - 03/17/11 11:58 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: hamloaf]
#14136842 - 03/17/11 01:38 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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good call hamster deleted mine.
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Re: potential of contaminating incubation chamber. [Re: T-Tone]
#14215466 - 03/31/11 03:23 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ditch the incubation chamber. Room temp is perfect for all aspects of mycology.
You can add a few drops of iodine to the water to make sure it won't get any bacteria.
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Re: Thank You All My Friends [Re: nootch] 1
#14425223 - 05/09/11 03:33 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Some do, some don't. Personally, I don't. The myc has already been beaten up enough.
Figure you do the standard 20% then shake, then shake before G2G, then shake after. That's 3 shakes that the myc have to re-coop from. I just leave mine. I know others shake @ 20%...
It's up to you.
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: babz89] 1
#14445715 - 05/13/11 02:04 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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babz89 said: I get that it's not surgery and I get the use of gloves but lets say someone cant get a hold of some (89 cent) laytex gloves ect it's just a tek to get them paws super clean and its more of a recomendation than a necessity
There's no way to get your hands clean enough. We shed billions of skin cells on a daily basis that harbor contams. I do nothing myco related w/out gloves on, except move sealed jars.
U can use dish gloves too, they work great & will last several months if not years. I'm sure you have some of those sitting around the house.
Also, you can reuse the cheap gloves they have @ wally world until they tear as well.
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: exactly99] 1
#14451201 - 05/14/11 12:54 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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you're just casing grain then. I would recommend Damion5050's Coir tek. It's what I use & it works great. It's not true pasteurization & all the ingredients you have but the coir, which you can get @ your local pet store.
Just cased grains do not perform nearly as well as spawned grains.
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      How I Do EVERYTHING      "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart…. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."- Carl Jung "Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means."- William S. Burroughs "You are as dead now as you will ever be" - Seth
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