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ndangerspecimen101

ndangerspecimen101

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Nice work Vertise... how many syringes did you utilize to gain such a big flush shown there in your pics ;)

Please explain further about this "making of a spore culture!"
 
vertise

vertise

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I make casings which is when you take a jar of colonized substrate and mix it with vermiculite and coco coir then allow to colonize again for 5 days. This increases yield by a lot. And you can flush your casings alot more. Towards the end of the casings life, (say the 6 flush) i would get foot long golden teachers with inch think stems. Only 6 at a time but they were heavy suckers even when dried. My casings usually yield about 2-3 ounces of dried shrooms each. I use 1/4th a syringe with is like 2.5 mil for each jar. So 4 jars to one syringe. The liquid culture is really cool. Its simple but hard at the same time. You just take a tbsp of organic honey or something similar and water. Preasure cook them together...for sanitary reasons....Let cool and then inject half a syringe. After about a week you will see alot of white floating. Thats the mycelium. Some people even put a few shards of glass in the culture. When using a syringe to suck up a little of the mycelium it can be hard. The shards are so that you can shake the culture and cut the large cloud up into smaller pieces. Keep in frig for up to 6 months. From one jar of good liquid culture you can make about 100 jars. Also it speeds up jar colonizing by alot. say it takes 3 weeks to fully colonize your jar, using a spore syringe. Using a liquid culture it will take 5-7 days. give me a bit to find the 2 links that i used for my shroom grow.
 
Sgt. Floyd

Sgt. Floyd

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vertise said:
I make casings which is when you take a jar of colonized substrate and mix it with vermiculite and coco coir then allow to colonize again for 5 days. This increases yield by a lot. And you can flush your casings alot more. Towards the end of the casings life, (say the 6 flush) i would get foot long golden teachers with inch think stems. Only 6 at a time but they were heavy suckers even when dried. My casings usually yield about 2-3 ounces of dried shrooms each. I use 1/4th a syringe with is like 2.5 mil for each jar. So 4 jars to one syringe. The liquid culture is really cool. Its simple but hard at the same time. You just take a tbsp of organic honey or something similar and water. Preasure cook them together...for sanitary reasons....Let cool and then inject half a syringe. After about a week you will see alot of white floating. Thats the mycelium. Some people even put a few shards of glass in the culture. When using a syringe to suck up a little of the mycelium it can be hard. The shards are so that you can shake the culture and cut the large cloud up into smaller pieces. Keep in frig for up to 6 months. From one jar of good liquid culture you can make about 100 jars. Also it speeds up jar colonizing by alot. say it takes 3 weeks to fully colonize your jar, using a spore syringe. Using a liquid culture it will take 5-7 days. give me a bit to find the 2 links that i used for my shroom grow.
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Liquid culture is something I plan on looking into after I get farther along.
 
ndangerspecimen101

ndangerspecimen101

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By the way, I would like to report the first sightings of white mycelium inside the mason jars... my eyes beamed like I witness the grace of God ;)
 
ndangerspecimen101

ndangerspecimen101

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Yes, but the real excitement yet awaits me!

Fruiting them is when one day their is nothing on your cakes and the next morning: VOILA! Heads of mushrooms popping from every corner of the perlite infested container ;)
 
ANC

ANC

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yeah lol, I just spotted my first little baby pins today on the monotub... man they start out tiny.
 
ANC

ANC

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Becaseu cubes orginate in tropical areas.

No, you don't keep them in the jar that long, try for 3 weeks max in jar.
Inside the jars metabolic juices collects and causes alot of problems.
 
ndangerspecimen101

ndangerspecimen101

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Its funny how some people reach their conclusion on certain methods of growing!

You'll hear people speak highly of one method and another person disregard that whole process...like its a crock!

But, ill listen to your advice anyday ANC! Your logic seems to be in the right place ;)
 
ANC

ANC

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Its good to know what the herd does.
I'm priveledged to part of a very clued up group of entheobotany fanatics, even among us there is alot of disagreement, but, there is a diffirence between when someone does something wrong, or just in a diffirent manner.
So someone might come up with something new and noone will shoot him down as long as there is logic to his reasoning and hopefully similar or related practical experience.

The methods you will see me reccommend are normaly the most cost effective/simple/energy saveing winners of all things tried. As few of you know, I am a fulltime student of things psycedelic and natural as a pensioner with hours to kill every day for many years now. If I reccommend something its because its how i do it, not because its the best way out there imaginable.
 
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