These are pretty old. A 250ml LC jar was inoculated with a couple milliliters of Master syringe. 2 days to settle into the jar and then kept at about 40°. I've noticed only that their height is about 50% of the first time I used them. I assume that this is possibly the strain getting tired but I don't know enough to say that yet. All the same the equally old Mound 4 did just about the same as it did. I'm starting to see the same strains performing different in different grow-vessels and I'm starting to see Variegated Cordys do some very cool stuff after a year. My point is only that I'm starting to log this stuff down to weighing everything down to the cake itself after harvest to see if I can repeat what's already happened as well as possibly figure out if I can rely on my own notes to know which can take storage, best vessel and what yields the best. I hope to make my own "expiration dates" from this and just know what is worth the fridge space and how far I can take various strains. Also switching to oats has been pretty good.
Holy shit right, you folks weren't messing around......Kong is so fitting for these monsters 🤌
At least the first attempts grew something outside. Pretty sure these are little Nebrodini oysters growing off the unsuccessful indoor blocks. Kind of cool all the same. Might throw a block in a mono tub outside soon before it gets warm.
Okay so what is the soak time for an individual whole oat kernel at 15 psi 250F, not in a bag just full rolling boil loose in the unit under pressure?
No thermal lag or plastic bag to obstruct steam...
Instant ? 1 min? 10m?
Seems in that particular scenario it should be pretty much sterile by the time it comes up to pressure and temp then comes back down with little to no hold time.
I grew cordyceps on Jeff's egg sub for the first time year ago, dove down the rabbit hole pretty fast since. Really interested in what you guys are able to share on cordyceps strain maintenance/breeding/cultivation. I have gleamed what I can but right now cordyceps growers seems to be looking down on sharing more than ever. A lot of "figure it out for yourself" especially with seemingly simple things like...
-What is the general lifespan of a new strain? Like on the plate, then in the master LC and then subsequent production LC.
-What are the storage options like? I assume cryo is a no go but no one will say. I like hyphae suspended in sterile distilled water for gourmet and am trying that for cordy now, will test 6mo/1yr for viability.
Where I spend my summer here in the dense Appalachian forests I can find hundreds of wild militaris easily and started collecting them last season for cloning/breeding. Most went to waste but I want to try again this season better equipped (with knowledge more than anything. Appreciate anything you guys can share!
Love the simplicity of eggs and rice, gives me a tax write off for the free range ducks and is a selling point for the cordy I grow*
Deriving from my last post about Stroma, there is a question that's been bugging me for a while: What is the ideal CO2 levels for a Spawn incubation room? And the questions behind it: what is the correlation/ differential between the CO2 concentration inside the bag compared to the room (has anyone tested this)? What are the thermodynamics going on between temperature and filter patch gas exchange.
And going off of that, how does humidity/temp/ FAE affect the moisture inside the bag. I often see the grain on the surface of my spawn drying (I'm assuming) because it doesn't get colonized.
If anyone has any resources to point me to, I'd graetly appreciate it.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good HEPA filter. Looking to make a 2'x2'. Lots of bad reviews on available Amazon 2'x2'x11.5" filters. Id be going the large box and small blower box type of large flow hood.
Hello mushfam!
That steam generator episode was great! Thanks for that video. Those steam generators are getting sold out now. lol!
Has anyone tried these electric water softeners to pretreat the water before entering steam generator to protect element?
here is a link to example:
https://a.co/d/9kFHmKc
but if if link doesn't work or want to search it up on amazon instead or if having trust issues with links these days, it is listed as "iSpring ED2000 Whole House Water Descaler, Alternative Electronic Salt-Free Hard Water Conditioner, Reduces Limescale Prevent Deposits Build-up, Different from a Water Softener"...would this work as good as the inline water descaler product Eric mentioned?
I'm hoping to pipe in steam to a 300gal stock tank after it is as insulated as I can possibly make it to be and add supports put in on the bottom of tank to keep bags off from the bottom. Probably find a flat bottom heavy duty floor dolly to cart it around. I found one again on the all too convenient amazon website that is almost the entire length and width of the stock tank rated for 2,000lbs. Hopefully that is enough weight capacity to work.
Hello all, any recommendation for light in the fruiting room? I bought T8 6500K, but my insurance doesn't want me to put it in my fruiting room because its not seal perfectly. I try to seal it with silicone but they said no.
I got one of these water flow controller for my pneumatic bagger and I've always wanted it to work better. last week it broke, so I got a nicer flow meter valve for it, that turned out way worse and I ended up replacing the whole thing to get back to where I was but I'd love to know if there is a step up in quality. I saw some shit that was like 1K but I'd prefer a couple hundred.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GSVHCQL?starsLeft=1&ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_AJNNXGRT8PN0P3P23RX4