Bwpz' First PF Tek Attempt

[Bwpz]

Yeah, that makes sense. Round 2

I'm going to use popcorn to make lil half-pint cakes After that I'll just give the jars to my mom for jellys and whatnot...

 

[canndo]

Why would you waste your time and energy with half pints if you have a full blown cooker?

 

[Bwpz]

Because I'm broke and I already have those jars. I'm still doing to bulk mono tubs here in the next week, and I'm spending all of my money on jars and stuff for that. The half pints are just something else to do, experience nonetheless.

 

[Blackhash]

You can still get more than enough mushrooms off of half-pints. I see why people go to QT's, and I definitely will in the future, but its all I need

 

[Bwpz]

Yeah I'm getting my quart jars tomorrow. I have to order more rye, so I'll be inoculating some rye with APE around tuesday-ish.

 

[DarthD3vl]

just pour all the popcorn together into one large tub, the larger the cake the more and or bigger mushrooms it will go, depends on your current mycelium also. i have soo many half pints and pint jars cause i have a tiny PC only holds five pints jars... takes a LOOOOOOOONG time to get any real amount of substrate ready.. like 30 pint jars.. five at a time.. plus wait for cooling in between... urg, glad im done with that =)

 

[Bwpz]

just pour all the popcorn together into one large tub, the larger the cake the more and or bigger mushrooms it will go, depends on your current mycelium also. i have soo many half pints and pint jars cause i have a tiny PC only holds five pints jars... takes a LOOOOOOOONG time to get any real amount of substrate ready.. like 30 pint jars.. five at a time.. plus wait for cooling in between... urg, glad im done with that =)

I'm not really trying to add another bulk grow on top of the 2 I'm already doing. I already have extra perlite and a lil bit of verm to roll em in so I was just gonna take that easy way out.

 

[DarthD3vl]

I'm not really trying to add another bulk grow on top of the 2 I'm already doing. I already have extra perlite and a lil bit of verm to roll em in so I was just gonna take that easy way out.

dont wanna burst your bubble but popcorn will not hold the cake shape well, i leanred this the hard way by dumping out my popcorn tubs so they could fruit better, ended up with piles of popcorn, that still fruited, but not like the popcorn i left in the tub, beside you dont have to mix popcorn with any thing so its not the same as bulk really, though it will produce well enough to be considered bulk just find a sterile tub, i used an ice cream tub fill it with a few inches of popcorn wait a week and it should be ready to fruit.

in the end its up to you.. learning is part of the process.

 

[Bwpz]

dont wanna burst your bubble but popcorn will not hold the cake shape well, i leanred this the hard way by dumping out my popcorn tubs so they could fruit better, ended up with piles of popcorn, that still fruited, but not like the popcorn i left in the tub, beside you dont have to mix popcorn with any thing so its not the same as bulk really, though it will produce well enough to be considered bulk just find a sterile tub, i used an ice cream tub fill it with a few inches of popcorn wait a week and it should be ready to fruit.

in the end its up to you.. learning is part of the process.

That sounds good. I asked if I could use popcorn in cakes earlier, I figured it would just fall apart like you said.

Could I mix the popcorn with verm? Maybe just case it in verm? If so I'll just get like a 6wt tub and make a lil bulk xD

 

[DarthD3vl]

you could mix in verm, but the best thing about popcorn, is its all you need.

really the popcorn holds enough moisture to not need any verm for that purpose...
a casing layer of just verm (no additives) on top of the popcorn will give you a nice microclimate with high rh but is not needed..

 

[Bwpz]

you could mix in verm, but the best thing about popcorn, is its all you need.

really the popcorn holds enough moisture to not need any verm for that purpose...
a casing layer of just verm (no additives) on top of the popcorn will give you a nice microclimate with high rh but is not needed..

Sounds good to me

 

[Bwpz]

What is that gel I can put on the lid over the injection port so it self-closes? That seems like a good investment

 

[mailmann]

its not gel, it is silicone. you can buy a lil tube of it at any hardware store

 

[Bwpz]

its not gel, it is silicone. you can buy a lil tube of it at any hardware store

Thanks. Is there a certain name for it?

 

[mailmann]

i use this stuff http://www.buyhardwaresupplies.com/?t=5&m=g1&itemNumber=1012228
any silicone adhesive should work, just make sure its pure silicone

 

[Bwpz]

i use this stuff http://www.buyhardwaresupplies.com/?t=5&m=g1&itemNumber=1012228
any silicone adhesive should work, just make sure its pure silicone

Thanks for the help man, +rep

And the Dap silicon can be PC'd/injected multiple times without having to be changed?

 

[mailmann]

they should last hundreds of injections and pc runs, ive never had any problems with injection ports wearing out
you can also use silicone to glue tyvek or ez felt to your lids for gas exchange

 

[Blackhash]

I'm not sure I'm pretty positive regular silicon works.
But I would buy high temp silicon(RTV) so I know for a fact it can withstand the heat of the pressure cooker.

 

[Bwpz]

I'm not sure I'm pretty positive regular silicon works.
But I would buy high temp silicon(RTV) so I know for a fact it can withstand the heat of the pressure cooker.

Like this? http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1419007&kw=rtv&origkw=RTV

 

[Blackhash]

Yea that stuff.