My first class with the golden teacher

[shattaroach]

thanks look out for mines needs some help in design

 

[Mookjong]

Nice progress Matt!

How to did you prepare your tea?

I'm interested if anyone has an easy way to mute the sound of the "Rattler" on a pressure cooker. Is it absolutely necessary leave it on? Anyone have a decent work around or a way to reduce the sound?

 

[Thundercat]

YES necessary! That's what holds a certain pressure, it has to be just the correct weight to keep the pressure where its supposed to be so altering it might be a bad idea. If it didn't allow it to vent just right it would turn the thing into a bomb!!

I to would be interested in how you did your tea, I've thought Bout making some before just never got around to it as I figured it tasted nasty. One of the biggest reasons I've never tried morning glory tea, also the nausea factor which I'm told is almost gaurenteed.

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

i just cut up the mushrooms and steeped them in water for around 20 min...then added a tea bag and some sugar tasted just like a cup of tea.....with the occasional slimy lump hehe..

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

all my jars are fully colonized BTW....sick as a dog right now so havent been getting much done. have the materials to bulk sub to straw 9 trays and then do a g2g. i also scrounged up a few pint sized mason jars so ill be doing a few more jars for my 3rd run...

only thing i have to do is cut up straw for 9 pans worst job ever.

 

[Thundercat]

Do you know any one with a food processor, seems like that could work well?

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

Do you know any one with a food processor, seems like that could work well?

i have one, have already tried it......didnt work so well. I have a weed wacker and a 55 gal drum, that may be my next attempt. i want all 9 of my lasagna pans filled 3/4 of the way up with compressed straw.

im wondering if sawdust or shavings would work....

 

[Thundercat]

What attachment did you try on the food processor, I was thinking maybe the grater attachment and bundle the straw up like you were when you were scissoring it? Did you try adding a bit of water and using the chopping attachment? I don't know just brainstorming hope you don't mind.

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

i just used the straight blade.....its not really a great food processor, kinda old but its just a blade on the bottom that chops....i did try adding water and it did work better but it would take me so long its simply not worth it.

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

just a whole bail through a wood chipper lol

 

[technical dan]

YES leave the rattler on the PC like thundercat said you need that on the top at the correct weight to keep it from being a bomb. Too much weight ---> too much pressure -----> explosion (if the other safeties do not function properly). Not enough weight ---> not enough pressure ----> poor sterilization.

 

[Javadog]

QFT!

I think that you can actually compute the pressure achieved using
the diameter of the vent hole and the weight. (i.e. it is much less
than a square inch, and so the PSI resulting will be much more than
the weight of the bobbler).

Good luck,

JD

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

[video=youtube;K8E_zMLCRNg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8E_zMLCRNg[/video]

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

Hows everyones projects coming along?

just a little update on mine.

did my bulk sub on fri night, going to give them probabally 2 full weeks before i case. I wont be using the soil mixture to case again as i feel that it contamed too easily, instead i may just fruit the straw cakes as is or i may just do a 100% vermiculite casing. i havent decided yet but am leaning more towards the 100% vermiculite.

9 pans got bulk subbed and today i am headed over to PC some more corn and do my G2G's probabally wont have much up for pics for another week since i dont want to even touch the bulk subs for at least a week, then im going to give a peek and make a judgment call on how much longer before i take my next step. hopefully by the time my bukk substrate is all ready to move onto the next stage my G2G have fully colonized and i can have more pans ready to start bulk colonization. need to get this project down to a point where i am able to pick mushrooms almost every day. summer is coming and the demand for these babies is going to increase soon.

anyways happy days guys, lemme know how your all making out i think i see a new strain coming in the near future, or maybe even 2 new strains.

 

[technical dan]

nice job keepin em (shrooms) comin matt.

ok so my two initial pints of MS GT on rye berries are colonizing. then the next sets of inoculations were P. galindoi on rye in a total of 6 pints with a little growth (which has not really done anything) on the bottom of the first 2 knocked up with MS.

Then there are 3 popcorn pints all with GT two were inoc'ed with the spore syringe and the third was inoc'ed with MS mycelium on/from agar. Those jars all have growth and have all been faster than the rye in terms of visible initial growth and the rate of colonization. Yesterday I transferred an oyster isolate from agar into rye no signs of growth quite yet. So that is a total of 12 pints with 5 going nicely which are all GT.

Then there are my agar jars. I have 3 agar jars with GT isolates one jar has two variants so it is not truly an isolate.... yet. Then a jar with some myc. from the oyster isolate and one with that was inoced with spores from my P. galindoi print no myc yet but there are signs of growth. The plan with half the stuff on agar is to make syringes (for inoc) and vials (to store genetics) of myc suspended in distilled water. The rest will be cut up and transferred into grains (quite possibly popcorn, and agar) as necessary.

I would love to have some boom booms for spring n early summer to eat not too far out of school........... but it'll happen when it happens. You should grab some other variants or even other species to try matt I'm sitting on syringes for B+ and KSSS and a Pollock print once I feel I have a better handle on whats happening.

 

[Thundercat]

Sounds good guys. I havn't a project to report on other then my garden still. You guys are rolling along nicely it seems though. Sounds like with all those trays your gonna be in them soon matt. When I did my caseings I used the 100% verm about 1/2 inch think, seemed to work well for me.

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

nice job keepin em (shrooms) comin matt.

ok so my two initial pints of MS GT on rye berries are colonizing. then the next sets of inoculations were P. galindoi on rye in a total of 6 pints with a little growth (which has not really done anything) on the bottom of the first 2 knocked up with MS.

Then there are 3 popcorn pints all with GT two were inoc'ed with the spore syringe and the third was inoc'ed with MS mycelium on/from agar. Those jars all have growth and have all been faster than the rye in terms of visible initial growth and the rate of colonization. Yesterday I transferred an oyster isolate from agar into rye no signs of growth quite yet. So that is a total of 12 pints with 5 going nicely which are all GT.

Then there are my agar jars. I have 3 agar jars with GT isolates one jar has two variants so it is not truly an isolate.... yet. Then a jar with some myc. from the oyster isolate and one with that was inoced with spores from my P. galindoi print no myc yet but there are signs of growth. The plan with half the stuff on agar is to make syringes (for inoc) and vials (to store genetics) of myc suspended in distilled water. The rest will be cut up and transferred into grains (quite possibly popcorn, and agar) as necessary.

I would love to have some boom booms for spring n early summer to eat not too far out of school........... but it'll happen when it happens. You should grab some other variants or even other species to try matt I'm sitting on syringes for B+ and KSSS and a Pollock print once I feel I have a better handle on whats happening.

sounds like you have been staying busy Yeah i definatly will be looking into some different strains here soon. want to perfect the GT grow first though. then im going to try out the famous PE, also going to get another type but not sure what...def want something nice and potent.

Sounds good guys. I havn't a project to report on other then my garden still. You guys are rolling along nicely it seems though. Sounds like with all those trays your gonna be in them soon matt. When I did my caseings I used the 100% verm about 1/2 inch think, seemed to work well for me.

haha yeah man, 9 trays if they all make it should gove me some good flushs, the bulk sub is finely chopped straw thats around 2.5 inches thisck so i will have a nice cake. now the only thng to do is wait until the straw cakes are FULLY colonized. Oh and TC to cut up the straw i used the food processor, for some reason it works great this time. i remember trying it before and it didnt work worth a shit but this time it worked like a charm....i did feed the straw into the food processor differently this time so maybe that was the issue.

 

[Thundercat]

Glad it worked better man, the feed method might have made all the difference. It had to be way faster then scissors. It seemed like your straw colonized well last time I bet with it chopped better and packed tighter it will make an even nicer cake like you said.

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

hoping so, summer is fast approaching and im gonna need me some mushrooms soon lol. still waiting to go on my "big" trip. will prob eat a quarter of dry to the dome.

 

[Thundercat]

Good luck with that! I ate a 1/4 of aborts one night, was a CRAZY night for sure, first time I ever puked off mushrooms. I don't personally recommend drinking before or with them I learned that that night. I also found that the hotter I get the harder I trip so now I like to have a fan or A/C available to stay cool when on high doses. Though that being said I think I'm over eating any more then an 1/8. That gives me plenty of fun.