Myco Freak

so back on valentines day I started a few 1/2pints of BRFagar(just BRF and water)  here are the best 2

and


I'm going to cut wedges out to nocc up 3 jars of popcorn/aspen shavings/PF mix/coffee and add about 30 cc of water and use a blender blade to do the slurry in a hurry (well mostly I'm a use a meat injector syringe instead of that fancy pants lid) to nocc up another 3 quarts and use the original LC on 2 more we'll see which goes faster I also plan on starting 2 agave agar jars from each (wedges/slurry/LC)

step 1 load popcorn into 7 jars and fill with water cover with foil and put in the pc I don't bother with lids at this step
step 2 PC for 60 min at 15psi
step 3 once the pressures off(don't rush it or you can explode the popcorn) dump into a strainer rince with first hot than cold water
step 4 toss in a couple big handfuls of (in this case aspen shavings but I've used verm wbs) your dry material and toss it this step replaces towel or fan drying
experimental step 4.5 (because I had some extra PF mix to night and no more pints or half pints) mix in about a pint of PF mix so it coats the popcorn and aspen shavings fairly evenly
step 5 load em up in jars and PC em at 15psi for 45 min
here is the mix before I loaded it into pints

I also made about 10 of these pints on the 20th they are layers of coffee/flour(BRF/WBS/corn/oat)and the cardboard from the packages that my cultures came in nothing yet but I have high hopes

still colonizing but here are a couple pics
Shiitake

Golden Oysters

I have like 3 bags of lions mane about 1/2 done but the didn't show up in the pics to well
and here is the Ghost fungus 100% and I need to figure out what I'ma do about a FC for it


I started a few BRFagar jars of the agricus on 2/14 but not seeing anything yet so I started 3 more agave and agar jars today

basically you just put a cap on some foil (cut off as much stem as you can) and let it sit for 12-24 hours  but here is a video that will explain it a little better  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGfGMTCLGWM&playnext=1&list=PLF7C8E962839EFBAD

Those look great any chance your going to take some sporeprints?

I'd still recommend at least steaming or nuking your cardboard if not PCing it cause you never know what has gotten on it since it left the factory

just thought I'd share some of what I have going atm
These jars were G2Ged from popcorn nocced 1/5 with genetics from sporeworks
oysters expanded to popcorn/WBS mix 2/5

and the shiitake 1 WBS 2 mixed 2/5

and here are some aspen/WBS/grass seed/popcorn bags that were expanded from  pint cake(cakes nocced 1/5) on 2/5
front and reverse


and the lions mane

and golden oyster

this ghost fungus is so close to being done it'll have the whole sub by the end of the week



I also have a couple dozen pint cakes (all of the strains above)that are covered but I'm letting them thicken up some more before I birth them
oh and workman sent me a new Agaricus bitorquis syringe (to replace the one that died in transit) so it should be added back in soon

you can get away with doing PF cakes and LCs with just steaming but a pressure cooker makes things a lot cleaner and can up your game significantly and is usful for a lot besides cooking mushroom spawn  you can can your excess vegetable harvest so you can enjoy it in your off season or "slow cook" a roast in 15-20min there by saving fuel and time you only really need agar if your playing with new wild strains you need to clean up from a dirty print or if you need to sector it but if your getting good genetics to start with than you can pretty much skip that step and go straight to grains cakes or a lil honey water I use a plastic tote for a still air glovebox I wish I could afford a flowhood (we'll see how far my tax return stretches this year after I get my bike running again) but a flowhood is not needed don't get me wrong the unsterilized teks are pretty cool but I can expand the myc much faster inside

I agree I mean you can take some tissue from one of those kits or the fruits from one but I'd much rather start off With a LC or MS syringe and go from there that way if I fuck something up I know its my fault lol

you could water and kind of cover the pot with a bit of plastic kinda wrapping it  around the plant just need to make sure to give it a little fan now and then