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From: an165023@anon.penet.fi
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 06:34:35 UTC
Subject: My Magic Mushroom Growing (Using PF Tek)
CHAMBER DESCRIPTIONS
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Spawn run chamber:
Fruiting chamber:
Walmart timers cannot be set for any resolution less than one hour.
The humid air goes along 1 inch PVC tube around a couple corners
and into the aquarium. Actually, the PVC tubing punches through a
clear plastic furniture covering which is over the aquarium. The
covering is cut a minimum of two inches bigger than the actual aquarium
top. I taped one side of this covering and pulled the other over the
aquarium. The loose side of the plastic covering flap is held over the
aquarium by a rubber band which stretches around the aquarium (actually
it was a string of rubber bands tied together). The humid air is
released close to the floor of the aquarium, rises up around the cakes,
and somehow escapes through the small imperfections in the plastic
covering draped over the aquarium. I did not and do not recommend you
make holes specifically for exhaust unless you really have the plastic
covering on tightly.
Lastly, the rice cakes are elevated off the floor of the aquarium
by the half pint jars. You should place the lids back on the jars an
put the cakes on this. If you place the jars on inverted glass jars,
as I did originally, pins will try to form on the bottom of the cake,
and that's a hassle.
Temperature: 74F-78F
MY GROWTH RECORD
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July 2th, Day 0 - The project begins today. I have inoculated nine
jars total. Eight of these are half pint jars and one is a quart jar
(had some extra spore solution). I placed the jars in the spawn run
chamber
July 6th, Day 4 - One jar begins to show growth. Other growth signs in
the other jars are staggered over next week and a half.
July 15nd, Day 13 - All but two of the nine jars show signs of growth
now. One jar in particular, the first to show growth, spread very
quickly and should be done soon. I discarded the two jars that show no
growth.
August 1st, Day 30 - Pinning has already begun on the one cake in the
fruiting chamber. The other jars are doing fine, but still need a week
or more for 100% colonization.
August 6th, Day 35 - Picked my first mushroom off cake 1. The cake
didn't seem to produces a flush and I suspect it was because it was
stressed from the uncolonized area. LESSON: DO NOT PLACE CAKES IN
EARLY! Put cakes 2 and 3 in fruiting chamber since they were 100%
colonized.
August 14th, Day 43 - Cake 6 went in. Pins on cake 3 double in size
almost over night!
August 16th, Day 45 - Cake one's mushroom are growing very large this
time. Cake 2 shown definite pinning. Cake 3's pins are very large and
there are dozens of smaller pins. Cake 3 is proof that you get a
better pin set if you let the cake colonize 100% BEFORE placing it in
the fruiting chamber.
August 17th, Day 46 - Removed cake 1's two large mushrooms. I also see
lots more pins. Cake 2 has dozens of pins. Cake 3 is pins are maturing
so fast I swear you can see hourly changes. Cake 5 shows lots of new
pins. EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING VERY FAST!
August 28th, Day 57 - Took all cakes out of the aquarium and
placed them in a moist environment in order to clean an disinfect
the growing chamber. Replaced all cakes and put my 7th and last
cake in chamber. Cake 7 was 95% colonized, but I'm tired of
waiting and parts of it are starting to pin in the jar.
Dosage Recommendations
======================
There were two others with me. Both had extremely strong
trips. One of the people began to think he was god and could
change anything. He went so far as to call his girlfriend to
"begin a new civilization". The third person was lucky: she had a
good trip. The point is, start with far less than 4 dried grams.
I would recommend you start with 1-2 grams and then work up from
1) Take a half pint Ball or Kerr jar and make a hole just large enough to
stick the needle in toward the edge of the lid. You should make this in
the same place you would an inoculation hole when using PF Tek, except
punch through from the TOP to the bottom of the lid rather than the
bottom up. This makes it so the tape in step 4 will seal properly.
2) Place the lid on (do not invert the lid like in the growth jars) and
screw the band down.
3) Sterilize the jar either through steam, dry heat, or boiling water.
Be careful here, the rubber seal on the Ball brand jars can start to melt
if you use too high of temperature in dry heat sterilization. I
recommend placing foil around the lid to prevent air from going into the
hole directly.
4) When the jar cools, remove the foil and place tape over the hole.
5) Cut a mature mushroom cap off with a sterilized knife (do not breath on
cap). quickly unscrew the band, remove the lid, and place the cap gills
down on the bottom of Kerr jar. Replace the lid and band quickly. The
room in which you do this should be clean and draft-free. It might help to
spray Lysol around before opening the jar. Leave the cap in the jar for
two or three days.
6) Remove the cap and fill the jar with cool sterilized distilled water to
within a half inch or so of the rim. Scrape the spore print under the
water loose with a sterilized spoon. Again, replace the lid and band
quickly. A full print, according to PF, can be used in 300-500 milliliters
of water, yet a half pint jar filled a half inch or so from the top is only
around 200 milliliters (half pint = 236.6ml), so obviously, this will be a
very strong solution.
8) When you are ready for use, remove the jar from the refrigerator and
shake vigorously for a few minutes. Immediately after you are done
shaking, remove the tape, take a sterilized syringe, and fill the syringe.
If the solution in too low to draw off with the jar upright, tilt the jar
toward the hole and draw. Retape the hole immediately with a fresh piece
of tape. In the next month or so, when you are ready to fill another
syringe for inoculations, repeat.
germination. I lost only one jar to contamination, and this was because I
was storing the jars next to something that I later discovered was
molding. I did not use an aquarium to keep the jars at exactly 86F like
the first time, yet the germination and mycelium growth was MUCH faster
than the when inoculating with spore syringes PF sent me. I assume this
is because my solution was so much more concentrated and fresh than the
one they sold me.
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