Does PT come on here to answer questions? Why didn’t he eye loop the first dish on the left side? Where does one get those nice stainless racks for working in front of hepa?
I threw my contam grain spawn outside and lightly buried it. Just dug some clean mycelium and added Coco coir. Right now it's colonizing nicely. I did add some peroxide to the water I expanded the coco with also. Honestly just hoping pest don't take off when I start fruiting. No signs as of yet
How long could a grain spawn jar sit before innoculation? I know doing it a day later is ideal, but have you gone longer than that? @phillygoldenteacher
I was rooting for Sorghum as I grew up in Iowa and 100 years ago Sorghum was a major crop. Regardless this is a fun study. The only thing I can think of to do would take a lot of work...but try 5 or 6 strains on each type of grain to see if a strain prefers a specific grain over another. Financially I am glad Brown Rice won as its cheap and abundant.
Hi PGT, your videos are great, thank you. May I ask about the water spray? Do you use just tap water, and does that cause a risk of contamination? And when you do spray, and you refilling the spray bottle with fresh water, so it’s not sitting in the spray bottle for several days? Many thanks.
Hey thanks for that video. Have you ever tried using corn syrup with brown rice or another type of grain, instead of using popcorn? I'm going to try brown rice cooked for 10 mins with corn syrup. Come to think of it, that gives me an idea. You could do an Ultimate 'Drippy' Grain Experiment for Mycology.😁 To see what spawns and fruits first, and then compare total yields.
Yeah. People don't realize that when you clean a tub you cannot use anything other than an extremely soft cloth. Any type of abrasion any type of scratching will leave micro scratches in the plastic. Mycelium can be microscopic and hide in those scratches. Regardless of whether it's good mycelium or bad mycelium.
Hey Brother we should get in touch. I get to Philly a couple times a week for different reasons....I am a PhD chemical engineer and I have been researching and growing mushrooms for quite a while. I started a business with two friends called the Mushroom Science Laboratory in Kennet Square Pa. I developed nutrients as well as methods to shorten the growing cycle of Lentinus Edodes as well as numerous other gourmet and medicinal mushrooms. I contributed to several chapters on medicinal fungi and ayahuasca components in Jonathon Ott's book "The Pharmacotheon". I started a library of fungi and yeasts that rivaled the NTCC. We started selling cultures and keeping genomic libraries of all the fungi and pests that we dealt with. The companies started to ask us to supply them with cultures which they would then clone different sequences into to make them produce different complex chemicals that may have only been trace amounts before. Pretty soon I made a spin off of the main company called PRL Biosciences where I would receive the now genetically changed organisms and keep them growing so that those companies could with a phone call purchase any amount of the genetically changed tests or fungi. Having that nano pore technology would have helped immensely. The main business was sold to Campbell's Soup company and I kept PRL going for several years. The business was getting too much for one person to run and I could not find anyone who was interested in joining me so I ended up selling the company and going back to school for my PhD. thinking that would be the key to a great position somewhere and it was for a while. I really miss work I was doing and it seems there are people who are getting into that now. I would love to talk with you some time and get in touch with some like minded individuals.
Awesome stuff, any advice on cultivating lions mane? I’ve grown it before on popcorn but there’s surely alternative methods with better results. If I recall correctly lions mane is a woods lover, maybe I could grow it on some mimosa root bark 😂 maybe it’ll absorb some of the Dimitri
@@TBjunk25 Very interesting my friend.. When we grew Lion's mane species we used oak logs and then went on to use hardwood sawdust mixed with different nutrients such as brown rice flour and even wheat flour as an adjunct. I do not know for sure if mimosa is a species that Lion's mane likes but you can always do an experiment. You cannot go wrong with Alder or oak logs or pasteurized or sterilized blocks of oak or Alder sawdust with a 10 percent addition of the powder. I wish you good luck my friend.
Ideally if you have a perfect substrate you should not need to mist or fan at all. For the second flush I usually dunk the cake. That's all. First, holes with no fae then fill them with cotton balls for air exchange.
So I had a question and I hope that somebody could answer about the no modified lids. Do you just leave them like that after the pressure cooker or are you flipping them right side up so that the Seal is keeping the jar closed correctly and not allowing any contamination to get in? I’ve always used modified lids and after the pressure cook, I tighten them and they’re good for months or more When you flip the lid, the seal is not pressed up against the jar. Does this run the risk of contamination?
