Damn sorry to hear you lost your jars...
Yeah a pressure cooker sounds like a good idea, however, if you don't want to purchase one or aren't so fortunate as to already have one, such as myself, and you do choose to use a pot with a lid, I boiled for 2 solid hours with the lid on, and to make sure the jars didn't crack i put a thick cloth at the bottom of the pot so the glass of the jars didn't come in contact with the hot metal.

Also Achilles, you can try wearing those plastic gloves you get in boxes of like, 50 or 100 or whatever at any hardware store. That seemed to help me keep everything clean, too.

Well I'm glad to know I'm not alone in fucking up my first attempt massbaster! Especially after investing almost $100 in supplies (spores, substrate, fruiting chamber, hygrometer) it's a little disheartening to get poor results. But I am determined to get some to fruit.

I just ordered some golden teachers today. I'm going to finish up the 4 ccs or so left in my camodian syringe and move on to the teachers next.

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but not much of a problem. i got four cakes out of 10 first time around.

got 20-25 mushrooms off them all. they were good cambodians. nice buzz.

i just could not get a second flush. ended up with green mold contam until had one cake left after 3 weeks waiting for start of second flush.

anyhow, tried some h2o2 and piece of cake for making syringe as well as piece of dried mushroom and h2o2 to make syringe.

results are poor at best, but at least i am getting to know my contaminants.

like i said, three more on the way and expect much better results this time.

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everything i say here is made up, fabricated and basically a lie. "leave me alone I'm 'bating."

keep trying and also keep unused cc's in fridge. help last longer.


and as far as boiling goes, the first time i did it for 60-75 minutes and had no issues.
then for 90 the second time. both times i kept watching the wet towel and made sure it stayed wet throughout. keep trying, second time will be the charm for this stuff.

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everything i say here is made up, fabricated and basically a lie. "leave me alone I'm 'bating."

Nice good luck with the GT grow, I can't wait to follow it lol...
They give a nice little high.

I got a sudden headrush and was watching Alice in Wonderland beginning movie credits and all the letters were popping out of the screen lol!

last time I dropped acid I watched Alice in Wonderland. What a great flick for that kind of shit. I'm glad you had a fun time

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can't go from cake to syringe

can go from cake to uncolonized jar

a really good/reliable method of fast, large scale propogation is:

1. buy 1 syringe
2. colonize ten 1pint PFTEK jars
3. transfer 1/4 of each colonize jar to a 1quart jar of your preferred grain
4. case/bulk spawn the colonized grain
5. fruit
6. be happy

it takes ~2months, but mushrooms will be everywhere...

So I hate to bump my old thread up, but it needed an update.

I haven't thrown away any of the red spotted jars yet. Curious, I know. But, oddly enough, the mycelium is overtaking the red spots! Some of my jars are around 40% colonized. I am not sure if I should be concerned that these mushrooms may be contaminated as well. However, it seems from shroomery.org that if the cake fruits, then it is most likely good to eat. I guess this is because if molds infect the cakes, then the mycelium will be too weak to produce and mushrooms and you'll only get aborts.

So long story short. I am going to hold onto these jars and see if the mycelium keeps growing.

PS I am sorry I am so lame about taking pictures, but all I have is this shitty webcam. I really need to bug my girlfriend for hers.

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are the orange/red spots just exposed chunks of vermiculite?

vermiculite looks kind red/orange, and that would explain why mycellium is growing.

good luck, post some pictures.

Hey, so I finally got around to taking some pictures. I was going to take some earlier, but I figured the more time I left them, the more development might happen. My g/f lost her USB cable so I took them with my shitty webcam. Sorry about the quality but it gives a you a general idea on how my jars are coming.

So lets see, updates:

The red dots are still very present in my indoor jars. They are about the size of the tip of a sharpened pencil and are multiplying. I know it's a contam on some sort, however the strange thing is. The mycelium is just growing right over it. On one jar even, I circle some spots where the mycelium met these red dots to see if it would overtake them, and eventually it did. I am not sure what to make of these results.

Will I be safe to birth these after dunking in water/h202 ? Could they potentially contaiminate other cakes that do not have these red spots? Will the fruits be safe to eat you think?

I have 4 more jars I am incubating in my pool house. They are coming alonge PERFECTLY! No contaims and since its around 68-72 in there, the mycelium is poking through and starting to colonize these jars.

My only concern at the moment, is if these red spots mean bad cakes. The mycelium is powering through this contam in all but 1 jar.

Anyway, let's start with some pics.

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