He’s gonna be working agar can he sterilize agar with steam? Thanks for the pic are they pp5 also?
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Yea, LC and Agar can be steam sterilized, but I went full 2hr not 90min
PF tek/BRF jars with open holes can’t be used For this, gotta modify them if they don’t have silicone and filter disk/micropore tape
If you don’t like the 90sec mycology guy, there’s also PGT lol
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZkN1XUUEvapiQocq9Fs8XYsLmGrajZeX
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Not working with agar. Or at least no plans to anytime in the near future.
I stick with Bod’s Easy AF Tek (no pressure cooker). Was just wondering if there was something else I could fill the jars with that would work as well. But that’s no longer necessary now that I’ve discovered I can make my own BRF so easily.
Onward and upward!
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Well then you are solid! Grinding your own rice is way cheaper isn’t it! Also if grinding it yourself you can leave little chunks I mean little so you don’t have to sift it cause they work like little nutes packets for the mycelium.
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hey all - just an update, I have been busy since starting out wanting to grow one tub of GT to get a couple of hundred microdoses.
Anyway - here are the contents of the dark room - sits at 23degrees, I think it was a bit cold before so things took time, but since setting the heat things have moved forwards. Even had a go at putting together some LC jars - oe with Lions Mane and the other with Red Reishi.
In teh box, there are my first, second and third runs with Agar, plenty are filling out their cups now and I certainly threw away a few to random growths, but not as many as expected.
There are a couple of Cambodians bags and jars which I inoculated with my own home made spore syringes.
Last night, the decision was to scrape a few spores from the Natalensis and Texas Yellow cap and drop them on to agar. As it takes time I am going to go to Portugal and hang around my treehouse and do a couple of nice doses in the sun - hopefully when I am back things will have moved forwards and on to grains 
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Florida white f+ first flush is underway. I used midwest organics 1 - 2.2 lb grain bag and 2 lbs of their coco substrate.
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thought you guys might like to see the diy jar incubator the newest add-on to the room
this time of the year my house temp goes up and down so much and it seem to be messing with the growth in my jars so i set this up the big outside tub holds water around the smaller tub and i got a 25$ fish tank heater to heat the water has bin going for 3 days now and the temp inside only moves 2 degrees 78-80 the only problem so far is when i leave the black lid on small inside tote snapped down it gets water droplets on the inside so i just bin leaving the lid un latched sence yesterday and no droplets
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That is on the warm side. Incubating at those temps help any bacteria present outgrow the mycelium. 65-75 is fine, spores may take a bit longer to germinate but that outweighs bacteria taking over. Just keep an eye on them.
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I second what he said 
. Like the idea but definitely keep an eye on it.
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First fruit to open on a very sparse mazatat box. I’ll take pic of the rest of the box later, I only picked this chunky one so far since it started to opened last night.
I’m getting my cordyceps LC going tonight, I have more cultures than I originally planned since AP gold sent some freebies after a shipping delay.
I’ll be growing them on a rice and broth base, as well as in live hornworm pupas
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that’s really cool - I have looked at Cordyceps a few times but have yet to go for it - looking forwards to seeing those grow out
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Now that is composting! Nice
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Public service announcement… Found some ovoids this morning so they are out there for any VA peeps
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I’ve thought about corydecps. Growing red reishi and turkey tail at the moment.
But growing in hornworm pupa…Bravo! I couldn’t do it… nope, nada, no way. But , please post about it. I’d love to watch.
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I tried the hornworms last year, but it got too warm before they finished fruiting. It needs to stay 72 or below.
Hope I get better results this year, and it’ll be cool to see what the different cultures look like when grown from these vs the rice recipe. I’ll have 5 different genetics, one of which is a peach colored mutation. The strainaholic/collector in me really wants the albino culture, but I’m not going to spend close to $100 for it.
I have a bag of turkey tail colonizing on wood right now. I’m still need to prep bags of pasteurized wood pellets to spawn out some reishi, gold + pink oysters, and two different cultures of lions mane
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I love me some John Allen’s 
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