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09-23-06, 14:57
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| Prone to ranting...  Join Date: Oct 2005
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  | The $.49 terrarium – Keep It Simple, Stupid! (KISS)
So I was cruising around the flea market a few weeks ago, enjoying a warm summer day with my wife, goofing on people’s crap and sneaking pinch hits. Just another lazy Sunday until I ran across it, glinting in the sun and calling to me softly… The $.49 terrarium!!!  Okay, yeah, it’s actually just a Tupperware style cake plate. But to my eyes, eyes that now consider the mycological potential in everything they behold, it was a thing of beauty. And a thing of beauty is a joy forever. As an aside: this was a particularly tasty moment because it reminded me quite vividly of a very similar moment from about 9 years ago. Back then, I was just getting really good at home cultivation of MJ. The moment I was reminded of was one where I was in Home Depot and realized that everything in the entire store could be used in some aspect of growing dope. It is a Gestalt thing. Once you see the big picture made out of all the smaller images, you just can’t ever quite un-see it. I guess my green thumb has turned mycelia white, eh? Or should that be blue? But I digress. There it was, a plastic cake plate in pretty damned good condition, priced at the paltry sum of forty nine cents. It had little latches on the sides to hold the top down tight and a concave lid to angle any drips away from the babies. In my minds eye, I could see four cakes fruiting in it. I could SEE them. I paid the dude two bits and walked away. As it turns out, holy crap, ultra low tech works like a champ. Every morning and every evening (and some afternoons), the lid was removed and waved briefly above the cakes. Humidity was provided by four lightly moistened paper towels that lined the bottom of the plate. No glassware, no chemical synthesis no distribution networks. Just you and some PF Tek cakes. Welcome to the next psychedelic revolution. Strain: EQ Jars: ½ pint wide mouth canning jars (ANY jar will work) Lids: four holes, covered with aluminum foil (no tape, no silicone, no rubber bands) Substrate: PF Tek (verm/BRF/water – 2/1/1) Sterilization: FS or Tyndallization Inoculant: Spore syringe, 1mL per jar Incubation: 12 days @ 78F-82F Casing: 50/50 (verm/coir) Time to first pins: 9 days Light source: a nearby window – blinds closed. NO direct sunlight Fresh Air Exchange: 2-4 times per day 12 days after casing  16 days after casing  ENJOY!!! cake plate in windowsill.jpgcake plate fruiting.jpgcake plate opened 2.jpg
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09-23-06, 15:12
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.49 dollors huh..! nice..... I also like to go to flea markets aswell...sometimes you can find stuff that's works great for our hobby ! ..Colorfull equadors you've got there too.. Buck ! 
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09-23-06, 15:31
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LOL... A FOAF shares your affliction of ad hoc mycological supply recognicion. Nearly any store he happens to be in has sections or items that now seem to be amendable toward furthering this hobby. To be perfectly honest, I think his wife is getting kind of exasperated at hearing how this or that could be used in the mycological arts...  |
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09-23-06, 16:11
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Some of my current favourites: 1. Five Brothers pasta sauce jars 2. Plastic mayonnaise lids - fit tall 1/2 pint jars perfectly, and don't rust! Not a perfect seal, but they work well for double-end casing. 3. Large plastic munchie (e.g. pretzels, cheese puffs, etc.) containers are awesome for invitro grows. The list goes on and on! I like that you use the aluminum foil instead of jar caps for your bottom DEC layer. I'm tired of losing lids to rust due to wet coir/verm! | |
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09-23-06, 16:54
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09-23-06, 18:53
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I know insists that those are the very best thing to use for cakes ans small casings because CO2 is heavy so it's easy to keep O2 levels up even with a bit of neglect judging from the cakes of his I had seen I know he was onto some thing, better than I ever managed with cakes for sure |
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I fruited my Shiitake's in the exact same thing, except there were holes drilled into the lid.
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