Hillbilly bulk grow in a 25 gallon aquarium

BuckarooBanzai · 10-03-09, 17:17

Strain: Hillbilly
Inoculant: Mycelia slurry
Spawn: Popcorn
Spawn container: Medium pre-sealable filter patch spawn bags from sporeworks.com
Spawn Ratio: 1:3 / popcorn:bulk
Bulk Substrate: 40:40:20 / coir:castings:Poly (by volume)
Substrate depth: 4in
Spawn Run Temp: 83F-84F
Pinning/cropping Temp: 75F-80F

Process:
A pint canning jar with silicone injection ports and a double Tyvek vent was filled 2/3 with hydrated popcorn. Three medium pre-sealable spawn bags from sporeworks.com were filled with 10 cups of hydrated popcorn and 1 cup of bulk substrate and sealed with an Impulse sealer. Substrate and popcorn were mixed thoroughly before filling the bags. The spawn bags and pint jar were sterilized at 15psi for 90 minutes

After cooling completely, the pint jar was inoculated with .5mL of Hillbilly slurry, shaken and incubated at 84F-85F. When approximately 70% colonized, the popcorn jar was shaken thoroughly. At 100% colonization the popcorn jar was shaken thoroughly. After the jar was again 100% colonized, it was shaken violently to prepare for mycelia extraction.

180mL of sterile water was injected into the popcorn pint jar. The jar was shaken violently for about 3 minutes to break up the mycelia and distribute it into the water. Using a 60mL syringe, as much water as possible was removed from the pint jar. Approximately 165mL of mycelia slurry was recovered from the pint jar. This process was repeated 3 times to produce approximately 490mL of slurry inoculant.

Each spawn bag was injected with about 160mL of slurry through a silicone injection port. The slurry was distributed across as much of the popcorn as possible and the bags were kneaded thoroughly after inoculation. The bags were then incubated at 84F-85F until colonized 50%. The bags were then kneaded and incubated until colonized 100%.

90 cups of bulk substrate (40:40:20 coir:castings:Poly - by volume) was prepared. All substrate components were hydrated to field capacity before mixing. The bulk substrate was loaded into 9 medium sporeworks.com pre-sealable spawn bags, Impulse sealed and sterilized at 15psi for 90 minutes.

The 100% colonized popcorn spawn bags were thoroughly kneaded to break up all mycelia chunks. After kneading the bags were incubated at 84F-85F for 24 hours to allow time for recovery and test for bacterial contamination.

Popcorn spawn and bulk substrate were mixed in the aquarium with a large spoon. Approximately 10% of the bulk substrate was held back and used as a top dressing, covering all exposed popcorn. The Aquarium was covered with aluminum foil (on top) and incubated at 83F-84F until the substrate was completely colonized.

The foil “lid” had 8 holes in it, each about the size of a quarter. No attempt was made to tape the foil down, it was just press fitted to allow some fresh air exchange. The same aluminum foil “lid” was used for fruiting..

Fruiting was initiated by putting the aquarium in diffuse natural light (no direct sunlight). Fresh air was provided by manual fanning 3 times per day. No automated air exchange was used. No misting was required.

Time frame was 31 days from inoculation to harvest of the first flush.

Pictures of the aquarium (top and side) before harvest:

I love the Hillbilly strain! Such a giver.

Bulk substrates are fun...

Om shanti · 10-03-09, 17:24

Very nice!!

nra9785 · 10-03-09, 17:24

SUUUUUPPEPRRRR JEALOUS

Nice man!!!

CoyoteMesc · 10-03-09, 17:28

Cool, I see mycelium consuming some shrooms.

I see that with pans mostly. Can't say that any of my cubes have ever done it.
Although I chop mine down a bit sooner than some.

BuckarooBanzai · 10-03-09, 17:43

Overly humid conditions cause that "reversion" growth where the caps turn back into growing myc.

Mr. Aquarium should have been fanned a couple more times each day. Maybe slightly larger breather holes as well.

Dr.Hallucination. · 10-03-09, 17:45

That is a full aquarium,very nice BB

lewiscarroll · 10-03-09, 17:47

That's awesome. So are we really looking at 90 cups of substrate in that thing? Or did you do something else with the rest of it?

BuckarooBanzai · 10-03-09, 17:53

Nope, everything is in the aquarium. Check the pic. The substrate represents a little less than 1/3 of the aquarium's total volume (about 6-7 gallons of substrate).

6 gallons is 96 cups.

We are so stupid for not having standardized on the metric system. Looking that conversion up on Google was annoying. But how the hell ya gonna remember that a gallon is 16 cups? What kind of goof ball uses base 16 counting? Hexadecimal is for computers and gate based logic. Not people.

So friggin' stupid.

larshroom · 10-03-09, 19:31

BB, I aspire to growing a bulk like that...

So, you sterilize your sub instead of pasteurizing?

Also, When you say the foil lid was used in fruiting, do you mean you put the foil over the top of the aquarium so light would only come in from the sides?

BuckarooBanzai · 10-03-09, 20:01

That bulk is worm castings and coconut coir and I sterilize it at 15psi for 90 minutes.

You would not want to sterilize manure or straw, but it can very safely be done with castings and coir.

The only light was ambient/indirect natural light coming in the sides of the aquarium. The whole top was covered with aluminum foil.

larshroom · 10-03-09, 20:03

What sterilizing just coir/verm? I have been trying to pasteurize but maintaining a 160 temp is proving to be not easy for me.

Sidestreet Getaway · 10-03-09, 20:22

Wow! Nice work. I keep hearing good things about slurry. How fast did the spawn bags colonize? A few days? Did the corn get prepared any differently to compensate for all the liquid that was gonna get pumped into it?

BuckarooBanzai · 10-03-09, 20:28

The spawn bags take about 5-6 days to fully colonize.

A full cup of coir:castings:Poly (the bulk sub) is mixed into each popcorn bag before it is inoculated. That soaks up all the extra water and gets the myc to start producing the enzymes it will need to digest the bulk sub.

You should be able to sterilize coir:verm with no problem at all.

wildburr · 10-04-09, 00:26

Very nice BB, I would love to have mine look like that.

shroom_seeker · 10-04-09, 00:30

I'd like to walk through that mushroom forest.

Very nice work Buckaroo!

mystic · 10-04-09, 01:10

BB your work is inspirational to me. Very awesome and easy to follow.

MLBjammer · 10-04-09, 05:53

That is one of the most impressive pictures I have seen in a while, a dense forest of mountain folks! Virgin timber indeed!

CamelTom · 10-04-09, 06:14

submit it for pic of the month
BB that looks badass
i hope i can do that good

machinelf · 10-04-09, 07:04

Wow. That's one of the most impressive bulk grows I ever seen. That's very big mushrooms you have there and a beautiful canopy. As mentioned, very inspirational. Thanks for sharing the pictures and info.

Why do you shake the popcorn jar one more time after it's 100%?

junior1 · 10-04-09, 09:13

Jeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzz
Awesome werk BuckarooBanzai

BuckarooBanzai · 10-04-09, 09:48

Why thank ya'll kindly. I am just applying the lessons I learned here at Mycotopia University. Any one of you could do this exact same project at home. Popcorn and bulk substrate are easy to prepare (or order from Mycrotopia).

The popcorn jar is turned completely into mycleia slurry by flooding it with sterile water and shaking it violently (multiple times).

Mycelia grows so fast on popcorn that it can overtake/overgrow bacteria. But overgrown bacteria isn't killed, just stunned. If the popcorn has any bacterial problems at all, the project will be ruined as said bacteria would get injected into the spawn bags.

The slurry jar is shaken an excessive number of times (and especially at 100%) to make sure it fully recovers. Popcorn with any bacterial problems will not recover. The bacteria will "bloom" after the shake and take over the jar very quickly.

MLB - yeah, I like the side pic better than the top pic. The top view is nice because the canopy is full, but you can't tell how friggin' long and lovely those stems are. Excellent harvest from this project. I am very happy with the results.

The only annoying part was starting a hole in the corner to harvest through! The stems were extremely close together. Harvest took almost two hours.

waylitjim · 10-04-09, 11:30

Those are beautiful happy mushrooms. Way to grow Buckaroo

Rhyno · 10-04-09, 14:04

Bravo!!! Excellent show Buck! I have a question for you, when you prepare your slurry syringes you mention that you make 3 "pulls" from the jar then what happens with that jar? Do you allow it to recover (if it will) or do you scrap it and make a new jar for your next run. Seems like this might provide you with a somewhat perpetual supply of slurry if the jar keeps going.

BuckarooBanzai · 10-04-09, 14:23

Firstly, thanks!

Second, you can easily pull 10 60mL syringes of slurry from a popcorn pint. Three syringes is all the jar will hold each time. After you suck it dry, spew in a bunch more water and shake - more slurry comes out!

Check this thread:
http://forums.mycotopia.net/fungi-gr...ulant-tek.html (Making mycelia slurry syringes - bulk inoculant Tek)

This is a pic of the 10th 60mL syringe drawn from a popcorn pint:

Beaucoup myc still present!

All three spawn bags came from the inoculant of one popcorn pint.

The whole project started as a single popcorn pint turned into slurry. That slurry inoculated the three big popcorn bags, they inoculated the nine big substrate bags.

That is why shaking the pint at least 3 times is so important. You are both testing for contamination and building up lots of myc to make the slurry.

You can put a pint that has been "slurried" back into the incubator. If you pull enough water out of it, it will recover. But the popcorn gets kinda mushy. If you "slurry" that jar again, you get a lot more bits in the water.

Bits tend to clog the syringe when you draw out the slurry.

eatyualive · 10-04-09, 14:39

nice! that side shot is awesome! reminds me of that old video from homestead that came with the kit they used to sell. lol..

BuckarooBanzai · 10-04-09, 14:55

Dude, Eats, you are old.

I had that same thought when I was shrinking that pic to post...

P4ulada · 10-26-09, 12:06

Just fantastic!

Congratz

sagiboy · 10-26-09, 14:52

what is poly?

Banzai Institute for Higher Education stuff indeed.

how long have you been planing to use that aquarium? hehe...

copelandiaKidd · 10-26-09, 15:16

that side shot is friggin EPIC!!!!!!

kcmoxtractor · 10-26-09, 15:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by sagiboy

what is poly?

Banzai Institute for Higher Education stuff indeed.

how long have you been planing to use that aquarium? hehe...

Poly is polyfil, or pillow stuffing. It is the white fibrous material that is stuffed in pillows.

sagiboy · 10-26-09, 16:09

as substrate?
never heard of it... just pasteurize with the coir/humus?

paulport · 10-26-09, 16:40

Awesome Pic BB very nice informative grow log

nra9785 · 10-26-09, 16:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by MLBjammer

Anyone else notice the little guy stuck in the mycelium to the right of the lighter?

Poor little guy

MLBjammer · 10-26-09, 20:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by kcmoxtractor

Poly is polyfil, or pillow stuffing. It is the white fibrous material that is stuffed in pillows.

Not in this case. BB uses polyacrylamide crystals instead of vermiculite. He is the only grower I know of who uses them.

sagiboy · 10-26-09, 21:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by MLBjammer

Not in this case. BB uses polyacrylamide crystals instead of vermiculite. He is the only grower I know of who uses them.

some info on that BB?

EDIT: quick google

i was trying to grow mj with that 8 years ago, was fine until forgot to water it few days and it was completely dry. nice thing to see the roots since its transparent... i remember a thread with casing cakes from year ago.

BuckarooBanzai · 10-26-09, 23:50

The poly is polyacrylamide gel, just like you picture with the plant roots.

I like it because it lets me add large amounts of extra water to a substrate.

kcmoxtractor · 10-26-09, 23:57

Ahh, ok. Sorry for the sidetrack Buck but what do you think about adding say 60mL of water to a colonized wheat jar, shaking, then drawing the water back out? Would it work similar to the slurry method but with less equipment?

BuckarooBanzai · 10-27-09, 00:13

The problem with wheat or rye is the small grain size. The syringe tends to clog when you draw the slurry water out.

kcmoxtractor · 10-27-09, 00:21

What is causing the clogs, the grain itself? Makes sense... so no slurry maker would really be necessary for popcorn? You could just shake and draw?

BuckarooBanzai · 10-27-09, 10:36

The big popcorn kernels tear the myc to shreds just from shaking and they don't break down.

The slurry has a tendency to clog just from the volume of myc. Add any little grain bits and it would just clog worse.

Also, all the space between the popcorn kernels means you can inject a lot more water into the jar.

kcmoxtractor · 10-27-09, 11:26

Thank you so much bucky!

BuckarooBanzai · 10-27-09, 14:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by MLBjammer

Not in this case. BB uses polyacrylamide crystals instead of vermiculite. He is the only grower I know of who uses them.

That comment bugged me. But I couldn't remember why.

I just did - everybody who grows with strawnet is using polyacrylamide. Poly is one of the ingredients in strawnet.

I am the only grower I know of who adds poly crystals as a substrate additive unto themselves.

DeadSpore · 10-27-09, 20:43

Codyh415 · 10-27-09, 22:12

That is amazing!!!! Gives me alot of motivation toward bigger goals!

sagiboy · 10-28-09, 06:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by BuckarooBanzai

That comment bugged me. But I couldn't remember why.

I just did - everybody who grows with strawnet is using polyacrylamide. Poly is one of the ingredients in strawnet.

I am the only grower I know of who adds poly crystals as a substrate additive unto themselves.

remember this one?
http://forums.mycotopia.net/fungi-gr...al-casing.html (DE Water Crystal Casing.)

MLBjammer · 10-28-09, 07:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by BuckarooBanzai

That comment bugged me. But I couldn't remember why.

I just did - everybody who grows with strawnet is using polyacrylamide. Poly is one of the ingredients in strawnet.

I am the only grower I know of who adds poly crystals as a substrate additive unto themselves.

Ah, I did not know that about strawnet.

You still use vermiculite for BRF cakes?

BuckarooBanzai · 10-28-09, 08:58

Yep. Verm for my cakes. Poly makes crap cakes and is useless as a contam barrier.

It's value is in holding so much water. Makes it very easy to add lots of extra water to a substrate without drowning it. 'Tis why I don't dunk any more.

Never saw that thread Sagiboy, thanks for the link.

MLBjammer · 10-28-09, 09:39

I guess there really is no better alternative for vermiculite in BRF cakes. It is just such nasty stuff, but I am a germaphobe and OCD, lol.

Thanks for the knowledge as ever, BB.

Sidenote: I was walking out of a graduate class last night, and one of my classmates (an old hippie dude) asked me--quite out of the blue--if I had ever seen "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai." I answered, quite without thinking, "Yeah, he's a friend of mine."

sagiboy · 10-28-09, 09:47

[MOD EDIT]
{may i share this mods?}

No!

BuckarooBanzai · 10-28-09, 09:51

LOL! Good one, man. Lotsa gigglies on here today. I gotta quit taking antihistamines and drinking beer before 9AM...not today, I mean, but...ya know...tomorrow.

Best time in the world to start anything you don't intend to actually do: Tomorrow. ALWAYS put off until tomorrow those things you aren't going to do anyway.

Wonderful word, wonderful sentiments. And it always makes me think of the musical Annie and that wretchedly maudlin Charles Strouse song. "I love ya, tomorrow, yer always a day away!"

Ya, probably not a great idea to be hitting the bong this early, either.

Oh well - it's five o'clock somewhere...

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10-03-09, 17:17	#1 (permalink)
BuckarooBanzai Prone to ranting... Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,050	Hillbilly bulk grow in a 25 gallon aquarium Strain: Hillbilly Inoculant: Mycelia slurry Spawn: Popcorn Spawn container: Medium pre-sealable filter patch spawn bags from sporeworks.com Spawn Ratio: 1:3 / popcorn:bulk Bulk Substrate: 40:40:20 / coir:castings:Poly (by volume) Substrate depth: 4in Spawn Run Temp: 83F-84F Pinning/cropping Temp: 75F-80F Process: A pint canning jar with silicone injection ports and a double Tyvek vent was filled 2/3 with hydrated popcorn. Three medium pre-sealable spawn bags from sporeworks.com were filled with 10 cups of hydrated popcorn and 1 cup of bulk substrate and sealed with an Impulse sealer. Substrate and popcorn were mixed thoroughly before filling the bags. The spawn bags and pint jar were sterilized at 15psi for 90 minutes After cooling completely, the pint jar was inoculated with .5mL of Hillbilly slurry, shaken and incubated at 84F-85F. When approximately 70% colonized, the popcorn jar was shaken thoroughly. At 100% colonization the popcorn jar was shaken thoroughly. After the jar was again 100% colonized, it was shaken violently to prepare for mycelia extraction. 180mL of sterile water was injected into the popcorn pint jar. The jar was shaken violently for about 3 minutes to break up the mycelia and distribute it into the water. Using a 60mL syringe, as much water as possible was removed from the pint jar. Approximately 165mL of mycelia slurry was recovered from the pint jar. This process was repeated 3 times to produce approximately 490mL of slurry inoculant. Each spawn bag was injected with about 160mL of slurry through a silicone injection port. The slurry was distributed across as much of the popcorn as possible and the bags were kneaded thoroughly after inoculation. The bags were then incubated at 84F-85F until colonized 50%. The bags were then kneaded and incubated until colonized 100%. 90 cups of bulk substrate (40:40:20 coir:castings:Poly - by volume) was prepared. All substrate components were hydrated to field capacity before mixing. The bulk substrate was loaded into 9 medium sporeworks.com pre-sealable spawn bags, Impulse sealed and sterilized at 15psi for 90 minutes. The 100% colonized popcorn spawn bags were thoroughly kneaded to break up all mycelia chunks. After kneading the bags were incubated at 84F-85F for 24 hours to allow time for recovery and test for bacterial contamination. Popcorn spawn and bulk substrate were mixed in the aquarium with a large spoon. Approximately 10% of the bulk substrate was held back and used as a top dressing, covering all exposed popcorn. The Aquarium was covered with aluminum foil (on top) and incubated at 83F-84F until the substrate was completely colonized. The foil “lid” had 8 holes in it, each about the size of a quarter. No attempt was made to tape the foil down, it was just press fitted to allow some fresh air exchange. The same aluminum foil “lid” was used for fruiting.. Fruiting was initiated by putting the aquarium in diffuse natural light (no direct sunlight). Fresh air was provided by manual fanning 3 times per day. No automated air exchange was used. No misting was required. Time frame was 31 days from inoculation to harvest of the first flush. Pictures of the aquarium (top and side) before harvest: I love the Hillbilly strain! Such a giver. Bulk substrates are fun... Attached Thumbnails __________________ Banzai Institute for Higher Education (a collection of growing Teks & threads)

10-03-09, 17:24	#2 (permalink)
Om shanti S.W.I.M. in H.POO Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,296	Very nice!! __________________ The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing.-S. Suzuki Last edited by Om shanti; 10-03-09 at 17:32. Reason: dumb me

10-03-09, 17:24	#3 (permalink)
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10-03-09, 17:28	#4 (permalink)
CoyoteMesc howling mad Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4,044	Cool, I see mycelium consuming some shrooms. I see that with pans mostly. Can't say that any of my cubes have ever done it. Although I chop mine down a bit sooner than some. __________________ WOODY: Hey, Mr. Peterson, there's a cold one waiting for you. NORM: I know. If she calls, I'm not here.[ (Cheers)

10-03-09, 17:43	#5 (permalink)
BuckarooBanzai Prone to ranting... Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,050	Overly humid conditions cause that "reversion" growth where the caps turn back into growing myc. Mr. Aquarium should have been fanned a couple more times each day. Maybe slightly larger breather holes as well. __________________ Banzai Institute for Higher Education (a collection of growing Teks & threads)

10-03-09, 17:45	#6 (permalink)
Dr.Hallucination. Chasing the Rabbit. Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,818	That is a full aquarium,very nice BB __________________ The man who walk's through the door on the wall,Will never be quite the same,As the man who went out.

10-03-09, 17:47	#7 (permalink)
lewiscarroll Mycophiliac Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 91	That's awesome. So are we really looking at 90 cups of substrate in that thing? Or did you do something else with the rest of it?

10-03-09, 17:53	#8 (permalink)
BuckarooBanzai Prone to ranting... Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,050	Nope, everything is in the aquarium. Check the pic. The substrate represents a little less than 1/3 of the aquarium's total volume (about 6-7 gallons of substrate). 6 gallons is 96 cups. We are so stupid for not having standardized on the metric system. Looking that conversion up on Google was annoying. But how the hell ya gonna remember that a gallon is 16 cups? What kind of goof ball uses base 16 counting? Hexadecimal is for computers and gate based logic. Not people. So friggin' stupid. __________________ Banzai Institute for Higher Education (a collection of growing Teks & threads)

10-03-09, 19:31	#9 (permalink)
larshroom Mycophiliac Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 159	BB, I aspire to growing a bulk like that... So, you sterilize your sub instead of pasteurizing? Also, When you say the foil lid was used in fruiting, do you mean you put the foil over the top of the aquarium so light would only come in from the sides?

10-03-09, 20:01	#10 (permalink)
BuckarooBanzai Prone to ranting... Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,050	That bulk is worm castings and coconut coir and I sterilize it at 15psi for 90 minutes. You would not want to sterilize manure or straw, but it can very safely be done with castings and coir. The only light was ambient/indirect natural light coming in the sides of the aquarium. The whole top was covered with aluminum foil. __________________ Banzai Institute for Higher Education (a collection of growing Teks & threads)

10-03-09, 20:03	#11 (permalink)
larshroom Mycophiliac Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 159	What sterilizing just coir/verm? I have been trying to pasteurize but maintaining a 160 temp is proving to be not easy for me.

10-03-09, 20:22	#12 (permalink)
Sidestreet Getaway Slaptastician Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,319	Wow! Nice work. I keep hearing good things about slurry. How fast did the spawn bags colonize? A few days? Did the corn get prepared any differently to compensate for all the liquid that was gonna get pumped into it?

10-03-09, 20:28	#13 (permalink)
BuckarooBanzai Prone to ranting... Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,050	The spawn bags take about 5-6 days to fully colonize. A full cup of coir:castings:Poly (the bulk sub) is mixed into each popcorn bag before it is inoculated. That soaks up all the extra water and gets the myc to start producing the enzymes it will need to digest the bulk sub. You should be able to sterilize coir:verm with no problem at all. __________________ Banzai Institute for Higher Education (a collection of growing Teks & threads) Last edited by BuckarooBanzai; 10-04-09 at 09:59. Reason: subject/verb agreement

10-04-09, 00:26	#14 (permalink)
wildburr Midnight Toker Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 3,730	Very nice BB, I would love to have mine look like that. __________________ Silence is Golden, but Duct tape is Silver.

10-26-09, 15:16	#29 (permalink)
copelandiaKidd Void Of Boundaries Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 578	that side shot is friggin EPIC!!!!!! __________________ "LEARN THE RULES SO YOU CAN BREAK THEM PROPERLY" -The Dali lama "i don't care if it eats my cat, as long as the damn thing fruits"~ prism

10-04-09, 00:30	#15 (permalink)
shroom_seeker still seeking.. Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 2,259	I'd like to walk through that mushroom forest. Very nice work Buckaroo! __________________ Impeccability is nothing else but the proper use of energy - don Juan Matus

10-04-09, 01:10	#16 (permalink)
mystic ~Mystical Mama~ Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,477	BB your work is inspirational to me. Very awesome and easy to follow. __________________ The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

10-04-09, 05:53	#17 (permalink)
MLBjammer Addicted to Invitro Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,862	That is one of the most impressive pictures I have seen in a while, a dense forest of mountain folks! Virgin timber indeed!

10-04-09, 06:14	#18 (permalink)
CamelTom Here is my BOOM STICK Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 118	submit it for pic of the month BB that looks badass i hope i can do that good __________________ I light up trees like every day is Christmas

10-04-09, 07:04	#19 (permalink)
machinelf Mycophiliac Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 10	Wow. That's one of the most impressive bulk grows I ever seen. That's very big mushrooms you have there and a beautiful canopy. As mentioned, very inspirational. Thanks for sharing the pictures and info. Why do you shake the popcorn jar one more time after it's 100%?

10-04-09, 09:13	#20 (permalink)
junior1 Cacooey Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 102	Jeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzz Awesome werk BuckarooBanzai __________________ Now in HPS yellow!!

10-04-09, 09:48	#21 (permalink)
BuckarooBanzai Prone to ranting... Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,050	Why thank ya'll kindly. I am just applying the lessons I learned here at Mycotopia University. Any one of you could do this exact same project at home. Popcorn and bulk substrate are easy to prepare (or order from Mycrotopia). The popcorn jar is turned completely into mycleia slurry by flooding it with sterile water and shaking it violently (multiple times). Mycelia grows so fast on popcorn that it can overtake/overgrow bacteria. But overgrown bacteria isn't killed, just stunned. If the popcorn has any bacterial problems at all, the project will be ruined as said bacteria would get injected into the spawn bags. The slurry jar is shaken an excessive number of times (and especially at 100%) to make sure it fully recovers. Popcorn with any bacterial problems will not recover. The bacteria will "bloom" after the shake and take over the jar very quickly. MLB - yeah, I like the side pic better than the top pic. The top view is nice because the canopy is full, but you can't tell how friggin' long and lovely those stems are. Excellent harvest from this project. I am very happy with the results. The only annoying part was starting a hole in the corner to harvest through! The stems were extremely close together. Harvest took almost two hours. __________________ Banzai Institute for Higher Education (a collection of growing Teks & threads)

10-04-09, 11:30	#22 (permalink)
waylitjim A Mirror Image Join Date: Sep 1972 Posts: 4,232	Those are beautiful happy mushrooms. Way to grow Buckaroo __________________ *Waylit's Exotic Roundup - a collection of sexy threads*

10-04-09, 14:04	#23 (permalink)
Rhyno suodɐǝʍ ƃuıןıdʞɔoʇs Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 632	Bravo!!! Excellent show Buck! I have a question for you, when you prepare your slurry syringes you mention that you make 3 "pulls" from the jar then what happens with that jar? Do you allow it to recover (if it will) or do you scrap it and make a new jar for your next run. Seems like this might provide you with a somewhat perpetual supply of slurry if the jar keeps going. __________________ Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here. -tool

10-04-09, 14:23	#24 (permalink)
BuckarooBanzai Prone to ranting... Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,050	Firstly, thanks! Second, you can easily pull 10 60mL syringes of slurry from a popcorn pint. Three syringes is all the jar will hold each time. After you suck it dry, spew in a bunch more water and shake - more slurry comes out! Check this thread: http://forums.mycotopia.net/fungi-gr...ulant-tek.html (Making mycelia slurry syringes - bulk inoculant Tek) This is a pic of the 10th 60mL syringe drawn from a popcorn pint: Beaucoup myc still present! All three spawn bags came from the inoculant of one popcorn pint. The whole project started as a single popcorn pint turned into slurry. That slurry inoculated the three big popcorn bags, they inoculated the nine big substrate bags. That is why shaking the pint at least 3 times is so important. You are both testing for contamination and building up lots of myc to make the slurry. You can put a pint that has been "slurried" back into the incubator. If you pull enough water out of it, it will recover. But the popcorn gets kinda mushy. If you "slurry" that jar again, you get a lot more bits in the water. Bits tend to clog the syringe when you draw out the slurry. __________________ Banzai Institute for Higher Education (a collection of growing Teks & threads)

10-04-09, 14:39	#25 (permalink)
eatyualive ExoCannibalist Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 5,064	nice! that side shot is awesome! reminds me of that old video from homestead that came with the kit they used to sell. lol.. __________________ Click for Eat's Reference

10-04-09, 14:55	#26 (permalink)
BuckarooBanzai Prone to ranting... Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,050	Dude, Eats, you are old. I had that same thought when I was shrinking that pic to post... __________________ Banzai Institute for Higher Education (a collection of growing Teks & threads)

10-26-09, 12:06	#27 (permalink)
P4ulada Mycotopiate Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 696	Just fantastic! Congratz __________________ *I don´t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.*

10-26-09, 14:52	#28 (permalink)
sagiboy -= Magic Passion =- Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 791	what is poly? Banzai Institute for Higher Education stuff indeed. how long have you been planing to use that aquarium? hehe... __________________ "when you don`t know where you going any road will take you there..."

10-26-09, 16:09	#31 (permalink)
sagiboy -= Magic Passion =- Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 791	as substrate? never heard of it... just pasteurize with the coir/humus? __________________ "when you don`t know where you going any road will take you there..."

10-26-09, 16:40	#32 (permalink)
paulport Mycotopiate Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 328	Awesome Pic BB very nice informative grow log __________________ Small wheel turning by the fire and rod Big wheel turning by the grace of God

10-26-09, 23:50	#36 (permalink)
BuckarooBanzai Prone to ranting... Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,050	The poly is polyacrylamide gel, just like you picture with the plant roots. I like it because it lets me add large amounts of extra water to a substrate. __________________ Banzai Institute for Higher Education (a collection of growing Teks & threads) Last edited by BuckarooBanzai; 10-27-09 at 11:33.

10-26-09, 23:57	#37 (permalink)
kcmoxtractor Satan's Helper Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,349	Ahh, ok. Sorry for the sidetrack Buck but what do you think about adding say 60mL of water to a colonized wheat jar, shaking, then drawing the water back out? Would it work similar to the slurry method but with less equipment? __________________ "It was the straying that found the path direct" - Austin Osman Spare

10-27-09, 00:13	#38 (permalink)
BuckarooBanzai Prone to ranting... Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,050	The problem with wheat or rye is the small grain size. The syringe tends to clog when you draw the slurry water out. __________________ Banzai Institute for Higher Education (a collection of growing Teks & threads)

10-27-09, 00:21	#39 (permalink)
kcmoxtractor Satan's Helper Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,349	What is causing the clogs, the grain itself? Makes sense... so no slurry maker would really be necessary for popcorn? You could just shake and draw? __________________ "It was the straying that found the path direct" - Austin Osman Spare