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shroombee
#1 Posted : 8/10/2021 10:49:43 PM

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Check out the photo of this first flush of EQ on oats, using shoebox tek. What's so special about it?

This is EQ cloned from a dried specimen. A shaman friend gave it to me. It had been partially dried in front of a fan and then cracker dried in a box with desiccant.

This was the first dried tissue clone I ever attempted. I've read dried tissue cloning can be tricky. But I figured, why not try. I sat in front of my flow hood with dried shroom and agar plates ready. I snapped the base of the shroom to expose the sterile interior tissue and the stem exploded in my hand. I didn't realize the stem was hollow. Doh! Rolling eyes

In the aftermath of the explosion, in the debris, I spotted a little shard of dried mushroom with some fuzzy mycelium. I figured it was surely contaminated because I don't think it stayed within the laminar flow of the flow hood. But oh well - might as well try. I do my work in a little powder room with a HEPA air cleaner running, so the surrounding air is fairly clean. I scraped two samples of mycelium and placed on separate agar plates. I didn't use peroxide, bleach, or sterile water or anything else to hydrate or clean the sample.

A month later, nothing. Figured the experiment was a fail. A couple more weeks and I see a dime-sized spot of new mycelium on each agar plate! And no sign of bacterial or mold contamination. The growth became faster and more vigorous over the subsequent month until I transferred slivers to new agar plates. After further growth, I used a few bits of agar to inoculate a bag of oat grain. That colonized normally and eventually lead to spawning in a couple shoeboxes with 50/50 coir/vermiculate in a 1:1 ratio with the spawn. A couple weeks later and voila, now we have photos and a fun story to tell. Smile
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Voidmatrix
#2 Posted : 8/11/2021 12:19:30 AM

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Ah! I'm assuming these are what we'll use to ignore each other, right? Big grin

Way to go! I may try something similar with the variety of dried shroomies that I have.

Which reminds me, I need to better about making time to eat them...Rolling eyes

Again, awesome! Wonderful sight to behold, and a pleasant and rewarding surprise for you.

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shroombee
#3 Posted : 8/11/2021 7:13:49 AM

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Voidmatrix wrote:
Ah! I'm assuming these are what we'll use to ignore each other, right? Big grin

Oh man, now you're bringing that joke over to this thread. Laughing

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Way to go! I may try something similar with the variety of dried shroomies that I have.

I've read the shrooms need to be air and desicant dried, not heat dried to clone from dried tissue. So consider that.

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Which reminds me, I need to better about making time to eat them...Rolling eyes

With the other medicines I'm practicing with (mescaline and pharmahuasca), I also don't have time to eat my shrooms. I basically have an unlimited supply because I keep growing for fun.
 
Tony6Strings
#4 Posted : 8/11/2021 7:32:19 AM

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Looks great!! What are benefits of adding vermiculite? Dry or do you add water? Maybe I will try on my next box...
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shroombee
#5 Posted : 8/11/2021 6:58:14 PM

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Tony6Strings wrote:
Looks great!! What are benefits of adding vermiculite? Dry or do you add water? Maybe I will try on my next box...

Vermiculite is non-nutritious and is used to just hold more water in the bulk substrate. I imagine you're using it in your BRF cakes? It's mixed in with the coir so absorbs water like the coir.

I did this grow with a pre-pasteurized 50/50 mix that I purchased online for convenience and happened to have it around. Going forward I will just use pre-hydrated coir from Home Depot. It's cheaper, convenient, and in my prior experiments, seems to be just as effective as the 50/50.
 
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#6 Posted : 8/11/2021 8:17:20 PM

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shroombee wrote:
Voidmatrix wrote:
Ah! I'm assuming these are what we'll use to ignore each other, right? Big grin

Oh man, now you're bringing that joke over to this thread. Laughing

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Way to go! I may try something similar with the variety of dried shroomies that I have.

I've read the shrooms need to be air and desicant dried, not heat dried to clone from dried tissue. So consider that.

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Which reminds me, I need to better about making time to eat them...Rolling eyes

With the other medicines I'm practicing with (mescaline and pharmahuasca), I also don't have time to eat my shrooms. I basically have an unlimited supply because I keep growing for fun.


I couldn't help myself Big grin

Hmmm good to know. I may need to get in touch with the source of the bulk of my dry mushies. They're given to me often, which I am thankful for.

Pharma I have yet to do and need to make time for as well. Hoping to be a part of a peyote ceremony in Octobet. Fingers crossed.

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What if the "truth" is: the "truth" is indescernible/unknowable/nonexistent? Then the closest we get is through being true to and with ourselves.


Know thyself, nothing in excess, certainty brings insanity- Delphic Maxims

DMT always has something new to show you Twisted Evil

Question everything... including questioning everything... There's so much I could be wrong about and have no idea...
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