So, today I tried hardwood pellets in the Instant Pot for the first time. I did 5 cups with approx 7.5 cups water, closer to 8.5. Then, I pressure cooked it on high for 30 minutes, given these pellets are supposed to be sterilized to begin with. I then let cool and added directly to...

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January 10, 2025

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Drippy Corn in Instant Pot

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Ingredients: Using PGT’s video as a reference, I did all the steps he mentions with the exception of I pressure cooked the popcorn for 45 minutes instead of 30 minutes. The yield was 10 half pint jars.

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January 9, 2025

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Reishi

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This is my very first antler reishi grow and I’m fascinated how it develops:

Growth

August 19, 2024

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Booo! Contamination

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This site is called “logs” for a reason and that included documenting failures so that I can learn from them in future. My baby bucket recipe did not do well with the bran included. I was able to flash a light on the buckets and spotted trich in them (green). This was an unexpected advantage...

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baby buckets burying contamination fail forward trich

August 15, 2024

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Humidity Kink

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I noticed a drop in humidity despite not having changed anything in my setup. I ran into this one before, last summer. After running a bit, the hose running to the tent will become weighted down and collect water, clogging the humidity stream to the tent. If I lift up the hose, water drips out....

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clog hose humidifier troubleshooting

August 9, 2024

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Automatic Timers

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Fighting with heat this past week I realized my smart plugs “circulate” function had stopped working on two of the timers, namely the fresh air exchange and humidifier. Finally got some new ones from Amazon and got it circulating. Fresh air 1 min every four hours and humidity 1 min every 20 min for now...

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automatic timer circulate heat schedule smart plug troubleshooting

August 3, 2024

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Flow Hood (Fan Filter Unit) Complete!

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Finally got the components working together, added some wallpaper for style and a table to hold both the FFU and my humidifier and keep things tidy and compact.

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fan filter unit ffu flow hood innoculation

August 2, 2024

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More and More Heat

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Still an ongoing battle to see what I can do to lower the tent down a few degrees. I’m poking up to 81-82F and I’d like to keep it under 80F. I stopped the tent from leaking by taking down the “passive” exhaust hole I have from full 4″ opening to about 2″. I also...

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grow tent heat smart plugs temperature control troubleshooting

August 1, 2024

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Battling High Temperature

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It’s been a few days since I put the buckets in and I’m feeling the hit with degree change. I had the tent all dialed in prior to adding the buckets, but it’s a different ballgame with them in. I touched one bucket and can feel the warmth coming off of it, nuts!! I’m trying...

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buckets grow tent temperature

July 28, 2024

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Bucket Day!

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Finally, all the math done, buckets prepped, today was the day to move my grain spawn into buckets (and a few shoeboxes)! In buckets, I put: Shittake, Lion’s Mane, Chestnut and Turkey Tail. In shoeboxes, I put: Golden Enoki, White Enoki and Turtle Shell Beech (not sure about this in a shoebox, might be better...

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baby bucket buckets chestnut enoki gourmet grow tent lions mane martha shittake turkey tail turtle shell beech