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 […]
Reishi
This is my very first antler reishi grow and I’m fascinated how it develops:
Automatic Timers
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 […]
Flow Hood (Fan Filter Unit) Complete!
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.
DIY Flowhood
I’m currently waiting to inject liquid culture in the jars I prepped last week and came up on some do-it-yourself flow hood videos. Taking inspiration, I’ve come up with a game plan of my own. Formula Used for Fan Basically, you want to ensure you have enough air to flow through filter, but not disrupt […]
Making the Lids
This batch, I’m making some plastic lids for my jars with a syringe filter for air exchange and a rubber stopper as an injection port. For the lid itself, I purchased the “regular size” lids, which as the description on Amazon says, fit both the half pint and pint jars I have. I came to […]
Prepping Grain Spawn
My last batch of grain spawn was in pints that I’ll be dividing in half for my baby buckets. As those are almost ready to go into buckets, I want to prep a new batch of true half pints to run my recipe with. Last time I was a bit short of grains using a […]
Pressure Cooker Level Up
Using a pressure cooker was outright scary for me the first time, but with the help of some friends and the reference to this awesome video, I got over my jitters. However, a year on, and it seems I’ve slipped up. I was watching a video on cordyceps and noticed he said he did not […]
Update: Colonization_2024.06.20-2024.07.17
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”16″ gal_title=”Colonization_2024.06.20-2024.07.17″] Bad News: Reishi has a spot of green on top. It’s not stopping the rest of the jar from colonization though, and so I’m going to let it continue. It was suggested to me to bury it and see if it will grow outside. I saw on iNaturalist that Golden Reishi is […]
Fixing the Humidity Sensor
In my previous set up, I had initially bought a monitor with a corded sensor. Cord or not, the monitor itself I came to learn was horribly inaccurate. It took purchasing a bunch of other monitors to compare and find this out and no doubt it contributed to some over humidified oysters I lost last […]