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I was talking about the pre-made bags with the dirt on top. That you can't shake them after they are innoculated.

First, you can't shake the bag which lengthens colonization time. Second, you can't signal the mycelium that it is running out of nutrient. You can't level the substrate and then level the casing on top. It's pretty haphazard and uncontrolled. I have no problem with bags at all. But...

Yeah, those are silly.

Did you let your substrate cool?

If they are in the sheath and rad sterilized they are just fine. I don't sterilize further, no flame, no antiseptic. It's all in technique. Rapidity, isolation and redundancy. One needle, one syringe, one jar or bag.

If your ports are staying open after using them only a few times, your needles are the wrong gauge for the port. I use 20's and rarely chew them up like that. The port/needle system is designed for aseptic use on humans from sterile vials without extra precautions. Also, if you are making your...

It's not overkill. If you doubt the cleanliness of your substrate, two hours is a bare minimum. A bad batch of grain can have billions of cysts. (Spores that have encircled themselves with a very tough coating that will withstand very high temperatures at very high pressures. Remember that...

I'm confused, what is that? How is it supposed to work?

I don't use filters. I fill my jars 2/3 inoculate under lifted lids and shake early. Once I get full but light colonization I just open the jar upside down for a few moments. The mycelium grows best in high co2, the filters allow too much of it to dissipate.

Just remember, your nearly colonized jars give off heat. I run hot because I monitor and I keep the jars a few inches from one another. Thermal disruption begins at about 85. The mycelium will begin to exude a clear liquid and become more susceptible to infection. That exudate changes...

I run jars at 80 with ambient light, bags a few degrees cooler. I don't manage light till casing.

At what point will our newly adjusted technological global society begin to fail at agriculture? Heat alone will begin to kill unprotected people in this decade. Unmitigated methane release is NOT mitigatable by any known method. Uncontrolled release from melting permafrost and deep sea...

If we throw the earth into an unchecked warming trend it may take some 50 million years for the planet to readjust to the new paradigm. Of course mankind won't know nor care but it is something for us to be ever so proud of. We managed to transform the earth for the second time in 4 billion...

Well, there is only one thing I know of that is as pleasurable as smoking opium, it smells heavenly (who doesn't enjoy smoking flowers), it offers a variety of wonderful feelings, lucid colorful waking dreams, soft social engagements and a doting smooth drift. Of course superior to even that is...

Finally, sadly I suppose, don't think about extraction. I know we all want to but it doesn't work. "Putty" (boiling down the stems and pods) will yield a psychoactive sloppy crud. You can eat it but it just doesn't smoke. There is a way to precipitate the alkaloids from strong tea but...

Poppy straw tea is just the steeping of the stems and crushed pods in water with a squeeze of lemon. No hard boil, just bring it to a simmer and then let it soak for half an hour. Oh, and remove the seeds, it's an annoyance in the tea. As I caution everyone, unless you have a good idea of how...

Ok. First, the tiny black spots are opium. That usually indicates one of two things, either the pod was damaged near ripeness, say rain or handling or it is particularly potent. The fact that the crown is not particularly upturned indicates that it was not quite ripe. I would guess that your...

If you are talking about consuming the seeds, forget 100, people use as much as a pound or two to make tea. And as I've posted, it's dangerous. You simply cannot tell how strong your tea is. People have died from poppy seed tea. Just don't do it. Poppy tea is far far more predictable and...

Your corn is a tad undercooked especially if you are fruiting from spawn (which you don't seem to do...it's just a short cut anyway). The trick is to be sure the kernels are completely colonized, like if you figure it's done wait another few days anyway. I have always had great luck with...

They say that the entire plant has actives in it. I figured that I could make a poppy sprout sandwich. But the little sprouts are too delicate to sprout in a sprouting jar. So I tried planting on a grow fabric. It didn't take long before I had a luxurious carpet of inch and a half plants. I...