To adhere the port to the concrete, apply a small amount of epoxy around the bottom of the port. Even though pf it is psilocybe cubensis, over the years fanatics decided to give the pf its own name. The substrate is mixed, filled in jars, sterilized and inoculated with mushroom spores. I use a simpler method and i dont have to use perlite or anything. The low form kerr 12 pint canning jar is the most versatile fits into tight spaces et. We sell highquality gourmet and medicinal mushroom cultures sourced from all over the world. Uses silicone for a self healing injection port and mp tape for gas exchange. In this video i show you guys how to make your own lids with silicon injection ports and a gas exchange filter for at home mushroom cultivation. Crack analysis as with all the dayton superiorunitex products used in the repair and rehabilitation of concrete, the initial job analysis is by far the most important step. These are perfect for the job made of high quality butyl rubber thick and sturdy 20mm diameter with a 12mm insert advice drilling a 10mm hole and squeezing the 12mm rubber insert from this injection port will result in a perfect tight fit without using glue. This tek made the cultivation of mushrooms at home feasible for complete beginners utilizing commonly available materials.
The pf tek method is a cheap and reasonably straightforward form of mushroom cultivation that uses brown rice flour as a substrate with the addition of vermiculite to control humidity and aerate the substrate, providing more room for the mycelium to grow. We can customize any order, any amount of grain in any size bag. Injection corner ports for lowpressure injection repairs in the corner or drilled injection locations. Crack open the jar and dump the dry verm layer into the garbage. On a regular basis, our staff provides technical consulting and field services regarding a wide variety of issues to ensure the continued operation of all classes of waste injection wells. I have sfds for my jars, can i just crack them open a little in my sab and squirt the spores in there, like if i were dealing with grain. Petrotek offers engineering and geology services where licensed. For users who already have their own grow supplies. Sealing of the crack and attachment of ezclick injection ports. Only top up with preboiled water from a kettle to avoid shocking and cracking the glass.
If this is the case then you can just put a dab of silicone on the outside of the bag and then suck up some spores through the nice and sexy self healing injection port without fear of contamination. To insure similar results, make sure the jars or glasses are tapered sided with no shoulder of any kind, and that they have a 12 pint 8 ounce capacity. Can i just crack the lid and shoot the spores in without a still air box. It is important to note, that jars somewhat larger than 12 pint are unreliable for the pf tek and fail easily. Leak sealing solutions with sika injection systems brochure for.
You went with a larger fruiting chamber where all of your cakes will be stored in. The photo on the left is a second flush off of a pf spore race cake. Brown rice flour technique pf tek lets grow mushrooms. Spore vial psylocybe fanaticus original cubensis buy online. When using injection ports, sharp not blunted needles are preferred. Tried to follow this tek as much as i could but i did my jar lids with rtv silicone and polyfill instead because i already had these.
Use a alco prep to sterilize the injection port entry. Its easy, forgiving to unsterile procedure, a pressure cooker is not a necessity, and it is discreet. Pf substrate formulation jars and glasses to be used with this technique are 12 pint capacity 8 ounces 250 milliliters. Although this guide is based on the original pf tek, some aspects will be different for various reasons. Crack preparation clean the surface surrounding the crack using the wire brush. After cleaning the cracks and drilling the injection port holes, seal the crack surface and the injection ports with suitable epoxy. Spore spot sterile pf tek kit lab sterilepftekkit1. After the crack has been sealed and the injection ports installed it is a good idea to flush water into the ports to clean out the crack and prepare for an injection of polyurethane. Install injection ports, seal the crack opening, inject the crack with epoxy full depth for restoration work, or as deep as. Medication immediately flows through the devices cannula into the subcutaneous tissue layer. Pf is the original strain that made the pf tek cultivation method big. This kit will get you started using the pf tek method, which is a simple technique to grow mushrooms on small cakes inside a plastic tote bin. Adheres injection ports and seals the crack surface.
Here is a recreation of his fanaticus website about mushroom cultivation, which existed from 1995 to 2003. Brf jars are the perfect growing medium for almost any gourmet mushroom strain. Specifically designed for inoculation with a spore syringe, this grow bag features a foam selfhealing injection port built into the plastic of the bag. Its good to have a back up method if your first grain grows dont yield much or yield anything. Then go to grains after you have a handle of cakes. Pf tek things needed 12 pint wide mouth canning jars potpressure cooker vermiculite perlite brown ricebrow rice flour tin foil 70% iso alcohol plastic tote 6500k florescent bulb 14 inch drill. The first flush was an automatic flush sans casing initiated by invitro primordiation. Colonized petri dish of elm oyster pleurotus ulmarius mushroom mycelium. Processed and bagged within a class 10 clean room for ultrasterility. Using this lid design, you could omit the dry vermiculite layer called for in the classic pf tek, but you shouldnt.
This means you dont need to puncture your skin every single time you need to take an injection. The surface must be dry for proper installation of injection ports and surface sealer. This is a sterilised substrate container ready to be inoculated with spores or culture with gas exchange and injection port. The growing method i describe here is based on the pf tek but includes a few modifications that are time tested, and are in my opinion superior to the original pf tek. Used to get foundation crack injection materials into a crack. Our signature sterilized rye berries are available in 1 or 2 lb bags, with or without injection ports. My grain yields have been improving but it takes time to. Shroom supply large mushroom grow bag w injection port 0. Updated pftek guide 2017 edition before we begin i personally feel that.
I had misunderstood some info in my research and fudged my lid design. Apply a layer of multitek adhesive sdw, polyester paste or fast curing. Large base provides excellent adhesion to concrete foundation crack surface. It is important to note, that jars somewhat larger than 12 pint can be unreliable for the pf tek and fail easily, unless the grower has experience with the pf tek and compensates the formula. Using a presealable mycobagtm with selfhealing injection port, place a cup or so of soaked and well drained grass seed on. Pf tek done right tek mushroom cultivation shroomery. Its a small and discrete injection port that may remain in place for up to 72 hours to accommodate multiple injections.
Robert billy mcpherson, creator of the pf tek, has passed away. Rhino crack resin injection instructions rhino rhino carbon fiber. Denepox 40 an ultra low viscosity, twocomponent epoxy injection. Fuel injection systems multiport injection style free. Pf classic professor fanaticus mushroom spores syringe.
To intersect a crack at the midpoint, drill injection port holes toward the. Forget the injection ports, just squirt in from under the edge of the lid. Crack sealer plus hardener msds 2015 05 pdf file, 264 kb. Epoxypolyurethane high pressure injection ports concrete. One version of the pf tek the pf tek is a classic beginner tek. This video series will demonstrate one of the easiest methods to growing mushrooms. Mushroom grow bag with injection port cm x 12 cm x 50cm pressure cooker safe.
Lab grade pyrex borosilicate glass large 12mlcc volume injection port built into lid evacuated vacuum for ease of use increase shelflife of your spores by storing in glass spores dont stick as well to glass, like they do in plastic syringes make sure to thoroughly wipe the injection port with an alcohol swab and give it a few seconds to dry before piercing through it. Now drop the spore solution evenly over the substrate inside the spawn bag or grow box. If you change injection angles, a thick port should be good for hundreds of needle sticks before needing replacement. Brown rice flour based substrate, sterilised and readytoinject with 36ml of gourmet spore or liquid culture syringe divided between each of the rubber injection ports.
In our improved pf tek, we leave the substrate in the jar, and mushrooms fruit only from the top. Serving vaudreuildorion, injection tek offers services such as foundation crack repair, epoxy injections, foundation waterproofing, french drain and sump pumps, and more. We sell highquality mushroom cultures sourced from all over the world. All it requires is some high temp silicone which is readily available. We offer liquid cultures and colonized petri dishes for all of your mycology needs contact us for slants. I have also read a post titled i think things you wish you had known before growing, and at least one person mentioned agar. I cultivate cakes still today even though im using bird seed because im new to it. The first step is to seal the surface of the crack and fasten injection ports every 18 inches or so along the length using a twopart epoxy. Pf tek variation bottom mycelium growing tip if you get just a little bit of gunky pooling liquified brown rice flour in the bottom of your jars during the sterilization process as i do, and get a tad impatient with the subsequent slow growth of the mycelia when they finally get to work in that area, heres how to counteract it. Staggering ports from side to side stitching is always recommended. Injection tek opening hours 77, av aquin, vaudreuil. In vitro primordiation there are many ways to extend the life of a cake and get more shrooms. Crack sealer plus injection filler is designed to bond cracks in bricks, blocks, render. Insulin is injected via a syringe into the injection port.
How to make your own jar lids for at home mushroom. A presentation on a less used recipe of the pf tek mushroom growing method. My pf tek jars took a very long time because i didnt have any ge holes in the lid. Ports are usually worn on the abdomen, but can also be worn on other areas such as the buttocks, thigh or arm. Included are instructions, vermiculite, perlite, and our specially blended brown rice flour. Damion5050 coir tek probably the mostcited and mostused substrate tek around. You posted in the new thread i made focusing on invitro straight grass seed that way i had thought that pf sub would work similarly to that. The growing method i describe here is based on the pftek but includes a few modifications that are time tested, and are in my opinion superior to the original pftek. Mar 22, 2016 iport advance injection port is prescription indicated for patients who administer, or to whom is administered, multiple daily subcutaneous injections of physician prescribed medications, including insulin. Nov 15, 20 this is the pf tek using brf brown rice flower and verm the recipe is 12 verm 14 brf and 14 water per jar. You should get 3 good flushes of mushrooms after each flush rest for 24 weeks then soak the blocks in water in the fridge overnight simply inject with 2 4ml of your favourite mushroom spores or lc and keep at 22deg until colonised. Self healing injection ports come in gray or orange.
The authors do mention that yields will not be great but claim the tek is more user friendly for beginners. If you heat up the cooker too fast this can cause the jars to crack. A foaf is getting ready for his first grow and thinking about using a modified version of the pf tek he found in the book psilocybin mushroom handbook. Although one minor point that i would like to bring up is that if you are using the verm as a contaminate barrier i. So i want to knock up a bunch of brf cake jars with a syringe and i was wondering if i could get away with doing so without dealing with silicone, injection ports etc. Open the injection port by pulling back the port protection. Pre sterilized pf tek injection port bags x 12 brf vermiculite free shipping 90% of aus. You mean like a cup of pf sub in a quart container. The jars are filled with nutritious mushroom substrate and fully sterilized for your convenience. This section of our video is presented in full to help you get started growing mushrooms. Nextstar technologies concrete crack foundation and concrete repair store. We use for liquid culture and brf jars, test tubes and bottles. This lid tek is used most often with grain jars, but i dont see why it wouldnt work for pf tek.
Epoxy injection is a method used to seal cracked foundation walls and or bond them back together. How to easily make liquid culture lids self healing injection ports, filter. Join our community just now to flow with the file pf tek and make our shared file collection even more complete and exciting. These are 1l containers for extra nutrition and more flushes. Epoxy restores the foundation to its original strength and structural integrity. This kit provides the essential materials for you to make your own cakes. The essential guide to cultivating mushrooms storey publishing, 2014. Simply inoculate through the flat grey self healing inoculation point.
Pf magic formula update february 27 2002 pf magic formula and biological efficiency new article and photo july 4 2000 the inner resevoir tek update june 3 2002 five huge photos a must see guidlines for growing diverse cubensis spore races. The pftek was developed and first made public in 1992 by. Jan 25, 2007 this socalled improvement would likely yield less than standard pf birthed cakes or even pf invitro. A thinner 21g needle will give you more life out of the port. Attach to concrete crack surface using surface sealer epoxy.
Please dont hesitate to ask how we can make our products work for you. The device may remain in place for up to 72 hours to accommodate multiple drug injections without the discomfort of additional needle sticks. Dont let your foundation crack become a structural issue. An ultralow viscosity, twocomponent epoxy injection resin for structural injections. This video will teach you how to grow your very own edible mushrooms, just like the. Dayton superiorunitex injection resin will weld concrete cracks, but it will not repair the cause of the cracking.
I suppose you could modify the tek and make 35 self healing injection ports per jar, but i think that would be too much work per jar when you could just sort of spin the needle around to get the spores everywhere. Updated pf tek guide mushroom cultivation shroomery. I had to remove my silicone injection ports to allow for ge. Epoxy injection is a pressurized injection of a 2 part epoxy resin into ports that are installed along the crack. Sterilised at 15 psi in an electric autoclave for 2 hours. The sterilized pf jar is then injected with a solution containing spores and water from a syringe, creating a one step procedure for reliably growing mushrooms indoors. After the pes amazonian spore solution is injected, remove the syringe and close the injection port with the port protection cap. Reinforced basement crack repair better than injection.
Contents page introduction and pf tek overview chapter 1 substrate and pf jar prep chapter 2 pf jar inoculation chapter 3 the birthday cake chapter 4 the dual chambered terrarium chapter 5 the richmans terrarium chapter 6 cool temperature drying chapter 7 spore printing and. Ive read many posts that say pf tek is for beginners. Water flushed through the wall will not affect epoxy injections and is a simple test to see how well the repair was sealed up as you do not want to lose product. Selfhealing rubber injection ports pack of 10 need a port for your lc or spawn jar. Self healing injection ports mushroom grow supplies myco. Psylocybe fanaticus was the business name of robert mcpherson, the creator of the pf tek. The authors of the book follow the original pf tek to a tee accept for the following excerpt from book. Brown rice flour based mushroom substrate fully sterilized in easy to inoculate half pint jars. Can be used with all epoxy and polyurethane products. Contact me for a free estimate, and ask about my 5year. The injection ports should be fixed to the surface of the crack with.
We offer liquid culture syringes and colonized petri dishes contact us for slants. The concrete foundation cracks need to be fixed with crack injection. Remove loose or flaking concrete, efflorescence, paint or coating to approximately 12 inches on either side of the crack. The pftek method is a cheap and reasonably straightforward form of. The brf tek video from our dvd is broken here into four parts to make it more compatible for streaming. The injection port is a specific plugging device intended for pharmaceutical flexible containers. Typical injection ports are worn for 3 days and then replaced with another port. Injection ports cannot be reused over and over but will generally withstand at least 6 puncture wounds with a thick gauged needle. I followed the pf tek so theyre just canning jar lids with 4 little holes a made with a punch. Up for sale is fifty 50 new aluminum, high pressure injection packer ports, with zerk fittings, used for injecting epoxy into cracked concrete to stucturally bond crack back together or to inject polyurethane into cracked concrete to stop water from leaking. Even though pf it is psilocybe cubensis, over the years, cube fanatics decided to give the pf its own name. They must have tapered sides and no shoulders, otherwise the fungus cakes wont easily come out of the jars. The pf tek method is a simple, effective way to grow shiitake and oyster mushrooms. Angle the syringe toward the glass wall of the jar and inject 0.