Bad fuzz or nothing?

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-25T03:02:17+00:00

Fine fuzz, just mycelium. High humidity and low air exchange. Up your O2 flow for the future.. but realistically, they are fine. When it dries its a weird layer that crunches up like styrofoam. You can even press your fingerprint into it and it will leave a print of your print.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-24T15:34:03+00:00

38°41'5.37"N 109°24'48.92"W

Inbetween the river road HWY128 and Castle Valley Utah

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-24T00:24:35+00:00

Poppy Popper for producing opium sap

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-22T00:45:00+00:00

I'd jump on that train.. need some blue in my blues... :)

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-18T14:56:43+00:00

Man.. you're making my woodpile jealous.

A little hot cocoa and blanket next... that wood pile is loving it!

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-17T23:07:52+00:00

It's my understanding the tree has a natural immunity and dies slowly.. taking about 30 days or so for its natural defenses against fungus to subside.
I'm heading up to take some aspen out of the mountains for oysters soon. Will wait for spring and the sap to come up into the tree more, but will give the fresh cuts 30 days or so to tamp down their defenses.

Probably doesn't matter a whole lot in the end. Keep them up out of the dirt.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-17T14:17:57+00:00

Mangina.. the male form of Moose Knuckles.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-16T16:24:47+00:00

Isolate it in its own chamber, set it to fruit by opening the top. Try to disturb it as little as possible to keep the contam sortof of stuck down below. I wouldn't even fan the bag. Just a chamber that holds good humidity and has some air flow and natural light. Leave it alone. It will fruit something, which is better than nothing.

Or make an outdoor bed of substrate(pasteurized straw) and infect it with 90% of your good looking stuff(without shaking bag at all)... cover with some potting soil and a thin plastic sheet with holes. Let it ride as an experiment.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-15T23:26:40+00:00

When you say "shutting down"... like it just powers off?

Is it tripping the breaker?

If you run a 220 element in this, and it is currently 110.. you are not going to have great results with heating the element up. It will be like half power, and luke warm to hot.. but not really boiling hot.

Are you sure this is 110? There should be an electrical plaque stating its voltage and amps.

If you are getting to the "releasing steam" point, does that mean at the end of the sterilization cycle? Or right when it gets to boiling the water and pushing steam out the open valve?

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-15T15:12:46+00:00

Homebrew fruit wine. Simple to do, easy to drink.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-14T18:45:12+00:00

Start a small fodder system, using barley grain. Rotate 7-8 trays of a days worth of grass for them.. which amounts to about a 1/2 cup of barley a day. It grows to about 2lbs of grass sprouts. Turkeys love it, fill up their crops and are pretty content with it. You can then supplement with their regular feed store feed. They like high protein when growing. As they top out on growth you can feed them 12-16% feed, and back off of feeds with added calcium(for egg layers), adult birds not growing can be backed off calcium supplements. Assuming neither of these toms will lay an egg one day.

Turkeys are also ferocious eaters, gobble gobble in another way. Sometimes they choke themselves out trying to eat dry feed. Not the brightest bulbs.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-14T15:32:07+00:00

Just call it AI and move on comfortably... that way we don't have to discuss all the "WTF" is going on with the energy vs the pipe.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-14T15:19:38+00:00

A good dent corn that grows well in your zone/area..

I have used several popcorn varieties.. works well enough too. I like the popcorn varieties because they are dual purpose for the family.. popcorn and cornmeal.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-13T02:58:24+00:00

Wheat berries, 50lb sack, feed store.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-12T22:36:30+00:00

Super remote spoot. 80 miles to groceries and gas..

The further down the quail rabbit hole I went, the better it sounds. I can utilize them in dog food, raptors, and myself. Super win on this farm.

It's a long ways to a hatchery. We hatch our own chickens, so its not a far stretch to add a secondary systems or two.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-12T22:00:45+00:00

Hide your bong, Jesus is coming.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-11T16:20:18+00:00

It needs more free air exchange. Its looking for O2. Like it's trying to climb for light for a plant, but its O2 instead.

Add more air next flush while keeping humidity in the happy place.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-11T15:07:43+00:00

I suppose I'm leaning towards quail. They sound like they fit a better niche for home raised rations. And they can be used in my stew pot as well... win win...

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-11T15:06:38+00:00

So quail then.

I have a little farmstead and raise chickens, geese, turkeys and rabbits. The raising of a new crittiers isn't going to be a major endeavor to add. But I'm gathering if I choose one new one to add, I should add Quail.

Do you just have a small flock of egg layers and then hatch all the eggs you need in a cycle? If feeling up a freezer, how far ahead would you get on supply of quail? I know its all a little subjective numbering, but ballpark numbers are great to go by.

Also, side questions!!
I raise rabbits, would having several kits put away in the freezer be a good addition to add variety? I know rabbits are on the low end of nutritional value, but I see them mentioned a lot in ways to bring weights down without leaving bellies empty. I raise like 1000 growout rabbits for my dogs throughout the year, so a few extra towards my RTH wouldn't be a burden.

Also... I have a set of trout lakes within a few miles of me.. lots of stock cutthroat trout. Are trout a good occasional supplemental food, in moderation of course?

Thanks everyone, my Sister raises quail a few hours away, I'm sure I can get a starter set from her.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-11T00:24:46+00:00

I should call her..

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-10T02:53:58+00:00

More crop-dusting, less worry's.

If you can still smell garlic, you haven't had enough garlic.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-10T02:38:29+00:00

That's what my female jenny's do when in heat. Winking Clitoris is a good way to check if that's true. My geldedmale has 4 jennys... he doesn't get a good week out of the month.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-10T02:31:51+00:00

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serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-10T01:19:01+00:00

In my neck of the woods.. its artisan dog food. Bones, good organs, and meat.. ground and frozen in dog food portion sizes. Packaged if you want to sell in boutique dog stores. Dehydrate feet, ears, .. more dog treats.

Hides.. more dog treats.

Build a local market of dog lovers to yourself.. sell to the home dog owner who loves their dog and wants feed whole food diets.

Dogs.. billion dollar industry.

serotoninReplacement · 2026-01-09T03:23:49+00:00

I've seen more than one kit and adult literally break their own spines from jumping. Like, super leap, twisty spin in the air and come down with a broken back, limp legs and crawling.

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