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 whypickthree
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Hi everyone. So after successfully completing two grows with the pf tek, I'm moving onto bulk. I plan on doing LC and WBS. Right now I'm waiting on my LC to colonize.
I plan on doing two of these mini-monos by Doc_T : http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=2&Number=10713572&fpart=&PHPSESSID=
I've read over it a few times and deciphered what I believe is the correct recipe for success:
6-7 quarts coco coir (half Brick)
2.5 quarts WBS spawn
5 cups vermiculite
2 cups coffee
I was also thinking of soaking the wbs in some gypsum during its long soak.
Does this sound good? Are there any tweaks or advice anyone can give?
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I thought a brick of Coir was around 8 qts? So a half brick would only be around 4.
Maybe I'm mistaken but I thought that's what a brick yielded
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coir expands to be more then that ive already pulled like 4-5 quarts of my brick and it is only like a third gone prolly not even that much
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whypickthree
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The coir I found online expands to 3.5 gallons, which is 14 quarts. So a half brick would be 7 quarts.
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Quote:
whypickthree said:
The coir I found online expands to 3.5 gallons, which is 14 quarts. So a half brick would be 7 quarts.
This is correct
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hamloaf
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Quote:
whypickthree said:
Hi everyone. So after successfully completing two grows with the pf tek, I'm moving onto bulk. I plan on doing LC and WBS. Right now I'm waiting on my LC to colonize.
I plan on doing two of these mini-monos by Doc_T : http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=2&Number=10713572&fpart=&PHPSESSID=
I've read over it a few times and deciphered what I believe is the correct recipe for success:
6-7 quarts coco coir (half Brick)
2.5 quarts WBS spawn
5 cups vermiculite
2 cups coffee
I was also thinking of soaking the wbs in some gypsum during its long soak.
Does this sound good? Are there any tweaks or advice anyone can give?
Sounds good to me sir.
Adding gypsum to your seed during it's soak makes the grains less sticky and is excellent.
You can do me a super large favor that would probably get you a few syringes off me..
Take those two tubs and do one the way you were planning and do the other like this http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/11916595
Run them side by side and see which on fairs better. Take pictures and show us all your results. This could be interesting.
Maybe I will do this but I can't do pics right now...
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 Re: Mini-mono Recipe [Re: hamloaf]
#12260794 - 03/24/10 08:53 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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@hamloaf
It would not be a good comparison unless he was using an isolate.
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Damion5050
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Ohh and not to mention you are kinda getting out of context with my tek. My tek isn't about the fruiting chamber it is about the coir, it is about how I prepare coir. I prepare coir this way for mono tubs, trays, and mini mono tubs. Yes I use Doc's mini mono's as well.
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I just had to find these things out.
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Re: Mini-mono Recipe [Re: hamloaf]
#12260850 - 03/24/10 09:29 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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LoL. I am just saying that u know the tek is about how to prepare coir not that my mono tub design outperforms someone else design. Know what I mean.
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Just for u ham I will do a side by side with an isolate I got with the same size tubs here in a few weeks. I got a 20 quart mono and a 20 quart Doc mono hybrid. Same style tub just one is regular and one is hybrid. I will be using my KSS isolate.
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hamloaf
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Gotcha. How to prepare coir not that your mono tub outperforms someone elses design. I know what you are saying.
I also did not know that you were you using an isolate. Still the concept of running an experiment of the two teks side by side with the same isolate sounds fun and exciting but I see how you may disagree and that is all good but I feel friendly competition is good clean funQuote:
Damion5050 said:
Just for u ham I will do a side by side with an isolate I got with the same size tubs here in a few weeks. I got a 20 quart mono and a 20 quart Doc mono hybrid. Same style tub just one is regular and one is hybrid. I will be using my KSS isolate.
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Re: Mini-mono Recipe [Re: hamloaf]
#12260912 - 03/24/10 09:59 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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LoL no work today no dumb fuckers got hurt last night thank god. But I am on call so you never know.
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Extra careful pasteurization and high spawn ration for quick colonization. For some reason I can't seem to get a coir/coffee sub to fruiting without it going green. BRF, no problem. Coir/hPoo no problem. Straw, no problem. But every time I do coffee coir it goes green at 2 weeks.
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Re: Mini-mono Recipe [Re: gornyhuy]
#12260948 - 03/24/10 10:15 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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gornyhuy said:
Extra careful pasteurization and high spawn ration for quick colonization. For some reason I can't seem to get a coir/coffee sub to fruiting without it going green. BRF, no problem. Coir/hPoo no problem. Straw, no problem. But every time I do coffee coir it goes green at 2 weeks.
That is because you added coffee which needs to be pasteurized extra special. Every time I used coffee in the past I had the same problem. So now I don't use coffee and I can get 3-4 flushes out of a tub.
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whypickthree
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Do you think I should skip the coffee my first time doing bulk so prevent contaminants?
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Damion5050 said:
Just for u ham I will do a side by side with an isolate I got with the same size tubs here in a few weeks. I got a 20 quart mono and a 20 quart Doc mono hybrid. Same style tub just one is regular and one is hybrid. I will be using my KSS isolate.
while your at it could you right up a more 'scientific' recipe than "brick/half brick"
not all bricks are built the same. 
eg.edited copy/paste of my recipe>
100g coir hydrated with ~640g/(Ml) boiling water.
add 15g gypsum and 15g of dried coffee grounds to 50g of dry sieved horse dung.add to coir.stir well.leave till cool.
test for "field capacity".
pasteurise.> link
i'm making an assumption, as i haven't tested it, that dry coir and horse dung hold roughly the same amount of water.ya think?
orignal post> link
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Well an average brick weights 1.5lbs so if u need math then there it is.
1.5 lb brick to 1 gallon of water and 2 quarts of verm.
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