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Cheapest monotub substrate?
    #17029037 - 10/14/12 11:29 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

Hi im planning to do my first grow and im wondering what the cheapest option for a monotub substrate would be, i was thinking wild bird seed coir and vermiculite?, i will also try incorporating a ultrasonic humidifier after seeing great results from akiras monotub tek..

also what do you think is the best way to inoculate the monotub i never seen anything about that but yeh i am still learning and this is my first post.

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Re: Cheapest monotub substrate? [Re: CrazyRok]
    #17029045 - 10/14/12 11:31 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

you noc up the bird seed. spawn that to the coir. and boom monotub. of course there is more too it.


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Re: Cheapest monotub substrate? [Re: Speck1186]
    #17029049 - 10/14/12 11:33 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)


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Re: Cheapest monotub substrate? [Re: CrazyRok]
    #17029057 - 10/14/12 11:35 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

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CrazyRok said:
i was thinking wild bird seed coir and vermiculite?


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Re: Cheapest monotub substrate? [Re: CrazyRok]
    #17029059 - 10/14/12 11:35 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

Use the search function.

Damion's Coir tek is great, reliable and cheap. Coir, verm and wild birdseed spawn. Get mason jars, a tube of silicone and polyfil and make self-sealing inoculation lids. Use spores off a sponsored-vendor's site. I would recommend building a glove box, but if you don't want to waste a tub, I've read about inoculating through an alcohol-soaked sponge.

Read up.

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Re: Cheapest monotub substrate? [Re: ProfessorPinHead]
    #17029062 - 10/14/12 11:36 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

you need to study harder OP, there is much fail in your post.
but as to the ?, if you want cheap, horses poop for free.

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Re: Cheapest monotub substrate? [Re: CrazyRok]
    #17029064 - 10/14/12 11:36 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

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CrazyRok said:
Hi im planning to do my first grow and im wondering what the cheapest option for a monotub substrate would be, i was thinking wild bird seed coir and vermiculite?, i will also try incorporating a ultrasonic humidifier after seeing great results from akiras monotub tek..

also what do you think is the best way to inoculate the monotub i never seen anything about that but yeh i am still learning and this is my first post.



The cheapest substrate would be aged horse manure, its free.

check out this, may be of some help to you.
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/11916595#11916595

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Re: Cheapest monotub substrate? [Re: CrazyRok]
    #17029065 - 10/14/12 11:36 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

Nothing is cheaper than field dried cow or horse manure (if you have access to farms nearby, they'll usually let you gather some for free or cheap.)

WBS as spawn to Coir and Verm will do just fine, but don't bother with an ultrasonic attached to a monotub. If you get the moisture content right the substrate will provide it's own humidity.



http://mushroomvideos.com/

There's plenty of helpful videos there, including how to get the right moisture content for your substrate and how to prepare your spawn to inoculate your substrate.

Good luck!


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Re: Cheapest monotub substrate? [Re: ProfessorPinHead]
    #17029081 - 10/14/12 11:40 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

awesome, thanks.

BTW i haven't got any farms or horses/cows etc.. near where i live, maybe should have stated that in first post

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Re: Cheapest monotub substrate? [Re: CrazyRok]
    #17029370 - 10/14/12 12:42 PM (11 years, 5 months ago)

hpoo is free.

can't beat that


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Re: Cheapest monotub substrate? [Re: serotonin storm]
    #17029407 - 10/14/12 12:48 PM (11 years, 5 months ago)

Here 1L vermiculate is between 2 -3 dollars
One coco coir brick is 3$ but as you know yields good.
And there is no cow around..sadly


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Re: Cheapest monotub substrate? [Re: Hate]
    #17029601 - 10/14/12 01:35 PM (11 years, 5 months ago)

Wild bird seed will not be a part of your bulk substrate necessarily, but rather you will colonize quart jars or bags of wbs with mycelium and then spawn them to your coir/verm.

That is how you will inoculate your monotub. It will be inoculated with 5 or so quart jars of colonized wbs grain.

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