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Jonat
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Registered: 12/30/08
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Paresthesia said: If they don't carry them in your area, pine cat litter will work. It's processed enough to remove most of the antifungal resins.
I did a tour of the largest wood pellet plant in the US a few weeks ago (panhandle of Florida). They only use various species of southern pine. The wood is debarked, and the bark is burned to power the drying ovens. Not sure how much other processing would remove the resins in the wood itself. But if it works, it works!
They mostly sell the product to power plants in Europe to mix with the coal for a different impact on the carbon cycle. They only sell by the train car load, but did send a few trains off to a cat litter company.
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Jef
Out-of-work Sex Slave



Registered: 12/02/08
Posts: 764
Loc: near Duncan, BC
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Re: Wood pellets [Re: Jonat]
#11634015 - 12/12/09 12:42 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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A pine is not a pine is not a pine.
There are many different species and they can have resin and terpene contents that vary widely. I have tried Fir pellets and had adequate, but not fabulous results.
The best I've found yet were called EcoLog and were produced from deciduous wood waste in Quebec Canada. It was about $10 for a 20lb(?) box of these pressed logs.
For us Canucks, you buy them at Crappy Tire. http://reviews.canadiantire.ca/9045/0642743P/reviews.htm
Swells enormously with a bit of water.
It's the only thing I've been able to get here on the West Coast that's not from conifers.
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Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Involve me and I will learn.
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Jef
Out-of-work Sex Slave



Registered: 12/02/08
Posts: 764
Loc: near Duncan, BC
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Re: Wood pellets [Re: Jonat]
#11634027 - 12/12/09 12:45 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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A pine is not a pine is not a pine.
There are many different species and they can have resin and terpene contents that vary widely. I have tried Fir pellets and had adequate, but not fabulous results.
The best I've found yet were called EcoLog and were produced from deciduous wood waste in Quebec Canada. It was about $10 for a 20lb(?) box of these pressed logs.
For us Canucks, you buy them at Crappy Tire. http://reviews.canadiantire.ca/9045/0642743P/reviews.htm
Swells enormously with a bit of water.
It's the only thing I've been able to get here on the West Coast that's not from conifers.
-------------------- I am my own lab rat.
Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Involve me and I will learn.
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Grzyby
Janitor w/light cooking duties


Registered: 03/24/09
Posts: 900
Last seen: 13 years, 8 months
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Re: Wood pellets [Re: Jef]
#11653967 - 12/15/09 08:41 AM (14 years, 2 months ago) |
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SO i poked 10 holes in each turkey tail bag and put in the FC. Nothing is forming near the holes yet. The top has some mounds ( primordia) forming though. I may just open up the top. The shiitake bags I'm going to let sit until they blister and brown up. The reishi i put next to the FC so that it gets light. I will let it start to grow in the bag then open once the primordia are larger.
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