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Mr Mycoman
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Re: Pictoral Guide to a Perfect Bulk Substrate [Re: SaturnClaus]
#13576641 - 12/03/10 11:16 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Do you think hydrated lime would work instead of gypsum?
I was just getting ready to try pasteurizing my casing by using the Damion5050 coir tek method of just adding boiling water to the bucket containing the casing mix and letting it sit for 4 hours. It works for coir, it should work for casing, or your recipe or any bulk sub. What do you think? I'm going to try it and see........MM
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Re: Pictoral Guide to a Perfect Bulk Substrate [Re: deadmandave]
#13576887 - 12/03/10 12:10 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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I was thinking along the same lines as you DMD, the poo definately is more prone to contams than coir, but peat/verm should be ok, I would think. No nutritional content?........MM
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PP, is that a roaster that would be similar to a big crock pot? How big are they? I guess they have a built in thermostat? Sears?....MM
I'm still working out the bugs in my 55 gallon pasteurizer, but I think I have it now. It's in test mode as I type, and it's working good so far.
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Re: Pictoral Guide to a Perfect Bulk Substrate [Re: jokefox]
#13577499 - 12/03/10 02:45 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Cool, thanks PP. I was thinking about getting one but my 55 gallon home made steamer just passed the test after having to tweak it quite a bit. I'm going to start a post and post the results of my quest.....MM
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Re: Pictoral Guide to a Perfect Bulk Substrate [Re: THEHATTER]
#13583220 - 12/04/10 08:05 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks to you Pinhead I bought a roaster today. I wanted something smaller than the 55 g drum to do stuff like small batches of casing or whatever. It's going in there right now. I'll let ya know how it goes. So far it's awesome, just turn on and walk away. Thanks......MM
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Mr Mycoman
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Isn't a brick of coir about 7 liters(or quarts)? If so you're using about twice as much poo as coir? I don't have any gypsum so I'll probably just skip it this go around. I'm sure it'll work without it, right?......MM
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Re: Pictoral Guide to a Perfect Bulk Substrate [Re: jokefox]
#13583295 - 12/04/10 08:21 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
jokefox said:
pretty sure hes high right now
That's too damn funny!!! LMAO!
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Re: Pictoral Guide to a Perfect Bulk Substrate [Re: Mr Mycoman]
#13583346 - 12/04/10 08:33 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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I got the designer model Bella Cucino from Macys(LOL!), sounds fancy huh? It was the same price ($40) as Sears. I took my daughter to the mall today so I was killing time while she played....MM
It matches my Kalven Klein PC and Jordache Jars
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What's up with the leopard fur? LOL! I think I would wear a shirt. Then again, a mask would help too........MM
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Re: Pictoral Guide to a Perfect Bulk Substrate [Re: Mr Mycoman]
#13585905 - 12/05/10 02:16 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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I just mixed up 5 batches of a similar mix as this yours. I just started working with coir recently and I love the all the characteristics of it. It's very forgiving with the moisture content. The texture is awesome, and it colonizes extremely fast, like 4 days to a complete white substrate(all throughout), but it seems as though it lacks in nutes so I combined Damion's recipe with yours in order to try and keep all the good characteristics and yet have plenty of nutes. I went with 3/4 brick of coir(cut in half using my jig saw, great!). 1 liter worm castings, 2 liters verm, 2 liters poo(horse with 15%black kow), and 1 cup hydrated lime as a buffer just in case. I might put some straw in one of them to see if it makes a difference. Any thoughts before I stick it in the steamer?
I'm going to try out Damion's pasteurizing method of adding boiling water to one of the buckets to see how that works. I just read in another post that somebody has been doing it with poo successfully so what the heck
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Re: Pictoral Guide to a Perfect Bulk Substrate [Re: k00laid]
#13586351 - 12/05/10 04:04 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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I didn't try the Damion bucket method, decided not to risk a whole batch. I usually like to do a lot of experimenting but no real reason to do that when my pasteurizer is cooking anyway. The Damion5050 recipe is just 1 brick coir and 2 qts verm. Simple as it gets
I did skip the straw. The texture came out almost like coir so I'm happy with it so far. It looks nice and rich with a nice fluffy texture. It's gonna work just fine.
I tried the bucket method with some casing a day or two ago and I think if I had put enough in there it would have worked. I put the remote probe into it and it was between 170 and 140 for almost 30 minutes. If there was more subs in it, it would have stayed hot longer so it may have worked......MM
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