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The resilience of coir, the tenacity of Psilocybe Cubensis...
    #14087976 - 03/08/11 05:35 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

About a month ago, I made a coir based cactus soil to grow my adolescent Lophophora. The mixture had 1 brick of coir (8 quarts), 3 quarts of vermiculite, and a half cup of hydrated lime. I used about one quart of that mixture to propagate my seedlings and the rest was kept in the original 5 gallon bucket. I have a room dedicated to incubation kept at 78-80F. The bucket was stored with the lid on in that room for three and a half weeks. When I went to check on the soil to make sure it hadn't been....soiled, to my surprise it remained without contamination. This gave me an idea. I took an extra grain jar I had stored in the refrigerator for use at a later date, and decided to dump it in the bucket. This is what I found two days later...


If this grows all the way through, I will be pleasantly surprised, but there are no abnormal odors or growth. The soil level is about 2/3 up the bucket.


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Re: The resilience of coir, the tenacity of Psilocybe Cubensis... [Re: Microppose]
    #14088361 - 03/08/11 06:58 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Wow, definitely please keep this updated!


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Re: The resilience of coir, the tenacity of Psilocybe Cubensis... [Re: dietrich]
    #14088412 - 03/08/11 07:07 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I will, if this had been a 50/50 mix or most other substrates or mixes, it would have been rendered useless in half of the time it was sitting.


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Re: The resilience of coir, the tenacity of Psilocybe Cubensis... [Re: Microppose]
    #14088458 - 03/08/11 07:14 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I fail to see why you were surprised.  Coir can sit in a bucket wet for months without molding. That still doesn't mean it makes a good substrate without pasteurizing.  The heat process during pasteurization 'cooks' the coir, making the food within more accessible to the mycelium, much as cooking food makes it more usable to us humans.
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Re: The resilience of coir, the tenacity of Psilocybe Cubensis... [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #14088489 - 03/08/11 07:19 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I prepared the coir in the same manor as one would for a mushroom tub. I am just amused that it sat for just under a month and it hadn't been raided. What makes coir so contaminant resistant as opposed to another substrate?


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    #14088547 - 03/08/11 07:28 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Mold spores don't germinate on it.
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Re: The resilience of coir, the tenacity of Psilocybe Cubensis... [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #14092998 - 03/09/11 03:02 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: The resilience of coir, the tenacity of Psilocybe Cubensis... [Re: Microppose]
    #14093234 - 03/09/11 03:44 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

This was in my year old archive photos. This was a tub substrate that I flipped twice, didn't water for 2 weeks, left in virtually open air and it refused to contaminate. On top of that, it pinned and kept producing even in these far less than ideal conditions. I think the big one turned out to be around 60 grams with a monstrous cap. Almost clone worthy.




I posted about this experiment somewhere else, but just recently found the pictures. It finally contaminated after this "flush", but the contamination appeared to have originated on the mycelium.


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    #14098567 - 03/10/11 03:13 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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