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OfflineMary Jayne
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Ok to put casing directly on top of perlite layer?
    #14585696 - 06/09/11 01:53 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

I finished constructing my fruiting chamber which is a big, clear rubbermaid with a fish pump and air stones at the bottom burried below about 3 inches of perlite. I was wondering if it'd be ok to put a layer of coir directly on top of that perlite and then spread out broken up colonized substrate and re-top it off with coir? That way the entire fruiting chamber could be the tray, and the mycelia would have a huge area. I was just worried that light reaching the sides of the mycelia or the mycelia reaching the perlite would be a problem. I'm new to shrooms but I've been able to colonize bags of substrate no problem.



  Otherwise I'm planning on putting a layer of coir in a deep aluminum tray, spreading out colonized substrate evenly on top of that and then putting coir on top again. I would then let that incubate again until the mycelia begins poking through, then place the trays in my FC?

  And my last question is, just by keeping the FC humidity at 95%, misting, and having a moist casing/substrate to begin with, watering will not be necessary the whole way through right? Is there a something similar to the dunk & roll people who work with casing can do?

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Re: Ok to put casing directly on top of perlite layer? [Re: Mary Jayne]
    #14585725 - 06/09/11 01:59 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

No.


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Re: Ok to put casing directly on top of perlite layer? [Re: esquaredx]
    #14585795 - 06/09/11 02:14 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

I would rethink the construction of your fc. I'm pretty sure what you've done is more for cakes than bulk spawns.

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Re: Ok to put casing directly on top of perlite layer? [Re: esquaredx]
    #14585800 - 06/09/11 02:15 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

you are planning on pumping air through your mycelium?

this must be a troll thread...


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