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GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome!
    #14609889 - 06/14/11 12:28 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

So I set up my monotub 3 days ago according to damions coir tek
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/11916595

i taped up my holes with duck tape mixed coir/verm with spawn and spread evenly throughout the tub , not using a casing layer. upon peaking into the tub today i saw the tiny grains doing quite well but not really spreading any myc. After researching i believe the cause is due to my tub being quite air tight and having little to no GE due to the holes being taped up, unlike damions tubs who's lids are "loose" providing needed GE.

My question is weather i should be bothered to replace the tape with polyfil and risk the contams that could settle on the exposed substrate or just leave it and see how it goes?

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Edited by Blueflowers (06/14/11 12:29 AM)

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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: Blueflowers]
    #14609907 - 06/14/11 12:35 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

if it has no way to breath, you might just put polyfill in one whole. but, you don't want it to get too much fresh air if you have grains showing.


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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: uncle bobo]
    #14609989 - 06/14/11 01:06 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Stuffed 1 of the top holes with polyfil , will keep you posted on growth in the next couple days :smile:

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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: Blueflowers]
    #14610037 - 06/14/11 01:25 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

next time sprinkle a little coco coir over the top so you can't see any grains. that will help you out alot. grains will contaminate to easy.


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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: uncle bobo]
    #14610060 - 06/14/11 01:37 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

3 days isn't very long.

if i were you i would wait awhile longer and see how things progress, give the mycelium a chance to recover and it will gain momentum. It sounds risky to mess around with the airflow during this stage. i believe that the average time for a monotub to colonize is around 10-14 days.


i have been taping the holes and wrapping the top of tubs in plastic wrap after mixing up the spawn and substrate.
i saw this demonstrated in ProfessorPinHead's video guide.

i leave the tub sealed like this until i see pins forming. working great for me. :thumbup:

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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: schmoopy]
    #14610088 - 06/14/11 01:54 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

damn that's just the opposite to my method. i open my tubs at least once a day to make sure it isn't drying out. i case with coir, so i don't really worry about contams. i think coir is the casing of the future. holds lots of water and has an awesome pinset. i'm a noob and have been trying different casings. peat verm contams to easy, shitty pinset with the verm and coir, but my straight coir is bringing a sea of shrooms. i know that the casing is suppose to be nute free. i think that coir is fixing to change that theory. plus if you make a tub and put an inch of coir on top, the sub has time to consolidate before the coir on top is fully colonized. did i mention the awesome pinset and contam resistance.




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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: uncle bobo]
    #14610207 - 06/14/11 02:22 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

bobo- are you saying you open your tubs once a day during colonization? right after you mix the spawn?

it's interesting how totally different methods can be used successfully.

i haven't had any problems with drying out during colonization because i have been sealing them up pretty well.
i also use manure and kelp in my substrate mix, so feel safest with the least amount of exposure to contamination possible until the mycelium has really established itself.

i am new to this as well, still putting the pieces together, and am about to start experimenting with casing layers.
have you done any late casings?


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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: schmoopy]
    #14610246 - 06/14/11 02:36 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

no late casings. i always thought that you should get atleast one fresh air exchange a day during colonization, plus it gives me a chance to take a peak. i case at the same time i make my tub. straight coco. i'm sticking with this method. seems to work really well. plus no contams at all. like i said though i'm a noob. those are actually my first pins. i have other tubs that are cased in various methods. they are all starting to pin, but nothing compares to my straight coir casing.


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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: uncle bobo]
    #14610812 - 06/14/11 08:15 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

i had polyfil in my tubs when they were colonizing. i let them colonize for 7 days, then introduced them to 12/12 light.

my next grow, im going to do the same thing, leave the polyfil in the holes until fully colonized, and then take all of it out once going into fruiting. at the very end of my grow, i had the lids completely OFF of a few of the remaining tubs and the mushrooms just blew up and got huge quick.

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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: Ajaxx]
    #14610896 - 06/14/11 08:51 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

My last grow I used polyfill in the holes while colonizing. After 3 days i moved the monotub to the basement and didnt realize that the polyfill in one of the holes fell out completely. It sat for 2 days like this before i noticed and popped it back in. Everything came out ok. The tub consisted of 4qts popcorn,1 brick coir,2 qts verm. I found that using polyfill in the holes during colonization instead of covering with duct tape gave me a nicer pinset.:cool:

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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: redcat]
    #14611271 - 06/14/11 10:32 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

for that matter. as long as your using coir and no grain is showing. you could just leave polyfill out from start to finish. just have to mist more.


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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: uncle bobo]
    #14611418 - 06/14/11 11:00 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

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no late casings. i always thought that you should get atleast one fresh air exchange a day during colonization, plus it gives me a chance to take a peak. i case at the same time i make my tub. straight coco. i'm sticking with this method. seems to work really well. plus no contams at all. like i said though i'm a noob. those are actually my first pins. i have other tubs that are cased in various methods. they are all starting to pin, but nothing compares to my straight coir casing.




I'm about to be a stickler here, but technically speaking, you're not actually 'casing' if you're using a nutrient-rich substrate like coir. You're just adding more bulk substrate on top of your colonized bulk substrate. You're kind of defeating the purpose of a casing layer when you do that, since the casing is not supposed to fully colonize, and meant to provide moisture.


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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: prismism]
    #14611446 - 06/14/11 11:06 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

agreed, but i am very satitsfied with the straight bulk coir. i should have said that i don't prefer a casing on my coir. i only prefer coir on my sub.


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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: uncle bobo]
    #14611460 - 06/14/11 11:09 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

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next time sprinkle a little coco coir over the top so you can't see any grains. that will help you out alot. grains will contaminate to easy.




You don't need to do this. I've actually found that I get better pinsets w/out the pseudo-casing layer.

Fully colonized grain & properly pasteurized bulk are both extremely contam resistant, no need to worry about exposed grains in colonizing bulk.

Don't open the lid of your mono ever while it's colonizing. You're causing CO2 levels to drop too low, thus causing premature evaporation from the substrate. Therefore, causing early pinning.

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To what degree do we restrict GE during Bulk Colonization?



To the degree necessary to hold CO2 in the neighborhood of 10K to 20K ppm.  You can get a CO2 meter for under $300.
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https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/14054208#14054208

there's where I got it.

Also, if you've got air-tight lids, use extremely dense polyfil for GE in the holes or cover it w/ EZ-Felt or SFDs...


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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: TranscendingLife]
    #14611507 - 06/14/11 11:19 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

thanks for the advice. like i said i'm a complete noob. although i do have a masters degree in mycology at the university of shroomery.org. half of what i have been doing, i have kind of been proving a point to people i know. i have been breaking all of the rules. and doing well at it. i didn't drill holes in the tub until the end. and i might not have checked it every day. but i've been so excited i just had to keep peaking and playing with shit. plus i was trying to get my coir wetter. i think i might have been on the dry side to start. maybe i shouldn't have squeezed the coir so hard.


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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: uncle bobo]
    #14611541 - 06/14/11 11:28 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

You don't want the bulk substrate to be overly wet. I use Damion5050's tek to the T on water content, works great everytime. One time I added an extra pint of water (when I first started) cuz I thought it was too dry. Nope, the extra pint of boiling water made the coir too wet & my flushes on the tubs weren't nearly what they should've been.

IME, I've found a bit on the dry side is better for bulk substrate vs. being on the wet side.


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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: TranscendingLife]
    #14611578 - 06/14/11 11:35 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

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Fully colonized grain & properly pasteurized bulk are both extremely contam resistant, no need to worry about exposed grains in colonizing bulk.




Thanks TL...
About time people started preaching this...
For the past few years, i have been "hand mixing" my spawn into my bulk subs evenly...
No more layering...
I found that i got better/faster colonization by even mixing...
Layering and putting a coir layer ontop w/o grains mixed in it, is a bad idea :super:

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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: total]
    #14611688 - 06/14/11 11:57 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

interesting concept. maybe i will do a war against the two methods. i'm down to give it a try anyway. my life is one big experiment anyhow.


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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: uncle bobo]
    #14611708 - 06/14/11 12:00 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

And when i say "hand mixing"...
Please use gloves...
I prefer nitrile!

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Re: GE during monotub colonization? All advice welcome! [Re: total]
    #14611745 - 06/14/11 12:08 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

:imwithstupid:

I use dishwashing gloves, that way I can tuck my long sleeve shirt into them.


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