Hi there!
I'm rather new to actually posting on these forums, but have been lurking for a good minute, and had a decent experience with my experiemnts in the past! But I'm doing larger and more variable experements now (check out my thread in the contam forums if you'd like to catch up on a bit of me/my grow or wanna help with the contam probs!)
But now that I'm running monotubs I'm trying to see where it can be made more efficiently... Currently I have my tubs with at least 4x 2" holes stuffed really tight with polyfil, and some of them are still in the garbage bags (to get the coir+verm to colonize). My first question goes to the bags on the outside of the tubs... My experiment lacks a control group (yeah, I know...) and just has a lot of variables so I can't get a solid answer myself, but some of the bags are wrapped rather tightly around the tubs (to limit FAE, only need gas exchange right?), but some of them are just simply in the bags with the end open. Like I said, I can't tell a difference myself with all these other variables, but is there going to be a general difference or benefit to the bags being wrapped tight or loose?
Other than that, I have bags taped up nice and tight all the way around on the inside of the tubs lining it (to prevent side pinning and to help clean up...but some myc is actually pinning behind the bags/tape too!). Now I've noticed some people only taping up a little bit of their bag liners, doesn't this pool water behind the bags for contams? Or does that keep the RH nice and water off the sub, and no worry for real contams with proper procedure/polyfil?
Also as an interesting side note...my tubs that I'm running don't really have a set sorta spawn:sub ratio...(8 different strains, 4 different sized tubs, I've got all sorts of variables up here!). But I added in a good deal into most of them. Now some of the smaller 27q tubs only got 1pt of spawn...which seems to be doing some of them fine, but others I don't know about... From my understanding the tighter the spawn:sub ratio, the faster the colonization of the sub...but does that realllly matter? I mean, some of the tubs have spent a month colonizing and some of them aren't even done yet...should I worry about any onset contamination from slow colonization? Or is it simply enough that I'm just waiting longer? Should a month's time be an issue on any sorta scale or am I missing something?
The tubs I've done recently have significantly more spawn per sub ratio and they seem to be doing really well...LCs and more jars have made that process a lot easier and possible!
Just a few questions to get this started...I have more! Always eager to learn.
Thanks to anyone reading!
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