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A couple casing questions
    #15183056 - 10/05/11 07:15 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Hello,

This is my first grow; I'm successfully doing 2 cakes with some pins and my first picked mushroom yesterday (Yay!) and using 2 other cakes for a casing. I'm using 50/50 casing mix with 1Verm+1Peat+1water+.1Lime (couldn't find calcium carbonate). I then then microwaved it in a dish for ~12 minutes.

I then added this mix to the bottom of a rectangle aluminum pan, then crumbed the 2 cakes on top, then lightly added another thin layer on top of the cakes. I then covered this with foil and put in a cupboard where it has been for about 6 days. From 3 days I started checking and there was just a little mycelium popping up on some of the edges and a very little bit in some of the deepest grooves of the casing. It's going slow, likely because temps dropped recently here and i have no heating element. 

That leas me to a couple questions:
  • Should I put this casing pan into a terrarium (with w/o light) now, or should I let the mycelium get further along/up to the surface first?
  • Is shotgun terrarium (basically what i have my cakes in currently) suitable for a cased pan? (with slightly lower humidity @ ~85%)
  • I read that as mycelium takes over the casing I should cover up the initial bits coming through with some extra casing material for an even pin set. Then keep doing this until <most> of the top is white. Do i need to use casing material that is sterilized/pasteurized or would plan moistened verm work OK for this extra covering?


Thanks a lot for any help!

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Re: A couple casing questions [Re: skinnyclam]
    #15183580 - 10/05/11 08:47 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Casing a cube is not necessary. Casings can help a cube grow if you are inflicted by very low ambient humidity but generally a sgfc is all you need to fruit cubes.

You should only case the top of the substrate. the casing layer is non-nutritious and will not colonize easily, so it is just put on the top of the substrate at about .5 to 1 cm.

again this is only to give the surface a micro-climate that stays nice and humid. for some mushroom species a casing layer is needed as it will supply the mycelium with necessary and beneficial organisms.. this is not the case with cubensis.

you can put this tray in a sgfc, sgfc is good at fruiting anything cubensis.

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Re: A couple casing questions [Re: deadmandave]
    #15183605 - 10/05/11 08:51 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: A couple casing questions [Re: deadmandave]
    #15184236 - 10/05/11 10:59 PM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Thank you for the response. I guess i should have asked questions before starting to case :smile: There seems to be a lot of ambiguity out there around casing.
Guess i'll go ahead and remove a little of the current top casing layer, then start the fruiting process in sgfc, and hope for the best!

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