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skinnyclam
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A couple casing questions
#15183056 - 10/05/11 07:15 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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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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deadmandave
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Re: A couple casing questions [Re: skinnyclam]
#15183580 - 10/05/11 08:47 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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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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Wing
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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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skinnyclam
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Re: A couple casing questions [Re: deadmandave]
#15184236 - 10/05/11 10:59 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thank you for the response. I guess i should have asked questions before starting to case 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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