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JERSEYGROWN
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Funny Mistake I Made....Could Work Out
#15204573 - 10/10/11 10:02 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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After reading many posts here, when making my own BRF coarse seems to be the best setting. Substrate is not so dense as finely ground BR would have been.
So I'm putting the verm/BRF into my jars and again, from reading on this forum, seems best to leave things "fluffy" and not packed down to dense. So I fill up with sub, then the top 1/2" verm layer. I thought I tapped the jars enough so everything settled......or so I thought.
Got a great pressure cooker. It's meant to hold 10 1/2 pint jars but since I have the taller jars it holds all 12 I have. I wait for them to cool and do what I gotta do and when I grab the first jar to inject I notice there is like an inch of total space on top of the substrate. Nothing but air. Obviously I didn't tamp down enough on the substrate and made it TOO fluffy.
So I got a super aired out substrate, made with coarse BRF. I noticed colonization exactly 5 days later. Today is day 7 and it is spreading like wildfire. Those jars will be completely taken over in no more than 2 weeks if not sooner.
Just wondering about the 1 inch air pocket each jar has. I've been super careful, wearing gloves when I inspect them and spraying the jars and container with 91% alcohol. Don't these jars get like airtight once properly "canned" from the pressure cooker? Has this ever happened to anyone else before? Do they have a shot at success?
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keeno
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Re: Funny Mistake I Made....Could Work Out [Re: JERSEYGROWN]
#15204690 - 10/10/11 10:36 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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i presume you have holes in the lids of the jars? they shouldn't be airtight, as far as i can tell they should be able to breathe, with the dry verm layer keeping them safe from contams
I'm no expert but I reckon you'll be fine and no worries about the extra space, but I guess you'll have to wait and see
best of luck there
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sandman420
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Re: Funny Mistake I Made....Could Work Out [Re: keeno]
#15204781 - 10/10/11 10:59 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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the problem that could arise is that you wet the dry verm layer with your innoculant since its so far down. If the dry verm layer gets wet it wont act as a filter, but will instead just grow funk.
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JERSEYGROWN
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Re: Funny Mistake I Made....Could Work Out [Re: sandman420]
#15204979 - 10/10/11 11:45 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Now that I think about it I made a mistake in my description. After the pressure cooker, everything WAS fine, no air so the needle got down far enough into the substrate and NOT the verm.
It wasn't until the next day when I inspected them that I discovered the 1" of air space in each jar.
So the good news is my spores made it directly into the substrate. Funny, I forgot about the holes I put in the jars so no, I guess they aren't air tight. I'm just gonna spend every other day inspecting then spraying the jars and container with the 91% alcohol and we'll see.
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