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DatDaNK420
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How long too cook perlite to sterilize?
#1791752 - 08/08/03 10:33 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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I got the perlite from my last project thats still got alot of wate rin it in the oven in a metal turkey tub baking at 350 degrees, how long do you think It should take? Should I just wait till its dry and check on it periodically cuz its hard to say how long? Thanks
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JohnnyR
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Re: How long too cook perlite to sterilize? [Re: DatDaNK420]
#1791761 - 08/08/03 10:35 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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ive never had to steralize perlite... just throw some water/h2o2 on it and u should be fine...
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Psilocybin_monkey
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Re: How long too cook perlite to sterilize? [Re: JohnnyR]
#1791911 - 08/08/03 11:26 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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when my perlite if done I trash it because it is very cheap so it's ok to do so.I use my perlite for about a month or until it starts to smell up the chamber I use h202 with water and once it gets bad I trash it
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DatDaNK420
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Yea well im poor ur not. LOL, and Its been in use over a month so im baking it, cuz its reusable why trash it ur wasteful.
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Psilocybin_monkey
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Re: How long too cook perlite to sterilize? [Re: DatDaNK420]
#1792058 - 08/08/03 12:21 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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most people trash it.They reuse clay pebbles and geolight because they cost alot and it can last forever
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Re: How long too cook perlite to sterilize? [Re: DatDaNK420]
#1792059 - 08/08/03 12:21 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Guess you are not paying the electicity/gas bill
I guess some of the problem with re-use is that there may be nutrient material that has got mixed up with it, so it can get recontaminated easily.
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Psilocybin_monkey
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Re: How long too cook perlite to sterilize? [Re: psilomonkey]
#1792120 - 08/08/03 12:39 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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yes well perlite contams very easy right from the start that's why people add h202 to it even if the cakes are not touching the direct perlite and to re-use it would increase the chance of contams but if you use h202 and you are not setting the cakes directly on the perlite you may be ok.yeah the bills come with the rent psilmonkey hahahah
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Re: How long too cook perlite to sterilize? [Re: psilomonkey]
#1792203 - 08/08/03 01:05 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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psilomonkey said: Guess you are not paying the electicity/gas bill
I guess some of the problem with re-use is that there may be nutrient material that has got mixed up with it, so it can get recontaminated easily.
You could burn off the nutrients. Bake the perlite at 500 degrees until it's dry, and then bake it for maybe thirty minutes longer -- that should render a lot of things into carbon.
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DatDaNK420
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Re: How long too cook perlite to sterilize? [Re: Sev]
#1792256 - 08/08/03 01:33 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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I baked it for a long ass time at 350 and it was hot as fuck and is now dry. Believe me its sterile and ready to be used again. I am getting a air diffuser and a air pump and setting up a self automated fruiting chamber cuz my ass be lazy as fuck.
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Re: How long too cook perlite to sterilize? [Re: DatDaNK420]
#1792507 - 08/08/03 02:40 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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hahaha I NEVER sterilized perlite... heres a tru story my buddy used the SAME perlite for a fuckin year straight, all he did was add water to it every other month or so.... worked fine, he added a lil H2o2 just so nothin sick grows on the wet perlite
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Re: How long too cook perlite to sterilize? [Re: Sev]
#1792893 - 08/08/03 04:28 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Heh, I don't know how much a bag of perlite costs out there in the grand old USofA, or how much that elastictrickery costs by the kw/h, but I figure here its costs about one whole UK pound for a 5 litre bag of pertile, that should be about 1 dollar if you take into account that 17.5% sales tax we have.:) and we pay about 10 pence for a kw/h. I guess there is not mush difference
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Re: How long too cook perlite to sterilize? [Re: psilomonkey]
#1793040 - 08/08/03 05:03 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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yeah it's a buck fifty here(canada)$1.50
once your perlite starts to smell most people trash it because the smell is contams and if you have a bubbler to give it air exchange and to put the humidity up the mist that it will make with the contam water that is in the perlite will cover the whole grow chamber and if the water drops on the cakes you may get contams.I'm not sure if you bake it that it kills all the contams but for $1.50 that dose 4 chambers or dose 1 chamber 4 times I wouldn't take the chance.But that is how I look at it.
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Psilocybin_monkey said: I'm not sure if you bake it that it kills all the contams but for $1.50 that dose 4 chambers or dose 1 chamber 4 times I wouldn't take the chance.But that is how I look at it.
I guarantee you that if you get that perlite up to 350 degrees F, there won't be anything growing on it that doesn't land there afterwards.
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Re: How long too cook perlite to sterilize? [Re: LiL_KuSsH]
#1793715 - 08/08/03 08:08 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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unnatural
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Re: How long too cook perlite to sterilize? [Re: LiL_KuSsH]
#1793760 - 08/08/03 08:30 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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go to the local nersery and ask for cracked and broken clay pots . most likely you will get them free . use a hammer to bust um up to 1/4-1/2" pieces . wha-la you have geolite .
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Re: How long too cook perlite to sterilize? [Re: deanofmean]
#1793772 - 08/08/03 08:37 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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NO SHIT?
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Re: How long too cook perlite to sterilize? [Re: LiL_KuSsH]
#1794310 - 08/09/03 12:07 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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but it prob work better then perlite?
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floridaboi101
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pottery clay is porous...the pores arent that big but theyre still there
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