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Blake_Shroom
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Bucketing with Blake

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#18892960 - 09/26/13 08:01 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Here's my take on buckets. All my info was gathered from Otto and his buckets, I just want to show everyone how to make them with 5 gallon buckets.

Take your bucket, measure to 4 inches, and mark it with a marker.

Then drill 4 1" holes around the bucket, equal distance from one another. Then do 2 holes on the top, roughly even as well (it's not super important to make sure it's exactly right)

Now take 1 qrt of colonized grain, mix it in with about 3-4 qrts of pasteurized substrate.(depends on how high your bottom holes are. Mine are around 3.5"-4" tall, but 3" will work fine. Don't go about 4" though). Then tape up the holes with micropore tape, and cut a trash bag into a sqaure 2'x2'. Place over the bucket, and rubber band the top. If you dont have a big rubber band, find something else. I've used an old pair of boxers where i cut off the elastic band and secured the plastic over the top. We're mycologists, be creative :laugh:

Then when it's fully colonized, remove the tape and replace with polyfill. There should be excess plastic over the top, so try and get all that excess in the middle, with the rubber band just securing the very edge of the trash bag. Whenever you want, just push the bag down in the middle, then pinch it and pull it up. It acts as a "lung" and provides excellent FAE :thumbup:

And there you have it. This is an excellent way to do a variety of things. If you grow bulk and end up with extra jars, throw them in buckets. Buckets are $3, and everything else you should already have. This is also a great small scale way to test cultures and see if liquid cultures are clean. From the times I have done this, I averaged 1.75oz dried first flush, and they did suprisingly well in subsequent flushes.

Happy bucketing :cheers:

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