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luckee8989
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BRF Cakes: Fruit to a SGFC vs Spawn to a monotub??
#18911407 - 09/30/13 01:53 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've got 12 BRF jars colonizing. No pressure cooker, so I initially intended to shred up the BRF cakes and spawn to a couple coir/verm mini- monotubs.
I also have an already-prepped SGFC from a former grow.
What do you guys think is better? Differences in yield, contam risk, etc?
Thanks in advance.
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Re: BRF Cakes: Fruit to a SGFC vs Spawn to a monotub?? [Re: luckee8989]
#18911724 - 09/30/13 03:15 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Spawn the cakes into trays and fruit them in your sgfc.
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westthebest

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Re: BRF Cakes: Fruit to a SGFC vs Spawn to a monotub?? [Re: Sagescruffy]
#18911851 - 09/30/13 03:47 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sagescruffy said: Spawn the cakes into trays and fruit them in your sgfc.
what is the advantage to doing this over a mono tub?
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Re: BRF Cakes: Fruit to a SGFC vs Spawn to a monotub?? [Re: westthebest]
#18911881 - 09/30/13 03:54 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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There is no real advantage, it's just that you have brf cakes and making trays is much more simple than a monotub when using cakes. A sgfc is the superior fruiting chamber when compared to a monotub in terms of fresh air exchange and relative humidity.
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luckee8989
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Re: BRF Cakes: Fruit to a SGFC vs Spawn to a monotub?? [Re: Sagescruffy]
#18957227 - 10/09/13 11:20 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Easier sure, but yield?
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westthebest

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Re: BRF Cakes: Fruit to a SGFC vs Spawn to a monotub?? [Re: luckee8989]
#19105195 - 11/08/13 11:40 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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luckee8989 said: Easier sure, but yield?
yeah... hate to bump an old thread but would really like some more input on this topic. got some cakes going right now that I was planning on spawning to a mini monotub...
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Re: BRF Cakes: Fruit to a SGFC vs Spawn to a monotub?? [Re: westthebest]
#19105237 - 11/08/13 11:47 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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ok well lets say you want to grow cakes and use a tub to do it, before you go drilling holes let me drop this on all of you. for a sgfc to work at it's best it's said to have x amount of cakes in it(as much as possible) so for the sake of simplicity lets say you can fit 12 in the tub your gonna use, now your gonna need to drill x amount of 1/4 inch holes on all six sides and fill it with about 2 bags of perlite that are usually 6-10 bux a pop, and once your cakes are colonized now they have to sit for a week or 2 to consolidate, now lets talk y i say mono, it would take the same amount of cakes to crumble to the same amount of bulk as perlite needed in the sgfc, and bulk is more then 10 times cheaper, you also only need to drill 6 holes not a shitload, and in the time it takes for your cakes to consolidate is about the same time it would take for those cakes to colonize the bulk in the mono, once put into fruiting you now don't have to fan and mist and your yeild is much better, just some good food for your thought, have a nice night and may your choices be wise
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Re: BRF Cakes: Fruit to a SGFC vs Spawn to a monotub?? [Re: cronicr]
#19105246 - 11/08/13 11:49 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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cronicr said: ok well lets say you want to grow cakes and use a tub to do it, before you go drilling holes let me drop this on all of you. for a sgfc to work at it's best it's said to have x amount of cakes in it(as much as possible) so for the sake of simplicity lets say you can fit 12 in the tub your gonna use, now your gonna need to drill x amount of 1/4 inch holes on all six sides and fill it with about 2 bags of perlite that are usually 6-10 bux a pop, and once your cakes are colonized now they have to sit for a week or 2 to consolidate, now lets talk y i say mono, it would take the same amount of cakes to crumble to the same amount of bulk as perlite needed in the sgfc, and bulk is more then 10 times cheaper, you also only need to drill 6 holes not a shitload, and in the time it takes for your cakes to consolidate is about the same time it would take for those cakes to colonize the bulk in the mono, once put into fruiting you now don't have to fan and mist and your yeild is much better, just some good food for your thought, have a nice night and may your choices be wise
thanks. very good points, that's pretty much what I was thinking, monotub seems like the way to go but I've heard a few people speak out against using brf cakes to spawn to bulk in a monotub so that's why I was wondering
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Re: BRF Cakes: Fruit to a SGFC vs Spawn to a monotub?? [Re: westthebest]
#19105276 - 11/08/13 11:56 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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grains would be the obviuos choice but cakes work fine
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