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I miss my bucket
    #19123951 - 11/11/13 10:55 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

But I'm on the proper pasteurization bandwagon now and I don't really want to get off. But there are times (like this week) where I gotta buttload of sub to prep and not enough time or stove space. So I'm wondering, if I properly pasteurized half the sub I need and bucketed the rest, then mixed it all together, would that not spread the beneficial microbes throughout the whole works? When we pasteurize on the stove, only the core retains the microbes anyway, and they spread through the jar as it cools right? Something like this could really save some time and if it works then I'd be laughing :lol:

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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #19124183 - 11/12/13 12:04 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Most people think that the bucket tek doesn't stay warm enough for long enough, so no that wouldn't work.


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: Mush4Brains]
    #19124265 - 11/12/13 12:28 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Most people think that the bucket tek doesn't stay warm enough for long enough, so no that wouldn't work.



It stays warm for plenty of time.

It stays within the pasteurization range for way longer than 90 minutes, for me anyways....and I do not use 212F water, I use 180F water.

The bucket tek is frowned upon because it heats the substrate unevenly, and uncontrollably....where as you can control everything about proper pasteurization.

I am currently proper pasteurizing everything except for a few tubs that I experiment with the bucket tek at different temps....

Proper pasteurization is more involved, but better in the long run.


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #19124368 - 11/12/13 12:57 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I've thought about sterilizing substrate and mixing it with a much smaller amount of pasteurized manure, just to see what happens.


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: Psilicon]
    #19124624 - 11/12/13 02:22 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I been using 180 degree water in my buckets lately. Then wrapping them in blankets for 30 min, unwrapping and quickly mixing, then rewrapping for an hour. After the hour has elapsed I sit the bucket in a sink full of ice water to quickly cool it.


I've done 6 tubs in a row this way with no issues. Of course I did way more than that using Damion5050's tek with very few problems


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: Stromrider]
    #19124860 - 11/12/13 04:16 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

When I'm in a hurry, I use my Igloo 5 gal insulated water jug and the large paint stirrer on my mixing drill. I lost the lid to it over 20 years ago so I just put a boat cushion on top and stir when I think it is needed. I find that it works better than a regular 5 gallon bucket (no blankets needed for insulation).

Usually I just do it the proper way.


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: Stromrider]
    #19124915 - 11/12/13 04:52 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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I been using 180 degree water in my buckets lately. Then wrapping them in blankets for 30 min, unwrapping and quickly mixing, then rewrapping for an hour. After the hour has elapsed I sit the bucket in a sink full of ice water to quickly cool it.





Hmmm that sounds pretty sensible...probably much better then using 212 degree and it cooling more rapidly.

I'm making the switch from "proper" pasteurization to bucket as it's a frikkin nightmare trying to properly pasteurise on my induction stove and I think I probably end up sterilising or just not properly pasteurising.

As I am so short of time at present I was considering doing Damo's tek but leaving overnight to cool...would this then be a bad idea due to wanting to cool rapidly after 1 1/2 - 2 hours??


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: Skinty]
    #19125158 - 11/12/13 06:28 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I used to let it cool overnight with no issues. Now I cool in a sink of ice water. It only takes about 30 or 45 min.


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: Stromrider]
    #19125175 - 11/12/13 06:38 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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I've thought about sterilizing substrate and mixing it with a much smaller amount of pasteurized manure, just to see what happens.




This would probably be the way to test whether or not mixing the two could work as you would be able to determine a definite fail, which might be difficult with just a plain coir/verm sub. I might test this on a small scale one day.

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I been using 180 degree water in my buckets lately. Then wrapping them in blankets for 30 min, unwrapping and quickly mixing, then rewrapping for an hour. After the hour has elapsed I sit the bucket in a sink full of ice water to quickly cool it.


I've done 6 tubs in a row this way with no issues. Of course I did way more than that using Damion5050's tek with very few problems




This sounds appealing. Have you checked the temp after the hour is up? If damions tek is a partial sterilization, your method definitely sounds like more of a real pasteurization and if you can hold the temp long enough should be the easy magic bucket that we all have been looking for. Think I want to give this a try for sure.


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #19125202 - 11/12/13 06:52 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I miss the bucket too, but I don't miss the contam rate.

seems like mixing half proper pasteurized with half bucket tek would not be much different than spawning in open air, at least as it concerns contaminants and CVG.

I wonder if a good way to cool down such a mass could be done by freezing a 2L bottle of water and sticking it right in the middle.


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: SpitballJedi]
    #19125213 - 11/12/13 06:59 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

OP, what do you do for proper pasteurization then?


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: 404]
    #19125218 - 11/12/13 07:02 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

My buckets got a hole in it.




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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: Stromrider]
    #19125236 - 11/12/13 07:11 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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OP, what do you do for proper pasteurization then?




I pasteurize in jars on my stove ala Frank's method. I have had an excellent success rate with it.

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I miss the bucket too, but I don't miss the contam rate.

seems like mixing half proper pasteurized with half bucket tek would not be much different than spawning in open air, at least as it concerns contaminants and CVG.

I wonder if a good way to cool down such a mass could be done by freezing a 2L bottle of water and sticking it right in the middle.




Agreed, is the reason I stopped using the bucket. I could just cool it by sticking it outside, its cold as fuck here now.

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I been using 180 degree water in my buckets lately. Then wrapping them in blankets for 30 min, unwrapping and quickly mixing, then rewrapping for an hour. After the hour has elapsed I sit the bucket in a sink full of ice water to quickly cool it.




The more I think about this the more I'm liking it. Everyone always said the reason the bucket didn't work was that the temps were not held high enough for long enough. But I have a hard time thinking that the water would cool 50 degrees from boiling soon enough and thus the sterilization, then add the slow cooling time with the tek and its easy to see where problems could occur. 180-170 then add water seems like it could be a far better ticket. Maybe start off with a little less water to start, then add a bit more water at 170ish 30 min later on to keep the temps right, without too much heat. I think I will try this soon just to see.


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #19125293 - 11/12/13 07:48 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Everyone always said the reason the bucket didn't work was that the temps were not held high enough for long enough. But I have a hard time thinking that the water would cool 50 degrees from boiling soon enough and thus the sterilization, then add the slow cooling time with the tek and its easy to see where problems could occur. 180-170 then add water seems like it could be a far better ticket. Maybe start off with a little less water to start, then add a bit more water at 170ish 30 min later on to keep the temps right, without too much heat. I think I will try this soon just to see.




I thought the problem was that at 212F you actually sterilise. When I have done bucket tek with boiling water it's too hot to put my hand in even after about 3 hours. Maybe my bucket is just epically amazing :shrug:


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: Skinty]
    #19125310 - 11/12/13 07:58 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

plastic has a lower heat conductivity than metal. My plastic buckets always held temp for hours and hours.
Never tried a metal bucket, but I'd think it would cool faster..


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    #19125313 - 11/12/13 08:01 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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plastic has a lower heat conductivity than metal. My plastic buckets always held temp for hours and hours.
Never tried a metal bucket, but I'd think it would cool faster..




Yes that would make sense. I am thinking that using Strom's idea with a well insulated bucket like mine could yield very successful results.


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: Skinty]
    #19125323 - 11/12/13 08:06 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

No that's what I'm saying, the temps are too high for too long. I don't even think wrapping it is necessary, no way its gonna be below 140 IMO. I think that the other main problem as hacker stated is that the heat is uneven. You could probably get around this by breaking the brick up before hand, and by cracking it open to mix it up sooner than the teks recommended 45 min, maybe like 10 min in. Its my suspicion that we can pasteurize in a bucket, its just a container after all.

The problem IMO lies in the currently accepted tek of just dumping in boiling water and leaving it. I'm thinking that with some tweaking, the tek could be made to work far better than it does if we address the problems of uneven heat, duration, quicker cooling, etc. Even if the original post I made of mixing proper pasteurized sub with bucket tek sub works I will take that over having to stovetop pasteurize all of my sub.

I guess I'm just thinking that there has to be a better way to achieve proper pasteurization in larger quantities for the average city guy, than a stove top full of jars.

I didn't really articulate myself well in my previous post, still half asleep :lol:


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    #19125325 - 11/12/13 08:07 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I getcha :wink::thumbup:


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: Skinty]
    #19126262 - 11/12/13 01:04 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/17076834#17076834
I use this method and it works excellent for me. The only differences in that tek and IME is that he says it takes 2.5 hours to reach temp, and for me it took close to 5. That and it cost me about 200 to put together and he says 100. You could probably get by for cheaper than me though. Still beats having to constantly monitor and adjust temps. This is totally set and forget. And you can scale up or down by getting a larger or smaller cooler. One piece of advice if you go with this though is definitely get a cooler and not a monotub container. It takes long enough to reach temp as it is.


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Re: I miss my bucket [Re: bulkgrownoob]
    #19127375 - 11/12/13 04:46 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

You need to realize that if you want the substrate in the bucket start out being 170 degrees that you actually need to pour 180 to 185 degree water in it. The coir and verm in the bucket are room temp and are going to immediately pull the temp down 10 or 15 degrees. Kind of like when you pour warm water on ice


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