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NoobShrooms
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New Casing Recipe.
#19381134 - 01/07/14 06:44 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hey guys. I am very new to this and have been doing some research but cannot come up with any answers. I would really like to try a casing consisting of peat, vermiculite, calcium sulphate, coir and calcium carbonate. I am considering using a ratio of one cup of peat to one cup of vermiculite, one tablespoon of gypsum, one teaspoon of calcium carbonate and half a cup of coir. Does anybody have any comments or foresee any issues with this? Thanks guys -NoobShrooms
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dceodhz
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Why not stick to the proven tek? Drop the coir from the recipe and read up on 50/50 casing, its practically 1 : peat 1 : verm 1 : h2o Then your additives
http://www.shroomery.org/11334/Casing-Procedures
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NoobShrooms
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Re: New Casing Recipe. [Re: dceodhz]
#19381166 - 01/07/14 07:08 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks for the quick reply! 50/50 casing seems fine. I wanted to add in the organic coir just to help with the matting issues that seem to arise in other peoples casing and some of the other benefits I hear it provides such as the fibre. I just want my first little buddies to have a nice, nutritious casing when they arrive into the world : )
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spacechildo
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you don't want a nutritious casing. that's why peat is good.
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Paulsage
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NoobShrooms said: I just want my first little buddies to have a nice, nutritious casing when they arrive into the world : )
you didn't mention *what* you're growing, however as i understand it, casing is pointless when growing cubes. they just don't need it...
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HypnotoadCroaked
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Re: New Casing Recipe. [Re: Paulsage]
#19381539 - 01/07/14 09:40 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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NoobShrooms said: Hey guys. I am very new to this and have been doing some research but cannot come up with any answers. I would really like to try a casing consisting of peat, vermiculite, calcium sulphate, coir and calcium carbonate. I am considering using a ratio of one cup of peat to one cup of vermiculite, one tablespoon of gypsum, one teaspoon of calcium carbonate and half a cup of coir. Does anybody have any comments or foresee any issues with this? Thanks guys -NoobShrooms
If you are new at this, I would advise to stick with a simple jiffy mix or a 50/50% verm/peat with some sort of ph buffer or a 60/40 vermiculite and coir. Use the search function and look for "jiffy mix casing"...it is about the easiest thing there is to use for a casing....fresh out of the bag, you pasteurize, and you will be good to go!
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spacechildo said: you don't want a nutritious casing. that's why peat is good.
Others have had great success over the years using a coir/vermiculite casing. I am testing it now and am very impressed with how good it works. Coir is not as nutritious as they lead you to believe. The core nutrition of our cube projects is in the grain spawn.
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Paulsage said: you didn't mention *what* you're growing, however as i understand it, casing is pointless when growing cubes. they just don't need it...
Casing has proven to be at the very least a "Push" with no benefit being seen. Others have tested casing cubes and reported back proven success.
Casing has been shown to be "unnecessary" at times but to date no one has shown that it is detrimental to any cube grow. When the weather is cold and dry, It becomes apparent how useful they can be.
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MaJiK_420
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I've tried casings maybe once or twice in my year or growing mushies, didn't really notice anything spectacular so I ditched the extra "unnecessary" process.
However I have read a few things lately that are leading me to try casing (cubes) again. One is that I happen to live in a cold dry climate with relative humidity average 30%, often less with all the hot air used for heat. My boxes usually seem to do well on humidity though, you can kind of control it with hole size polyfill density, plus fanning/misting so I don't know. As long as the humidity is right, the casing shouldn't matter.... right?
And then I've read a few things saying that PE does benefit from a casing.... I'm growing some PE now so I'm trying a 50/50 peat verm casing on it, well see.
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