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Meiko
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Diy humidifier tek somewhere?
#19389245 - 01/08/14 04:55 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hello,
I live in a small European country where I can find none of the listed possible humidifiers you guys are mentioning. Perlite almost non-existent, no geolite either, not even vulcanic/air stones. The only electronic humidifier I was able to find costs around 107 €, which is a lot.
So, the only thing left for me to do is to make myself one. I have seen some teks on these pages, however, they seemed to be taking too much space (have no space for another large bucket in my room!). So I was wondering whether anyone knows for a diy tek that would give some humidity to my poor shotgun and would not take too much space that I don't have.
I anyone knows about anything... I would really appreciate that
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: Meiko]
#19389253 - 01/08/14 04:56 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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some wet paper towel on the bottom changed every few days
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: cronicr]
#19389270 - 01/08/14 04:58 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hey I did that.. still doing it. But I don't think this can last in a long run!
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: Meiko]
#19389273 - 01/08/14 04:59 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Slovenia is the small country? You're that close to Italy, Austria, and Hungary all of which are countries that should have cheap humidifiers and perlite. Is Slovenia not doing that well? Also what chronicr said.
find any one who is into gardening or find someone who is into cactus plants in your country and ask them to find you some perlite.
as for the humidifier I can't fathom there's no general retail store that has one.
Edited by Trusted cuItivator (01/08/14 05:02 PM)
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: bodhisatta]
#19389285 - 01/08/14 05:01 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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anything you can get air to move through and change it out if it's something that will go moldy, a wet towel whatever works! crushed clay it doesn't matter perlite is just one(and the best)option
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: bodhisatta]
#19389289 - 01/08/14 05:01 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yes, I guess you are right, there are other bigger countries nearby... But I cant go anywhere at this moment. But it doesn't really matter, what I'm trying to figure out is, whether there is anyting I can do ere & now without going to another country lol.
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: Meiko]
#19389295 - 01/08/14 05:02 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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mist every half hour lol
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: Meiko]
#19389307 - 01/08/14 05:03 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Meiko said: Yes, I guess you are right, there are other bigger countries nearby... But I cant go anywhere at this moment. But it doesn't really matter, what I'm trying to figure out is, whether there is anyting I can do ere & now without going to another country lol.
it's amazing the difference a border can make aye. Any way you could order it from one of those neighboring countries for minimal shipping costs? Or is there a hard hit on currency conversion(Slovenia uses Euros?)
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: bodhisatta]
#19389314 - 01/08/14 05:04 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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spawn to bulk in a mini mono!
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: bodhisatta]
#19389334 - 01/08/14 05:06 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yup, Slovenia uses euros In my town we have like 7 home depot type of stores, but they all lack the very stuff I need. It just pisses me off lol
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: cronicr]
#19389345 - 01/08/14 05:08 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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cronicr said: spawn to bulk in a mini mono!
I have a large shotgun cca 72 litres (=cca 16 gallons).. And I don't know what spawn to bulk means, but I'll check it out!
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Edited by Meiko (01/08/14 05:11 PM)
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: Meiko]
#19389373 - 01/08/14 05:11 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Meiko said: Yup, Slovenia uses euros In my town we have like 7 home depot type of stores, but they all lack the very stuff I need. It just pisses me off lol
weird, I'll have to come visit the country sometime. You're not native Slovenian I take it if you know what a home depot is?
I'm with chronicr on this one, maybe make a mini monotub then you don;'t have to worry about humidifiers or perlite.
spawn to bulk means using PF cakes as a source of inoculation for a bulk substrate, You can't put spores right to horse shit or coir(coconut husk= works great as a bulk substrate). If you use PF cakes you have to shred them up usually with a cheese grater or food processor to make them into small chunks each one of which acts like an inoculation for the bulk substrate. Most people Pressure cook rye or bird seed or some other grain and inoculate that with spores, once the grains are fully colonized you can spawn them to bulk (in open air) bulk spawning is not sterile like the inside of a PF jar or grain jar. You just mix the fully colonized cake or grains in with the poop/shit/manure/coir etc... then that will fully colonize and then you end up with a brick of spawn+bulk substrate that you can fruit in a tub with some holes and no perlite.
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: bodhisatta]
#19389379 - 01/08/14 05:12 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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This is just copy from my other thread but I highlighted the monotub part in red.
How frank gets shit done This is franks post with links to his teks. Frank is one of our Trusted Cultivators.
Tips and tricksLot's of good stuff in here.
Preparing grain spawn What to do with that spawn? Coir prep Tek
If you plan on asking about lighting in the future NotAHacker will probably copy and paste this to you so here's it in advance Lighting requirements of mushrooms
Good current members to listen to are NotAHacker420 and Frank(from the above links) They're around a lot and their advice is solid.
Monotubs/Grain spawn How to get started
1. Make grain spawn WBS is used in the TEK(I use rye) Frank's WBS Prep (perfect every time)
2. If you want to expand your grain jars without individual inoculation use G2G transfers Grain to grain in a SAB
3. Now you should have colonized grain spawn, time to make a bulk substrate to spawn to. Frank's Simple Coir/Verm Tek I personally use coir Frank's hpoo substrate, revisited poo works too
4. That substrate has to be pasteurized, here's some info to clear up any confusion about pasteurization Frank's Proper Pasteurization Tek 3.0
5. Ok you have spawn and bulk substrate, time to mix them Frank's Bulk Spawning Tek (in a monotub)
6. Additional monotub info for best results How to dial in your monotubs like a boss
I would also look into making a mini-mono which works just fine but is a smaller version if you don't want something so big. Or go big!
Edited by Trusted cuItivator (01/08/14 05:14 PM)
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: bodhisatta]
#19389404 - 01/08/14 05:15 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Jesus Christ, this sounds so very complicated... I'm a noob as you can see :P But thanx, I'll dig into it! Yes, I am native Slovenian, I just read these forums a lot (hence this is where I heard for this expresion )
---> but I already have a shutgun! Made it yesterday! Drilling for two hours with my small hands! Don't take that joy away from me...
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Edited by Meiko (01/08/14 05:18 PM)
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: Meiko]
#19389414 - 01/08/14 05:16 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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it's all good ladii! franks teks are written so a fourth grader could get it
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: cronicr]
#19389488 - 01/08/14 05:26 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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can't wait for Frank... Thanx!!
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: Meiko]
#19389491 - 01/08/14 05:27 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Meiko said: Jesus Christ, this sounds so very complicated... I'm a noob as you can see :P But thanx, I'll dig into it! Yes, I am native Slovenian, I just read these forums a lot (hence this is where I heard for this expresion )
---> but I already have a shutgun! Made it yesterday! Drilling for two hours with my small hands! Don't take that joy away from me... 
haha well you'll learn, You can always send a message to my inbox if you have a question about it too.
this is a little bit of a lie, but it's mostly true,
There's PF cakes and Bulk (imagine there's no other way to do it just for less confusion)
PF cakes (BRF cakes) can be done without a Pressure cooker
Spores will germinate in a PF cake and you can fruit the PF cake in a SGFC.
Cool,
Bulk then is different, The grains will not fruit by themselves(well it can but it works horribly), and bulk substrate can't be inoculated with spores they'll never start to grow.
So grains have to be pressure cooked, Then the grains get the spores, The bulk substrate acts like a big water container which feeds the grains and also gives them "what they need" to make mushrooms. They need a lot more than bulk substrate but stick with me for a minute.
So the grains get all covered in mycelium then you mixed it in with the pasteurized bulk substrate now all those little grains the mycelium will grow off of, The mycelium is already growing so you skip the spore part which in turn lets you colonize the bulk substrate without contamination having time to set in. The whole bulk brick inside of a monotub supplies its own humidity and you just adjust a few big holes in the tub accordingly. No perlite.
Some people didn't want to buy a pressure cooker but also at the same time wanted to advance away from the PF tek, Hence using PF cakes as spawn, If you cut up a PF cake into small chunks you can use it just as if it were grain spawn. It's kind of a backwards way to do it but if you don't have a pressure cooker and want to do bulk it's really the only way.
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: bodhisatta]
#19389504 - 01/08/14 05:29 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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bodhisatta said:
haha well you'll learn, You can always send a message to my inbox if you have a question about it too.
hahahah shoulda kept my sig
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: cronicr]
#19389513 - 01/08/14 05:30 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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cronicr said:
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bodhisatta said:
haha well you'll learn, You can always send a message to my inbox if you have a question about it too.
hahahah shoulda kept my sig
yea you should have haha, Not a single random person messaged me while you had that up
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Re: Diy humidifier tek somewhere? [Re: bodhisatta]
#19389546 - 01/08/14 05:36 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia
have you ever went to the American web pages, specifically Wikipedia in American(English), to see what we think of your country?
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