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Help, alt. casing material for popcorn?
    #19487027 - 01/28/14 04:19 PM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Hey everyone, I'm all caked out. Moving to grains. Popcorn THIS time, WBS once I get the hang of it.

I need help identifying pitfalls I may be coming up to in regards to casing my popcorn.

For casing material I want to use 3 parts verm., 1 part potting soil (I know, just read on).

I really want to follow the 50/50, but getting choir is an expensive pain in the butt ATM (that's what they all say). I'm still weighing the cost/benefit ratio and need help figuring out what to do .. would straight up verm be the same as verm+soil, GOTTA have choir period, etcetc. Please, let me know. :smile: Not acting until I've got some recommendations.

Notes:

A small batch of this mixture had an average pH of 7.5 - 8.0 without any buffers added. Do we add buffers to offset a pH change due to metabolism over time, or will pH remain the same?

I'm only considering potting soil on popcorn b/c of this (old) post:
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/8829910

My logic is that vermiculite amended with potting soil will be at least somewhat like having choir in there.

It's at 3:1 and not 50/50 because I thought using less soil would alter the pH less, that hasn't been shown yet.

Thanks, I'm grateful for any help!


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Re: Help, alt. casing material for popcorn? [Re: Quexl]
    #19488264 - 01/28/14 07:51 PM (10 years, 11 months ago)

that mix should be fine:thumbup:


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Re: Help, alt. casing material for popcorn? [Re: cronicr]
    #19488686 - 01/28/14 09:13 PM (10 years, 11 months ago)

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cronicr said:
that mix should be fine:thumbup:




Thank you, sir.


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