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Need help with my monothb!!
    #20588481 - 09/19/14 01:19 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)



Here's what I'm using for my monotub. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have cut the lid and put something clear over it so the light shines down overtop . But my question is how high on the side should I drill my six holes and what size should the holes be??? 1" diameter???

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: motoguy]
    #20588528 - 09/19/14 01:25 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

You don't need to cut the top. It matters how high you want your sub. The four bottom holes should be about a half to an inch over the sub, the top holes should be as high as you can get them. Two inch bottom holes and one and a half inch top holes. Check out Frank's how to dial in a monotub like a boss.


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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: motoguy]
    #20588531 - 09/19/14 01:26 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

dude.. remember when cron said something about you having a million threads in the last 50 some days? this question is answered over and over and over again in every monotub tek. use the search engine..and i never tell people to UTSE but in this case...use it. and dont feel the need to start a new thread over every question you have.

start a grow log for what your doing and people will come and check it out and you can ask questions there since they all pertain to the project your working on.

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: motoguy]
    #20588550 - 09/19/14 01:29 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

You will need to drill 6 holes in the very bottom

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: Mdahmer]
    #20588556 - 09/19/14 01:31 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

My bad I'll post it in my grow log. Well I'm using 5 quart jars And 3 quarts of pasteurized coir and verm. I'm not sure how high the substrate will be. How do I figure that out???

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    #20588572 - 09/19/14 01:33 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: Sanguin3]
    #20588588 - 09/19/14 01:38 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

yea for 5 qt of spawn youll want anywhere from 10-20qt of coir/verm. unless your planning on casing 5 qts of grain with 3 qt coir/verm casing in which case i would advise against that in a monotub fashion

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: Mdahmer]
    #20588640 - 09/19/14 01:49 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Well I made a post yesterday and was told to use 2.5 pints of verm and coir each for my 5quarts

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: motoguy]
    #20588660 - 09/19/14 01:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

for spawning to bulk use a 1:2 to 1:4 ratio of grain spawn to bulk sub. you can certainly go lower or higher but lower grain = slower colonization and fewer nutrients. more will give you faster colonization and more nutes but with that ratio youll not have much water at all to support your fruits

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: Mdahmer]
    #20588683 - 09/19/14 01:58 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

So what do I need to pasteurize more?? I just need to know what's going on cause I'm asking a question and I get 20 different answers. I've got 24 g2g jars colonizing as we speak and they will be done in 3-4 more days then I'm spawning them in monotubs as well. Now I need to figure it out how much coir.verm to use.

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: motoguy]
    #20588761 - 09/19/14 02:16 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

use at least 1qt of substrate for every quart of spawn. fill an empty quart jar
with water, pour into tub, and repeat till you hit 3 inches of depth. mark this
with a sharpie, then drill your holes with the bottom of the hole being around
.5-1" above this line. however many quarts of water you dumped into the tub, is
how many quarts of spawn/sub you will need to hit the 3" depth. you will
usually need to add an extra quart or two of sub since the spawn quarts aren't
filled to the brim of the jar.

Make sense?

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: Attainment]
    #20588803 - 09/19/14 02:26 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

and if your just using coir/verm you can do the bucket tek, the regular or mudas double bucket and its one "bucket recipe" for every monotub. so 1 brick coir (8qt about) and 2qt verm with 4-5qt of water and when thats done and cool spawn it with 5-6 qt of grain spawn.

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: Attainment]
    #20588826 - 09/19/14 02:31 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Yea it makes absolute sense but I'm just getting so many different answers I'm confused. If that's the case then I'm going to have to pasteurize a few more quarts... ugh. Now are the jars I already pasteurized still good till the next few jars get done cooling??? The 3 quarts are completely filled almost to the top I pasteurized them last night. Also I used about 3 pints of coir and 3 of verm. I'm just confused as hell

Edited by motoguy (09/19/14 02:32 PM)

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: motoguy]
    #20588858 - 09/19/14 02:37 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

thats just because there are so many different ways to grow and so many people answering questions, sometimes without thinking or reading thoroughly and when other skim it and retain that knowledge then pass it on as fact things start to get muddled.

im not an expert by any means but ive done some tubs and buckets and outdoor grows and ive read half my life away here so take my advice over any others :lol: seriously though..as far as ratios go 1:2-1:4 for starters. you can experiment with other ratios higher and lower but if you want the best results now so you have fruits to sustain while you experiment then just go with the classic 1 brick, 2qt verm per 5-6 qt of spawn in a 66qt (give or take 5-10qt) tub with holes drilled per frankhorrigan dialing in your monotub like a boss thread

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: Mdahmer]
    #20588893 - 09/19/14 02:44 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I know lol I really appreciate everyone's input but it's confusing as hell to me to hear so many different answers to one question. So here's what I did. I used 2.5 pints of coir it's eco earth from the pet store. Then i put 2.5 pints in of verm mixed it well in the bucket. Then added 2-3 pints of water. I really over did it and it was wet as hell so I added about 6 handfuls of moth coir and verm then did the squeeze test and a few drops came out. Then i used franks pasteurize tek and let them cool over night. Now I'm being told this is a good ratio of verm and coir but not enough for my monotub. What do you think???

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: motoguy]
    #20588998 - 09/19/14 03:06 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

If you just read Sanguin's sig you won't be confused anymore.  Do you think a cook asks random people how to make a dish?  He'd never know exactly which ingredients are needed.. That's why they have written recipes and follow them mostly to the T, especially the first couple times.  You could also be asking questions in the AMU thread..  It's a thread specifically made for asking questions and getting an A+ :thumbup:

AMU Q & A - Ask a Q and get an A+ :awesomenod:

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: Dilated]
    #20589364 - 09/19/14 04:40 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Or you could just drill your holes where your ready to fruit :wink:

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: PinPornProducer]
    #20589474 - 09/19/14 05:09 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Ok so obviously my 3 quarts of coir and verm isn't enough for my 5 quarts of spawn. Is the ratio I used ok??? I'll just make 7 more quarts of coco.verm mix. With the same ratio. How many more quarts of coir and verm should i use??? As well as water. See I read franks tek. I got all confused cause he said use a brick of coir but I bought the stuff in a bag and didn't know how much to use.

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: PinPornProducer]
    #20589476 - 09/19/14 05:09 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Or you could just drill your holes where your ready to fruit :wink:




Why would you want to do that though? So you can get plastic and bullshit in there? That makes no sense do it before hand.

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Re: Need help with my monothb!! [Re: King of Pain]
    #20589612 - 09/19/14 05:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

how do you measure pints of coir? is it the husk or the compressed bricks?

about 2-3 qt's verm for 1 brick of coir gives you a 80/20 coir/verm ratio which is good.
a std brick of coir weighs 650g dry and compressed.
4qt's water pr brick, 0,5 qt's water pr qt of verm.

drill bottom holes @ 4" height, top holes as high as you get.
follow my link on how to make the tubs, step 4 I think in my sig.

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Or you could just drill your holes where your ready to fruit :wink:




Why would you want to do that though? So you can get plastic and bullshit in there? That makes no sense do it before hand.




some noobs really like to "help" :tongue2:

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