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PF Tek - Best substrate ?
    #20602815 - 09/22/14 06:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Should I use verm and BRF? I read WBS or rye is better. What do you guys think is best for a noob with 12 half pint jars?


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Re: PF Tek - Best substrate ? [Re: sisomsO]
    #20602964 - 09/22/14 07:15 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

www.mushroomvideos.com verm+brf simple as 1-2-3.

rye or wbs kicks ass for grain spawn!

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Re: PF Tek - Best substrate ? [Re: spacechildo]
    #20602978 - 09/22/14 07:18 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

:whathesaid:

BRF and verm are for cakes and rye/wbs is for spawn - usually in quart jars. With the half pints you want the cakes!


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Re: PF Tek - Best substrate ? [Re: wowimflabbergasted]
    #20603472 - 09/22/14 08:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Thanks ya'll. :thumbup:


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Re: PF Tek - Best substrate ? [Re: sisomsO]
    #20604605 - 09/23/14 01:23 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I haven't tried using rye or WBS flour.  I say do four of each and let us know!


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Re: PF Tek - Best substrate ? [Re: Psilicon]
    #20604638 - 09/23/14 01:50 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

For your first try I would do the PF Tek. Follow it exactly and you should see mushrooms. Then if you want bulk next time around try spawn (rye/wbs/popcorn). Some people never leave PF Tek!

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Re: PF Tek - Best substrate ? [Re: FelixDaCat]
    #20604659 - 09/23/14 02:08 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

OP is asking about alternate grain flours for PF tek, if my understanding is correct.


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Re: PF Tek - Best substrate ? [Re: Psilicon]
    #20605118 - 09/23/14 07:58 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

You are indeed correct. I'll just go with the standard procedure. :elmo:


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Re: PF Tek - Best substrate ? [Re: sisomsO]
    #20609058 - 09/23/14 10:44 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Oh i see and i have a thread about using other flours i have only had sucess with BRF. I tried a BRF/rye/quinoa mix. Didnt even see germination...

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Re: PF Tek - Best substrate ? [Re: FelixDaCat]
    #20609373 - 09/24/14 12:01 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

it's hard for me to find BRF where I live so I've started taking regular brown rice from the store and boiling the shit out of it until the rice has expanded into a fluffy goo and then adding vermiculite to that. I don't have any exact ratios to use for that method since I just adjust it by adding more verm or water until it feels right to me.

boiling whole rice into goo seems to really release the nutrients in the rice and make them more freely available to the mycelium than with BRF.

I also will add small amounts of organic wheat flour, cottonseed meal, spent coffee grounds, gypsum, ground flax seed. There's all kinds of things you can throw in the mix that the mushrooms will love. In general, the more you can add to the nutritional diversity without over concentrating the nutritional density, the better.


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Re: PF Tek - Best substrate ? [Re: wowimflabbergasted]
    #20609513 - 09/24/14 01:06 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

BRF works great for spawn IME...

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Re: PF Tek - Best substrate ? [Re: sisomsO]
    #20609526 - 09/24/14 01:15 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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it's hard for me to find BRF where I live so I've started taking regular brown rice from the store and boiling the shit out of it until the rice has expanded into a fluffy goo and then adding vermiculite to that. I don't have any exact ratios to use for that method since I just adjust it by adding more verm or water until it feels right to me.

boiling whole rice into goo seems to really release the nutrients in the rice and make them more freely available to the mycelium than with BRF.

I also will add small amounts of organic wheat flour, cottonseed meal, spent coffee grounds, gypsum, ground flax seed. There's all kinds of things you can throw in the mix that the mushrooms will love. In general, the more you can add to the nutritional diversity without over concentrating the nutritional density, the better.



i've done this with wbs once with a whole 20 lb bag, it was shit grain that was super dirty/busted grains so i did exactly what you described, no measuring or anythign just adddverm till it felt right
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Should I use verm and BRF? I read WBS or rye is better. What do you guys think is best for a noob with 12 half pint jars?



doesn't get much better then brf


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Re: PF Tek - Best substrate ? [Re: cronicr]
    #20609566 - 09/24/14 01:27 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)


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Re: PF Tek - Best substrate ? [Re: psilocybeMAN]
    #20609726 - 09/24/14 02:48 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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BRF works great for spawn IME...




This prompts me to mention something I made a thread about a while back but didn't really keep updated very well.

Since my recent move, it's hard to find a lot of materials for this hobby that were easily available where I moved from. One of those things being coco coir.

One day I decided to go ahead a buy a bag of regular potting soil from the Dollar General store down the road. It was just plain soil with no additives or fertilizers. I mixed it with verm and hydrated the mixture and then sterilized it and then spawned a few cakes to it at a 1:1 ratio. so all my half pint cakes were mixed with a half pint of soil/verm to make some 1 pint mini bulk sub cakes.

I was actually a bit surprised to see them colonize quite fast and go on to produce just as well or perhaps better than the coir substrates I've used before. And at $1.99 per cubic foot, that's pretty feakin awesome! Super cheap, super available and super easy!

I pretty much never fruit cakes directly anymore because of this. All my cakes get spawned into soil substrate blocks now lol


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Re: PF Tek - Best substrate ? [Re: shamanamba]
    #20609809 - 09/24/14 03:56 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

If it's hard for you to find brf just buy Brown rice and pulverize into powder.

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