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TheNub
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dirty coco coir or clean coir? do shrooms care?
#21074032 - 01/05/15 09:51 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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i see a lot of people that just seem to consider all brands of coco coir to be the same with mushroom growing. i've grown a decent amount of weed and i know from that, that some brands have dirty coco; especially the pet store stuff. i also know that some brand like NF (nutrifield) have some pretty clean coco coir bricks. this is always better when growing plants, but do mushrooms care?
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Mushroom_J
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Re: dirty coco coir or clean coir? do shrooms care? [Re: TheNub]
#21074135 - 01/05/15 10:05 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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If you mean clean by the amount of salts and the powdery muddy run off.. I'm not sure if animal grade is pre-washed. Plants don't like a lot of salts so companies usually rinse it and it's recommended you rinse it before you use it anyways.
If it isn't washed then it doesn't seem to bother mycelium. With a lot of the horticultural grade coir, trichderma is added which is something we don't want in this hobby.
Pet store stuff is cheap, works and there's no trich.
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Inocuole
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Re: dirty coco coir or clean coir? do shrooms care? [Re: TheNub]
#21074151 - 01/05/15 10:07 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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TheNub said: i see a lot of people that just seem to consider all brands of coco coir to be the same with mushroom growing. i've grown a decent amount of weed and i know from that, that some brands have dirty coco; especially the pet store stuff. i also know that some brand like NF (nutrifield) have some pretty clean coco coir bricks. this is always better when growing plants, but do mushrooms care?
I'm actually not sure because sometimes it seems like even after being fully colonized the substrate wants to bleed off more of that orange shit sometimes that you get when you clean the coir. It could also be metabolites and I could have bacteria issues but, for the most part, the eco earth coir for pet bedding that's nasty as fuck otherwise, is actually pretty good to use for bulk grows. I certainly haven't noticed that they mind it.
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Re: dirty coco coir or clean coir? do shrooms care? [Re: Inocuole]
#21076926 - 01/06/15 12:40 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yea that Eco-Earth does seem to work fine.
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TheNub
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Re: dirty coco coir or clean coir? do shrooms care? [Re: FreeWorldOrder]
#21083592 - 01/07/15 06:06 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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well, i ended up grabbing a couple NF Mega Bricks for $12 a piece. it is supposed to be clean right out of the package. hopefully the mushrooms like it as much as my plants do.
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