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Offlinebeastcoast
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Recommendation for polytubing?
    #21706073 - 05/21/15 11:43 AM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Is there a specific kind I should be buying? A link to a seller would be great. I know it has to be 4 mil and 10.5" diameter, but that's all I really know. I'll be growing oysters.

Silly question: I hear a lot of people saying that you don't need to puncture the bags until the mushrooms are ready for fruiting. Where is the air exchange/humidity coming from without those holes? Thanks guys


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Re: Recommendation for polytubing? [Re: beastcoast]
    #21706340 - 05/21/15 01:19 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Uline - 16" lay flat tubing will be a little over 10" real diameter

punch holes for air and fruiting.  if you punch fruiting holes at 100% colonization you will wait a lot longer for harvest.  i go from inoculation to pinning in 17 days like clockwork on the 3015 strain of grey/blue oyster.


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Re: Recommendation for polytubing? [Re: drake89]
    #21706566 - 05/21/15 02:11 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

I get my tubing from Uline as well :thumbup: at my door in just a day or two.


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Re: Recommendation for polytubing? [Re: beastcoast]
    #21706595 - 05/21/15 02:19 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

beastcoast said:
Is there a specific kind I should be buying? A link to a seller would be great. I know it has to be 4 mil and 10.5" diameter, but that's all I really know. I'll be growing oysters.

Silly question: I hear a lot of people saying that you don't need to puncture the bags until the mushrooms are ready for fruiting. Where is the air exchange/humidity coming from without those holes? Thanks guys



Im actually looking into it too... and its very pricey. FYI a 10.5 diameter bag would be a 12 inch tube flat. U can buy hundreds of feet on ULine for well over $100 or u can buy single six foot lengths from Shroom Supply. RR recommends 4 mil, 12 inch.


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Re: Recommendation for polytubing? [Re: SpinScratch]
    #21706625 - 05/21/15 02:27 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

How so?

"To calculate diameter: multiply layflat width X .6368 = diameter"
http://www.brentwoodplastics.com/layflat

10.5"/.6368= ~16.5"

And can you find RR's quote on that? I'm pretty sure that he said that 12" is the MAX diameter you can go before you get an anaerobic core. Besides, 10" logs are heavy enough as it is


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Re: Recommendation for polytubing? [Re: Chris893]
    #21725466 - 05/26/15 04:26 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Shroom supply sells individual tubes but theirs are 9" diameter. Will this suffice?


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Re: Recommendation for polytubing? [Re: beastcoast]
    #21726641 - 05/26/15 09:24 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

curveball here but i'm going with 5 gal buckets after considering polytube. The extra waste was not appealing to me, sure you could wash out bags but buckets are much more re use friendly. Plus 5 gal buckets you can stack and have a convenient handle on em.


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Re: Recommendation for polytubing? [Re: Gr0wer]
    #21727017 - 05/26/15 11:37 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

hmmmmmm...... :takingnotes:


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Re: Recommendation for polytubing? [Re: OysterKing]
    #21727049 - 05/26/15 11:50 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

I should mention the one downside, lack of transparency so you can't see contaminations.


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Re: Recommendation for polytubing? [Re: beastcoast]
    #21727917 - 05/27/15 09:22 AM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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beastcoast said:
Shroom supply sells individual tubes but theirs are 9" diameter. Will this suffice?




That'll work great, just remember to poke holes in the bags for gas exchange.

Lots of people use buckets too but for your first few times I'd recommend tubing just so you can see what's going on in there.


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