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Nordel said:
Even though the ingredients seem right, the ph-level seems too high.
I'm not super sure, but i think peat should have 4-5 since its quite acidic. That's why its bumped with lime etc.

Oh...just noticed that it already contains lime etc.
So i guess its prebumped.

So (i would also like to know that!) when used, one doesnt need to add extra lime? Right?

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Jakeoncid419 said:
You want your ph between 7-7.5

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Asura said:
When I mix up the peat and verm, pH is usually right at 7. But I use that
miracle grow shit which is probably tailored to be at that range.

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Thank you Asura ! Do you leave it at 7 or do you add more lime to make it higher ?

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Regarding poo, in my country it is easy to find hpoo on ebay in all forms. People who own horses are keen on selling it there. You can get fresh, dried, composted.
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I had some space in my last PC-run of normal rye grain jars so I did an experiment that looks promising so far. "Fonio-Paddy" as spawn. It is used as a special bird food in my Europe. The interesting thing is, that it has a grain size much smaller than every other common spawn - about as the same grain size as Amaranth. The thing with Amaranth is that it gets super slimy and is hard to prepare as spawn. Fonio (hulled Fonio for birds) I found to be easy to prepare. If it works, the small grain size could make a nice spawn. It holds water well while still being possible to behave nice, being shakable - at least for now, not sure what will happen when the mycelium has grown out fully in the jar.
I do know however, that such experiments often go wrong, so I just do it out of curiosity on the side.

This is Estero on Fonio-grain (toothpick for size):



Fonio wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitaria_exilis#Nutritional_value_of_Digitaria_exilis