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Limed substrate?
    #22302401 - 09/28/15 11:34 AM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Wondering if anyone has added lime to CVG? I'm pasteurizing a new batch right now. I'm going to test the pH, which I expect to be on the acidic side. Depending on the answers here, I may or may not add garden lime to raise the pH.

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Re: Limed substrate? [Re: Ajahn Don]
    #22302404 - 09/28/15 11:35 AM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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Ajahn Don said:
Wondering if anyone has added lime to CVG? I'm pasteurizing a new batch right now. I'm going to test the pH, which I expect to be on the acidic side. Depending on the answers here, I may or may not add garden lime to raise the pH.

Opinions wanted.

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Re: Limed substrate? [Re: PussyFart]
    #22302617 - 09/28/15 12:34 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

:whathesaid: we use lime in casing layers because they do not get fully colonized, substrates do


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Re: Limed substrate? [Re: cronicr]
    #22302630 - 09/28/15 12:37 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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:whathesaid: we use lime in casing layers because they do not get fully colonized, substrates do




Is it because of pH? Do cubes prefer an alkaline or neutral environment? I use lime in a peat casing because peat is wickedly acidic. Or that is the reason I thought I was using it. Nobody has ever really addressed this in my research.

So why is not fully colonizing the reason?


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Re: Limed substrate? [Re: Ajahn Don]
    #22302645 - 09/28/15 12:42 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

a fully colonized sub is already contam resistent as is a pasturized sub, a casing layer is not colonized  and always exposed so by raising the ph to level that mold spores don't like we favor our mycelium which can handle it without issue


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