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OfflineWhoozer
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Whoozer's Debatable Monotub Tek
    #22318543 - 10/01/15 10:53 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Hello Shroomery before I get started on my very stale step by step tek
I'd like to thank the whole Shroomery Community for taking up many and many late nights reading old posts many laughs and reading an incredible amount of information.
I'd also like to add my tek is relied heavily on Frank's 12 steps to shrooms. EVERYTHING written in this tek is based off information I have found on this site, so I would like to thank Frank Horrigan, Roger Rabbit and all the Trusted Cultivators. Also many and many noobs that asked all the repetitive questions (That I also had) and got answers and the usual "use the search bar"
The Power of the all mighty Search Bar :angel:
I'm looking for feedback and constructive criticism to better my tek
Feel free to leave recommendations, tips, and funny comments
In the near future I will be posting a more in depth tek.
Complete with Glossary, Reasoning behind certain choices and other viable options, and pictures. this is merely a draft.
I'd like to also add that I do have cultivating experience but it has been awhile.
So without further ado

Step One: Construct a still-air box
Gather SAB, Drill, Bit, Marker, Sandpaper
Sterilite 116-Quart Ultra Storage (I'm now thinking about using smaller tubs)
Put SAB in similar or same position you will be using it in
Put arms straight down to side, bend at elbows and put your fingers against the SAB palms toward the floor.
Where your middle finger is, make that the center of your two holes and mark with the marker
Use a 4-6" hole saw and drill the two holes.
Clean out debris and clean up edges
Place SAB aside

Step Two: Make your lids
Gather Jars, Drill, Drill Bit
Ball wide mouth Quart sized jars, SFD's
Collect all lids
Using a 1/8" or 1/16th" bit (RR recommends both multiple times looking for input on one or another)
drill 4 holes in the lids in a square 1/4" inside the bevel
Turn the lids the opposite way they would normally go on
Place SFD on top
Put metal ring on and tighten

Step Three: Grains
Grains, Pressure Cooker, Strainer, Coffee, Lime, Gypsum, Foil, Jars
Honeyville Rye Berry AKA Rye Grain
(Best brand of non fungicide treated Rye Berry?)
Empty a cup of grain per quart jar + 1 more cup into Pressure cooker
Fill with room temp water
Agitate grains
Empty into large strainer
Repeat until water runs clear
With Grains in pressure cooker
Now add fresh coffee and hot water (50% coffee, 50% water) to the bucket until the grains are submerged a few inches
Add one teaspoon of hydrated lime (calcium hydroxide lime with no magnesium)per 2 gallons of soak water/coffee
Add one tablespoon of gypsum per gallon of soak water/coffee
Let grains soak for 12-24 hours
turn heat on high, bring to a boil and boil for 10 minutes.
Make sure to stir
Empty onto window screen
Let dry (Put grains on a piece of paper towel for 15 sec, if no wet spots. Then grains are ready)
Now load grains into quart jars 3/4th full
Tear square pieces of foil for each jar
Close Jars lids,sfd,ring,foil in that order
Pressure cook 90-120mins @ 15PSI
Shake each jar when bring out of PC
Place jars in one of the future Monotubs with lid on top

Step Four: Inoculation
Personally, will be working in marked area off with painters plastic
Turn off the Air/Heat in your Place
Set up plastic walls
Prepare Yourself (Take a shower, Wear clean clothes, Brush teeth, etc)
Spray walls with iso and oust entire room
Set up Table, SAB, spore syringe, Tub with sterilized jars of grain in it, Overalls, Gloves, rubber bands, face mask (clean everything with Iso soaked towels before entering area)
Enter room and place attire on overalls, gloves (tape gloves and sleeves together), etc
Oust Entire Room Well
Break up colonized spawn jars on a bike tire
Spray down a couple paper towels with -(another question for you Cultivators. isopropyl alcohol, Dishsoap, or Bleach water?)
Open SAB & clean it. Be sure to wipe down the lid last.
Line the bottom of the SAB with paper towels and spray them with (choose of cleaner)
Place on SAB leaving 1/2 of SAB open
Wipe down grain jars with iso soaked paper towels really well and place in SAB
Spray SAB with Oust and place lid on
Wipe gloves down with Iso
Inside the SAB remove the foil from each jar and discard
Shake syringe vigorously and wipe down with iso
Inside the SAB attach the needle and remove the cap
Outside of the SAB flame the tip until red hot then move into SAB
Squirt a couple drops on the floor of the SAB
Unscrew each jar and take the SFD with it
tilt up lid and in a circle along the edge squirt around 1cc of liquid
Repeat for the rest of the jars in your SAB.
Set jars on shelf to colonize

Step Five: Colonize the grains
After 5-7 days you should see some growth
Room temps set at 75 degrees F
6500k Fluorescent lights in the room on a 12/12 timer
After 25% of the jar is colonized, smack the jars on a bike tire until all the grains are broken up.
Shake it vigorously for 30 seconds.
Put jars back to Colonize
Wait for full colonization on all jars.

Step Six: Prepare the substrate
5 gallon bucket, Coir, Fine Vermiculite, Gypsum, Filter bags, PC, Thermometer, Zip-Tie,
General Hydroponics CocoTek Natural Coconut Coir Brick
Hoffman's Horticultural Vermiculite
Gypsum is Gypsum
Use 80-90 degree (room temp)  tap water for hydrating substrate.
One brick of coir= 6-8 quarts after hydrated (look on the packaged coir it should say)
Recipe- Scale up as needed
One brick of coir
2 quarts of fine grade vermiculite (per brick of coir)
Handful of granulated gypsum (per brick of coir)
Per coir brick=4 quarts of water
Per quart of verm=Half quart of water
Hydrate in a 5 gallon bucket
Put desired amount of Coir and Vermiculite in bucket
Pour the water over the substrate
Hydrate until Coir brick is expanded (30 minutes to 1 hour)
Use hands to mix substrate up thoroughly
Press the substrate down into a block on the bottom of the tub
Mix it up again and repeat a couple times. Test for field capacity by squeezing a handful and looking for a dozen or so drops of water to run out of it.
If it's too wet, add another half quart of verm and compress/break up the substrate a couple more times
If it's too dry, add another 1/2 cup to a full cup of water.
Throw in desired amount of gypsum and mix it in with the substrate
Load Substrate into bags
Compress the Substrate (try to get all the air pockets out)
Place thermometer through center of bag and substrate
Twist the top of the bag and use a zip tie to the close it
Put bag in PC (make sure to use a canning rack underneath)
Fill with water halfway up bag
Place lid on (without turning it, or putting the wing nuts in place)
Turn stove on medium heat.
Take note of starting temperature
Raise temperature climb 6-8 degrees F
Turn stove off
Let substrate raise in temp
When substrate hits 140F, start a timer for 60 minutes.

Step Seven: Make your monotubs
Fill tub with water to desired amount of substrate
mark the water line (this will be the bottom of the holes)
place bottom holes 6” from the sides of tub and mark
End holes as high as possible
Drill holes with 1.5" bit (hole-saw pref)
Ideal substrate depth is 3.5-4"
Another question for the Shroomery Cultivators Tape, Painter's Plastic, Or Trash Bag to line the Mono.
Cover all holes with tape

Step Eight: Dunk the grains
When Jars are 100% colonized
if contamination-toss
No contamination-
Break up each jar by hitting them against a bike tire
Open each jar and give it a smell
If pass the smell test continue to next step
Option to dunk or not to dunk
If jars seem hydrated enough continue to next step, if jars are dry
Fill each jar with cold tap water
let soak for 10-20 minutes
Use lid to drain water
Any opinions on dunking?

Step Nine: Spawn the tubs
Wash hands and wear gloves
Pour substrate into tub
Pour spawn into tub
Mix this together thoroughly, Even it out as best you can on top
Put the lid on and place on shelf
let colonize 100%

Step Ten: Fruiting
Remove all duct tape from holes
Stuff bottom holes very tightly with polyfill, stuff the top holes very loosely
Turn a fan on in the room and point it towards the wall next to the tubs
Leave it on 24/7
6500k Fluorescent lights to light the room

Step Eleven: Harvesting
Question for you cultivators, twist n pull or cut to harvest. If you cut what tool do you use?
Right before or after the veils break on the majority of your fruits then harvest
If some caps are opening early, harvest them
Harvest aborts at the end of each flush or if beginning to rot then harvest
Load your harvest into your dehydrator and dry with heat until cracker dry

For a second flush mist the surface heavily and replace


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