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binny97
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Sterilization in PF tek
#22442053 - 10/27/15 08:44 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm working on starting my first grow using the PF tek. I've got everything I need, but my vermiculite and perlite were not purchased from the cleanest or most sterile environment. do I run the risk of contamination at various stages of the process, and if so, is there anything I can do to sterilize my verm and perlite?
The verm LOOKS fine (which I know doesn't mean much), but the perlite has what seems to be little pieces of dirt in it:
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Re: Sterilization in PF tek [Re: binny97]
#22442075 - 10/27/15 08:47 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Super fine vermiculite doesn't work the greatest. The jars need small air pockets. It doesn't matter what you do to the substrate before sterilizing it, you could literally sneeze and fart on it with no consequences... to the substrate anyway.
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Edited by Arush (10/27/15 09:05 PM)
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binny97
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Re: Sterilization in PF tek [Re: Arush]
#22442134 - 10/27/15 08:57 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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The stuff in the photo is the perlite, though.
Edited by binny97 (10/27/15 08:58 PM)
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Re: Sterilization in PF tek [Re: binny97]
#22442159 - 10/27/15 09:02 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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The perlite is just for humidity while fruiting. Cakes are great at resisting contaminates once 100% so you don't have to worry. That bag is mostly perlite anyway.
-------------------- http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/22409475 “Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” ― Terence McKenna
Edited by Arush (10/27/15 09:02 PM)
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Re: Sterilization in PF tek [Re: binny97] 1
#22442173 - 10/27/15 09:04 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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i have used fine verm with no consequences in pf jars before it will work and there is no need to sterilize the verm as it gets sterilized in the jars where it matters and for the perlite put it in your oven and bake it if you want or not its not a big contam vector because the cakes are 100% colonized when they meet the perlite and 100% colonized anything is very contam resist now if your perlite starts to smell or grow mold then obviously sterilize it
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binny97
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Re: Sterilization in PF tek [Re: tetherface]
#22442216 - 10/27/15 09:10 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Cool, all questions answered. Thanks!!
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