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Whats your Favorite Substrate?
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Appearently all the health food stores in my area have the same supplier, at least when it comes to organic rye berries. All four health food stores I have visited had to pull thier supply of rye berries because they had "bugs" in them, and they arn't going to order from that supplier again because this has happened more then once. Now im at a loss, I have used rye as my substrate for 4 years with adequate results. Now the only way I can aquire any is if I special order it over the internet. I have tried WBS once as it turned out in disaster, I dont know if it was the quality of seed or what, but it ended with 100% contamination. Is there a specific brand of seed that works better then others? I would like to use some kind of seed because it is cheaper then rye and can prove to have the same results. Thus bringing me to my question: Whats your favorite substrate? Thanks for any info.


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Deviant]
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regular LGBR, poo, and straw


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Deviant]
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gotta love the millet.


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Hanky]
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:-) Im starting millet substrate jars soon on hankys advice! ill let you all know how it goes!


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Yarry]
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woops i forgot, if you have a bulk food store around you see if they carry 7 grain flour. ive had nothing but great results from it.


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Deviant]
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Thanks for the ideas, I bought some WBS at the local pet store, I hope this works. The ingredents are Millet, Milo, Sunflower, Wheat, Groud yellow corn, Calcium Carbonate, salt, Steamed Bone Meal, Vitiamine A palmitate, Vitiamine D3 supplement.
Anybody see anything in there that could be potentally bad? Where coould one aquire pure millet?


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Deviant]
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WBS, I especially like it ground, and put into the PF tek, as a replacement for the BRF.


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Deviant]
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Nobody else has any suggestions?


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Deviant]
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WBS all the way, but I am going to try popcorn soon.

Fuck BRF :smile:


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Deviant]
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I have tried WBS once as it turned out in disaster, I dont know if it was the quality of seed or what, but it ended with 100% contamination.



I suspect that grains not marketed for human consumption will always be more contamination-prone. Grains you buy at the grocery store, like popcorn or rye berries, are just cleaner than birdseed. WBS is not practical at all without a pressure cooker, and even with one, you have to be extra-careful about PCing it for the full hour at a full 15 psi. Boiling it the night before should clean it up even more, since many of the endospores will start to germinate and be more easily killed come sterilization time.

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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: jeffcoat]
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I'm going to be trying hulled millet in the pf tek thanks to some good advice!


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Deviant]
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Finch Seed Mix

Ingredients: Siberian Millet, German Millet, Canary Seed, White Proso Millet, White Wonder Millet, Flaxseed, Red Proso Millet.

Works like a charm :thumbup:


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: blazenaz]
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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Deviant]
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Best success rate so far for me was with popcorn. I found it's easier to prepare and colonize than any other grain I tried so far.

It's so cheap, easy and damn fast colonizer. Just give it a try!

Follow this tek for preparation. 100% fool proof :

http://www.shroomery.org/index/par/22982

It really worths a try in my opinion.

.fs.

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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Requiem]
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Got a feed store that processes on site, which keeps the cost way down.


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: blazenaz]
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make sure it STILL HAS HULLED ususally hulled means no hulls i believe...anything that says NO MESS..stay away from it, or yoiu will end up with a ball of mush.


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: GregHimself]
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Works everytime :grin:


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Deviant]
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Popcorn the last few months - having much more consistent results. Just don't overcook or leave soaking too long - you'll get gooey, gross crap instead of good white stuff.


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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Deviant]
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I have to say straight WBS cased works great and the potency is unbeilivable

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Re: Whats your Favorite Substrate? [Re: Deviant]
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I have enjoyed working with millet the most so far...but I haven't had enough experience yet to call it my favorite

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