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drake89
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Grow house upgrades
#23354818 - 06/17/16 01:23 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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We've been fortunate enough to make some upgrades to the farm lately. After bagging about 100,000 lbs of substrate by hand we upgraded to a mixer/bagger. To make best use of this we had to upgrade our steaming to a small shed. It's 12x8 and holds 500 bags on rolling racks. 4x6kw steamers. The shed is right outside the lab so it's cut out the loading and unloading time. Which was about 30 or 40 min for 100 bags. We also got a spawn dispenser that holds about 20 lbs perfectly. That's cut down a bit on labor as well, and saving my shoulder.


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Mattisfat
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: drake89]
#23354910 - 06/17/16 02:00 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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chefjrd
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: Mattisfat]
#23354924 - 06/17/16 02:08 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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That's an awesome shed! Nice!
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hellolion
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: drake89]
#23354935 - 06/17/16 02:13 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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12x8...that's almost as big as my entire operation!
Looks really cool! Thanks for sharing your progress.
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Gr0wer
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: hellolion]
#23354962 - 06/17/16 02:19 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Lookin good man! So with this spawn dispenser, I take it that's in front of a massive flowhood? How do you sterilize the funnel? And are you just manually metering the grain weight? I'm sure there is a way you could rig two valves with a gap between to more precisely meeter without the need of a scale. Thanks for sharing!
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micelio
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: Gr0wer]
#23358511 - 06/18/16 04:16 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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drake89..
Your a true inspiration to everyone on this site...
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Marty Mycfly
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: micelio]
#23358616 - 06/18/16 04:56 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wow! Where is this spawn dispenser from?
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drake89
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Quote:
micelio said: drake89..
Your a true inspiration to everyone on this site...
Aw shucks...
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Marty Mycfly said: Wow! Where is this spawn dispenser from?
Swiss made but I got it off a second hand stainless scrap dealer on ebay for $500
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Gr0wer
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: drake89]
#23359299 - 06/18/16 09:28 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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How do you sterilize it?
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frog48
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: Gr0wer]
#23359623 - 06/19/16 12:34 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hey Drake, got a question about your sauna steamer set up. If I understood well you got your steamers hooked up to the small shed/extension, right? Much bigger than your two 100 gallon barrels, right. How long does it take to heat the whole bunch up? And what's the electricity consumption? I'm asking because I'm looking for a way to sterilize more bags with my wood fired boiler. Have to automate it and I'm looking for a way to build a bigger steam vessel than the two 55 gallon barrels I got now. Was thinking about constructing a shed like construction like you have now. Might use concrete though, but I'm not sure if that's the best solution cause heat is going into concrete and it's probably gonna take more time to heat it up.

Current set up, want to replace barrels by bigger steam chamber
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Gr0wer
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: frog48]
#23360414 - 06/19/16 10:24 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yea i would say concrete isn't the best option Its a lot of thermal mass. Something like what drake made, a insulated steel shed would be better.
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drake89
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: Gr0wer]
#23360788 - 06/19/16 12:47 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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12hrs on at 4x6kw is about 250kwh or $25 per run. It's takes almost the full 12hrs to get the bags core to 212. Then 24hrs cool down.
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frog48
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: drake89]
#23360872 - 06/19/16 01:29 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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How many bags?
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Gr0wer
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: frog48]
#23361165 - 06/19/16 03:39 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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It's 12x8 and holds 500 bags on rolling racks.
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micelio
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: frog48]
#23361166 - 06/19/16 03:39 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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drake89:
In the second picture .245.. Is that 1/4 lb. of spawn to the bag of substrate?
Also is that a extra large bag?
What's the weight subtrate in that bag?
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: micelio]
#23361794 - 06/19/16 07:45 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Awesome new tools! I like the idea of the spawn dispenser
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drake89
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: micelio]
#23361888 - 06/19/16 08:26 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
micelio said: drake89:
In the second picture .245.. Is that 1/4 lb. of spawn to the bag of substrate?
Also is that a extra large bag?
What's the weight subtrate in that bag?
Yes no and 6.5lbs
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frog48
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: drake89]
#23362638 - 06/20/16 02:01 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks guys, great info, enough to keep me going for a while. Getting pretty good at growing mush but the engineering part is not my biggest talent. Plan to grow a shitload though before I die, hope I got enough time 
Nice set up Drake!
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micelio
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: frog48]
#23363784 - 06/20/16 12:55 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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drake....
In image 7. I see a green 6" 400 cfm. inline blower and a 24"x24"x12" Hepa filter.
Is this unit for cooling down your steam room shed or do you run this during your steam cycle?
I see steam coming out of your vent on the roof image 5. Is this vent open during your steam cycle?
Thanks in advance....
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drake89
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Re: Grow house upgrades [Re: micelio]
#23363918 - 06/20/16 01:58 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
micelio said: drake....
In image 7. I see a green 6" 400 cfm. inline blower and a 24"x24"x12" Hepa filter.
Is this unit for cooling down your steam room shed or do you run this during your steam cycle?
I see steam coming out of your vent on the roof image 5. Is this vent open during your steam cycle?
Thanks in advance....
cool down and the vent is just a simple pipe that's always open. the filters are 2x99.97 filters in series for 99.999 filtering.
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