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Gloogloos
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Cardboard for Reishi questions
#23363119 - 06/20/16 07:54 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hey guys, so I have been doing some research on growing reishi off of cardboard, really cool idea and I have access to absolute fuckloads of cardboard at all times.
My main question is what king of cardboard is good, I read somewhere that anything produced in the states or europe is good to go but anywhere else may contain toxins, problem is almost nothing says where it was produced other than pizza boxes (I am guessing because there is direct contact with food). I have tons of amazon boxes that I would like to use, and im assuming anything packaged in the US more than likely is cardboard produced in the US (It would be silly to import), but I am not sure. Any thoughts on this, does it even matter?
2) Does it matter if its corrugated, that thin, dense stuff or dyed. I have lots and lots of six packs and beer cases that are dyed and a much thinner cardboard, im guessing this is fine but I just want to be sure.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, for those interested the spawn is coming from colonized rye jars.
Thanks guys, Gloo
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Ferather
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Re: Cardboard for Reishi questions [Re: Gloogloos]
#23363214 - 06/20/16 08:56 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Saturate your card in lots of really hot water, the water will turn brown a bit. Should be enough to remove resins, rinse or strain the card.
It its non toxic it uses plant based dye's.
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Gr0wer
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Re: Cardboard for Reishi questions [Re: Ferather]
#23364026 - 06/20/16 02:53 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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I found a thin metal cutting cutoff wheel cuts cardboard nicely. A circular saw would work too I bet.
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Ferather
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Re: Cardboard for Reishi questions [Re: Gr0wer]
#23364053 - 06/20/16 03:00 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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lol DIY at its best
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tren
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Re: Cardboard for Reishi questions [Re: Ferather]
#23366082 - 06/21/16 08:08 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Cardboard works great for reishi, I find the corrugated stuff tends to colonise the best. Regarding toxicity, I think the main worry is heavy metals, if you ring Amazon, they're obliged to tell you where their boxes are made.
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stareatclouds
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Re: Cardboard for Reishi questions [Re: Gloogloos]
#24199957 - 03/28/17 02:25 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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So what's the standard for cardboard or newspaper with Reishi? Boil shredded newspaper and cardboard to remove toxins + introduce adequate moisture and then mix with grain spawn? Is sterilization or pasteurization preferred over the other here?
Since I have both PP5s and filter bags, I'm thinking I'll rock both. For PP5s, I'll sterilize a mixture of cardboard, newspaper, coir and straw and fill the center with colonized oats. For bags, maybe I'll sterilize wood chips, choir, and newspaper or something?
Any issues?
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