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Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison * 1
    #23417292 - 07/06/16 03:16 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

First off, I do not condone using softwood pellets! I bought a bag of them a few years ago and never used them, I ran out of hardwood pellets a few days ago and ended up with a bunch of extra spawn that needed to be used, so I said what the hell.

All of these bags were spawned with Amycel 3015 grey oysters.

I mixed up 20 lb's of softwood pellets and supplemented with wheat bran 40% (8 lb's of bran).
I made 11 bags from that, 6 5 lb. bags, and 5 8 lb. bags. They all were sterilized and inoculated 2 days ago on July 4th.


At the same time I made a batch with the rest of my hardwood pellets supplemented at 20% with wheat bran.


They seem to be colonizing at about the same speed, the softwood may be running a tad bit faster.

Anyways this is just a test and I dont expect shit out of the softwood, but it will be interesting to see. Any of you have any success stories with softwood pellets? I dont think I have ever heard any.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Marty Mycfly] * 1
    #23417412 - 07/06/16 03:46 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Great work!

Softwood breaks down faster AFAIK, if equal weight then it should be better.
If its really old it performs better, I've grown on old pine before.

If you have to, soak and strain the softwood.
Removes some of the inhibitory resin.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Ferather] * 1
    #23417717 - 07/06/16 05:11 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I used pine pellet cat litter as a growing substrate for oysters (blue, white elm, even a P. nebrodensis block) and had success but I never really payed attention to yields.  At the time hardwood pellets were pretty hard to find locally.  I'm going to start growing again soon so I'm curious to see how the two compare.  From what I understand pine is less dense than hardwoods, so it should colonize faster...


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Paresthesia] * 1
    #23417852 - 07/06/16 05:51 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Awesome! Thanks for posting and experimenting. I'm looking forward to seeing how well they do because I can get softwood pellets all day but hardwood isn't easy to find here.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: chefjrd] * 1
    #23417891 - 07/06/16 06:04 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Awesome! Thanks for posting and experimenting. I'm looking forward to seeing how well they do because I can get softwood pellets all day but hardwood isn't easy to find here.



Same here, I can get softwood pellets all day as well, and cheap, the ace by me sells 40 lb bags for 3.99 trying to get rid of them, but hardwood pellets are scarce and I have bought out any local source, usually when Im in this predicament I buy Traeger Oak pellets for bbq's, I can get those here all year around but they are 15 bucks a bag! I did break down and order some hardwood pellets on Amazon though yesterday and they will be here next week.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Ferather] * 1
    #23417906 - 07/06/16 06:08 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Great work!

Softwood breaks down faster AFAIK, if equal weight then it should be better.
If its really old it performs better, I've grown on old pine before.

If you have to, soak and strain the softwood.
Removes some of the inhibitory resin.




I read RR saying he uses mostly aged pine, he thinks too the aging is the trick. I dont know if this is pine though, the analysis on the bag just said softwood.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Marty Mycfly] * 1
    #23419256 - 07/07/16 05:53 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

It won't matter if it is'nt pine, smell it you will soon know.
Aged wood breaks down faster, fresh is too bonded.

Just soak-n-strain if you have to.

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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Ferather] * 1
    #23419365 - 07/07/16 07:08 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

interested in seeing the results! softwood so easy to come by around here


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: poponon] * 1
    #23424231 - 07/08/16 05:11 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I got decent enough elm oyster fruitings off of pine kitty litter, I recall the Rush Wayne manual saying the aromatic compounds are removed when the sawdust is heated and pressed?


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Paresthesia] * 1
    #23425686 - 07/09/16 05:18 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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I got decent enough elm oyster fruitings off of pine kitty litter, I recall the Rush Wayne manual saying the aromatic compounds are removed when the sawdust is heated and pressed?




Some of it, but sadly not the case. Age, heat, light, straining (rain).
Warm soak-n-strain is easiest to remove large amounts.

The waste water will smell and be amber.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Ferather] * 1
    #23428075 - 07/09/16 11:49 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Hey guys, here is an update on the softwood vs. hardwood pellets.
The softwood pellet bags are running great! Faster than the hardwood right now, but I have a dilemma! My hardwood bags were made waaaay too wet! Thats why they are colonizing slower and look a little funky. I dont how I made that batch so wet, but if any thing happens to those bags it's definitely the moisture because the softwood bags look great and was from the same bag of spawn.

Here are some pictures of the softwood running great on the 5 and 8 lb. bags
5 days after inoculation, some of the bags are 100%





They look pretty good, but here is the hardwood bags looking funky









What do you guys think about the hardwood bags, are they screwed?
Oh and my lab just keeps getting hotter and hotter, maybe that combined with too much water affected those bags?


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Marty Mycfly] * 1
    #23428998 - 07/10/16 10:57 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

They look fine. Worry when you have uncolonized parts, green mold or puddles of water at the bottom.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Marty Mycfly] * 1
    #23429012 - 07/10/16 11:05 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Hmmm, when I add Golden oyster direct to water I get waste passing to the water.
Sometimes when you mist metabolites appear, same mechanic I believe.

Could be cells bursting but then, rain and liquid cultures.
Smell it, see if it smells bad I guess.

They don't seem bad.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Ferather] * 1
    #23429317 - 07/10/16 01:13 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Looking good Marty,  thanks for documenting your trial.  How much spawn did you use to get such fast colonization?


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: MorePies] * 1
    #23429463 - 07/10/16 02:16 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Looking good Marty,  thanks for documenting your trial.  How much spawn did you use to get such fast colonization?



Thanks dude!
For spawn, I used a bag roughly 14 lb.s to inoculate 24 bags, 5 8 lb bags and the rest 5 lb. bags. The spawn was rye berries, which I usually only use for masters, I like millet for going to sub because of all of the inoculation points, but the rye seems to be doing a great job. I like working with rye a hell of a lot better anyways, I can make rye grain perfect, I cant say the same about any other grain.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Ferather] * 1
    #23429474 - 07/10/16 02:19 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Hmmm, when I add Golden oyster direct to water I get waste passing to the water.
Sometimes when you mist metabolites appear, same mechanic I believe.

Could be cells bursting but then, rain and liquid cultures.
Smell it, see if it smells bad I guess.

They don't seem bad.




I was hoping it's just a little waste, also I dont know if this makes any sense, but maybe the two different woods give different looks to the mycelium?


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Gr0wer] * 1
    #23429486 - 07/10/16 02:21 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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They look fine. Worry when you have uncolonized parts, green mold or puddles of water at the bottom.




Thanks man, I'm thinking now the colorization is just different because of the different woods. Do you ever notice the same mycelium looking different on different subs?


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Marty Mycfly] * 1
    #23429538 - 07/10/16 02:44 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Absolutely


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Gr0wer] * 1
    #23429555 - 07/10/16 02:50 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Good to know, first time I have had different subs and same strain at the same time.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Marty Mycfly] * 1
    #23430639 - 07/10/16 09:56 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Thanks dude!
For spawn, I used a bag roughly 14 lb.s to inoculate 24 bags, 5 8 lb bags and the rest 5 lb. bags. The spawn was rye berries, which I usually only use for masters, I like millet for going to sub because of all of the inoculation points, but the rye seems to be doing a great job. I like working with rye a hell of a lot better anyways, I can make rye grain perfect, I cant say the same about any other grain.




Cool,  so just upwards of 10 percent. I haven't tried rye yet and I don't know that I will. There is a feed store near enough that has 50 lbs of oats for 9$. :cool: The stuff is so forgiving. Keep an eye out for them if you havent tried already. 

They also have milo but the last bag I picked up from them is filthy. It has Grain weevils,  stems,  rocks,  corn, not sure what I'm going to do with it. It's too bag because inoculation points are sexy points and oats aren't that kind of sexy.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Marty Mycfly]
    #23434117 - 07/12/16 06:12 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Hey Marty is there any chance of some closeups of the growth on both samples.
Look for rhizomorphic areas, if none look for dense areas of myc.

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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Ferather]
    #23435070 - 07/12/16 02:12 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Got it Ferather, I will get some closeups up here in a bit!


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Marty Mycfly]
    #23435319 - 07/12/16 03:54 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Here is an update and some closeups for Ferather

Here are the softwood pellet blocks













And here are the hardwood pellet blocks













So there it is, most of the blocks softwood and hardwood are mostly all colonized, they look totally different than each other though. Im thinking I will put them into fruiting in about a week I think, this is my first time growing Amycel 3015.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Marty Mycfly]
    #23437246 - 07/13/16 07:58 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Very healthy myc, well done, shame about wood not holding that extra water.

There's a way to prevent patching, and get uniform growth.
Dump the spawn at the bottom of the bag, sub ontop.

When the surface is done, fruit.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Ferather]
    #23437618 - 07/13/16 11:02 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Dump the spawn at the bottom of the bag, sub ontop.

Ferather.. That seems to be my problem.. Not enough spawn gets to the bottom of the bag, no matter how much I shake the bag...

What is your method in dumping the spawn at the bottom of the bag?

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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: micelio]
    #23437688 - 07/13/16 11:42 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I guess it depends on how you are assembling your grows. I see you have a flowhood, a SAB will also work well.

Get a clean grow bag, and fully prepared substrate.

Put the spawn in the grow bag, fully cover.
Add the clean prepared sub ontop.

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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Ferather]
    #23437876 - 07/13/16 01:42 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Actually I got most of those bags colonized fully, When I was trying to take pictures of rhizporphic areas the only ones I could find were the few places that were still colonizing, but that was literally 3 bags out of 24.
Micilio, the best way to get that spawn mixed besides what ferather mentioned is to get a good amount of HEPA air into the bag before sealing, it makes all the difference and mixing isn't even a problem. I like to hold the bag in one arm and grab the bottom with my other hand and shake it from there.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Marty Mycfly]
    #23438098 - 07/13/16 03:18 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Might be able to skip mixing if you layer, one at the bottom, one half way.
Depending on the height of the bag and substate, add more layers.

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Tempted to try pine again, but differently.

I'm going to take to your informed PM.
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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Ferather]
    #23438298 - 07/13/16 04:38 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Unless I misunderstood the concept, the additional step of adding prepared substrate seems like more of a hassle than its worth. Especially considering that it could only increase the percentage of contamination.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: MorePies]
    #23458556 - 07/20/16 06:11 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

All of my grows thus far have been on pine softwood pellets- so you can definitely get results- however my yields were low. I am about to do the same thing. I have 2 BSOY2 bags ready to go. I'm doing one bag into 2 pasteurized hardwood and 2 pasteurized softwood, then the other bag into 4 sterilized supplemented at 18ish% wheat bran and compare the differences. (Waiting to get my flowhood built to do the bag work) I will be taking copious notes, and then doing the same thing with Maitake. I'll make a thread about it and we can compare results.

Edited to add by the way looking good! I see you've been busy- I had to cut my time down a lot to fill the demands of work this last month, but I'm back and ready to go!


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: TravelAgency]
    #23458670 - 07/20/16 07:22 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

@ TravelAgency

Did you remove the inhibitory resins before you grew on the pine?
Pine and some other woods produce an anti fungal resin.

You will need to soak in hot water, mix well.
Do so for 20 minutes, strain and repeat.

Add body, waste mail, compost.
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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: TravelAgency]
    #23458675 - 07/20/16 07:26 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Maitake would be interesting, if I'm not mistaken it's found on practically everything, coniferous and deciduous.

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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Ferather]
    #23459615 - 07/20/16 01:02 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I never have washed them first- I was afraid of getting the field capacity wrong. Already have bags prepped too. I'll try that on the next run.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: TravelAgency]
    #23488374 - 07/29/16 06:33 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Any news on your softwood grow? Should be about fruiting time, no?


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: chefjrd]
    #23493459 - 07/30/16 06:58 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Oh guys, I am back, I have been gone with a family emergency and had to shut everything down, my blocks have been sitting in my lab in hot temps looking funky, actually the softwood ones look great and are fruiting from the top, I have a lot of work to do today pulling out all of my nasty old moldy bags with dried mushrooms all over them and fucking bleach everything! Like I was saying I had to leave for a few weeks and just turned the room off! Plus I have had some business problems along the way, a company who used to have a similar name to ours got a mob of people to harass on social media and had to shut that down and change name and logos, right when my wife and I got a foot in.
Anyways I will update with some pics of the bags and then grow them out, they are about to bust out of the bags.
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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Marty Mycfly]
    #23494909 - 07/31/16 08:25 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

I'm sorry to hear the bad news, I hope everyone is doing ok.
Thats good news for softwood, was expecting that.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Ferather]
    #23495056 - 07/31/16 09:48 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Yeah, sorry to hear about the emergency. Hopefully everything works out ok. I was down for a couple weeks too because of a trip for a family reunion. Fortunately I was able to plan and have a grow going while I was gone. I am currently testing corn cob pellets and the mycelium seem to be loving it. I'm looking forward to your update!


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    #23496209 - 07/31/16 04:29 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Thanks guys, and we are doing ok Ferather, both of my grandparents have been really sick though, I took the family to see them. And it's just crazy now trying to get things back in order with our mushrooms, the kids are about to go back to school which is hectic enough, but that will definitely give us a chance to get back on the ball.
I just took everything back out from slants to dishes and am making spawn tonight, my son who is 8 is really interested in helping me now and made agar with me the other night, I didnt let him pour it, but he watched and really wants to do it, he also made great mental notes of the whole process when I quizzed him about it afterwards, after I get this batch in Im going to have him make is very own little batch of oysters from slant to harvest. Also I told him one time last year that my AA's were going to be his one day, he reminded me of that the other night as he stared at the PC watching the pressure like a hawk the whole 40 minutes. Sorry about that rant, I was a proud papa that night.
Chefjrd, dude that is awesome about the corncob pellets, I had no idea that existed! Are you doing a thread on it? I will try to find it.

Here are some pics before the bags go into the growroom, a little late :frown:

softwood









And here are the hardwood, they are nasty and full of water!





Here is a bunch of shit I have to throw away



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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Marty Mycfly]
    #23496650 - 07/31/16 06:54 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Here's the thread:

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/23460390/page/1

I'll update it when I go to fruit it.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: chefjrd]
    #23520988 - 08/08/16 02:11 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Ive been absent as well. My company filed for bankruptcy for a second time and we've closed 4 locations. Crazy times. But I'm doing the same experiment. Just posted a thread. Would love to compare this whole journey. Bout to do 50 enoki big gulps- will probably do half and half with that too.  Pine pellets are much easier to come by- so if the difference is minimal maybe new cultivators won't see it as insurmountable and be more apt to grow away. That being said can't wait to see the differences! I'm seriously excited to see it first hand!

Keep shroomin' brother, mycology has brought me out of dark places. It's the perfect hobby- not quite plant, not quite animal, totally unique and amazing- and with how new mycology is- we are all citizen mycologists. Posting our results literally helps progress the science.

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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: TravelAgency]
    #23520993 - 08/08/16 02:12 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Would you like to trade the cultures we both used for our experiments to see if our technique has anything to do with results?


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: TravelAgency]
    #23521987 - 08/08/16 01:04 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Totally dude, I just made a ton of slants ready to go.

Ughhh, I will admit though it is a bit depressing looking at this thread right now, I still have not been able to get the grow room up and running this week and all of my bags are just sitting there waiting and fruiting from the tops!!!!!!
I will get them in there this week, but I am starting the whole experiment over from fresh so I have a good hand on it, I had also lost like 40 lb's of spawn while I was away too, so that has been my main goal is catching back up to that, I ended up making LI to inoculate bags, as an emergency procedure,I have been biting my nails the whole time but they are almost done and ready to spawn.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Marty Mycfly]
    #23563164 - 08/21/16 02:39 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Very cool. Keep me updated. I will hopefully be building my flowhood this week so I can bang out some wedges for you.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: TravelAgency]
    #23662026 - 09/20/16 02:48 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

So depressing to see all of that work I ended up just throwing and giving to friends.
Interesting enough though guys, All of the softwood bags I gave to a friend and he open air fruited them in a room in house and they blew the fuck up, I told him take pictures of them if they did, I will have to get him to send me the pictures.


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Re: Hardwood pellets vs. softwood pellets comparison [Re: Marty Mycfly]
    #23662415 - 09/20/16 05:07 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

I got a good result with colonizing King oyster on WL Tek 50/50 pine and paper.
No issues with colonizing at all, except it was too hot to fruit them.

They are outside now, should fruit soon.


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