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Wet enough to slow colonization?
    #23518893 - 08/07/16 01:08 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

I have a problem with a straw and sawdust mix being too wet after being boiled and left overnight on screens to drain out.

All the top stuff was dry enough, but the bottom layer I can get water to come out if I squeeze a handful in my hand. How much will this much water slow colonization?

I'm just leaving it out on screens to dry a bit more, but it's a cloudy day... Don't want to leave it too long picking up random spores and stuff.


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Re: Wet enough to slow colonization? [Re: loggrower]
    #23518938 - 08/07/16 01:25 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Throw on a pair of gloves and squeeze it by hand and press it against the screen. I'd PC that just to be safe. And the PC process does dry it out more. Maybe just throw it in the oven and pasteurize it?


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Re: Wet enough to slow colonization? [Re: whitewidow49531]
    #23519033 - 08/07/16 01:53 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

If you are saturating a substrate like that, theres two good ways to remove the excess water.

1) Get a plastic bag, fill it, make a neck, squeeze the crap out of it, over a sink.
2) Put it in a pillow case, and then in a washing machine on spin cycle.


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Re: Wet enough to slow colonization? [Re: Ferather]
    #23519157 - 08/07/16 02:25 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

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Ferather said:
If you are saturating a substrate like that, theres two good ways to remove the excess water.

1) Get a plastic bag, fill it, make a neck, squeeze the crap out of it, over a sink.
2) Put it in a pillow case, and then in a washing machine on spin cycle.




1. Water can't be squeezed out.

2. LoL... Good idea, but got too much sub for that.

I don't think ill have any problem with letting it dry a bit more in the wind. I'm spawning it with a lot of grain 6%+.


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Re: Wet enough to slow colonization? [Re: loggrower]
    #23519269 - 08/07/16 03:18 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

I've done too wet straw with some fuel pellets mixed in and it sucked. Took about two extra weeks to fruit and it smelled really bad (bacteria I'm sure) for at least a week. I've found a little too dry is better than a little too wet.


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