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Psyche delics said:
Tats an absurd amount to spend on mushrooms

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A.k.a said:
Had anybody tried making one of those shmuv boxes but hooking it up to a SAB instead of a bag??

I know absolutely nothing about the stuff but it seems like there might be a way to get a much larger working area for cheaper with something like that.


Soon as my coir cools I’m spawning my first Amazonian shoebox. Feels so good to have things going on again.

I’m gonna make a Walmart run for more jars and tubs too. I was planning on more underbeds but now  thinking I’ll split it between those and monos. Never run mono tubs yet.

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Psyche delics said:
Tats an absurd amount to spend on mushrooms

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I've spent far more than that over the years. My hood from FP cost me around 1200 plus shipping, then add all of my media bottles, magnetic stir plates, agar, dishes, sterilizes, and all of the accoutrements. This hobby probably has me in for around 10k or more since I've started.

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this is a cross post from ayeplus a+ bag tek in case no one sees that one...I gotta figure this shit out I wanna get more bags ready cause I'm fairly certain these first bags I did in my AA are too fuckin wet. since there are plenty of bag masters on here I figure maybe someone else might be able to answer it sooner...

I'm probably the one person ever who ran bags in an AA and said to myself "fcuk I wish I did that in the presto" when I opened it
Once I figure things out the AA will be far superior but this first batch, fuk. Some of the bags will prob still work but there is one that is almost a solid block of burst  grain starch

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When you load all these bags...at the end, when you cram them down with the lid I can only imagine this must compress the bottom bags and push the water level really high?

I'm asking cause I just used my AA 941 for the first time and it seems like the bags took on some amount of water during the PC cycle. I tried loading the AA again with newer bags and noticed by the time I was packing the last ones in, the water level had risen like halfway up the inside of the PC. This is with the initial water level going up about 3/4 of the way of the bottom bags...added after adding those first 3 bags like in your tek...

So even if you aren't initially seeing that water level rise, I would think when you push the top on the thing it must be causing the water level to rise. This doesn't affect your bags?

Some of my bags came out with a lot of popped/burst grains, but it seems like even more so than when I used to run my presto or mirro. One bag was just a big mush of exploded grains and starch...like a thick block of shit. It's possible my grain prep was too wet, but I prepare it no differently for bags and jars I do in the presto and it works, always works.


I got so excited about the AA I didn't reaelize there would be such a learning curve. I can push bags out of my presto like a factory but the AA has been a struggle so far. Need to figure this out. So with my presto I actually use a bottom rack under the trivet, so that the bags stay almost completely out of the water. I thought maybe about doing something similar on the AA but it will reduce efficiency.

Since you guys do this on the regular...hoping I can figure this out without reducing the PC space with another rack

Advice?

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MH5109 said:
Wuts your wait on it...

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tedoro said:
Just thought I'd share that it is very much possible to not clean your tubs enough between crops. I finally have clean spawn (after a battle with a subversive contam in my petris...) and I still had little green trich growths on the edge of my monos... when I looked super close to the tub wall above the growth... I SAW A GREEN STAIN I MISSED WHEN CLEANING! doh!

I immediately got a big soft car washing sponge and now wash once after I toss the old substrate, and again before I spawn. Both times with tons of soap. Happy to say I'm seeing multiple flushes again, no contams.

I am very half assed, so I needed to fail hard to know to clean well. Others just do things more thoroughly the first time.

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