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Mushierage
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: rjstim]
#23635569 - 09/11/16 12:20 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Shouldn't be an issue with contams. You sub is contam resistant. But dousing it in alcohol and drying it out wouldn't hurt anything.
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filthyknees
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: rjstim]
#23635598 - 09/11/16 12:32 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I have taken the stuffing from pillows plenty, it works fine. May find poly is a little softer, the pillow stuffing my pillow had at least was realtivly coarse.
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rjstim
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: filthyknees]
#23635848 - 09/11/16 01:50 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Does this stuff look suitable? I have another pillow too if necessary.
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filthyknees
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: rjstim]
#23635853 - 09/11/16 01:52 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Good stuff right there
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rjstim
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: filthyknees]
#23635859 - 09/11/16 01:53 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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thank you!
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rjstim
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: rjstim]
#23635946 - 09/11/16 02:25 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I brought the tub over to under the lights and have the poly ready. But does it seem like I should wait another day to take the tape off? I don't wanna jump the gun or anything.
Edited by rjstim (09/11/16 02:59 PM)
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Psilosoulful

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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: rjstim]
#23636018 - 09/11/16 02:48 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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You should fruit that now, stuff those bottom holes tightly with poly
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rjstim
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: rjstim]
#23636023 - 09/11/16 02:50 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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OK I trust the advice, that one guy in the middle does look like good news.
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: rjstim]
#23636099 - 09/11/16 03:20 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Looks like your tub could use more airflow, that mycelium needs to breathe
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rjstim
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: Psilosoulful]
#23636133 - 09/11/16 03:30 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I went ahead and took the tape off the topmost 2 holes for starters. I'm debating how much tighter I should make the bottom ones though. I'm weighing the pieces of poly, so I can go with a specific percentage. Would you go twice as tight on the bottom?
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filthyknees
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: rjstim]
#23636225 - 09/11/16 04:05 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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In between the loosest possible and the tightest possible, Most likely 'medium' But it will also depend a little on your environment like swamp or mountains can be different. You will notice the substrates surface and the condensation around the fae holes will tell you if the density of poly needs adjusting.
If the sub is pinning i would increase fae (by reducing the poly in top or all holes)
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: filthyknees]
#23636259 - 09/11/16 04:14 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I like the description, but can you gauge anything off where my top holes stand on that scale? I doubt this info would help, but the holes are roughly 1.1" and that's 0.7g of poly, stuffed midway through the hole.
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filthyknees
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: rjstim]
#23636289 - 09/11/16 04:24 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Looks too tight. Fae is a pinning trigger remember so air moving through is a great thing, Just not to the point of drying the substrate (less water to make mushrooms)
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rjstim
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: filthyknees]
#23636323 - 09/11/16 04:35 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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So maybe bottom 4 holes at that tightness and the top 2 half as loose?
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filthyknees
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: rjstim]
#23636345 - 09/11/16 04:40 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sounds good. I also want to link you to this pictorial on poly stuffing.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/17332777#17332777
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rjstim
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: filthyknees]
#23636354 - 09/11/16 04:43 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Nice pics! thanks for the tips man
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filthyknees
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: rjstim]
#23636363 - 09/11/16 04:44 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sure, welcome to shroomery on your grows
-------------------- But if you're in a hurry, and really got to go If you're in a hurry, might have to find out slow That it's one thing to try and another to fly You get there quicker just a step at a time It's one thing to bark, another to bite The show ain't over till you pack up at night
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rjstim
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: filthyknees]
#23636382 - 09/11/16 04:55 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks! hoping I'm somewhat dialed-in now from the start! [:ringy-dingy:]

if anyone catches the EDIT: am I being paranoid thinking I should spray the exposed poly with isopropyl? or is that bordering on ridiculous?
Edited by rjstim (09/11/16 06:04 PM)
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NDStepp84
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: rjstim]
#23636772 - 09/11/16 06:52 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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If your spawn was clean and you are using coir, or properly pasteurized poo you don't have anything to worry about, if it contaminates your spawn was bad from the start. The tub was spawned in open air with millions of contaminates landing on it, as said healthy myc is contam resistant. The poly isn't to keep out contams, some people have reused the same poly for years without cleaning it.
Also impossible to put into fruiting conditions too early, lots of people never tape holes and stuff with poly immediately after spawning.
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rjstim
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Re: Is my tub ready for fruiting conditions [Re: NDStepp84]
#23636784 - 09/11/16 06:57 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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NICE, I like that info! What I plan on doing is just keeping a close eye on the condensation, and depending which direction it goes, I'll adjust accordingly. In the process of removing the tape, Id say about half water droplets on the lid rained down on the sub. But judging by last time that happened, it's where all the axon-like tendrils formed, and I just know those are good.
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