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Pastywhyte
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Re: Tub after ten days is this colonized well enough? [Re: freespeech]
#23750652 - 10/18/16 10:48 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I like to try all kinds of stuff. Casing helps me because I live in a dry climate so with a casing I am able to dial the FAE in higher. Coir casing is what I usually do but some things like PE or APE do better with peat casing so I will sometimes use peat for those.
It's usually helpful to case but not required. Some cultures actually do better without one. But my advice to you is to try as many things as you can. Cased, uncased, coir, peat, do em all at least twice. It's more tools in the belt.
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thesupersoap33
curious george



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Re: Tub after ten days is this colonized well enough? [Re: Pastywhyte]
#23799720 - 11/04/16 04:08 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'll post pics of my progress once I'm on a pc.
How in the world do you get ten to twelve ounces out of a tub? We're talking dry. I'm using pf cakes, then choir and vermiculite and distilled water in the tub mix. Are you using something special to get that high of a yield? Also, there is black dust all over the sub since the caps have opened. I assume it's spores. Like I said... pics to come. It doesn't look like I'll be breaking four or five ounces though.
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Pastywhyte
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Re: Tub after ten days is this colonized well enough? [Re: thesupersoap33]
#23799864 - 11/04/16 06:58 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Good genetics, clean spawn, higher spawn ratios and enough supplied water are the keys to getting a 10-12 zip mono. Few people are able to get one of those bang on let alone all 3.
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Moabfighter
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Re: Tub after ten days is this colonized well enough? [Re: Pastywhyte]
#23799866 - 11/04/16 07:00 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Pasty how do you use your peat for casing? I recently added peat to my bulk sub. Casing with it like you'd have a nice large moss bush on your bulk sub. Do you powder it up fine possibly?
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Pastywhyte
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Re: Tub after ten days is this colonized well enough? [Re: Moabfighter]
#23799878 - 11/04/16 07:10 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't use peat to case much. When I do it's usually already pretty fine. I sift it to remove sticks and rocks, mix with equal parts verm. Then hydrate with water pH buffered to about 8.5-9 and properly pasteurize.
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thesupersoap33
curious george



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Re: Tub after ten days is this colonized well enough? [Re: Pastywhyte]
#23825637 - 11/12/16 11:18 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Okay so this is the tub right before I harvested it. I ended up getting about 44 g dry out of it. I just don't see how people are getting 155 g + out of theirs! I used 5 pf cakes then did the coco/verm sub tek with a monotub...
I just don't get it. Do I need to add something or do it differently?? I want to know! Also, I'm putting my jars in gallon-sized ziplocs after I take them out of the cooker and inject them with spores. Could this be making them take longer to colonize? I keep them in ziplocs to cut down on contamination, so I can pick the jars and look at them without risking any sort of shit getting into the inside of them. I use a two-hole method and make the holes as small as possible, then cover with aluminum foil.
Also, how useful is it to make your own syringes from prints? I've heard that this ups the contamination factor, which I'm happy to stay away from. I've only had one or maybe two contaminated jars out of over 40 total that I've inoculated so far, and that's pretty damn good, but they are still taking almost two months to completely colonize! I've seen so many cases on here where it takes a shorter amount of time. I'm storing them in a closet that's around 70 degrees for the most part.
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Edited by thesupersoap33 (11/12/16 07:10 PM)
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