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Cagney
Hanging with my Shroomy's


Registered: 09/12/16
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Re: New Cakes Amazon on BRF [Re: mrmazdarx9]
#23896237 - 12/05/16 09:17 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mutant fruits on bare cake, surprised at how poorly a BRF cake performs when not rolled and cased. I knew there would be a difference but not this drastic. I checked my first monotub that has been sitting for 10 days. I though maybe I had screwed it up because I cased it immediately after mixing the spawn with the sub. I took a peak in and about 50% of the top casing is colonized which was a surprise to me. When looking in on it do I have to worry about sterile conditions?
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"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings."
Edited by Cagney (12/05/16 09:21 AM)
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freespeech
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Registered: 12/12/08
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Re: New Cakes Amazon on BRF [Re: Cagney]
#23896302 - 12/05/16 09:45 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Cagney said: I cased it with a thin layer of coir/verm right after I mixed it.
That's not casing, that's a layer of bulk substrate.
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Cagney said: I checked my first monotub that has been sitting for 10 days. I though maybe I had screwed it up because I cased it immediately after mixing the spawn with the sub. I took a peak in and about 50% of the top casing is colonized which was a surprise to me. When looking in on it do I have to worry about sterile conditions?
It's colonized because it's not a casing layer, it's the same bulk substrate material that you spawned to, added at the same time as the spawn. What would the difference be? Just that it happens to be sitting on the top of the mixed grain/substrate below it? Mycelium doesn't care about that, it's going to eat it all. This is a good thing. Nothing to worry about. Adding a thin layer of substrate at spawning time is a very common technique, and the expectation is that it will all get colonized.
You don't need to worry about sterility when you peek on your colonizing substrate. Spawning to bulk and everything past that aren't sterile processes. Traditional logic is that you do, however, want to keep the tub closed up as much as possible so that CO2 levels remain elevated within the tub while it's colonizing. Some people don't worry about that so much anymore, so take it for what it's worth. Long story short, try to keep the tub closed up during colonization, but peek away when you feel like it, and don't really sweat it.
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