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Booooooooom
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How do you guys mix your bulk substrate?
#23900419 - 12/06/16 04:21 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Presumably if your about to mix jars of colonized wbs with verm/coir into your tub how would you do it? Would you just use your hands to mix everything up or use a sterilized spoon or something.
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ComebackKid
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: Booooooooom]
#23900429 - 12/06/16 04:25 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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You could use your hands. I like to put gloves on but washed hands are fine.
I usually set aside some coir from the bucket and then dump my grains in the buckey. Mix with my hands really well. Then dump the contents into a mono and cover with the quart of verm I set aside
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: ComebackKid]
#23900487 - 12/06/16 04:44 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Use your hands No need for sterility at this point. You lose it as soon as you open your spawn jar in open air.
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: Jabensis]
#23900511 - 12/06/16 04:51 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Double or triple wrapped in grocery bags, shake it all around.
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: Booooooooom]
#23900521 - 12/06/16 04:53 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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check the videos in my signature. I have two different ones for mixing tubs.
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: Munchauzen]
#23900673 - 12/06/16 05:36 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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You know the motion
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Soooo. I have a few jars that have been consolidating for a little while and I noticed one or two small amber droplets on top of a couple of them...very small amount...the jars looks ultra healthy aside from these few small droplets...are they def contaminated?
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: Peteyboy]
#23901295 - 12/06/16 08:28 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Amber almost pink?
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: Peteyboy]
#23901491 - 12/06/16 09:23 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Peteyboy said: Soooo. I have a few jars that have been consolidating for a little while and I noticed one or two small amber droplets on top of a couple of them...very small amount...the jars looks ultra healthy aside from these few small droplets...are they def contaminated?
Thread jacking.
As for the OP, I layer my bulk substrate and spawn, then gently mix together with my hands. Then cover the exposed grains on top with some more bulk substrate. Gently even out the surface with your hands. Do not compress it. Should be light and airy. One of many ways to do it. I like to wear gloves, mainly to keep my hands clean.
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You know the motion
I can't believe nobody got this
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Lol PPP laughing at his own jokes  Never seen that movie unfortunately
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: WeavieWonder]
#23901519 - 12/06/16 09:31 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Peteyboy said: Soooo. I have a few jars that have been consolidating for a little while and I noticed one or two small amber droplets on top of a couple of them...very small amount...the jars looks ultra healthy aside from these few small droplets...are they def contaminated?
Thread jacking.
As for the OP, I layer my bulk substrate and spawn, then gently mix together with my hands. Then cover the exposed grains on top with some more bulk substrate. Gently even out the surface with your hands. Do not compress it. Should be light and airy. One of many ways to do it. I like to wear gloves, mainly to keep my hands clean.
 Although I pack my sides and corners so they are slower than the center to create even pinset.
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: Booooooooom]
#23901533 - 12/06/16 09:34 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I mix with gloved hands. At this point, if your spawn is clean, you don't really have to worry about contamination. I wear gloves to keep my nails clean.
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Quote:
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You know the motion
I can't believe nobody got this 
What movie is that? I haven't seen Ed Harris in anything for many years.
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: WeavieWonder]
#23901590 - 12/06/16 09:49 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Booooooooom
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: The Mycologist]
#23907805 - 12/08/16 05:36 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks everyone for your answers, one last thing I was wondering is how tight you pack everything. Is it supposed to be airy or tight?
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: WeavieWonder]
#23907877 - 12/08/16 05:52 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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WeavieWonder said: I layer my bulk substrate and spawn, then gently mix together with my hands. Then cover the exposed grains on top with some more bulk substrate. Gently even out the surface with your hands. Do not compress it. Should be light and airy. One of many ways to do it. I like to wear gloves, mainly to keep my hands clean.
This is exactly how I do it, too. Layer, mix with fingers during the layering process and at the end, and cover the top with a thin layer of substrate (which some around here seem to have taken to calling "casing" but which is not casing in any way, shape, or form.) Then even out the surface as best I can with gentle hands. I don't compress it, but after spawning I will pick up the tub and very gently tap it down onto the ground to lightly settle the material.
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: freespeech]
#23908071 - 12/08/16 06:45 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Light and airy
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: ComebackKid]
#23910994 - 12/09/16 05:43 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Got a few different places to post this.
Working on my monotub for my first ever run of clean spawn. Two small trash bags, put into the tub as if it was a trash can. Put dry coir/verm in. Add water boiling water.. Break up brick. (Fucking HOT!) now I have the lid on. I can shake the tub and mix it really easy. Nice and uniform consistency. Can't wait for this!
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Re: How do you guys mix your bulk substrate? [Re: Moabfighter]
#23911029 - 12/09/16 05:51 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Nice Moab, will be stalking ya
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