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nube424

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Re: Black Kow (Your experiences) Store Bought Cow Poo [Re: FishLevelMidnight]
#24919923 - 01/17/18 04:50 AM (7 years, 23 hours ago) |
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fishermansjc said: It might be due to my area but I’ve been using black now compost in all my cube grows thus far.
I use a mix of 1:1:1 verm (coarse):coir:black low and add ~7% gypsum (1 cup gypsum per 4 qt sub).
It does get a little muddy when at field capacity, but the verm and coir hold it together enough for a decent squeeze test.
There are usually fairly large rocks and woody matter in mine. I prefer to break it up by hand to remove them and clumps. I add my water to the verm/black kow/coir after its been mixed through.
I just made 12 Qt last night, pasteurizing today and spawning 5.5 qts mars on Thursday 
How does it colonize? Patchy? Even? Fadt? Slow? That seems like a good recipe for it.
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FishLevelMidnight
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Re: Black Kow (Your experiences) Store Bought Cow Poo [Re: nube424]
#24919930 - 01/17/18 05:03 AM (7 years, 22 hours ago) |
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Works well for me.
I spawn 1:2 and get full colonization in 5-7 days.
It comonizes pretty evenly as long as you mix the spawn in well. Sometimes small bits of compost stay stuck together and take an extra day for the myc to Colonize at the surface. I can take a pic if you’re curious.
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nube424

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Re: Black Kow (Your experiences) Store Bought Cow Poo [Re: FishLevelMidnight]
#24920119 - 01/17/18 08:18 AM (7 years, 19 hours ago) |
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I am curious. I mean i do well with coir. But black cow is so cheap. If it works why not try it right?
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psilocyanide
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Re: Black Kow (Your experiences) Store Bought Cow Poo [Re: MushNoob589]
#24920855 - 01/17/18 02:20 PM (7 years, 13 hours ago) |
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fishermansjc said: It might be due to my area but I’ve been using black now compost in all my cube grows thus far.
Yea, it has to be a different mixture in your area, cause that mix would give me mud. 
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MushNoob589 said: I'm glad I've seen this zsure to save me trouble in the future!
Good, happy you learned something as well. But, as you can see from fisherman (and a bunch of other threads), there is much better black kow than what I am using, it just depends on your location (and maybe, the lot?).
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Re: Black Kow (Your experiences) Store Bought Cow Poo [Re: psilocyanide]
#24920905 - 01/17/18 02:43 PM (7 years, 13 hours ago) |
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psilocyanide said:
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fishermansjc said: It might be due to my area but I’ve been using black now compost in all my cube grows thus far.
Yea, it has to be a different mixture in your area, cause that mix would give me mud. 
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MushNoob589 said: I'm glad I've seen this zsure to save me trouble in the future!
Good, happy you learned something as well. But, as you can see from fisherman (and a bunch of other threads), there is much better black kow than what I am using, it just depends on your location (and maybe, the lot?).
This is for sure true. My first 25lb bag was purchased in september-ish and my last bag was in december (was frozen solid from the whall smart). The first bag was better quality than the second. I am finding more (and larger) stones and wood debris as well as some non-composted manure in the second bag. Still works fine for me, just takes a little more time to break up well (I am OCD about it haha).
I like the whole process of mixing subs and I think a varied substrate is more beneficial; however, I just spent about 1.5 hours last night making 12 qt of sub (between hydrating the coir, picking through the black kow, bringing to field capacity and clean up) so the idea of bucket teking coir is very appealing.
Might try just CVG after my black kow runs out, but I may just grab another bag anyways!
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