TheMadHatter420 said:

Tormato said:

TheMadHatter420 said:

O yea unpasteurized bagged "Garden Soil"!

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So you just mix the spawn with the garden soil and cased with verm?

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It is a little more complex than that and I guess I will just fill you guys in.

Ok so a while back I needed a mix for 9 weed clones. I went to the local Wal-Mart and they had these bags of certified organic garden soil on sale for $2, and each bag was 2 Cubic Ft. This was NOT a potting mix, but I would amend it. OK so I bucket-tek 2 bricks of coir to mix in, I didn't have much to spare. I had some unused potting mix and seed starting mix I threw in. This wasn't enough and I started getting into my vermiculite, but quickly realized that that the amount of amendment I wanted would use up way to much of the verm. So I went to my old sub trash can, that I dump into when emptying tubs. I pulled out 3-4 big monotub worth of subs and broke them up and put them in there. I didn't see any mold on any of it.

So I mixed it all up for weed plants! I planted my weed plants and about a week later I went to go water the plants. Now when I water I always break loose the top half inch of the mix to allow for better watering. I noticed that I was popping up chunks if mycelium and realize through inspection that I had cube mycelium colonizing my weed plant pots. I though cool maybe I will get a few shrooms from my weed grow, but doubt it as I keep the top soil from crusting and this will keep pins from forming.

So about a week goes by and it dawns on me that I am fucking dumb and still had a big pile of that mix wrapped up in a tarp. I wanted top see if anything was going on with the soil and shit WAS happening from the old sub. This is what I found, I took those pics that day and shared with close friends on here.



I was shocked that old subs did that. So I got to thinking and had one bag of sketchy spawn that was to sketchy for me to spawn to a tub. So I said fuck it and mixed it in with this to see fi it would help speed up colonization and add some nutrition. Then I put this tent over it and have only misted a few times, casing helps. Its been 2-3 weeks now and shit is popping up. What can I say I know how to grow shrooms and this grow is using natural biological balance to work. This is like an outdoor grow brought inside. NO pasteurization or anything, just microbes and shit in there doing their job.

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Jan 2nd




Jan 3rd

Subfinder said:

I've often wondered about doing something like this...on purpose. Lol

I have a rose garden under my deck that is about 10×10 with a large rose bush in the middle. I have been dumping spent sub, contaminated jars, and any other organic waste from growing shrooms.

All summer the thing pumps out monster flushes. Thought it would be cool to dig up a bunch of soil from that garden and grow it in the winter the same way. Maybe next year!

Edit: here's a pic of my trash can bed...lol

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TheMadHatter420 said:

It has to be, as I call it, biologically stable. Organic certified compost and garden soil will have been composted at proper temps so to kill off bad shit, and allow beneficial microbes to thrive. I really think those beneficial microbes, from proper temp held compost, are key to this working. So for this to be the next stage, the grower will need a deep understanding of organic farming, and beneficial microbes. Look into how big scale farmers, who grow the white grocery store mushrooms, make their own compost to achieve this.

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