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Soup-Bone_1974
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First time growing, SGFC or shoebox?
#26523453 - 03/08/20 07:03 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ok so I think I’m ready to give this a shot, I’m gonna use the BRF cakes. Should I use the sgfc or should I shred them with a cheese grater and make a shoebox? Thanks to everyone who has helped me out so far, this group is pretty amazing. The way people help each other out in this group is pretty rare to find these days.
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: Soup-Bone_1974]
#26523458 - 03/08/20 07:12 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Shoebox hands down. To hell with sgfc. I'd like to never see anyone make a sgfc lol
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: Soup-Bone_1974]
#26523467 - 03/08/20 07:28 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I did BRF my first time and just bottle tek'd it for my first fruit then moved to agar-wbs-shoebox or Muda bottles.
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: Neowynd8]
#26523513 - 03/08/20 08:02 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Neowynd8 said: Shoebox hands down. To hell with sgfc. I'd like to never see anyone make a sgfc lol
Terrible advice. But I guess the times have changed.
I wouldn't put in 4-5 weeks of work to shred to a shoebox. To many things that can go wrong. Once you have fully colonized cakes your 99% there. But if you shred them and wait another couple of weeks so that they can colonize the coir verm. Then put into fruiting your adding 0% nutrition, so all your doing is adding a substrate layer to more increase your moisture for a higher yeild. But cakes will give you plenty of mushrooms if done right.
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: Sockadin]
#26523591 - 03/08/20 09:02 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ime shoebox is way better. Much easier to set up and maintain and more mushrooms.
I started both my first time and ended up with like 25g from the shoebox and 6g off two cakes.
I’ve never put in the time to really run a proper cake grow, but to me it seems like they should be more of a novelty thing at this point if you’re growing for a shroom supply.
Wbs is way better though if you have a pressure cooker.
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: A.k.a]
#26524129 - 03/08/20 03:27 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ok thanks everyone I appreciate the input!
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: Soup-Bone_1974]
#26524140 - 03/08/20 03:34 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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SGFC is "easier" if youre new to cultivation but shoeboxes have more yield because irs bulk growing not cake growing.
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#26524159 - 03/08/20 03:44 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I found shoeboxes easiest, just spawn and snap on the lid and wait.
Fanning and misting and all that for the cakes was a pain.
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: A.k.a]
#26524163 - 03/08/20 03:45 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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The higher difficulty with shoeboxes lies in the processing of the grains to use as spawn. Unless u have enough cakes to use as spawn.
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: A.k.a]
#26524332 - 03/08/20 05:46 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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So you don’t fan or mist in your shoeboxes? What about holes in the box?
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 1
#26524338 - 03/08/20 05:49 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I’m gonna try to end up with 12 half pint cakes.
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: Soup-Bone_1974]
#26524354 - 03/08/20 06:00 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Alright. I think its 6 half-pints per shoebox? Something like that.
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#26524357 - 03/08/20 06:01 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Shoeboxes for sure
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: Shroomhunts]
#26524436 - 03/08/20 06:57 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hope your grow turns out well.
Still think shoeboxes are a terrible idea compared to SGFC.
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: Sockadin]
#26524691 - 03/08/20 09:48 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Shoeboxes get enough air with the lid on. So you mix them up snap the lid on and that’s it. Maybe a light mist once or twice when it’s knotting.
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Re: First time growing, SGFC or shoebox? [Re: Sockadin]
#26524737 - 03/08/20 10:29 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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You won me over on this topic.
Fruit the cakes. Clone the fruit and use that to go for bulk on the next go around.
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