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Offlinewilsonintexas
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has anyone tried water jelly (polyacrylamide) crystles to retain moisture in fruiting chamber
    #26582480 - 04/06/20 07:06 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

I am new to this.  i see that much of the effort in the fruiting stage is to get a sterile moist environment.

i have used these crystals in my wife's hanging baskets to keet the flowers going. The kids also liked a bowl of them to play with.

what if you used the crystals and expanded them out with sterilized water  and used them as the case of your fruiting chamber to keep things moist diring tne fruiting?


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Re: has anyone tried water jelly (polyacrylamide) crystles to retain moisture in fruiting chamber [Re: wilsonintexas]
    #26582842 - 04/06/20 09:46 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

No but I’ve seen people use it as a casing layer.


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Re: has anyone tried water jelly (polyacrylamide) crystles to retain moisture in fruiting chamber [Re: eatyualive]
    #26582997 - 04/06/20 11:20 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)

I don't think you need to be sterile for fruiting, most people prep CVG with bare hands


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Re: has anyone tried water jelly (polyacrylamide) crystles to retain moisture in fruiting chamber [Re: flannel]
    #26583170 - 04/07/20 02:44 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Yeah, no need to be particularly clean when fruiting.


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Re: has anyone tried water jelly (polyacrylamide) crystles to retain moisture in fruiting chamber [Re: poisoned]
    #26583319 - 04/07/20 06:29 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Hell that is an interesting idea, im just curious about the fruits merging with them.
How did the people using it as a casing fare eat?


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Re: has anyone tried water jelly (polyacrylamide) crystles to retain moisture in fruiting chamber [Re: Cootermonkey]
    #26583387 - 04/07/20 07:34 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

As I said I am new and have memory problems.  If I remember correctly, the casing layer is a bottom layer of the fruiting box that you them put your media (saw dust and hulls for example) on top of and add in the colonized grain.

If you did that would it make since to put the crystals in a Tyvek bad, that way the water vapor could escape, and it would be easy to clean the outside of the bag and reuse the crystals.


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growing for my wife’s microdose
depression and MS

but think of me as your 65 year old grandfather
forced retirement (that is fixed income) was a mechanical engineer, last 15 years as Cyber  Security Engineer.
a benign brain tumor and radiation to it finish it off forced the retirement
so.... memory problems (thus not working) and it blew my balance so when it is bad I walk like a drunk and have almost constant sea sick feeling
BUT
looking at the green side of the grass


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Re: has anyone tried water jelly (polyacrylamide) crystles to retain moisture in fruiting chamber [Re: wilsonintexas] * 1
    #26583403 - 04/07/20 07:49 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Nope, what you're referring to there is the bulk substrate. The casing layer goes on top of the bulk substrate and provides a layer of moist material, usually coco coir, so that any moisture is lost from the casing layer before the substrate starts to dry out. Think of it like the icing on a cake.


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Re: has anyone tried water jelly (polyacrylamide) crystles to retain moisture in fruiting chamber [Re: Ignorantape]
    #26584353 - 04/07/20 03:57 PM (3 years, 10 months ago)



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Re: has anyone tried water jelly (polyacrylamide) crystles to retain moisture in fruiting chamber [Re: eatyualive]
    #26585853 - 04/08/20 08:33 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

i appreciate the link to the thread. I did try to search before i posted, but tbe search engine used specific words and i did not try water crystles.

i tried water jelly and polyacrylamide as terms.

this is not a complaint. i am  do mean it

i am totally new to this. first two attempts were with purchased sterile media jars.  i was trying to read upon what the caseing was and how it worked.

i will ask a followup question in that thread.


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New to this
growing for my wife’s microdose
depression and MS

but think of me as your 65 year old grandfather
forced retirement (that is fixed income) was a mechanical engineer, last 15 years as Cyber  Security Engineer.
a benign brain tumor and radiation to it finish it off forced the retirement
so.... memory problems (thus not working) and it blew my balance so when it is bad I walk like a drunk and have almost constant sea sick feeling
BUT
looking at the green side of the grass


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