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MrBogFrog
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Beginners first grow. When to add coir?
#26599880 - 04/14/20 09:05 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hi guys, as the title says, I’m a beginner who is looking into becoming a grower. Right now, I have my first project underway, it’s an oyster mushroom monotub. I figured I’d start with some edible mushrooms, and if they go well, use a B+ spore syringe for the next tub. I have a few concerns about my grow so far.
I made sure to keep everything sterile when preparing my tub, but I’m afraid the alcohol I sprayed wasn’t completely dry when I poured my substrate and grain in. What could this affect?
Also, because of corona, I cannot go to a store to get poly fill, instead, I used the stuffing of a pillow that is very similar in quality to polyfill. Will this work to ventilate a tub? Or will I have to open it every once in a while to air it out? Also, a friend of mine is considering using bleached sheep’s wool as a filter, I don’t know if this is wise.
Im only on day three right now and my tub seems to be growing rapidly. I am going to case the top layer in Coco Coir before it starts to fruit. How will I know when to do this?
Thanks for all your advice guys. Really hoping this grow goes well.
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shevanel
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Re: Beginners first grow. When to add coir? [Re: MrBogFrog]
#26599901 - 04/14/20 09:14 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ive torn open pillows and used the polyfill from within without problems before. Granted the pillow was fairly new so the filling wasnt nasty af.
If my tub is fully colonized on the 8th day i put it into fruiting for a couple days to let the surface moisture evaporate once or twice. I usually put the coir on the top on the 10th day and by the 12th day ill usually see pins coming up.
Thats just how i do it sometimes. Of course the timeline is for reference ymmv.
Just did a few tubs exactly like that early this morning.
Edited by shevanel (04/14/20 09:18 AM)
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Re: Beginners first grow. When to add coir? [Re: shevanel]
#26599908 - 04/14/20 09:18 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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What type of oyster?
I’m looking into doing edibles and seems like only king oysters do well in coir/monos.
Cubes are extremely difficult to mess up. If you can pull off clean spawn which is universal with mushrooms then you’re 90% there.
Plus you can always get more spores just by asking around and they go a long way.
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MrBogFrog
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Re: Beginners first grow. When to add coir? [Re: A.k.a]
#26599949 - 04/14/20 09:36 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Blue oyster
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