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Help! Huge crack inside of monotub
    #26672321 - 05/15/20 09:52 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

About a week ago I combined the substrate with my perfectly colonized spawn in order to put it into the monotub. I ended up doing a 1:1 ratio of spawn to coco coir and threw it in the tub. I realized that the depth of my new substrate was only about 1". Now the whole thing cracked big time and I am not sure what to do. The tub is moist and always has a misty walls. I keep it around 72-80 degrees. I see about 2 little pins so far but I have no idea what to do at this point.
Is there a way to fix this? Or to increase my chances of a successful fruit?



Thanks in advance


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Re: Help! Huge crack inside of monotub [Re: bundytek]
    #26672439 - 05/15/20 10:59 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

You're fine, they will still fruit. I actually did the same thing when trying to dump some sitting water from the bottom of a mono tub when I was first starting out. Cracked the sub and I thought it was game over. My sub actually cracked in half and the other half completely flopped out of the top on the floor, and I just put it back in how it was, and it still fruited totally fine. ACTUALLY, it fruited better than the other tubs I was running alongside it.

You could theoretically reach your hand in and crumble the entire sub up and let it sit for another week and it'll be recolonized into a contingent block.

I'm not suggesting that you do that, I'm just trying to illustrate how resilient mycelium is in nature.

edit: I also just read that you were concerned about the substrate depth. Any depth will fruit, but 4" in a monotub is what most people will recommend as a max, as youll start to see diminshed returns with a deeper sub (unless you used a tub larger than a 66qt mono, but that would be rediculous). Smallers tubs (ie 6qt shoeboxes) you typically don't even want more than 2'' substrate, unless you plan to dub tub it, or throw a plastic bag over it when the fruits get too tall.


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Re: Help! Huge crack inside of monotub [Re: magicschoolbus]
    #26672545 - 05/15/20 12:15 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

Appreciate the feedback


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