Home | Community | Message Board

Out-Grow.com - Mushroom Growing Kits & Supplies
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: North Spore Boomr Bag   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom   PhytoExtractum Maeng Da Thai Kratom Leaf Powder   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   Mushroom-Hut Mono Tub Substrate

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Offlinegorm
Stranger
I'm a teapot User Gallery
Registered: 10/10/15
Posts: 9
Last seen: 2 years, 4 months
question on my first casing
    #26945054 - 09/19/20 10:23 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Hi guys,

So Ive got a question on if my first casing is going alright and if theres something else i should be doing.

The picture attached is where its currently at.

I screwed up on my first casing and basically just did a crumble of my cakes. I got 5 flushes form them which were great. Afterwards i figured out what i was supposed to do for an actual casing.

SO what i did was take the original crumble, and put a fresh verm/ flour mix on top of it, followed by some straight vermiculite to cover .

Now ive got fuzzy white mycellium coming out in random spots.

So my question is should i cover the mycellium in some more mix or just  some more vermiculite..or let it alone and watch?

the case itself is sitting on top of my perlite layer to keep the tub moist. I aerate 3-4 times a day.

thanks ahead of time!


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineOne of Us
Stranger
 User Gallery


Registered: 03/12/12
Posts: 1,140
Last seen: 6 days, 12 hours
Re: question on my first casing [Re: gorm]
    #26945174 - 09/20/20 12:01 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Ok, to answer your question, I would just leave it be. But....

You should've really mixed it with coir instead of the brf verm mix. Or just verm. 

You don't want to mix it with something really nutritious (BRF) in open air.  That is the whole point of preparing the brf mixture in jars, to keep it safe from contaminants in open air.

Fully colonized cakes won't get contaminated
And coir will not get contaminated because it is really low nutrition, it serves mostly as a water reservoir. Same with verm. But the uncolonized brf added is likely to contaminate.

Also, verm isn't the best casing material because it can be difficult to determine its moisture content by sight. It looks the same dry or wet. Coir on the other hand looks much lighter when dry and is easy to tell its moisture level.

That said, it could totally still work out, and looks fine at the moment. Good luck :thumbup:


--------------------
LAGM 2021
LAGM 2020
Trade List


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleThomsen
I'm a teapot


Registered: 09/27/19
Posts: 364
Re: question on my first casing [Re: One of Us]
    #26945311 - 09/20/20 01:10 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

:whathesaid:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinegorm
Stranger
I'm a teapot User Gallery
Registered: 10/10/15
Posts: 9
Last seen: 2 years, 4 months
Re: question on my first casing [Re: Thomsen]
    #26945815 - 09/20/20 09:27 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Thanks!

I was following a vid tutorial on it. I must have screwed up what he was saying going back and forth about packing the cake with a mix versus just straight verm. I at least sterilized the verm mix before i put it on top of the old cake. I made sure to sterilize everything else also before puttng it together. So hopefully it will hold out!

I honestly wasnt sure if anything would happen since my cake was pretty used up at that point i thought.

Coir ive never seen talked about. i will research it. Thanks for the tip!

THe joy of experimenting.  :smile:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleThomsen
I'm a teapot


Registered: 09/27/19
Posts: 364
Re: question on my first casing [Re: gorm]
    #26945831 - 09/20/20 09:35 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Maybe you have mistaken it for the dunk and roll? Where you dunk your cake and afterwards roll it in verm to create a moisture layer around it.

Sterilizing is not something that's done on non to low nutritious substrates.
Although verm is not really consideret a substrate it self and is mostly used with coco coir.

Because that verm doesn't hold nutes, you do not need to sterilize it.
Coir doesn't either.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinegorm
Stranger
I'm a teapot User Gallery
Registered: 10/10/15
Posts: 9
Last seen: 2 years, 4 months
Re: question on my first casing [Re: Thomsen]
    #26945894 - 09/20/20 10:12 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

SO im looking up all the coir casing stuff. And of course i lost the link tothe one i wanted to ask about.

ANyway, it looks like when the guy had the mycellium coming up like mine, he added more casing material on top of it to ensure a more even spread of the grow. Since he said it tends to come up along the sides more generally.

Since mine is all fluffy like and on the sides, should i think about covering it with another layer of moistened verm since i dont have coir right now?

Or just leave it as One of Us Recommended?


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: North Spore Boomr Bag   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom   PhytoExtractum Maeng Da Thai Kratom Leaf Powder   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   Mushroom-Hut Mono Tub Substrate


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Back with more questions (Casing?) delekhan23 981 3 11/01/01 12:07 AM
by Mr. Pink
* Casings and humidity
( 1 2 all )
angryshroom 20,065 23 04/07/18 09:52 AM
by SarahBorealis
* casing, funky smell? Is this normal? Shroomdude 1,433 6 05/13/01 09:30 PM
by Shroomdude
* casing from "The mushroom Cultivator" upupup 17,888 8 11/13/20 10:41 AM
by tiptrippy
* To crumble or not? Anonymous 1,166 7 03/17/02 01:38 PM
by GaNjAShRooM
* Soil casing qustion GaHippy 1,116 7 02/23/02 02:57 PM
by BeppoMarx
* Guys, what the F**K does crumble and case mean? PECID 1,809 4 09/15/01 11:17 PM
by Zen Peddler
* Re: stupid question bout casing Anonymous 676 2 01/30/00 03:40 PM
by Anonymous

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Shroomism, george castanza, RogerRabbit, veggie, mushboy, fahtster, LogicaL Chaos, 13shrooms, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
107 topic views. 30 members, 198 guests and 36 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.025 seconds spending 0.01 seconds on 14 queries.