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Route23
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What is the point of a monotub?
#26997358 - 10/22/20 05:51 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've seen a lot of videos about how to make a monotub by mixing for example coco coir substrate and the mushroom cake. And others only take the cake and place it on foil and let it grow.
What is the point of cultivating a cake if you are only going to cultivate it again?
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Re: What is the point of a monotub? [Re: Route23]
#26997402 - 10/22/20 06:36 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I also don't really see the point in grinding up rice flour cakes that are actually meant to grow in a SGFC.
Generally people who use monotubs work with grain spawn. That's at least what I do. Your yield will go through the roof compared to pf tek. It's big fun growing in monotubs.
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Re: What is the point of a monotub? [Re: Fridgedoor]
#26997421 - 10/22/20 07:07 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Like Fridgedoor mentioned, it's really about yield. The effort to do bulk isn't a whole lot more than the effort to do cakes. You're still inoculating jars and letting them colonize, but rather than putting them immediately into fruiting as a small cake, you break them up, let them colonize some substrate, and now you have a giant cake that has it's own fruiting environment with no need for an additional fruiting chamber.
Cakes are great if you're just starting out, don't have a lot of space, or just don't want to grow a bunch of mushrooms, but you can do a monotub and have more than enough mushrooms to last you, even if you're sharing.
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Route23
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Okay thanks guys! I guess i will start with a cake and then make a monotub when i know what i'm doing
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Re: What is the point of a monotub? [Re: Route23]
#26999261 - 10/23/20 07:55 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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The B(rown) R(ice) F(lour) cakes provide a good source of sterile food for your mushrooms. They can grow in the jar without any competition. Once the mycelium has colonised all the BRF it's strong enough to out compete other other microbes in the substrate of a monotub or other container such as a shoebox.
This process allows you to grow a mushroom so it's strong enough to grow more.
By scaling up the grow in steps like this you can get much larger harvests with less risk of your grow being taken over by a different microbe.
A monotub is a popular way of scaling up your grow and is capable of producing very large harvests.
A begginer friendly way to try out this approach is to use your BRF cakes as spawn* for a shoebox. There is a thread dedicated to using BRF cakes for shoeboxes.
*spawn is the term used for what you use to scale up a grow into a bulk substrate which is the name give to the mixture you add your colonised BRF cake too. Spawn can be BRF, rye grains, wheat, oats, wild bird seed, ect. Substrates can be made of many different things, coco coir is popular and effective.
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