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EarlyMorningRain
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(EM) Rain Water?
#27061258 - 11/28/20 08:29 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hi everyone- relearning things after taking a break. Happy to be here, and appreciative for any help.
Using Mateah's Humidity Chamber tek. I have either Brita or fresh rainwater to constitute the coco coir. My tap water is garbage, so prefer using rainwater.
Or should I delay until I can get distilled bottle water?
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bodhisatta 
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Use tap. Distilled is no good. Rain is full of politants that it pulls from the air.
Tap at least has some chlorine
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EarlyMorningRain
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Will do. Jw, why do people risk prosecution to collect rainwater? Thought the water cycle was purifying.
My city hasn't met water quality requirement in over a year. It's common to receive instruction to not drink the water due to contam.
Thanks for the reply, I'm following your EAF tek
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bodhisatta 
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Oh no you got libertarian nutter news. There's no prosecution for collecting rainwater anywhere in america
https://www.houstonpress.com/news/the-memes-are-wrong-you-can-collect-rainwater-11495357
Rainwater that's made its way into the ground gets filtered and purified. That's why wells are safe
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EarlyMorningRain
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Oh no you got libertarian nutter news
Depends who you ask!
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bodhisatta 
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It was a big myth in their circles as example of government overreaching. But it's completely bullshit.
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EarlyMorningRain
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bodhisatta said: ...Tap at least has some chlorine
Can there be too much? On the heels of our last boil order, you can smell the chlorine when running the tap.
And for that reason I double ran tap through the brita before dunking. And went away for 3 days. Copasetic?
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bodhisatta 
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The highest chlorine in the country is no where near enough to matter. If anything it's helpful.
I don't know that anywhere in the US that the PPM chlorine is above 1
You could make 150ppm chlorine water to spray fruits with for bacterial blotch
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EarlyMorningRain
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How's that compare to say 5% hydrogen peroxide?
What do you think of adding such to coir? In addition to using tap.
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bodhisatta 
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Probably harms mycelium enough to help out contaminants. Dead mycelium is food
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bodhisatta 
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Hydrogen peroxide comes at 3% usually. So a 5% solution made with that has 1500 ppm peroxide which is probably a awful lot
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EarlyMorningRain
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Don't people use HP in their spore syringes? TMI..
Was going to use it in water that'll expand the coir. Cakes would not be in direct contact, regardless. Using a humidity chamber, so you mean the condensation wicking off the coir in that semi-vacuum would damage/kill the mycelium?
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bodhisatta 
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If people put peroxide in their syringes they're probably getting their info off reddit or facebook.
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you mean the condensation wicking off the coir in that semi-vacuum would damage/kill the mycelium?
Wut
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EarlyMorningRain
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Sure, but then they bring it here, and pollute accurate info! /rant.
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wut
Another example of conflicting info. Some use hydrogen peroxide in the water that constitutes the coco coir. Because the cakes are on foil, there is no direct contact. Would not be misting with the peroxide (if at all considering a 3 day dunk).
However, especially considering that I'm using humidity chambers instead of SGFC, there are no holes drilled and aside from a cracked lid, no ventilation.
So if H2O2 kills mycelium, and minding the less ventilation factor, would the humidity inside the chamber really be detrimental to the cakes?
I'll skip adding it in, just curious.
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bodhisatta 
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I figured you were making a tub when you mentioned coir.
Its probably fine in the coir in a humidity chamber. But i couldn't imagine doing that much stuff for some cakes
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EarlyMorningRain
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Small batch just to remember basics.
Typical n00b over thinking and anxious. Hence, A drop of peroxide shall make me warm and fuzzy inside.
Thanks for your patience/help.
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Bod, is there any chemical (h2o2) that is a guaranteed against contams like cobweb? I know if I see contam I should bury it but I’m a stickler for time. If I can help the mycelium in any way I would like to know. Thank you.
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Nothing is "guaranteed."
To the OP, just hydrate some coir with boiling water via the bucket tek and stop worrying. It will go months without growing anything.
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bodhisatta said: Distilled is no good.
How come distilled is so bad?
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bodhisatta 
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Devoid of a natural amount of minerals and ions
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