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Guerrilla
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Vermiculite pasteurization after opening
#27306828 - 05/13/21 09:24 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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So I'm aware verm is clean out of the bag.
Mine's been sitting outside open for a couple weeks.
Will it need a little bucket tek loving?
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Re: Vermiculite pasteurization after opening [Re: Guerrilla] 1
#27306982 - 05/13/21 11:55 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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i usually just throw it in the bucket along with my coir before i throw boiling water on it, but honestly i don't think you'd even need to do that if you didn't want to. i totally get why you'd wanna pasteurize seeing as it was just chillin outside (i did the same thing) but i don't think it's necessary since verm is inert. like, the mold spores & shit already exist in your house in open air so i don't think it's fundamentally different than just having it open in your house somewhere. it's not like it's sterile when you scoop it out with & mix it into tubs with your hands or anything
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Re: Vermiculite pasteurization after opening [Re: hazyhorse]
#27307641 - 05/13/21 11:58 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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If your bag has been sitting outside opened, it's filled with mold spores, more so than if the bag were in your house opened. I definitely wouldn't add something to a pasteurized bulk substrate that has a bunch of mold spores all over it
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Re: Vermiculite pasteurization after opening [Re: TheDoobsker]
#27307646 - 05/14/21 12:02 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Id throw it in the oven on broil for couple hours
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Re: Vermiculite pasteurization after opening [Re: Feasoghorm]
#27307688 - 05/14/21 12:47 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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i guess i shoulda asked if you were spawning to coir or not. maybe to manure it would be sketchier, but i've had a bag of verm that got left outside for months & rained on, i just threw it in with the coir when i poured my boiling water onto it. i ended up adding a bit more just dry later & haven't noticed an increase in contamination. obviously no harm in throwing it in the oven/PC, but as long as your spawn is clean i honestly think you'd be ok unless it's been wide open the whole time & there's like bird shit in it or something lol. i'm assuming you at least had the top folded shut or something but i think what really causes contams is just unclean spawn if you're using coir/verm. but again, no harm in just throwing it in with the coir & boiling water (if that's how you roll- manure might be a different story idk)
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