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Casing question
    #27453506 - 09/02/21 11:25 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I have two tubs going at the moment, one is a 3qt PF redspore and the other is a Penis Envy shoebox that I made about a week after the redspore. I've had about a years worth of contamination issues that Finally got figured out; but it's been so long since I made it to this stage that I had forgotten some details.

I always use a casing layer in my tubs, but in my previous grows had found that a casing of vermiculite as recommended in several teks doesn't seem to do very well for me, and so I switched to using a coir/verm casing. But I had forgotten that and used a purely vermiculite casing when I made both tubs. The redspore started pinning about 3 days ago and I remembered why I didn't like the vermiculite only casing. Pinset is very thin and heavily staggered. I still have new pins showing up in previously bare places while the first 2 veils broke this morning.

Upon seeing the uneven pinning 3 days ago and remembering I went back and added a second thin casing of coir/verm to the PE shoebox since it had only just begum colonizing the verm casing at that point, It is now colonizing the coir/verm casing very beautifully and I have an almost solid capret of the areal hyphae that the pins form from. But I was hesitant to mess witht he redspore tube with it already pinning.

Here's my question, if I wait until after this first, staggered flush has finished in the redspore, would I be able to go back and add the coir/verm casing layer then and maybe get a more even and unified 2nd flush?

The substrate should have plenty of nutrients to support a significant 2nd flush since I'm looking to be lucky to get 20 shrooms total out of this 1st one, the pinset was really, really sparse but the mycelium all looks very robust and healthy. I'm thinking the pure vermiculite just absorbs too much moisture for good evaporation for pinning.

no pics atm as I am about to fly out the door to get to work, but I can try to get some this evening when I get home if needed.

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