Home | Community | Message Board

MagicBag Grow Bags
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: Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   OlympusMyco.com We’re Not Chasing Unicorns—We’re Building Quality (Olympus Myco Grow Bags)   PhytoExtractum Buy Bali Kratom Powder   MagicBag.co Certified Organic All-In-One Grow Bags   North Spore Bulk Substrate

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
OfflineBlueAndOrange
Psychedelic success story…
Male User Gallery


Registered: 01/11/22
Posts: 1,079
Last seen: 9 days, 8 hours
Getting rid of spent substrate and cleaning tubs
    #27815299 - 06/11/22 09:46 PM (2 years, 7 months ago)

So I finished my first grow. I have 10 shoeboxes of sub to dispose of and 10 shoeboxes to clean. I would ideally like to compost the subs, not sure what to do with them to accomplish that. How quickly do these break down?

Also, I’m on a septic system. Is the coir and verm gonna gum up the septic system? Do I need to wash these outdoors? Not sure how to clean up to get ready for the next grow.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineasmr
Lurker

Registered: 04/07/22
Posts: 200
Last seen: 9 days, 8 hours
Re: Getting rid of spent substrate and cleaning tubs [Re: BlueAndOrange]
    #27815309 - 06/11/22 09:50 PM (2 years, 7 months ago)

Coir should be okay on the septic tank, but you do not want vermiculite going down the drain.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflinePBJ710
Strangler

Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 07/05/19
Posts: 3,301
Last seen: 5 hours, 21 minutes
Re: Getting rid of spent substrate and cleaning tubs [Re: BlueAndOrange]
    #27815319 - 06/11/22 09:53 PM (2 years, 7 months ago)

Definitely wash it outdoors.  Don't send fibrous stuff or solids down septic systems.

Just pile the substrate up somewhere out of the way.  You may get another partial flush out of the cakes once they are outdoors, so don't bust them up when removing them.  It should return to looking like a pile of coco in 4-6 weeks depending on your insect/worm activity levels.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineBlueAndOrange
Psychedelic success story…
Male User Gallery


Registered: 01/11/22
Posts: 1,079
Last seen: 9 days, 8 hours
Re: Getting rid of spent substrate and cleaning tubs [Re: PBJ710]
    #27815341 - 06/11/22 10:07 PM (2 years, 7 months ago)

Thanks!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineHealing Oakland
Mushroom Co-op

Registered: 06/03/22
Posts: 146
Last seen: 4 days, 4 hours
Re: Getting rid of spent substrate and cleaning tubs [Re: BlueAndOrange]
    #27815447 - 06/12/22 12:27 AM (2 years, 7 months ago)

Definitely don't send coir or anything besides poop and toilet paper down to your septic. If you do, it's at your own peril. Fixing that stuff is disastrously expensive. I have broken up subs in a five gallon bucket of water and flushed them down the toilet in the city, but I wouldn't dream of doing it on septic.


--------------------
Healing Oakland
The Magic Mushroom Co-operative

Are you a cultivator in or near the Bay Area?

:pm: Healing Oakland is accepting new cultivators :pm:
We are also accepting applications for co-op assistants and customer service reps.

OAKLAND  DECRIMINALIZED

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineasmr
Lurker

Registered: 04/07/22
Posts: 200
Last seen: 9 days, 8 hours
Re: Getting rid of spent substrate and cleaning tubs [Re: Healing Oakland]
    #27815539 - 06/12/22 02:52 AM (2 years, 7 months ago)

Upon reading up some more on septic tanks, yeah don't flush any of it down the drain. It was my impression it would be okay because coir is completely organic matter and would thus decay, like food down your sink, but apparently you should not do that either. Unless you want to pump your septic tank.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineBlueAndOrange
Psychedelic success story…
Male User Gallery


Registered: 01/11/22
Posts: 1,079
Last seen: 9 days, 8 hours
Re: Getting rid of spent substrate and cleaning tubs [Re: asmr]
    #27815761 - 06/12/22 08:52 AM (2 years, 7 months ago)

I never planned to dump the subs down the sink, but there are bits of stuff clinging to the tubs that needs rinsing. I guess I’ll just rinse with a hose outside first.

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

Shop: Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds   OlympusMyco.com We’re Not Chasing Unicorns—We’re Building Quality (Olympus Myco Grow Bags)   PhytoExtractum Buy Bali Kratom Powder   MagicBag.co Certified Organic All-In-One Grow Bags   North Spore Bulk Substrate


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* spent substrate - storage? shirley knott 1,188 7 02/01/03 01:45 PM
by Hexum311
* recycle spent substrate craptree 808 2 10/20/04 11:48 PM
by flaxseedgruel
* Cycling Substrates retread 519 2 07/16/04 04:59 PM
by retread
* Using spent cakes as spawn?
( 1 2 all )
deafpanda 3,760 22 12/15/15 03:22 PM
by hillistommy
* Possible to add more substrate to add more flushes?
( 1 2 all )
PsylocybinFiend 10,711 21 09/29/21 12:02 AM
by Tysmiff20
* Casing with spent cakes? mindXplorer 881 2 05/03/03 12:36 PM
by Roadkill
* Re: KILLER Substrate!!!w/ EGGSHELL puscle 3,302 9 04/24/01 07:59 PM
by Anonymous
* Re using Substrate wikedanjel 1,557 15 12/20/02 01:05 PM
by wikedanjel

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, hamloaf, cronicr, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
192 topic views. 23 members, 116 guests and 73 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2025 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.02 seconds spending 0.006 seconds on 12 queries.