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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Smellyhobbit] 2
#28669869 - 02/21/24 02:34 PM (4 months, 1 day ago) |
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Send him to the bathroom before he's spawning.
Brushing teeth, showering, shaving. All that personal hygiene stuff.
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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Yahra]
#28669875 - 02/21/24 02:40 PM (4 months, 1 day ago) |
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Yahra said: Send him to the bathroom before he's spawning.
Brushing teeth, showering, shaving. All that personal hygiene stuff.

Who knows what brushes off ones self whilst opening the tub. Spores galore!
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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: elasticaltiger]
#28669881 - 02/21/24 02:45 PM (4 months, 1 day ago) |
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CaptainPuffy said: Thanks for the info. Does the sdfd come with its own adhesive or do you use silicone?
You don't adhere it. It just fits snugly underneath. Thats what it's designed to do.
That helps me find the right ones I saw the larger size as well as the small discs thank you
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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: CaptainPuffy]
#28669982 - 02/21/24 04:14 PM (4 months, 1 day ago) |
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Change your coir brand also keep eye out for little tiny fucking mites!
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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: LewDoja]
#28669992 - 02/21/24 04:20 PM (4 months, 1 day ago) |
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Would putting a coir brick in the freezer for the night kill anything potentially in it?
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GenesisCorrupted said: Would putting a coir brick in the freezer for the night kill anything potentially in it? ...
I'd say probably not. I feel like dry coco is a good insulator, and I'm not certain the internal temp would get cold enough to do much.
Maybe it would work if you wet the coco first. But then wouldn't it just be easier to throw it in the PC for a cycle?
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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: OctopusDisco]
#28670012 - 02/21/24 04:29 PM (4 months, 1 day ago) |
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So youβre doubting penetration. Which is fair. What if this was in the freezer for two days and in a moisture controlled bag of some sort. Then guaranteed it would be sterile. If it was completely at below freezing, right?
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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: OctopusDisco]
#28670016 - 02/21/24 04:30 PM (4 months, 1 day ago) |
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Or tear it apart and bake it in the oven?
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I'd say it largely depends on what you're trying to eliminate and their sensitivity to freezing temperatures.
I just did a quick search and apparently there are "cold-tolerant" strains of Trichoderma 
Is there a reason you'd prefer to try to sterilize via freezing versus pressure and increased heat? If it's so that you can have sterilized coco ready to go at a moment's notice, maybe the best option would be to PC, then freeze. That way, you've got your bases covered
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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: OctopusDisco]
#28670033 - 02/21/24 04:41 PM (4 months, 1 day ago) |
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I was just thinking about the person who talked about bugs. I have a brick itβs waiting to get used. Itβs still wrapped in plastic. When Iβm getting ready to use it I couldβve just popped in the freezer and maybe killed some contaminants. I was still going to use boiling water.
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Oh, I see now! I think you wouldn't get any meaningful additional sterilization out of freezing beforehand, but that's pure speculation. Doesn't hurt to try!
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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: OctopusDisco]
#28670049 - 02/21/24 04:56 PM (4 months, 1 day ago) |
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Thatβs all I was wondering. I donβt know how somebody could have bugs after you use boiling water in a bucket?
I suspect they just had fungus gnats.
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Stuff the dry bricks of coir in a trash bag with a hot shot no pest strip overnight, then let it air out for a day before you expand it. Then zip lock the pest strip back up to save for later. Bugs be gone! I probably would'nt go that far unless you knew for sure there were pests around where you stored it, and you actually see em.
You could just bake the coir too, but yeah it helps to break it up first. Better yet, just toss some that is near feild capacity in an instant pot and turn the keep warm feature on, and it will pasteurize 6 qts or so at a time the proper way @ the perfect temps. Or, rig up a tube to your PC's vent, and steam it clean inside a plastic tote or bucket..
Personally, knowing buddies that own grow shops.. I've seen gnats flying from the organic soil pallets getting unloaded off the trucks right over and land on the clean bricks and bags of coir on the shelves in the store room. The wrappers almost always have little tears or openings. I don't trust any coir whether its compressed or ready to go since then. Not even bought online. Any warehouse you buy from that stores soil-less medias likely has hot stacks of soil nearby, with many different brands, and probably bugs swarming around them as we speak.
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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Smellyhobbit] 1
#28670212 - 02/21/24 06:52 PM (4 months, 1 day ago) |
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Smellyhobbit said: Itβs mostly trich, which we all have in our houses all the time anyway. If it is like lemon is saying, it could be myc not recovering well due to the water quality in the coir and grain and then trich just coming in for a quick meal
These are the most interesting puzzles.
It is hard to imagine tap water being bad enough to kill a grow but as it's the common link, I guess I would also swap it out next time.
Maybe there is some weird environmental factor. If it's usually getting trich, maybe the location where the work is done is just loaded with trich spores for some reason. Maybe try preparing a tub in a completely different room... Maybe a different house, if possible.
Very strange. I look forward to the happy ending.
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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Nichrome]
#28670283 - 02/21/24 07:34 PM (4 months, 1 day ago) |
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I just partially harvested my first flush of P.Cu yesterday and today I noticed my mycelium is pink. Why is it pink? Is it safe? I also found some small patches of possible trich. Any help would be appreciated!!

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Filthyphill]
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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Nichrome]
#28670377 - 02/21/24 08:13 PM (4 months, 1 day ago) |
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If its stachybotrys it will appear normal white and then slowly turn pink over the course of 24hrs or so. did it turn pink quickly, is it the whole tub or just parts? ItΒ΄s a little hard to tell from the pic; i think i see it a little in the first one.
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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Nichrome]
#28670381 - 02/21/24 08:14 PM (4 months, 1 day ago) |
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that being said iΒ΄ve never had this happen to a tub, nor have i experienced stachybotrys or fusarium in a bin. so anything i have to say will be limited to speculation
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Iβve got a shoebox and a sweater box of starry night APEs. They are looking pretty blobby on this first flush , while I had some other first flushes from the same culture that were great. I am thinking about harvesting tomorrow and hoping for a better shaped flush 2. I was out of town for the past 5-6 days so I havenβt been able to watch the blobs to see if they are still growing in the past few days. Does it make sense to harvest as is or should I observe for a day or two and see if any growth is still happening? Anything I can do between flushes to reduce chance of blobs?
Make sure your light intensity is on PAR... snicker snicker
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Some very beautiful molds, but mold nonetheless.
My question is how fucked are the rest of my plates if they were chilling below that in the same sleeve?
Unwrapped and in the same sleeve I wouldn't trust the other plates with anything I cared about. The gaps are plenty enough to let spores in. Air pressure fluctuates and there is a inflow/outflow thing that happens like lungs breathing or a heart beating. That plate is giving off three different kinds of spores. Luckily it's easy to pour plates and the materials are cheap and a sleeve of plates is not anything to cry about.
I'm one of the weirdos who wraps plates individually from the get go. I get tired of chasing down vectors which are usually corners I cut. Although they are time taking, individually wrapped plates give an exponential versatility to the user in so many ways. For example I can always have one or two with me when I hike or adventure. Never know what you might find, especially if you are looking close.
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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Nichrome] 1
#28670405 - 02/21/24 08:28 PM (4 months, 23 hours ago) |
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I wrap all my plates individually as well after they cool and harden. One reason I like clingwrap. Parafilm was a pain wrapping each plate multiple times over its use.
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