Yuggoth said:

Say I have some colonized grain, a plastic tub, and coco coir. I need to figure out how much of everything to use for that tub. Is my thought process here correct?

• Pick a spawn to sub ratio, like 1:3
  
• Figure out how much substrate you want, like 4" deep
  
• Fill up the tub to that depth and measure the water used, so you know the total volume of substrate you need
  
• From there calculate how much spawn and how much coir you need to hit that volume. (Be flexible on the allowable depth so you are working with whole jars of grain.)
  

The tubs I plan to use are 45 qt with a footprint of about 18" x 12". 4" depth would be at least 15 qt volume -- somewhat more because the calculation ignores how the tubs widen towards the top.

So, I could probably do 16 qt total volume at 1:3, with 4 grain jars and 12 qt coir, and be in the range of 3-4" depth. Reasonable plan?

BTW while I have these tubs on hand I am open to other sizes. They were just super cheap at Costco so I grabbed 'em.

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Way said:

Yuggoth said:

Say I have some colonized grain, a plastic tub, and coco coir. I need to figure out how much of everything to use for that tub. Is my thought process here correct?

• Pick a spawn to sub ratio, like 1:3
  
• Figure out how much substrate you want, like 4" deep
  
• Fill up the tub to that depth and measure the water used, so you know the total volume of substrate you need
  
• From there calculate how much spawn and how much coir you need to hit that volume. (Be flexible on the allowable depth so you are working with whole jars of grain.)
  

The tubs I plan to use are 45 qt with a footprint of about 18" x 12". 4" depth would be at least 15 qt volume -- somewhat more because the calculation ignores how the tubs widen towards the top.

So, I could probably do 16 qt total volume at 1:3, with 4 grain jars and 12 qt coir, and be in the range of 3-4" depth. Reasonable plan?

BTW while I have these tubs on hand I am open to other sizes. They were just super cheap at Costco so I grabbed 'em.

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Sounds good to me. Looks like you worked it out. If the spawn is good you could get away with 3 jars and more coir to grain though. 4 quarts is usually done in 66qt tubs. Should be fine with 4 if you want though.

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Yuggoth said:

Cool, thanks @Way.

How to pick that ratio is one of the final puzzle pieces; guess I will figure that out when I have grain ready, but that is still weeks away. (I'll likely make more jars than I need for any reasonable ratio, and stash the extras in the fridge.)

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Mycodemus said:

Smellyhobbit, what are the white mushrooms in a shoebox in your sig?

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xShroomerx said:

They should dry out in about 12 hours or so

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Smellyhobbit said:

Mycodemus said:

Smellyhobbit, what are the white mushrooms in a shoebox in your sig?

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Kodama. If all goes well I’ll have swabs in about 3 weeks. I’ll do my best to remember you if you’d like one.

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Just discovered Kodama  in someone else’s thread today actually, like cute blue-topped muffins. Nice synchronicity. I’d appreciate that, thank you I’ll send a PM.

Ah, it was pictures by Nichrome, my favorite is the heart shaped one https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/28330605#28330605

Yahra said:

xShroomerx said:

They should dry out in about 12 hours or so

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After browsing the forum a little bit more i found several posts suggesting that you should let the print dry for at least 24 hours.

Are you sure that 12 hours is sufficient?

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Smellyhobbit said:

Mycodemus said:

Smellyhobbit, what are the white mushrooms in a shoebox in your sig?

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Kodama. If all goes well I’ll have swabs in about 3 weeks. I’ll do my best to remember you if you’d like one.

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tholos said:

Smellyhobbit said:

Mycodemus said:

Smellyhobbit, what are the white mushrooms in a shoebox in your sig?

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Kodama. If all goes well I’ll have swabs in about 3 weeks. I’ll do my best to remember you if you’d like one.

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who are the parents/what is the lineage of Kodama? albino lover here

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Smellyhobbit said:

tholos said:

Smellyhobbit said:

Mycodemus said:

Smellyhobbit, what are the white mushrooms in a shoebox in your sig?

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Kodama. If all goes well I’ll have swabs in about 3 weeks. I’ll do my best to remember you if you’d like one.

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who are the parents/what is the lineage of Kodama? albino lover here

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Back in the summer of 22 a smattering of vendors were shipping syringes labeled B+ that would grow the albinos in my signature. What we know for sure is there’s APE genes in there, and the assumption is the other half is probably B+ but no one is totally sure. It blobs like APE and can fin like something in the B+ lineage. But it’s kind of a mystery.

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Screwup said:

QQ why do people give a single care about what their contam is when all that matters is it’s not mycelium or clean?

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Screwup said:

QQ why do people give a single care about what their contam is when all that matters is it’s not mycelium or clean?

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