Pandaskis said:

How do you usually mist to rehydrate Way? Ive been thinking about doing that instead of the dunk; i have an aversion towards free standing water haha

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That's the hardest part is going against everything in your gut that says standing water = bad. Purposefully over misting when your brain tells you to stop

Just gonna copy and paste an earlier response in a different thread -

I mist to rehydrate for 2 or 3 days. That is, I mist until the water pools pretty well and then I leave it alone for the day. The next day repeat. If it is still looking dry or feeling light when I pick it up, I'll go again.

After that I poke my head in once a day and check the surface. I'll give it a light mist if I feel the surface is drying out, but usually it is still moist for a while.

Some people just rehydrate and leave it alone. Every time I try that, no matter if I mist to rehydrate, bottom dunk, or soak, eventually there will always be a time where I go "yeah that surface is dry, I should probably mist it".

Funguy50 said:

So almost melted down my still airbox from not giving enough time after spraying iso and flame sterilizing something. Any better safer practices?

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HILLBILLY OUTLAW said:

Please do all flame sterilization outside of the SAB. Not only can you ignite iso fumes but the flame will cause unwanted air movement in your box.

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Way said:

Newshroom42 said:

Hey guys I have a few questions,

1: What are the best ways to know when a flush is over? I assume it is when the bulk of the crop is mature and there are only a few stragglers, not too sure tho. My first grow was kind is sporratic as it was MSS to grain. Now I have a fairly isolated culture and most of them have seemed to mature between yesterday and today.

2: my second question is how I should go about soaking them after a flush. I have seen that they need to be submerged and I was planning on using another shoebox to keep it submerged. Also, if there are small pins, would they get damaged by having a bin on top that stops them from floating? I intend to only have enough weight to keep things submerged. I hear 4 hours is a good amount but not sure if that is accurate

3: lastly how long would you keep the cake submerged. These are in 6 qt shoeboxes. I have 2 bins with 1qt spawn In a 1:1 ratio with coir and 2 bins with 2qts in a 1:1 ratio.

If you know any good threads that cover this then please let me know.

I appreciate any input you may have one these questions. Thank you in advance!

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1. There usually isn't a defined end to a flush,  especially if you are using MS genetics. You will just kind of get pins popping up constantly and you just rehydrate when you have harvested the mature ones and all that is left is the really small ones.

2. Bottom water by pouring water down the side and waiting a few hours and then dumping the excess. Or dunk for a few hours. Or just heavily mist and let the water pool and absorb for a couple of days. I'd suggest misting or bottom watering over dunking personally.

3. I don't like going over 6 hours. For either bottom watering or dunking. I try to stick to 4. I've stopped that and have moved on to misting to rehydrate though.

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Newshroom42 said:

Way said:

Newshroom42 said:

Hey guys I have a few questions,

1: What are the best ways to know when a flush is over? I assume it is when the bulk of the crop is mature and there are only a few stragglers, not too sure tho. My first grow was kind is sporratic as it was MSS to grain. Now I have a fairly isolated culture and most of them have seemed to mature between yesterday and today.

2: my second question is how I should go about soaking them after a flush. I have seen that they need to be submerged and I was planning on using another shoebox to keep it submerged. Also, if there are small pins, would they get damaged by having a bin on top that stops them from floating? I intend to only have enough weight to keep things submerged. I hear 4 hours is a good amount but not sure if that is accurate

3: lastly how long would you keep the cake submerged. These are in 6 qt shoeboxes. I have 2 bins with 1qt spawn In a 1:1 ratio with coir and 2 bins with 2qts in a 1:1 ratio.

If you know any good threads that cover this then please let me know.

I appreciate any input you may have one these questions. Thank you in advance!

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1. There usually isn't a defined end to a flush,  especially if you are using MS genetics. You will just kind of get pins popping up constantly and you just rehydrate when you have harvested the mature ones and all that is left is the really small ones.

2. Bottom water by pouring water down the side and waiting a few hours and then dumping the excess. Or dunk for a few hours. Or just heavily mist and let the water pool and absorb for a couple of days. I'd suggest misting or bottom watering over dunking personally.

3. I don't like going over 6 hours. For either bottom watering or dunking. I try to stick to 4. I've stopped that and have moved on to misting to rehydrate though.

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How long do you recommend keeping the water when bottom watering and how deep should the water be?

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Way said:

Newshroom42 said:

Way said:

Newshroom42 said:

Hey guys I have a few questions,

1: What are the best ways to know when a flush is over? I assume it is when the bulk of the crop is mature and there are only a few stragglers, not too sure tho. My first grow was kind is sporratic as it was MSS to grain. Now I have a fairly isolated culture and most of them have seemed to mature between yesterday and today.

2: my second question is how I should go about soaking them after a flush. I have seen that they need to be submerged and I was planning on using another shoebox to keep it submerged. Also, if there are small pins, would they get damaged by having a bin on top that stops them from floating? I intend to only have enough weight to keep things submerged. I hear 4 hours is a good amount but not sure if that is accurate

3: lastly how long would you keep the cake submerged. These are in 6 qt shoeboxes. I have 2 bins with 1qt spawn In a 1:1 ratio with coir and 2 bins with 2qts in a 1:1 ratio.

If you know any good threads that cover this then please let me know.

I appreciate any input you may have one these questions. Thank you in advance!

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1. There usually isn't a defined end to a flush,  especially if you are using MS genetics. You will just kind of get pins popping up constantly and you just rehydrate when you have harvested the mature ones and all that is left is the really small ones.

2. Bottom water by pouring water down the side and waiting a few hours and then dumping the excess. Or dunk for a few hours. Or just heavily mist and let the water pool and absorb for a couple of days. I'd suggest misting or bottom watering over dunking personally.

3. I don't like going over 6 hours. For either bottom watering or dunking. I try to stick to 4. I've stopped that and have moved on to misting to rehydrate though.

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How long do you recommend keeping the water when bottom watering and how deep should the water be?

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Add water until it is halfway to right below the top of the substrate. I do the same amount of time. 4-6 hours personally.

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sprocket said:

Funguy50 said:

So almost melted down my still airbox from not giving enough time after spraying iso and flame sterilizing something. Any better safer practices?

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Use a spray bottle full of water with a few drops of soap in it to spray inside of your SAB. The soap breaks the surface tension of the water and basically makes it wetter so stuff sticks to it easier spray the sida top and bottom, wait a few minutes and you are good to go.

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Nichrome said:

Floret said:

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When I inoculate grains I prefer to use ___

Ugh this poll better work now!

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All of the above in different situations.

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Tango said:

Noticing a lot of aborts/ mutations in this tub. What could be wrong here or am I just unlucky?

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Pandaskis said:

Quick poll

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