GenesisCorrupted said:

I know everyone wants you to just search the site. But honestly, I’ve been searching the site for months and I have not gotten a just standard answer. I use this terrible spray bottle filled with distilled water. I sprayed the entire bottle on top of my perlite, I took a fully contained grow bag. That was completely done. It was dry though. Not super Duper but pretty dry. It’s been a very hot summer. I spread it out as smooth as I could put about a half inch of perlite on top of it and sprayed this entire bottle on it. The humidity is holding quite well. I can tell that the air is flowing through it quite well. I just want to know in a ballpark sense.  How much water I was supposed to put in this. Because I don’t want to open and close it multiple times and exposed to potential contamination. A gallon? I can include pictures and stuff but I tried making an article and it got completely ignored. Yeah the answer is given in any of these articles I’ve been reading. Everyone just says fucking guess figure it out. Go read!

I have said it before and I will say it again. I need specifics. I can specifically say how big this Tupperware is. I want to know specifically, if I can just boil water, let it get to room temperature have sanitize an entire room and the air in it. Then just go in there and pour the room temperature water in there. How much water is too much. What is the consistency of the soil that I want. Is the perlite supposed to be on top or on the bottom. I am using it as a casing Layer.

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Um. …uhh……


Hmmmmmmmm…….

Yeah… I would go back and start with a tek that makes sense and has been a proven method.

If you truly have been using the search function, it’s really easy to understand field capacity for your substrate. If you don’t understand field capacity, use the search function to understand.

The only way to really know is to do it yourself as an experiment.

It’s a little unfair to the community to expect us to read your walls of text without any kind of pictures and expect us to have the answers to a question/instance that has NEVER been mentioned anywhere on this site as far as I’ve been here to put perlite on top of the sub as a casing.

Like Roscoe mentioned… generally it’s a 50/50 mix of c/v.

In a ballpark figure, if you can just dunk your bag/cake overnight or for a min of 2 hours that should help reconstitute the moisture lost during colonization.

Welcome to Shroomery. Time to grow some mushrooms!