Hello, sorry for this question, but. Just reading your op now. About the beefier tub. You said the tub is 16quart, but you add 12quart and the sub volume is still no more than 1/3 of the tub?
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Adasadas said: Hey Beef just wanted to add to the general enthusiasm knocking about regarding your post.
I first did PF tek about 25 years ago! Im in the UK and in the early days of the internet I found a chap in Ohio who was selling spore syringes, and coached me in the basics. Did it for a few months with moderate success and then let it drop, till I was chatting with some old friends of mine about a year or so ago, and remembered doing it, so thought I would try again. Things have certainly moved on since the last years of the 90s'. There's a wealth of information on the web on the subject, and one or two of the youtube offerings ARE really helpful - but your guide blows em away. Its succint, no nonsense and clear.
I'd graduated through the last year from PF TEK, through shoeboxes, and thanks to your inspiration Ive today loaded up two EZ dial monotubs to see how they go. Took extra care to get them clean, flat tidy etc. Great to not be bothering with bloody liners.
As with some other posters, I found the coir tek hydration ratio of 4.6 didnt work for me, way too wet for my coir - two bricks of coir @ about 1100 grams required 8 cups verm to get to Field capacity. So I ended up with CVG. (without the gypsum)
But no coir is created equal right.
I spawned the tubs at 3:1 - diont have the balls to go to 4:1 as per your recommendation just yet....
As with other posters, I would love it if you could get something written up on second flush. I have the devil of a problem with this, and I think its round judging rehydration. Dont really know what is best way to approach this? Heavy misting? Dunking? Taking the tubs to the bath with you......?
Keep it up Beef, great work.
PS - image of grow tent attached, two sorry looking shoeboxes on second flush on top shelf, new leaf ezy dial tubs as per your instructions on middle....


Just my .02 on some matters:
-It's worthwhile to get your particular coir ratio dialed in to how you like it. I found vermiculite to be a crutch that was ultimately more trouble and expense than it was worth. Also, not to get all soap-boxy, but it's a mined clay that goes through a massively energy-intensive process to transform it. And it's also not a good thing to breathe in. So I try to avoid it for any applications where it's not necessary.
-Yeah, surface/environmental conditions can play a role in making fruits come in at different times. But so can bacterial contamination, and, most importantly, genetics. A multispore culture (i.e., one that didn't originate from a single clone) should be expected to have different compatible groups of mycelium in the mix, which will probably pin at different times. I personally don't care that much about getting large single flushes and haven't selected for it, so even some of my clone lines are just kind of continuous fruiters.
Hey stranger I'm also UK. Any tips for grain and coir supplier? I know they are online but wondered what you use. Tia.
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