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Re: Beefs Beefy Tub Tek [Re: chillya]
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beats me.  if you say so.  ive never measured the expanded coir.  seems kindof a crap shoot but youre probably very close to the real ratio. it sounds right anyway


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Re: Beefs Beefy Tub Tek [Re: BeefExtreme]
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Mr Beef ā€“ first off, thanks a ton for making this guide and updating it as you iterate! It is awesome. Iā€™m a long time reader/follower and first time poster. (Is it okay I posted this in this thread?)

I have done a ton of grows in the past year and everything seems to work great usually. I wanted to experiment with the Beefy Tub Tek and my results are not what I was hoping for (so, let's make the assumption I am doing something wrong).

I am having some stalling issues with my current Beefy bins and could use your help. I have done this same process dozens of times with other bins and have not run into this before. I am fully okay with being patient, but these are weeks behind where I would normally be.

These are Leucistic Golden Teachers. Innocā€™d in grain jars from LC 9/22, S2B directly into FC on 11/4. Sub is 2:1 CC to spawn. Casing layer of just CC at ~1/4ā€¯. Temp is 71-72 F, and humidity is ~99% in the bins.

The first couple days after S2B, there was visible, quick myc growth. Then everything just seems to have stalled for a couple weeks. These pins popped up two days ago, but obviously not the full canopy I was hoping for.
The only thing I can think of for a variable I canā€™t control is the air outside the bins is dryer than usual (25-35%), but Iā€™m not sure how that would affect anything.

I am very confident the myc is not fighting contam.

A squeeze test was performed on the coir after hydrating it and it seemed spot on.

I just saw you mention in one post in this thread to remove the gasket on the lid of the tub if it has one. Should I do this? Any other ideas what I could have done wrong?




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Edited by bev_disgrace (11/25/25 10:12 AM)

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Re: Beefs Beefy Tub Tek [Re: bev_disgrace]
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lll comment more later but that surface looks dry which would seem to indicate a low field cap


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Re: Beefs Beefy Tub Tek [Re: BeefExtreme]
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Crazy to see such an uncolonized tub fruiting


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Re: Beefs Beefy Tub Tek [Re: bev_disgrace]
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bev_disgrace said:
I am very confident the myc is not fighting contam.




Apologies for being so blunt but I think this isn't true.


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Re: Beefs Beefy Tub Tek [Re: tryptkaloids]
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nah its colonized under that dry layer so it gives the appearance that its stalled.  then it doesnt have enough gas to flush.  ive done it before when i was trying to find the lower end of field cap limits.


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Re: Beefs Beefy Tub Tek [Re: bev_disgrace]
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bev_disgrace said:


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Doesn't look colonized under the top layer to me. :shrug:


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Re: Beefs Beefy Tub Tek [Re: BeefExtreme]
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I'm looking forward to hearing your input! If it is dryer than ideal for Field Capacity, is it too late to do something to fix that?

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Re: Beefs Beefy Tub Tek [Re: tryptkaloids]
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tryptkaloids said:
bev_disgrace said:


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Doesn't look colonized under the top layer to me. :shrug:


it looks as colonized as it was able to colonize. 

seems like your field cap is low.

whats your method for making coir?


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Re: Beefs Beefy Tub Tek [Re: BeefExtreme]
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BeefSupremeJr said:
tryptkaloids said:
bev_disgrace said:


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Doesn't look colonized under the top layer to me. :shrug:


it looks as colonized as it was able to colonize. 

seems like your field cap is low.

whats your method for making coir?


I weighed the block of coir at 685g. Then used your 685 * 4.25 formula and got 2911, which translated to ~2.9 liters. I got the water up to a boil. I had the coir in a Home Depot bucket, poured in the water and covered it. I left it overnight and mixed it with the fully colonized grain in the AM into the tub (all specs are supposed to be to your Tek - only difference is I used 20qt Sterlite vs your 16qt). Are my coir/water numbers off?

Could the drier air outside the tub (I'm using a new room) be causing the tubs to dry out? I do not currently have the holes covered. I didnā€™t pay super close attention to surface conditions based on the Tek. That may have contributed?

Thanks again for the guidance.

Edited by bev_disgrace (11/29/25 11:31 AM)

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Re: Beefs Beefy Tub Tek [Re: bev_disgrace] * 1
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bumping this because ive updated it with a companion youtube video.



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Re: Beefs Beefy Tub Tek [Re: BeefExtreme]
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Might a 12qt tub suffice for this you think? In relation to coir to spawn ratio?


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Re: Beefs Beefy Tub Tek [Re: MycoKyle] * 1
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The good thing about ratios is they scale regardless of the volume its the same ratio


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Re: Beefs Beefy Tub Tek [Re: BeefExtreme]
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Mr.  Beef, do these videos work? It's not letting me open it.  Says it isnt available?


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