A.k.a said:

One more thing I’ve been thinking about.

Surely somebody has tried colonizing bran, or a bag that’s like 50% bran, and then using that to knock up lipa bags right?

I can only run two 5lb blocks at a time in the presto so if I could work out a way to supplement bags without sterilizing everything it would be a huge time saver. I figure if I made a 5lb block half bran half hwfp and colonized it I could use that to knock up 5 pasteurized bags along with the normal wbs spawn.

Is this a thing or is there some reason it’s not worth doing that I’m missing?

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Phaethon said:

Fuck yeah, you got great pioppino fruits out of those bags!

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Cheers man! Considering all my other efforts I’m kinda baffled

deadmandave said:

Pios look excellent. The substrate is only wood pellets or sawdust treated with lime? What kind of spawn rate?

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Those bags are basically 50/50 sawdust and soy hulls, 1/2 a cup of bran, a handful of gypsum and a tablespoon of lime, dry weight was about 3.2kg, after sterilising I split a 1 litre bag of grain between them, they're pretty big bags and I’m a go by feel rather than accurate measurements guy, cos I’m lazy and was kinda in the giving up on those damn pioppinos stage 😂
None of the bags with that exact same mix minus the lime have even pinned.
Here’s the tub I made with 50/50 lime pasteurised sawdust and coir

Fruits are just as big if not bigger but not as many, that’s with a whole 1ltr bag of grain, I’ll see how consecutive flushes pan out, misting regularly and keeping the lid askew for more fae seemed to help also.