Letsfly24 said:

Ok to stack these?

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Letsfly24 said:

Good to hear! Assuming we still latch the lids when stacked? Purple handle gang over here. Sometimes when stacking other tubs it seems to choke things off a touch too much. Just double checking…

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Lilgrower said:

I’m looking at shoebox teks for my next standard cube grow because as a noob I have yet to get a tub grow right, except for natals, which I was misting constantly and changing up FAE every few days because I am just working to get a feel of what good growing conditions look like. And they were bullet proof anyway. Having a tek that I can learn from by more or less leaving it alone and trusting that it works right would be a great learning experience. So going to give this tek a shot with a standard cube I haven’t decided on yet while my Lucid Gate tries to survive my “parenting” in a traditional mono. Thanks!

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If you have yet to get tub grow right, Shoeboxes will help, but IMO I would first look a little closer at your agar and grain techniques.

I personally love ShoeBoxes and is all I use. When I first started I was planning on doing regular Monotubs. However, my first set of jars were pretty nasty as like a lot of noobs I started with spores directly to grain. It was suggested I try shoeboxes at a 1:2 ratio and it not only worked but I got a pretty descent harvest out of pretty shitty spawn. (see pic of my first jars)

After that first grow I learned agar and learned to get CLEAN SPAWN. I kept doing Shoeboxes though because with Monotubs I had to make sure I had 4 qts of clean spawn. 3 clean jars and 1 questionable jar spawned together ruins the whole tub and I didn't like those odds, Especially when I was pulling over an oz dry per flush from a qt in shoeboxes. In 3 months I was sitting on 2lb of dry mush just in Shoeboxes. So The tubs I bought for Monotubs are now being used for storage.

With Clean Spawn I do 1:3 ratio and the mush love it.

Letsfly24 said:

Any luck with the shoeboxes without running a casing or pseudo casing or is it a must to maintain proper conditions?

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Sap7e said:

Awesome - thanks for your input. I've removed the heat pad and taking in account the advice.

I'm colonising some more bags of unclebens so hopefully in another month or so I'll have some more success fruiting them.

I do have a question about the point made that there's not enough coir - do you mean I should have used a more narrow box so that the thickness(height?) of the substrate is more than what I have here? Mine is 4cm(1.5 inch).

And about the bacterial spawn - once I prepared the coir with boiled water, I realised I can't wait until the morning to prep the shoebox so I covered the pot with foil and put the coir out in the cold to cool down for a few hours so that was stupid of me.
Learning every day and putting it up here so other people don't do what I did. Thanks!

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Bsanmartino said:

How important is the lighting aspect of this tek?

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