flapping_bird said:

i’d get that bad boy nice and wet and roll it in coir, and then keep it moist in a tub with a loose lid…could have shrooms blooming all over in a couple of weeks!

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flapping_bird said:

there’s a good pictorial and writeup of the basic idea in the original post on this thread - have seen some killer results from that approach. Best of luck with your grow!

Peace to you, friend!

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Medicinalshrooms said:

Hey all,

Followed your direction took my blocks to the sink but low water pressure didn’t disturb anything so I just washed my hands and scraped off all the surfaces with my fingers.  Then put a base of prepped coco coir in the tubs and rolled the bricks in coir.  Will continue to update as it progresses or doesn’t progress.

These bricks really were covered in a hard shell of mycelium so I’m guessing, based on the first posts in this thread, that we didn’t open the bags soon enough when they were colonized.  Maybe suffocated?

With gratitude for this resource and assistance!

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Got something separating the dino egg and the coir in the bottom? It's going to use energy and colonized it if not, other then that it's looking good

Kloakk said:

Got something separating the dino egg and the coir in the bottom? It's going to use energy and colonized it if not, other then that it's looking good

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Kloakk said:

Foil or a rack should work fine

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Thank you! 🙏

EDIT - I figure I’ll just keep updating with info.  If a new reader of this thread comes in they can go back one page and see where I started.

Quick rundown of the coco coir: following the technique (TEK) in this forum, I measured out about 650 grams of coir in a 5 gallon bucket and poured in 3 quarts of boiling water.  Put the lid on and let it come to ambient temperature for a day.  When I got back into the bucket, I mixed it all up by hand and when I took a handful of the prepped coir and squeezed hard, just a little bit of water squeezed out.

I put about 2-inches deep of a coir base in my 2 monotubs.

I ran my mycelium colonized bricks under cold water in the sink while scraping the somewhat hardened outer layers off with my fingertips, creating a somewhat porous surface all over the brick.

I rolled the damp brick in the coco coir and used my hands to put coir on any spots that didn’t pick up the coir.

I then placed the coir-covered bricks on a piece of aluminum foil in the monotubs, taking care to use enough foil to prevent the brick from touching the coir-pack at the bottom of the tub, but leaving the edges of the coir-pack exposed so it could contribute to keeping the atmosphere humidified.

I hope it’s not too detailed!  Just wanted to clarify for others on some points that were a little confusing for me.  Now, we wait….