Splittinghairs said:

So if you pre soak your grains and your substrate is dry could you strain some of the water from your grains into the substrate for field capacity?

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suicideprevention said:

How does this shoebox look? Grain to coir 1:1.5. Lid has been snapped closed since spawn was mixed to grain except for when I took this pic. I have other box with better pin growth and another with less. Now that I have pins can I safely open the box to mist? Should I mist? Or so I just latch it closed and keep it as it was?

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Misting is only necessary if you don't first set your field capacity correctly, perfect hydration on spawn would have little microscopic water droplets on top of your whole sub, if it is drying up there will be a noticeable color change in your substrate. I personally would LITFA (Leave It The Fuck Alone). It's looking good, and lot of things can change your pinset, genetics is one of them.

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Axman said:

Splittinghairs said:

So if you pre soak your grains and your substrate is dry could you strain some of the water from your grains into the substrate for field capacity?

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I personally wouldn't.

The grain soak water may have nutrients in it, people use it for LC, agar, all sorts of stuff, but it is usually sterilized for that.

There is often a bit of bioactive things inside the grain soak water that I would assume would raise your chance for contamination tremendously.

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suicideprevention said:

I do have a 66qt mono that I made using the EZ dialed tek, there is nothing in in right now, I could probably stick all 3 of my shoeboxes in there with the shoebox lids off but the mono lid on?

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mike-ologist said:

Axman said:

Splittinghairs said:

So if you pre soak your grains and your substrate is dry could you strain some of the water from your grains into the substrate for field capacity?

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I personally wouldn't.

The grain soak water may have nutrients in it, people use it for LC, agar, all sorts of stuff, but it is usually sterilized for that.

There is often a bit of bioactive things inside the grain soak water that I would assume would raise your chance for contamination tremendously.

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Can confirm.

Think of the etymology of germ-inate. The grains all have germ pores that release microbials beneficial to plant growth. We soak grains,in part, to release these in an attempt to lower the final count of microbial that are pcd to death, thus reducing the chance something makes it through the pc cycle.

Typically, if your sub is a bit dry, I'd mist with distilled water.

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Now the LC or agar might be fun to look into! That I need to figure out how to apply.

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I took the chance of tin foil and cracking the lids. The lids were modified and I saw some folks say the micron filter can do vacuum things from sterilization. They all seem to be bouncing back but only time will tell.

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suicideprevention said:

Axman said:

suicideprevention said:

How does this shoebox look? Grain to coir 1:1.5. Lid has been snapped closed since spawn was mixed to grain except for when I took this pic. I have other box with better pin growth and another with less. Now that I have pins can I safely open the box to mist? Should I mist? Or so I just latch it closed and keep it as it was?

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Misting is only necessary if you don't first set your field capacity correctly, perfect hydration on spawn would have little microscopic water droplets on top of your whole sub, if it is drying up there will be a noticeable color change in your substrate. I personally would LITFA (Leave It The Fuck Alone). It's looking good, and lot of things can change your pinset, genetics is one of them.

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Ok thanks for the tips. The pins have exploded and fruits are just about to the lid. At this point do I just flip the lid upside down and let the fruits push on the lid?  Or what exactly should I do?  Unfortunately I don't have any more shoeboxes so I can't make a dubtub set up and I'll need to do something tonight because they will be pushing against the lid by morning

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