Kloakk said:

Only slow from casing to mature fruits, on grains and substrate it might be the fastest growing species I've grown

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bluespirit13 said:

If i'm going to be casing these with coarse verm, do i need to be preparing it in any specific way or nah?

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Nah.

Just throw it on straight outta the bag. It feels excessive to sterilize or to pasturise a non nutritional casing which is being placed on top of a fully colonised substrate tbh. I just cased a few boxes like this a couple of hours ago

SkanskKorv said:

bluespirit13 said:

If i'm going to be casing these with coarse verm, do i need to be preparing it in any specific way or nah?

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Nah.

Just throw it on straight outta the bag. It feels excessive to sterilize or to pasturise a non nutritional casing which is being placed on top of a fully colonised substrate tbh. I just cased a few boxes like this a couple of hours ago

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SkanskKorv said:

bluespirit13 said:

If i'm going to be casing these with coarse verm, do i need to be preparing it in any specific way or nah?

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Nah.

Just throw it on straight outta the bag. It feels excessive to sterilize or to pasturise a non nutritional casing which is being placed on top of a fully colonised substrate tbh. I just cased a few boxes like this a couple of hours ago

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mush_monkey said:

SkanskKorv said:

bluespirit13 said:

If i'm going to be casing these with coarse verm, do i need to be preparing it in any specific way or nah?

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Nah.

Just throw it on straight outta the bag. It feels excessive to sterilize or to pasturise a non nutritional casing which is being placed on top of a fully colonised substrate tbh. I just cased a few boxes like this a couple of hours ago

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But vermiculite **needs** to be at field capacity right? I just learned this 🤦


Also, had one cased a semp shoebox with dry verm, what should one do. Remove the verm and soak the coir?

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mush_monkey said:

SkanskKorv said:

bluespirit13 said:

If i'm going to be casing these with coarse verm, do i need to be preparing it in any specific way or nah?

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Nah.

Just throw it on straight outta the bag. It feels excessive to sterilize or to pasturise a non nutritional casing which is being placed on top of a fully colonised substrate tbh. I just cased a few boxes like this a couple of hours ago

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But vermiculite **needs** to be at field capacity right? I just learned this 🤦


Also, had one cased a semp shoebox with dry verm, what should one do. Remove the verm and soak the coir?

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And honestly Semps are not hard at all (imo) they're much easier than cubes if you ask me since they seem to have an incredible contamination resistance and I haven't had such a crazy good success rate with any other species as I have with Semps. Even my failed attempts have produced several flushes.

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not my experience with semps so far but your variables may vary

Mackload said:

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And honestly Semps are not hard at all (imo) they're much easier than cubes if you ask me since they seem to have an incredible contamination resistance and I haven't had such a crazy good success rate with any other species as I have with Semps. Even my failed attempts have produced several flushes.

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not my experience with semps so far but your variables may vary

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SkanskKorv said:

I'm just surprised that's the case tbh. Perhaps I got lucky with the HVC genetics kloakk sent me (I can't recall many struggling with these) or something but to me it has been smooth sailing since I started with these and that's all I'm saying. Semperviva Tres Soles also seems to be doing as good as the HVC as far as colonising grains and substrate goes, I can't speak for fruits yet though but I'll be casing the boxes this weekend so hopefully sometime relatively soon I'll know how it went.

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The Tao knows all about your genetics, my print came from him

Kloakk said:

SkanskKorv said:

I'm just surprised that's the case tbh. Perhaps I got lucky with the HVC genetics kloakk sent me (I can't recall many struggling with these) or something but to me it has been smooth sailing since I started with these and that's all I'm saying. Semperviva Tres Soles also seems to be doing as good as the HVC as far as colonising grains and substrate goes, I can't speak for fruits yet though but I'll be casing the boxes this weekend so hopefully sometime relatively soon I'll know how it went.

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The Tao knows all about your genetics, my print came from him

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SkanskKorv said:

Ooh right... I forgot about that but it doesn't change my point because it's definitely not me being super skilled with Semps I just find them to be ridiculously forgiving to grow so I must be having some good luck somewhere since experienced growers struggle with these and I don't do anything fancy at all with them, just the bare minimum tbh.

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I don't think it's so much the species as the environment. Most of the cultivators here lives in a more hostile environment then some of us. I have seen exceptional good growers just get fucked when summer arrives, and some even have summer year around.

You and me probably have a lot less sporesload, less hostile species, less insects and our summers are short and winters long. That said, if you get a clean culture to sterile grains, semps are as easy as clean cubes, where we live

DiscoDave said:

Well you say that while im here throwing green shoeboxes away one after another . Last attempt looks to be triching out today for me. My jars looked fine and smelled good, I went back to the print after last attempt and it looked fine so idk. Something is up thats for sure. I think next step is to do some sterilized half pint AIO jars and just try to fruit straight from the jar. That should give me the least amount of variables to deal with. Oh well, at least I wont get bored

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Oh man, so sorry to hear it

I do believe both you and Mackload got a print from me and he's been having trouble too, but I think he has tried a different print from another member as well. I've sent out a lot of subtrops prints though.

As you said, it's to warm right now, but I'll try growing out one of my prints come fall, and I used one print to make pf cakes and it fruited fine. Let me know if you want a new print