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astraalialma
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Sodium Bicarbonate (aka.) baking soda as pH - buffer?
#4718707 - 09/27/05 05:43 AM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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Synonyms: Sodium hydrogen carbonate; sodium acid carbonate; baking soda; bicarbonate of soda Solubility: 7.8g/100g water @ 18C (64F). Density: 2.2 pH: 8.3 (0.1 molar @ 25C (77F))
http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/s2954.htm
??? Can I use this with my horsepoo bulk substrate preparation? ?? How much should I use it?
I pasteurized the poo using the oven method. Packed the poo inside a plastic ham-cooking-bag and cooked it inside oven at 170-180F' <80C' for about two hours. Now its waiting for mycelium. I have three Organic Whole Rye Meal + Vermiculite substrate jars under few weeks of slow colonisation and one of them is almost 100%. So I am going to chop the cake using electric grinder and mix it with hpoo. Then put it back to colonisation for few days or a week.. and then case it with wet (vermiculite + crunched leca grow rocks)-mix.
Sounds good? Suggestions? Corrections? .. please This is my first grow on progress.
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astraalialma
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Re: Sodium Bicarbonate (aka.) baking soda as pH - buffer? [Re: astraalialma]
#4723630 - 09/28/05 01:19 AM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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*bump*
Well, I'm going to try it anyway.. 2 trays, one with baking soda and one without.
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ThumpaCap
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Re: Sodium Bicarbonate (aka.) baking soda as pH - buffer? [Re: astraalialma]
#4723885 - 09/28/05 02:30 AM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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go for it!
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The14thWarrior
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Re: Sodium Bicarbonate (aka.) baking soda as pH - buffer? [Re: astraalialma]
#4723897 - 09/28/05 02:33 AM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've never seen much of a need for a pH buffer. Some of these more 'advanced' theories may have a place in harder-to-fruit mushrooms, but if you use horse manure and straw properly, you'll get great flushes. I've used store-bought charcoal (made by the same company that makes Verm/Perlite, the green bag? From Lowes I believe) in a casing layer before to help absorb the mycelial wastes, but again, with psilocybe cubensis, it's not really necessary.
To answer your question, however, NaHCO3 will act as a pH buffer.
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Re: Sodium Bicarbonate (aka.) baking soda as pH - buffer? [Re: The14thWarrior]
#4724014 - 09/28/05 03:54 AM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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Green mould like a low ph, most of mine contam with green so I added a lot of lime to my casing.
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