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cokaznrebel
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Couple of Mono-tub questions..
#5256582 - 02/02/06 06:46 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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I spawned my jar into my compost 36 hours ago, and thier is no condensation on the sides of the tub, I thought these produced thier own humidity?
Should I put alum foil or something right above the mixture, to stop it from getting FAE from the poly-fil holes, or should I just seal off the top lid?
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tokey666
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Re: Couple of Mono-tub questions.. [Re: cokaznrebel]
#5256687 - 02/02/06 07:23 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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You are confusing me.
Do you have the substrait straight in the tub or do you have it in containers in the tub? If its straight in the tub, keep it completely dark and keep the temp around 80-82 without any air exchange. THat goes for the containers too if you did it that way.
Either way, no air exchange, keep in dark and keep warm. Let it fully colonize, then you can case and fruit.
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tiny_rabid_birds
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Re: Couple of Mono-tub questions.. [Re: tokey666]
#5256702 - 02/02/06 07:28 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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So long as you've followed wronguy's pictorial to the letter, you'll be fine. Don't worry. You shouldn't be checking on it after 36 hours anyways. They're to be left in the dark for like, what, 3 days? Plus.. they do create their own humidity, within the microclimate that is the casing layer. There's not going to be that much condensation on the walls because they maintain a RH of like 80%, not 100%.
Just calm down, and leave it alone. If you followed the tek, you're straight. Don't mess it up by trying to peek or something.
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cokaznrebel
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Im doing a mono-tub, not double tub. I dont have the thing wrapped up in black trashbags because my tub is not transparent. I was wondering about the FAE though, should I put something RIGHT ON TOP OF the colonizing substrate or leave it open to the fresh air that could come in through the poly-fil holes?
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kungpow
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First off you have to make sure you have enough spawn. You need at LEAST a 1:10 spawn:poo ratio. But the more the better. I usually try for a 5:1 ratio. I don't have a pc so I just use a pound of brf and mix it in the 5lbs of poo. When you mix your spawn you need to put it in the tub and then put it in a dark place at about 68-75 degrees. When you are using poo you don't want to using temps over 80 degrees because it might ferment your poo.
Another thing you need to make sure with the monotub is to NOT look at it for the initial 5 days. It takes at least 5 days to colonize unless you put a shitload of spawn in there. So don't look at. I know you must think sometimes what could it hurt if I just take a peak. Well I'm telling you it does hurt. My first monotub I thought it would be ok to peak but it really fucked up my pinset. Actually I had problems getting my casing layer to colonize because the mycelium had already gone into fruiting mode. So WHATEVER you do DON'T look at it.
COndensation really doesn't mean a thing for humidity. The air has a dew point and that can vary too. Sometimes you can have 100% humidity and still no condensation. BUt you shouldn't really care about humidity right now anways. The humidity shouldn't really be that high until after you have put the casing on. Make sure that your holes aren't larger than 3/4" because that will cause TOO much FAE and that will make your caps crack. With my last tub I had that problem and I am hoping to that my new tub has that probelm fixed. I hope this helps.
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