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what is best to use as a casing layer
    #5291327 - 02/12/06 12:40 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

for WBS?

For Cakes?

i was thinking just a layer of verm for both, 1/4 the thickness of the substrate layer. but then a friend had made cakes and claimed he used a mixture of peat moss and vermiculite for his casing layer. so I was wondering what u guys thought was best? peat moss is acidic if not corrected for, and i though shrooms liked a ph above 7, also i heard it gets more acidic at later flushes so all the more reason not to use peat right?


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Re: what is best to use as a casing layer [Re: dmcheatw]
    #5291335 - 02/12/06 12:43 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

you use a PH buffer for peat. Hydrated lime for an instant buffer along with some calcium carbonate for long term buffer.


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Re: what is best to use as a casing layer [Re: coda]
    #5291336 - 02/12/06 12:43 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

btw straight verm makes a shitty casing layer, follow the 50/50 teks or the 60/40 teks.


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Re: what is best to use as a casing layer [Re: coda]
    #5292492 - 02/12/06 07:30 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

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coda said:
btw straight verm makes a shitty casing layer, follow the 50/50 teks or the 60/40 teks.



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Re: what is best to use as a casing layer [Re: hyphae]
    #5292863 - 02/12/06 09:35 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

The best I think is to what degree you want to take it. How much you want to or can put into it.

I have been doing 50/50 but I need to move up to peat, but then you have to or should be testing the Ph and adjusting it....

The problem I have been having is with the later flushes. I know the case is still good to go, but by then (by the 3rd flush)the top layer goes to shit, I scar the surface but...still have problems.


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