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For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl (pic update)
    #5277158 - 02/08/06 11:46 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

I was going to wait to post this after getting some results, but I would like some feedback. Feel free to laugh.

I have a straw ball colonizing, it's about 12 inches in diameter. I made it by using 2 huge bowls, and drilling a few holes for gas exchange. Now, on the top bowl, I've cut out the bottom and placed a smaller bowl in the hole which is nested down into the straw. Once it's done, it should look like a huge ball with a bowl shape in the top.

Here's my big idea: Take a piece of wet cardboard and press it into the bowl shape. Fill this "bowl" with a .25% peroxide and water solution. :crazy2:

Whadda you think? The cardboard might drain too quickly, I've also considered using neoprene, it's water resistant, but will leak. Another possible material is tyvek. I don't really care if the bowl colonizes, the mycelium's only purpose in "the bowl" is to soak up water. Is this a stupid idea? :laugh:

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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: Rahz]
    #5277171 - 02/08/06 11:50 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

im pretty sure that would just lead to one big soggy mess. Stick to plastics or hard containers for your casings.


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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: coda]
    #5277199 - 02/08/06 11:55 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

>>>>Stick to plastics or hard containers for your casings.

Well, as long as I have several jars full of dried shrooms, I might as well experiment  :grin: This will not be a casing. To fruit, I'll just remove the top bowl, and leave the bottom bowl on. I have a single water/Co2 vent in the bottom bowl, the other gas exchange holes are in the top bowl. Hmm, a pic would be helpful, BRB

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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: Rahz]
    #5277241 - 02/08/06 12:01 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

Here's a pic I took before filling the bowls. The whole thing's taped up and incubating now.



Edit: Casing is a possibility though. I could fill the nested bowl area with about a quart of well saturated casing mix... kinda like end casing a PF cake.

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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: Rahz]
    #5278776 - 02/08/06 06:47 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

that is a cool little chamber you got there Rahz


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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: freshlyPLUMP]
    #5278803 - 02/08/06 06:52 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

i'm intrigued  :shocked:

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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: Rahz]
    #5322232 - 02/20/06 10:38 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

I just birthed the ball. One quart of casing mix was added to the top. Now to the fruiting chamber.

Introducing... SHROOMCANO!



Now, if it only fruits.

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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: Rahz]
    #5322279 - 02/20/06 10:45 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

lol.
isn't there something that could happen to very thick substrates? i remember it got mentioned when someone asked why not just fill a PC'er with substrate and just noc that up. some one replied it would turn *** and bad junk would happen.
any one know what im talkin about?


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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: NESpores]
    #5322508 - 02/20/06 11:31 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

There can be thermal issues. I'm hopeing I don't have any :laugh: It's roughly 12" in diameter, but I'm running constaint FAE on it in a 69 degree environment, so we'll see.

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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: Rahz]
    #5322528 - 02/20/06 11:40 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

wicked  :headbang:


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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: lardnar]
    #5322558 - 02/20/06 11:51 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

Should work fine and produce some nice fruits. Filling a PC with substrate, I would not recommend. Way different things went on here.


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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: NESpores]
    #5323594 - 02/21/06 10:46 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

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lol.
isn't there something that could happen to very thick substrates?




Anaerobic: Lacking the ability to grow in the presence of oxygen.

was that what you were thinking of?


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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: Snaggletooth]
    #5323604 - 02/21/06 10:48 AM (18 years, 1 month ago)

He made it out of a bunt pan, so there is a big conical hole in the center
He should be fine :smile:

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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: Jaeger]
    #5323883 - 02/21/06 12:30 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

>>>>He made it out of a bunt pan, so there is a big conical hole in the center He should be fine

The bunt pan is another project. This particular project was made using 2 1.5gallon bowls, one placed over the other. I cut the bottom out of the top bowl and nested a smaller bowl in the hole. The small bowl is only about 4 inches deep (holding 1 quart of casing mix), so there's about 8 inches of substrate below the casing resivoir. I'm expecting good things from this sucker though. And, it's the easiest grow I've done so far... If it fruits well, I'll be writing my first tek.

Edit: I'm not really worried about oxygen. After removing the top bowl, there's only 6" of substrate "underground". Each bowl is 6 inches high. Plus it's straw, and I'm using a Vics so the FAE is 24/7.

The bunt cake OTOH, not expecting so much. I rushed it, bought a small (cheap) pan, and used straight WBS when I should have spawned to something. It was partly me, trying to use these jars before they've set too long, but I was also curious as to how a WBS cake would do. The large bunt pans are around 10 dollars (15 for the nice teflon coated ones), That's where I'm going next.

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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: Rahz]
    #5323899 - 02/21/06 12:35 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

Wow...that looks incredible...Nice going!

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Re: For your amusement: Straw ball with water bowl [Re: Delinquentes]
    #5324329 - 02/21/06 02:38 PM (18 years, 1 month ago)

i wanna see this thing when it fruits


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