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Bird seed (successfull brands)
    #5328547 - 02/22/06 04:26 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Well I went to buy some bird seed to grow and then turns out that there is a huge variety of bird seed! :eek: Some being really really cheap which is good =P and some being way expensive. The cheap kind had some sunflowers but not much so I could get them all out. Will the cheap kind grow just as good of shrooms as expensive or even grow myc and shrooms at all?

What brands have you guys used?

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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: mikeownow]
    #5328565 - 02/22/06 04:31 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I like to buy the cheapest wild bird seed I can find.

The expensive stuff usually has more sunflower seeds in it. Good for birds, bad for mushroom cultivators. Also the expensive stuff often has fungicides added to it, very bad for mushroom cultivators. Oh ya..and the cheap stuff is well CHEAPER.


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: musher_420]
    #5328578 - 02/22/06 04:37 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)



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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: Snaggletooth]
    #5328613 - 02/22/06 04:47 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Bird Ration from Wal-Mart works wonders. It's only $0.94 for 4 lbs. It has sunflower seeds in there but they have never posed a problem. I never remove the sunflower seeds.


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: Wronguy]
    #5328618 - 02/22/06 04:49 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Yeah I think that ration is the cheap kind I found. How much should I use to case a larg amount of poo? 8 pounds?


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: mikeownow]
    #5328627 - 02/22/06 04:52 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

If there is a PetsMart store in your area.

Try BIRD BASICS brand WBS.

40 lb bag @ $7 or $8 bucks - each.



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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: agar]
    #5328631 - 02/22/06 04:54 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)



How long did that jar take to get that colonized? JW


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: mikeownow]
    #5328635 - 02/22/06 04:55 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

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mikeownow said:
Yeah I think that ration is the cheap kind I found. How much should I use to case a larg amount of poo? 8 pounds?




Your terminology is off. Are you asking how much colonized WBS you should use for manure or what? I need you to rephrase the question please.


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: mikeownow]
    #5328636 - 02/22/06 04:55 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I like to use about a 1:4 ratio of grain spawn to poo, by volume and just eye balled.

It's not hurting anything to buy a little extra because it will keep. I've alway seen it sold by 30Lb or 40Lb bags.


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: Wronguy]
    #5328639 - 02/22/06 04:56 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

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mikeownow said:
Yeah I think that ration is the cheap kind I found. How much should I use to case a large amount of poo? 8 pounds?




Your terminology is off. Are you asking how much colonized WBS you should use for manure or what? I need you to rephrase the question please.




I am going to get a 10 pound pasteurized bag from ten stud, About how much bird seed would I need to get that poo colonized quickly.


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: mikeownow]
    #5328644 - 02/22/06 04:58 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

For 10 pounds I would recommend about 7 quart jars of colonized WBS.


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: Wronguy]
    #5328649 - 02/22/06 05:01 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

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For 10 pounds I would recommend about 7 quart jars of colonized WBS.




About how many pounds of bird seed should frill 7 quart jars?


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: mikeownow]
    #5328654 - 02/22/06 05:03 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

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How long did that jar take to get that colonized? JW




LC...innoc....&.....12 days :thumbup:


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: Wronguy]
    #5328660 - 02/22/06 05:05 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

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For 10 pounds I would recommend about 7 quart jars of colonized WBS.




Wronguy are you thinking of ten pounds dry?

I think he said pasteurized which I can only assume means that it's already at the right mosture content and full of water, so you get a lot less volume. 7 quart jars seems like too much, might be something like a 1:1 ratio, but it's hard to make estimations just by trying to visual it.

I weighed up 10 pounds of pasteurized poo before, but that was months ago. I think I used about 6-8 full PINT jars for a good ratio.

Mike I don't know what kind of pressure cooker you have but that's how I decide how much grain spawn I'm going to make, by how much will fit in a single run of pressure cooking.


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: Wronguy]
    #5328664 - 02/22/06 05:05 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

the large bags of bird ration have the Bird-kote on them... (from walmart)

i hear it's good to stay away from them...

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Agar said:
If there is a PetsMart store in your area.

Try BIRD BASICS brand WBS.

40 lb bag @ $7 or $8 bucks - each.





My petsmart does not have Bird Basics... going there after work to try and order it.

other than that the 4lb bags of BIrd Ration work great, but suck when you buy 8 or more... the walmart people are like" got alot of birds???"



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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: Oatman2000]
    #5328681 - 02/22/06 05:13 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Sometimes PETCO stores, also have Bird Basics WBS.

Another good source is BULK FOOD STORES.
(WinCo & the like)

Often, bulk WBS is about $0.16 cents a pound.


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: Oatman2000]
    #5328694 - 02/22/06 05:16 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

No, I use a lot of spawn. If you can get by with smaller amounts, so be it. I prefer more spawn to limit my wait times. I don't use ratios simply because I have a lot of materials on hand at any one time.


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: Wronguy]
    #5328707 - 02/22/06 05:20 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

You & I are alike, on that one. :thumbup:

I don't measure spawn to substrate ratio.

Other that insure it is ABOUT a 20 to 25% spawn to substrate.
(on an eyeball basis)


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: agar]
    #5328731 - 02/22/06 05:32 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Im on day 7 of the brand called Safeway select WBS that I bought from safeway. It is looking great, wish I had a digi cam...


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Re: Bird seed (successfull brands) [Re: liloldme]
    #5328814 - 02/22/06 05:53 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

anything cheep will most likely do... anything that says 100% natural will probably do also..


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