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Offlinecrakkattak
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How much do oyster shells and hydrated lime help out in a casing?
    #5614195 - 05/10/06 06:48 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I'm just wondering, because I'm about to start my casing right away, but I only have peatmoss and verm (no oyster shells or hydrated lime). So is it worth buying these two items in the longrun in my casing?

Does the hydrated lime and oyster shells help factors such as faster colonization, bigger fruits, more potent fruits, better flushes ect...


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Re: How much do oyster shells and hydrated lime help out in a casing? [Re: crakkattak]
    #5614322 - 05/10/06 07:10 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Oyster Shells and Horticultural lime (you don't want hydrated lime) are both used to correct the pH level of your casing mix. You need to do some more reading on this in the casing FAQ, it talks about all of this. To answer your question, it does not produce bigger fruits or anything of that nature, what it does do is make the casing mix less acidic (more basic) allowing for mushrooms to fruit from it. If the casing layer is too acidic it will burn the mycelium and produce little to no fruits. Peat moss is naturally acidic, more so than is ideal for mycelium.

Read the details from Ryche Hawks tek, good one, I've a good deal of success with it:
http://www.shroomery.org/index.php/par/7977

Obviously, the further away from the ideal pH level of 7.5 the less the fruits. The exact quantities are stated in the above link.


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Re: How much do oyster shells and hydrated lime help out in a casing? [Re: DT2K]
    #5614507 - 05/10/06 07:44 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I recommend horticultural hydrated lime for ph control. It goes to work immediately, and lasts the life of the average casing layer. If you skip the lime, your casing layer will have trich quicker than it can flush. I also recommend using ten percent gypsum in a casing layer.
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