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coir versus vermiculite casings
    #5661377 - 05/22/06 07:07 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: Hippie3]
    #5661392 - 05/22/06 07:12 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

shoulda broke that cake in half to make it a fair trial, right side pinned first(so thats good for pins) but then the cake put all its energy there. so you don't know which one provides more mushys or bigger.<--im a noob too so maybe this is another crazy post of mine.


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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: makaveli8x8]
    #5661415 - 05/22/06 07:18 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

i believe what i see.
why did the coir side pin first ?
btw
that's two different cakes, not all just the same one.
yet both pinned in coir first.
besides
that 'put all it's energy there'
is nonsense
else all cakes and casings would just fruit in one spot.


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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: Hippie3]
    #5661550 - 05/22/06 07:51 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Straight verm makes a lousy casing layer IMHO! How about a side by side coir vs. peat based casings? Oh wait it's already been done. All in all a nice side by side Hippy! :thumbup:


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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: hyphae]
    #5663067 - 05/23/06 05:38 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

i'm thinking that
the old 'double end casing' of vermiculite on ends of pf cakes
needs to be modified to
include coir.


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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: Hippie3]
    #5663081 - 05/23/06 05:55 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

What about rolling in wet coir? Don't know how well it would stick to the cake though.

Just a thought.


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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: Hippie3]
    #5663084 - 05/23/06 05:58 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I have always used a 50/50+ peat based casing on all cakes for awesome results but as for the tek simplicity requires verm thats the whole reasoning behind the PFTek well that and nearly guaranteed success.





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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: hyphae]
    #5663113 - 05/23/06 06:15 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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as for the tek simplicity requires verm




simplicity is great.
and i didn't mean change the cake formula,
just the DE casing,

double end casing
and in that regard
coir is just as 'simple' as vermiculite
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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: Hippie3]
    #5663315 - 05/23/06 08:35 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

1 Quik question...Do you need to neutralize the PH with the coir casings?


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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: dudefromaz]
    #5663340 - 05/23/06 08:52 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: EquilibriuM]
    #5663501 - 05/23/06 10:00 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

"besides that 'put all it's energy there' is nonsense else all cakes and casings would just fruit in one spot."

Yeah I agree, but I think there starts to be some uneven nutrient/energy distribution as mushrooms grow bigger, as long as the mycelium networks were connected. I think it would have been better to grow a mycelium network, then seperate it and fruit, so they can't pull nutrients from each other (if this is indeed the case).


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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: Hippie3]
    #5663804 - 05/23/06 11:17 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

Hippie3 said:
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as for the tek simplicity requires verm




simplicity is great.
and i didn't mean change the cake formula,
just the DE casing,

double end casing
and in that regard
coir is just as 'simple' as vermiculite
and often easier to find.



What I was referring to Hippy is that verm comes sterile no prep needed bro coir on the other hand is far from sterile and should be sterilized/pasturized know what I'm sayin? :thumbup: But ya that would be an excellent option.


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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: hyphae]
    #5665916 - 05/23/06 06:33 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Didn't blue helix find that coir/ despite lots of success and use/ is actually a horrible casing material because the mycelium will eat instead of simply colonizing it, thus making it substrate and not casing.


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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: Synaethesia]
    #5665962 - 05/23/06 06:46 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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StoneInFocus said:
Didn't blue helix find that coir/ despite lots of success and use/ is actually a horrible casing material because the mycelium will eat instead of simply colonizing it, thus making it substrate and not casing.



Yep with pics too! This has been my experience too.


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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: hyphae]
    #5666245 - 05/23/06 08:01 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Those are some fatty pins. Nice


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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: Legalize247]
    #5667695 - 05/24/06 06:09 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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despite lots of success and use/ is actually horrible




LOL !!!!!
bullshit i say,
success is success.
coir kicks ass.
just blend it with vermiculite,
same as is done with peat,
and the overlay problem is solved
well enough for massive flushes,
despite what certain 'experts' say...


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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: Hippie3]
    #5667814 - 05/24/06 07:41 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Of course you can get nice flushes of cubensis from coir. It's an awesome substrate material, right up there with horse manure in fact. It is not however, suited as a casing material unless it's cut by way more than half with verm. The same results could be obtained by 'casing' with horse manure mixed with verm. The fact is, once your coir 'casing' gets fully colonized, it is no longer a casing layer, but a second layer of substrate. However, cubes are so darned easy to grow, they grow on almost anything and don't require a casing layer. That's why a good strain will fruit from a coir substrate, but the fruits will be larger if there's a way to add moisture to the casing layer, which becomes difficult if it's fuly colonized.

I find it most disingenuous that you call 'bullshit' to those who disagree, while cherry picking a couple of pictures of success out of the hundreds of pictures of failures and fully colonized, non-pinning coir casings we see folks asking for help with here and on the other sites every day, including your own. Such does not prove coir is superior. The experienced growers who try their best to steer the new folks in the right direction have reached their conclusions after years of research and experimentation. If coir is such a great casing material, let's see a few successful coir 'casings' on Agaricus, shaggy manes, enoki or pan cyans.
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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #5667819 - 05/24/06 07:46 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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Of course you can get nice flushes of cubensis from coir. It's an awesome substrate material, right up there with horse manure in fact. It is not however, suited as a casing material unless it's cut by way more than half with verm. The same results could be obtained by 'casing' with horse manure mixed with verm. The fact is, once your coir 'casing' gets fully colonized, it is no longer a casing layer, but a second layer of substrate. However, cubes are so darned easy to grow, they grow on almost anything and don't require a casing layer. That's why a good strain will fruit from a coir substrate, but the fruits will be larger if there's a way to add moisture to the casing layer, which becomes difficult if it's fuly colonized.

I find it most disingenuous that you call 'bullshit' to those who disagree, while cherry picking a couple of pictures of success out of the hundreds of pictures of failures and fully colonized, non-pinning coir casings we see folks asking for help with here and on the other sites every day, including your own. Such does not prove coir is superior. The experienced growers who try their best to steer the new folks in the right direction have reached their conclusions after years of research and experimentation. If coir is such a great casing material, let's see a few successful coir 'casings' on Agaricus, shaggy manes, enoki or pan cyans.
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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #5668086 - 05/24/06 10:11 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

lol
no thanks,
i'm not going to play a game
where you make the definitions
and set the rules.
:cool:
but
i will show another picture
of a coir casing,
i guess he never heard
that it was so terrible.


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Re: coir versus vermiculite casings [Re: Hippie3]
    #5668202 - 05/24/06 10:55 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

what is that a DT spawned to 100% coir? Or did you add somehting?


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