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MasFina
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OOpps, Help Me Fix This.
#5768533 - 06/19/06 03:40 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I just realized why 2 of some guys casings are taking so long to colonize. He used bottom casing layers but forgot to hydrate them. Lol, he's feels pretty stupid. One of them is definitely dry. They are both taking longer than the ones with the hydrated bottom casings. Can he just spray the surface of the colonizing myc with a water and h2o2 solution or would this encourage contams? Or, could he flip the tubs over into a new tub and then spray down the casing that used to be on the bottom? Which would be the better way?
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Edited by MasFina (06/19/06 03:42 PM)
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Snaggletooth
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Re: OOpps, Help Me Fix This. [Re: MasFina]
#5768546 - 06/19/06 03:43 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Bottom layer?
Dry vermiculite?
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creamcorn
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Re: OOpps, Help Me Fix This. [Re: Snaggletooth]
#5768578 - 06/19/06 03:56 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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spraying the surface won't help much, its likely to pool up and mat down your myc.
you could try using a clean syringe and squirt water in all around the edges, and poke it right through in a few spots in the middle and inject some water if your substrate is thin enough to reach down to the bottom layer.
your idea of flipping it over into another tub would probably work just fine too.
if it were me i'd honestly take a clean spoon and start breaking it up, mixing it all in together, and misting as i went (with an h2o2 solution as you mentioned) to bring up the moisture content overall to a correct level. so ya end up with some casing mixed in with your substrate, probably not the end of the world, and might take an extra day to recover and finish up colonizing but should also work out just fine in the long run... but then again i have lots of crazy ideas (that *cough* usually work despite popular opinions) so take that as you will.
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coda
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Re: OOpps, Help Me Fix This. [Re: Snaggletooth]
#5768579 - 06/19/06 03:56 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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ugh, i really wish we could just delete that fucking tek from the boards to stop people from doing this.
A second layer of verm beneath your substrate is a BAD idea. However dry verm wont effect your growth rates much, it will however not provide the mushrooms with a convienet place to pin. This is why dry verm is reccomended to fill in cracks from shrinkage.
You're fine, if i were you i wouldn't hydrate that verm layer, id just remove it. Id also not use it in the future either, but thats jmo.
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MasFina
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Re: OOpps, Help Me Fix This. [Re: coda]
#5769018 - 06/19/06 05:58 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Verms gettin scrapped. He will flip them into new containers and get rid of verm. He's thinking about adding casing early to help put some moiture back in to account for the water the dry verm sucked up. Would this be good?
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MLBjammer
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Re: OOpps, Help Me Fix This. [Re: Snaggletooth]
#5771630 - 06/20/06 06:58 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well, you want that water content at field capacity, glistening but not drenched. The thicker the casing, the longer it will take to colonize it. But that's up to you. GL.
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