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Question on dunking a casing?
    #5956604 - 08/12/06 01:33 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Hi - How's it going? I have a couple of questions on dunking a WBS, HPoo, & Straw casing - 4" deep with a 3/4" casing of pastuerized and PH balanced peat and vermiculite - on a 2nd Flush. As far as I can tell - after the first flush - you fill the casing container up with water for a few hours to rehdrate the substrate, drain the water, patch, & return to the fruiting chamber. My 1st question is:

1) Do you submerge the whole thing so the casing layer of peat and vermiculite gets dunked too?

I had the humidifier right over one of my casings and it condesated above and dripped right into a tray - where the mushrooms were about 20% - 30% mature. It filled the tray up with about 2" of water and sat like that for a day or so. When I discovered it I dumped the water out of the tray and let them finish and corrected the drip problem. In effect what I did was dunk the casing in the middle of the flush. Those shrooms were bloated pigs compared to the other trays. The stems were like celery stalks. My second question was:

2) Does anyone think it would be a good idea to rehydrate during the growth stage right in the humidity chamber? I'm wondering if the "dunking" or rehdration helped the output or if it merely raised the humidity to an optimal level for the good growth? I didn't dunk or rehydrate after the 1st flush - I just patched, misted, and returned it to the fruiting chamber. I'm also wondering if a normal dunk after the 1st flush would have returned the same results. I'll have to try both next time see what happens.

Thanks
Shaq


Edited by ShaqAttack (08/12/06 01:40 PM)


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