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2012shaman
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Need help with PR casings *PICS*
#7538904 - 10/20/07 10:59 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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These two casings were made two weeks ago and have been getting 10-12 hours of light for the past three days, theres a lot of mycellium but no signs of pins.
 
So what im asking is when will these fruit and what can I do to get them to start, I know PRs can can be finiky and sometimes dont fruit at all so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Need help with PR casings *PICS* [Re: 2012shaman]
#7538932 - 10/20/07 11:15 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Is that a coir casing layer, or are you spawning to coir? If the first is correct you need to add a non-nutritive casing layer on top of what you have there. Your "casing layer" has colonized and become just another layer of substrate, thus defeating the point of the casing layer.
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Re: Need help with PR casings *PICS* [Re: 2012shaman]
#7538934 - 10/20/07 11:15 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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light ,FAE, humidity and patience
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Re: Need help with PR casings *PICS* [Re: orchidfanatic]
#7538937 - 10/20/07 11:16 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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oh I didnt read it well .. yeah you should re case with wet verm .. or MGMC
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2012shaman
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Re: Need help with PR casings *PICS* [Re: orchidfanatic]
#7538950 - 10/20/07 11:23 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Bottom layer is wet verm then the crumbled cake and a thin layer of peat moss on top, should I add a quarter inch layer of wet verm and peat moss or maybe recase both of them into one all verm casing?
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Re: Need help with PR casings *PICS* [Re: 2012shaman]
#7538982 - 10/20/07 11:33 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Bottom layer is wet verm then the crumbled cake and a thin layer of peat moss on top, should I add a quarter inch layer of wet verm and peat moss
OK, my bad...that peat really looks like coir from here.
I would patch the places where you can see myc with 50/50 and continue with the fruiting stage.
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Re: Need help with PR casings *PICS* [Re: 2012shaman]
#7538988 - 10/20/07 11:34 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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when you use peat moss you have to add calcium carbonate to counter act the acidity of the peat . thats why miracle grow moisture control is so good. you can case with it straight out of the bag or pasturize it if you want to. or you can use straight vermiculite I would recommend wet verm .. or if you can get calcium carbonate use the peat .
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Re: Need help with PR casings *PICS* [Re: 2012shaman]
#7538994 - 10/20/07 11:36 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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They look dry as a bone. Mist 'em real good, then add 1/4" to 1/2" of moist verm, and keep it misted (3-4 times a day 'til pins).
My PR never fails to fruit, even multispore.
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2012shaman
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Re: Need help with PR casings *PICS* [Re: Mycomyth]
#7539027 - 10/20/07 11:48 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I dont think I want to add that much water, Im afraid that might invite contaminants to com settle in, if I look at the side I can see a bunch of little water dropplets so I think ill just pour some water down the side to rehydrate the verm and patch with 50/50, sound good?
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Re: Need help with PR casings *PICS* [Re: 2012shaman]
#7539050 - 10/20/07 11:54 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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No. Sounds bad. Your casing layer needs moisture. You should mist to hydrate it. RR
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2012shaman
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Re: Need help with PR casings *PICS* [Re: RogerRabbit]
#7539060 - 10/20/07 12:00 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Alright then will do, thank you RR.
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2012shaman
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Re: Need help with PR casings *PICS* [Re: RogerRabbit]
#7547842 - 10/22/07 05:28 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Great advice RR, I did exactly what you said and now my casings are covered in a beautiful shade of green, really you were an enormous help so I just wanted to thank once again RR for your wonderful advice.
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Re: Need help with PR casings *PICS* [Re: 2012shaman]
#7547992 - 10/22/07 05:52 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Green doesn't appear in two days. From my failed projects its white for 3 days then starts to turn green. It was probably there when the first pictures were taken all the water may have done would be to accelerate its growth.
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