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Re: Getting on it- a Halloween adventure [Re: psilopod]
    #7635705 - 11/14/07 03:25 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Beach wood? Surfs up dude  :rockon:  Sorry couldn't help myself.


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Re: Getting on it- a Halloween adventure [Re: BlargIAmDead]
    #7635907 - 11/14/07 04:21 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

It's cool man, I'm pretty certain that it should be fine but I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions. We're thinking about pasteurizing the wood separately then mixing and repasteurizing. I'm going to look into the whole wood fermentation a little more but for now I'm a little stretched for time addressing the basics.


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Re: Getting on it- a Halloween adventure [Re: psilopod]
    #7635927 - 11/14/07 04:27 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

For the tropical species you're growing, you want to stick with dung or straw type substrates. Wood isn't their choice of food and performance on wood is quite poor.
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Re: Getting on it- a Halloween adventure [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #7637484 - 11/14/07 09:31 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Well there were a couple of thoughts going into this whole thing. We are not all that limited in space within reason, so we can do a decent amount of substrate. I've seen people fruit this species on wood before, granted it didn't perform as well as h-poo does but I'm not looking to grow on straight wood, just using the shavings to throw into the substrate mix, I figured that having the more complex structured substrate would benefit the mycelium and flushes. Cause the wood doesn't break down that fast I figured it would promote more flushes, kind of a time release fertilizer of sorts.

Is it recommended to just stick to the poo and straw or can adding things to the substrate to vary up the size, shape, density, nutritional value, and other characteristics of the substrate. I don't have it here in front of me to reference but I remember the mushroom cultivator stressing these points, although I think it might have been leaning more towards compost. I figure that even if that were true the same principles would hold true. Honestly I don't know, it's just speculation, if someone with some experience w/ this could chime in it would be appreciated. I understand that RR already posted an answer but I don't know if that's just in reference to cubes on wood vs. poo, where I was talking about poo supplemented w/ wood, among other things.


Edit- After re-reading RR's post I understand a little bit better what was being said. I understand that poo/straw would be a better substrate, but I still wonder about the structure of the substrate being improved by the wood. Either way I'm gonna be using it cause we have the space , it'll work, and it's more substrate.


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Re: Getting on it- a Halloween adventure [Re: psilopod]
    #7646756 - 11/17/07 05:57 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Sorry for not updating in a couple of days I've been extremely busy trying to get everything done around here. As usual things have changed since the last time I posted. As of right now the two major winners of the agar cultures are Brazilian and Hawaiian, both of which have extremely rhizo growth. I hadn't checked these in a day or so and they got a little overgrown, but hey, they look clean, and they make for good pics.

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    #7667163 - 11/22/07 02:22 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Sorry I haven't updated in a little while things have been a little off lately between odd work/sleep patterns, injuries, life in general, etc... We ended up taking a bunch of our brazilian spawn bags and spawning them to four 7 gallon mason trays of h-poo/stuff the other night. 3 of the trays are brazilian, one of the trays is south american, and we didn't spawn the lipa yai to trays.

The trays are now incubating in a chest freezer due to low temperatures in there surrounding environment for the time being. The freezer is staying at about 84 degrees and the heater is not plugged in. I figured that I'd check it a couple more times and when it really starts to go I'll drop the temp in the freezer a little more. The freezer holds temp extremely well, it's been at temp for a little over a day w/ no heater after having 4 large trays put into it that aren't warm by anymeans(should have been but weren't, atleast first half wasn't). Either way things seem to be going well and I have high hopes for things. The trays should colonize pretty fast, we spawned them pretty heavy, so hopefully it isn't too long now.


EDIT- Here's a pic of one of the brazilian trays. The trays are approximately 20" x 30" and hold 7 gallons. We spawned two spawn bags (1.5 gals or so) to something like 3/3.5 gals of h-poo, coir, coffee grounds, kelp meal, gypsum, and some other stuff too. We spawned to the trays two days ago and this was the result

I'm seriously impressed to say the least. I think we may have to drop the temp. just a little bit as I can see the tray is sweating in the picture. At this rate it shouldn't be too much longer now, lol.




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Re: Getting on it- a Halloween adventure [Re: psilopod]
    #7671922 - 11/23/07 06:51 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Did you BRF bags go sour yet?  Been there done that, didn't work for me with the BRF.  Grains are were it's at!

I think this inspired me to check out brazilian! 

Good grow! :mushroom2::mushroom2::mushroom2::mushroom2::mushroom2:


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Re: Getting on it- a Halloween adventure [Re: psilopod]
    #7671936 - 11/23/07 06:54 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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Re: Getting on it- a Halloween adventure [Re: drwatson]
    #7672164 - 11/23/07 07:30 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

A couple of the BRF's went sour, but the majority of them worked out alright. A couple of them ended up a little too moist/clumpy and got contamed in the bottom corner of the bag where the seam/fold is. But I had 3 that worked very well. I will say though the grains are definitely where it's at. I'm thinking about getting into g2g. I've done it before, but never on a large scale before.

I'm actually going to do a bunch of agar to grain transfers as I have over 20 fully colonized agar cultures that have one or two small pieces out of them each. That should be fun.

The Brazilian is definitely where it's at. It's definitely becoming the center of attention these days but I keep the other cultures going half for fun and half in hope of finding some bad ass sub strain. Hopefully things will go well, so far, so good.


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