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monstermitch said:
I wouldn't do either.
I wouldn't seal beforehand, even though the bags are supposedly
able to do so.
and I wouldn't sterilize hpoo/castings then directly inoculate them.
many have tried, very few have ever succeeded.

for your situation, I would suggest inoculating spawn and then
pasteurizing your hpoo/castings and spawning to it.

if you want to directly inoculate a sterilized manure based substrate,
you'll need a much different recipe than just hpoo and castings.

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PhdHater said:

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monstermitch said:
I wouldn't do either.
I wouldn't seal beforehand, even though the bags are supposedly
able to do so.
and I wouldn't sterilize hpoo/castings then directly inoculate them.
many have tried, very few have ever succeeded.

for your situation, I would suggest inoculating spawn and then
pasteurizing your hpoo/castings and spawning to it.

if you want to directly inoculate a sterilized manure based substrate,
you'll need a much different recipe than just hpoo and castings.

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oh i could have sworn i read a tek about that somewhere. I think in the tech the person sterilzed a poo mix in a bag and then innoculzted with LC and it worked perfectly every time for him. then he ased that.

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PhdHater said:

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monstermitch said:
I wouldn't do either.
I wouldn't seal beforehand, even though the bags are supposedly
able to do so.
and I wouldn't sterilize hpoo/castings then directly inoculate them.
many have tried, very few have ever succeeded.

for your situation, I would suggest inoculating spawn and then
pasteurizing your hpoo/castings and spawning to it.

if you want to directly inoculate a sterilized manure based substrate,
you'll need a much different recipe than just hpoo and castings.

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oh i could have sworn i read a tek about that somewhere. I think in the tech the person sterilzed a poo mix in a bag and then innoculzted with LC and it worked perfectly every time for him. then he ased that.

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So far everyone here has advised against it. Three different users! Monster Mitch has the most experience of the three. What more do you want? Do you need Roger Rabbit or Roadkill to chime in?

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monstermitch said:
I wouldn't do either.
I wouldn't seal beforehand, even though the bags are supposedly
able to do so.
and I wouldn't sterilize hpoo/castings then directly inoculate them.
many have tried, very few have ever succeeded.

for your situation, I would suggest inoculating spawn and then
pasteurizing your hpoo/castings and spawning to it.

if you want to directly inoculate a sterilized manure based substrate,
you'll need a much different recipe than just hpoo and castings.

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oh i could have sworn i read a tek about that somewhere. I think in the tech the person sterilzed a poo mix in a bag and then innoculzted with LC and it worked perfectly every time for him. then he ased that.

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Just a guess, but most likely that person also mixed in WBS or rye in the poo as well.

IMO you’re on the right track though, unless you want to grow massive amounts of musrooms, (> a few pounds) than why go through all of the BS to make spawn, and pasteurize poo?

Throw some grain & verm in with the poo, sterilize, and case. You can do it a gallon at a time which equates to 16 PF tek jars. If you have a large enough PC, you can load up to four bags at a time. That’s all the substrate anyone should need.

By cutting out a spawning stage, and inoculating with a large amount of LC, you can be ready to harvest in as little as three weeks from initial inoculation.

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monstermitch said:
if you want to directly inoculate a sterilized manure based substrate,
you'll need a much different recipe than just hpoo and castings.

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