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Streeeetching it
#7633949 - 11/14/07 07:07 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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ok .. im almost ready to spawn to coir i hahe a medium/small tub (5 gallon)that was setup as a FC with perlite on the bottom (no holes in the sides yet) im thinking of turning it in to a small monotub i dont need any help with that because i read the teks.
My question is about stretching out a single half pint jar that has colonized very fast and healthy.
i only did a few for my first atempt and the others got contam so im looking to stretch this perfect cake out...
SInce im spawning to coir i was wondering what the best thing to do here is..
My plan was to soften the coir with boiling water (to help sterilize it), wring the water out of it once its soaked a bit, and the once its cooled mix in my broken up cake and let it colinize.. how much spawn will 1 half pint cake colonize?
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7633980 - 11/14/07 07:32 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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well most folks like to stay to a 1:4 to 1:6 range, of spawn to substrate, at most 1:10, so at most your gonna wanna spawn 1 half pt cake to (not more than) 5 pints, or 2 1/2 quarts...that leaves you with quite a bit of coir
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: boomer q]
#7634004 - 11/14/07 07:48 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Chances of spawning a monotub with a single half pint cake successfully are slim to none, unfortunately.
I'd recommend a quart minimum (preferably well-distributed grain spawn.)
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Sillicybin]
#7634016 - 11/14/07 07:57 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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well 2 quarts is about 115 cubic inches.. so a tray thats 10x6x4 with 2 inches of coir and a moist verm casing layer later on. That might work...
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Sillicybin]
#7634075 - 11/14/07 08:32 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sillicybin said: Chances of spawning a monotub with a single half pint cake successfully are slim to none, unfortunately.
I'd recommend a quart minimum (preferably well-distributed grain spawn.)
Its a MINI monotub.. and im now actualy thinking just a gladware container (the ones that are like 7x7x3).. As the title implies, im just looking to stretch this out a little so i can share with some friends.
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634082 - 11/14/07 08:34 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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it's good that you're doing your work in volume and doing the right conversions.  just make sure you follow a 4:1 or 5:1 ratio on substrate to spawn. Looks like you'll be going a little light on that ratio.
For a single, half pint (1 US cup) of spawn you'll only want to spawn to about a quart (4 US cups) of substrate. A really good sized container for something like this would be...

The smaller 8"x8" sized container holds 56oz or 7 cups of material. You'll be using four or five cups of substrate to your one cup of spawn material and you'll still have a good 1/2" left for a casing mixture should you use one.
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ok i have NEVER worked with coir.. but from the pics i do have a question.. how do i measure it?
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634101 - 11/14/07 08:44 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i have read the teks, but still dont understand how you measure it... do i measure it loose, packed, will i figure it out when i work with it, is it not an exact science?
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634103 - 11/14/07 08:46 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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with a measuring cup, you want it nice and light and airy
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Edited by boomer q (11/14/07 08:47 AM)
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634110 - 11/14/07 08:51 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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When I work with coir, I hydrate it the night before and strain/dry it over night to get it as dry as possible. I then measure it out dry using quart and pint jars. Loosely, fluffy, you're not going to compact it into your tray.
for your spawn I would use (all dry)
2 cups coco coir 1 cup used coffee grounds 3.25 tablespoons of garden gypsum (which is 5% by volume)
mix all that together, hydrate it to field capacity, and then seperately hydrate 1 cup of vermiculite to field capacity and mix it into the coir evenly. There you go, one substrate ready to be steam pasteurized via...
RogerRabbit's Stovetop Pasteurization Method
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634111 - 11/14/07 08:52 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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easy way to measure...
take an empty jar, fill the jar 5 times with Coco Coir, don't pack the Coco Coir into the jar, just fill it semi loosely, put the 5 jars worth of Coco Coir into a container(fruiting tray), break up your colonized substrate(same size jar worth as the Coco Coir), add that to the container and mix it all up.
that will give you a 5 to 1 ratio.
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: boomer q]
#7634114 - 11/14/07 08:52 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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boomer q said: with a measuring cup, you want it nice and light and airy
That ALMOST sounded sarcastic...
i guess ill see this weekend when i do it.. i have already decided to cut the coir before i expand it so the strands are shorter.. it will fit better in the smaller trays this way i would think.
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634119 - 11/14/07 08:53 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I know of a casing that was just made. A large disposable rubermade (tupperware thingy) was used with 50 / 50 coir to verm. So far they have been the best, most perfect looking huge mushies ive seen grown. It was cased with moist, straight vermiculite with about a 1/4 inch layer.
You dont need to boil the coir my friend.
.get the coir ready .cruble the cake in a baggie with a spoon .mix the coir and verm (no need to be exact, just 50-50) .make sure you cant squeeze any water out of the coir/verm just that its moist. .cover the bottom and sides of your rubermade with tinfoil! .mix in the cake evenly, hopfully your cake pieces are smaller than marbles .pop a few holes in the lid and micropore tape them. .put the lid on .let sit for 5 days, then add the casing layer of strait verm. .let sit for a few days or put right into your fruiting chamber.
You can get almost 2 dry ounces a foaf told me.
Throw all your extra wet coir in the garden. Then go buy some more because your going to like the results.
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634123 - 11/14/07 08:56 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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oh.. more replies.. thanks myco and RK
is mycos recipe better that just the coir and some Sodium bicarbonate as a ph buffer?
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634127 - 11/14/07 08:57 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Slimz said: That ALMOST sounded sarcastic...
It's not. That's exactly how it's done. MAKE SURE YOU DON'T OVERHYDRATE THE COIR. You want it damp, not wet.
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634130 - 11/14/07 09:00 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Slimz said:
is mycos recipe better that just the coir and some Sodium bicarbonate as a ph buffer?
yes mycos recipe is a very good one.
and you don't need a ph buffer with coir.
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634133 - 11/14/07 09:01 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Slimz said:
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boomer q said: with a measuring cup, you want it nice and light and airy
That ALMOST sounded sarcastic...
i guess ill see this weekend when i do it.. i have already decided to cut the coir before i expand it so the strands are shorter.. it will fit better in the smaller trays this way i would think.
yea, it was originally gonna be sarcastic, but i didnt follow through all the way..... oh, and i tried to cut up my brick of coir before hydrating also and it was waaaay harder than it looked, didnt get through it at all and i fucked up a good bread knife
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: boomer q]
#7634143 - 11/14/07 09:07 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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If you're going to try to cut dry coir, a hacksaw is a good tool to think about using.
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Sillicybin]
#7634151 - 11/14/07 09:10 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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^^ yea, that shit was tough
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: boomer q]
#7634163 - 11/14/07 09:16 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i have a bandsaw i was gonna use..
ill try myco's recipe.. whats the gypsm for (dont have that on hand)
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634186 - 11/14/07 09:23 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Slimz said: i have a bandsaw i was gonna use..
Even better! 
I use a sawzall for mine.
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Sillicybin]
#7634207 - 11/14/07 09:27 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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as of right about now that cake is 100% colonized and still in the jar..
should i birth it tonight? can it sit a day or 2 in the jar?
when i do birth it should i crumble it right away? dunk it first?
and again whats the gypsm for?
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634364 - 11/14/07 10:32 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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ok so i read another thread that says the cake will be fine for a few days but the other questions still stand...
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634417 - 11/14/07 10:53 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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don't dunk a cake you're about to crumble because you're only going to ruin the moisture content of the substrate. Consider it this way, you don't add water to grain spawn before spawning to field-capacity bulk substrates, why would using a crumbled cake as spawn be any different..? I do, however, rinse them under the sink throughly using my hands during the birthing to clean them off and remove the dry vermiculite contaminate barrier on top.
as for colonization times, the reason behind the extra couple days is because while the exterior of the cake might appear 100% colonized, the core may still have portions of uncolonized substrate. When a cake is fully colonized it will begin to shrink away from the glass in places, or completely in some cases as the mycelium exerts full consolidation over the substrate. There's no rush at this point so it's better to just give it those 2-5 days to be sure. Rushing it only cheats you out of more spawn material and opens yourself up to a new contaminate vector.
Garden gypsum is a source of calcium for the mycelium and acts as a mild buffer to help resist any change in pH. There's no need to amend the pH of the coco-coir or coffee grounds, the 6.5-6.8 pH range is actually ideal but a little gypsum mixed into the dry substrates (mixing it into a wet substrate creates little balls of plaster like goo rendering it impossible to distribute evenly) helps the mycelium along. A tablespoon or so is also good for soaking grains to help prevent clumping of the grains and to, once again, provide a readily assimilatible source of calcium during it's colonization of the spawn medium.
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634422 - 11/14/07 10:53 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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If you're using it for spawning, dunking is not necessary. You can let it sit for a couple weeks if you need to... a day or two won't hurt.
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excellent.. thanks...
Im assuming that calcium carbonate would also work..
i think im good to go.. but then again i have thought that before...
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634479 - 11/14/07 11:04 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Slimz said: Im assuming that calcium carbonate would also work...
No, there's a big difference between lime, calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and gypsum, calcium sulfate dihydrate (CaSO4·2H2O) and they are most definitely not interchangeable. The most notable being that lime is highly alkaline and will raise the pH of your substrate significantly. We don't add lime to our substrates, however we do to our casing mixtures to make it less hospitable for contaminates.
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ok well i might have to omit that ingredient.
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634780 - 11/14/07 12:01 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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how about crushed coral (ground to a powder)
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7634791 - 11/14/07 12:03 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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ive seen only great results from plain coir. No additives. KIS
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: rodfarva]
#7634805 - 11/14/07 12:06 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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The best additives for coir are organic nitrogen boosters. Spent coffee grounds are a good start. I know you didn't want to use poo, but my best coir grows have been those supplemented with a small amount of poultry manure.
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Sillicybin]
#7634840 - 11/14/07 12:15 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Why don't you try to make an LC with a piece of mycelium cutting, then you can spawn that to some WBS and have tons of spawn and not have to worry too much about that aspect.
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yea im set for future grows.. but i want this one to do as good as possible so i can celebrate with a few friends.
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7635081 - 11/14/07 01:07 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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if you can't get your hands on garden gypsum (I can get it for about $25 shipped off ebay for a 40lb supply) then I wouldn't worry about going out of your way to find a suitable substitute...I've done several grows without it and it's not a wonder-drug, it just creates a slightly stronger/more robust mycelial colony. It really does make a difference when soaking grains to prevent clumping though, that one is readily observable...in my humble opinion.
Plain coir is great as a substrate but adding vermiculite gives it more water retention properties to pump moisture into the fruit bodies and supplemental organics such as used coffee grounds (the only supplement I've used) gives it the nutritional boost to sustain maybe "one more flush" than if used without...
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ok so 80/20 coir and coffee in an 8x8 dish with some moist verm mixed in. then i cover the dish with foil and poke some holes then cover those with medical tape... let sit for about 5 days, cover it with a moist verm casing, then stick it in my FC and let it fruit.
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7635286 - 11/14/07 01:50 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7653654 - 11/19/07 06:56 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well the spawned coir is colonizing and doing a great job.. I am so surprised at how fast the myc takes over.. i made sure i had a few extra pieces on top and mixed the rest in, now its busting out all over the place (i spawned it fri night.)
im hoping that by fri or so that it will be ready to fruit...
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Re: Streeeetching it [Re: Slimz]
#7653863 - 11/19/07 08:41 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm starting to fall in love with those little trays again as I start to work more and more with agar and trying to create isolates. It's very easy and economical to test out six or seven different isolates when you only need to prepare a half-quart of spawn and a quart or two of substrate per tray... The best part is they clean up well and are reusable...
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and small and stealthy and great for a "me and my friends" kind of grower
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