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casing grain?
    #7859508 - 01/10/08 01:31 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

normally I 'noc up Hpoo pans with my colonized grain. I just bought that mushroom handbook and they are suggesting laying out the grain and straight up casing that. Anyone have experience with this method?


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Re: casing grain? [Re: resptodd]
    #7859518 - 01/10/08 01:33 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

You can do it and get some monster fruits, however, the grain doesn't really hold much moisture, so it can't really produce as much.


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Re: casing grain? [Re: resptodd]
    #7859550 - 01/10/08 01:39 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

You don't want to use grain alone. You want to add a layer that acts as a foundation to hold up the fruitbodies and give them the area needed to build up their mycelial matt to support a flush of fruits.- usually a non-nutrient layer.
If it were me I would case using coir.

The pics in my sig was straight WBS cased with 100% coir.


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Re: casing grain? [Re: trippindad82]
    #7859560 - 01/10/08 01:40 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

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You can do it and get some monster fruits, however, the grain doesn't really hold much moisture, so it can't really produce as much.



Sure this goes for pans as well? I haven't seen a tek on pans without manure.


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Re: casing grain? [Re: Nebula]
    #7859728 - 01/10/08 02:08 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

This is something I just read. I might give it a try with just 1 pan see what happens. But on the whole I'll stick with using grain to 'noc up Hpoo. I was just curious as to if any one has tried it.


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Re: casing grain? [Re: resptodd]
    #7859908 - 01/10/08 02:37 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

if you case the grain on its own you'll get smaller fruits than a cased bulk sub. youll prob grow a lot of pans that way, but theyll be so small that when theyre dry youll have an 8th of puny mushies.


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Re: casing grain? [Re: poot]
    #7859987 - 01/10/08 02:52 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

Damn Doc, if you can get results from WBS and coir, well, it don't get simpler than that!

No peat, no verm, no gypsum, no oyster flour.

If I posted that people would say I am crazy, and that straight WBS and coir casing is lame, trust me.

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Re: casing grain? [Re: doc34]
    #7859999 - 01/10/08 02:54 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

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If it were me I would case using coir.

The pics in my sig was straight WBS cased with 100% coir.




Have you ever tried tried 50/50+, do you say coir is superior to 50/50+, or just much easier?

Your straight WBS, have you ever mixed it with coir 1 to 4 ala a bulk sub?

How many flushes do you get Doc?


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Re: casing grain? [Re: Captain Cubensis]
    #7860006 - 01/10/08 02:56 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

Its been said many times that straight coir is fine and it will flush well even without a caseing layer. Also the reason doc can say that is he has pictures to back it up.


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Re: casing grain? [Re: MYSTIQUE]
    #7860039 - 01/10/08 03:03 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

True, but I got slammed for suggesting coir does not need a casing.

Isn't Doc's straight WBS as well, something that "shouldn't work well"

Truth is I used to be all about the easiest, simplest ways, but you will get slammed for challenging dogma here.

Its been said many times that straight coir is fine and it will flush well even without a casing layer. Also the reason doc can say that is he has pictures to back it up.
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True, but pictures of illegal things are not the smartest files to permanently add to the world wide web with your name and computer addy also permanently attached to that file.


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Re: casing grain? [Re: Captain Cubensis]
    #7860086 - 01/10/08 03:12 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

yeah seriously, if you stray from the current they will hang you in the public forum. i just ate some food, and now i am full, so meaning this, you can always count on the very most honest of chosen pickles amonsgt a hoarde of others right? i mean, to see it coming would not even make you realize, it right? shit, man.


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Re: casing grain? [Re: poot]
    #7860121 - 01/10/08 03:17 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

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if you case the grain on its own you'll get smaller fruits than a cased bulk sub. youll prob grow a lot of pans that way, but theyll be so small that when theyre dry youll have an 8th of puny mushies.




Not quite. It's hard to beat cased grains. I've seen some HUGE fruits from it. Grains, especially rye, are far more nutritious then any bulk substrate. We use grains to inoculate large amounts of bulk substrate, making the total harvest larger if you have the room for it all. However, in a given sized tray, you'll have a hard time beating cased grains, by using cased manure.

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Isn't Doc's straight WBS as well, something that "shouldn't work well"





Corrrect. Wbs, rye, corn, wheat, etc., do not perform well at all when left uncased.
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Re: casing grain? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #7860198 - 01/10/08 03:36 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

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if you case the grain on its own you'll get smaller fruits than a cased bulk sub. youll prob grow a lot of pans that way, but theyll be so small that when theyre dry youll have an 8th of puny mushies.




Not quite. It's hard to beat cased grains. I've seen some HUGE fruits from it. Grains, especially rye, are far more nutritious then any bulk substrate. We use grains to inoculate large amounts of bulk substrate, making the total harvest larger if you have the room for it all. However, in a given sized tray, you'll have a hard time beating cased grains, by using cased manure.

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Isn't Doc's straight WBS as well, something that "shouldn't work well"





Corrrect. Wbs, rye, corn, wheat, etc., do not perform well at all when left uncased.
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I'm still not sure if they mean Pans as in Pan. Cyan. or pan as in a tray to put stuff in.

If it is Pan. Cyan. This is what the FAQ says.
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You can fruit them on straight rye grain, but the resulting shrooms will be very small and difficult to harvest and print. Hundreds of very small shrooms. Wall to wall flushes with 100+ shrooms yielding about 1-2 grams dry. Shroom size is 1-3 inch tall with caps under 1/4 inch(usually about 1/8 inch). 1 inch substrate layer in a 8" x 8" brownie pan, cased with peat/perlite at less then 1/4 inch.
You would be better off using the rye grain spawn to inoculate jars of manure based substrates.
THE USE of Manure or manure straw DRASTICALLY increases yield(approx. 7-14 times the yield) and decreases contamination rate, speed to flush, and just about everything else.




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Re: casing grain? [Re: Captain Cubensis]
    #7860271 - 01/10/08 03:50 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

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Have you ever tried tried 50/50+, do you say coir is superior to 50/50+, or just much easier?





I find it to be both, much easier and superior, but hey, what works for some doesn't always work for others-thats where the debate about coir comes in-some people like it and some don't.

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Your straight WBS, have you ever mixed it with coir 1 to 4 ala a bulk sub?






Yes and I liked the results, but coir is a bit too expensive for me to use as a bulk substrate, straw though is alot cheaper and I find that coir is much better as a casing layer than a bulk substrate. I have tried just about every thing you can possibly imagine concerning mushrooms, especially different variations of substrates and casing layers and I have found my "Cream-o-the-crop" in my coir.

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[How many flushes do you get Doc? /quote]

On average? About 3-4, but i don't usually let mine go that far as it is not worth the effort and space to get just a few grams going for a fourth or fifth flush, when you can introduce a new casing in its place and WHAM!!

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True, but pictures of illegal things are not the smartest files to permanently add to the world wide web with your name and computer addy also permanently attached to that file.




Can you prove beyond a resonable doubt that those mushrooms in my pics are illegal mushrooms?


Most of my old photos and grows were done with coir and WBS only. There may be a few using verm and peat but mostly coir.

WBS works great as a substrate by itself if it is cased with a casing layer. Most grains are like that.


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Re: casing grain? [Re: Nibin]
    #7860279 - 01/10/08 03:52 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

Ummm, I seem to have lost track of this post. So the census is now--it may be OK to straight-up case the colonized grain and get a good flush with nice sized fruits.


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Re: casing grain? [Re: resptodd]
    #7860292 - 01/10/08 03:55 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

Yes




Edit = If you add a casing layer to it.


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Re: casing grain? [Re: doc34]
    #7860302 - 01/10/08 03:58 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

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Yes




Edit = If you add a casing layer to it.




Are we talking P. Cubensis or Pan Cyan? Coz someone asked about pans, and still hasn't cleared up which.

I have read in the FAQ and on here that Pans from cased grains are very small and light. (read my previous post).

If it is cubes on the other hand, cased grain works just fine.


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Re: casing grain? [Re: Nibin]
    #7860317 - 01/10/08 04:03 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

I can't answer that. I've only grown pan cyan on cased manure. Cubensis does great on cased rye.
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Re: casing grain? [Re: Nibin]
    #7860322 - 01/10/08 04:04 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

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normally I 'noc up Hpoo pans with my colonized grain.




I assumed he was talking about pans of hpoo and colonized grain, where does Panaleuos(SP?) specie come into the picture?

No one mentioned Pan cyans, copes or subs---am I missing something? If I am, I am totally sorry for posting misinformation.

If thats the picture then no, you need cow or horse manure for them to fruit.

WTF?

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If thats the picture then no, you need cow or horse manure for them to fruit.




For them to fruit well that is.


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Re: casing grain? [Re: doc34]
    #7860359 - 01/10/08 04:18 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

Sorry guys-clear up- I was talking about pans of Hpoo. The 'shrooms I'm working with are 'cubes. Please accept my apologies for the confusion.


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