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casing material q...?
    #7899814 - 01/18/08 11:30 PM (16 years, 14 days ago)

I found some stuff that may be of interest at the hardware store yesterday. i was looking for potential bulk substrates and found a compost mix that the ingredients were: aged and processed hardwood bark and sawdust, composted animal manures, dried poultry waste, and feather meal. Would this be a good bulk substrate if i mixed in something like straw or vermiculite or something of the like to give it a little more body/air space? I can't remember the brand of it, but it was all organic, looked like good stuff...

note: sorry, this is the exact same post i made in another forum that i created, but it got hijacked


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Re: casing material q...? [Re: SuchSmartMonkeys]
    #7900597 - 01/19/08 06:23 AM (16 years, 13 days ago)

As you might be the first to come across this particular material there may not be anyone with any experience with it.

As long as there isn't any soft-woods in the mix...
...you would still want to adjust the substrate's pH by adding calcium carbonate and gypsum.

Also...hydrating the mix would be a bit more difficult than hydrating wood chips seperately from the mix.

I think that using this mix you would need to pasteurize using the pillow case method to allow proper hydration.

Adding straw or some coco-coir to the mix would be a good idea,
but...you can use either of those by themselves (after pasteurizing of course).

In the end...it's all up to YOU.


P.S.- If you haven't mastered PF cakes yet...I suggest you wait,
and if you have never pasteurized anything I would wait on
using the compost mix for a substrate as well. (Start with the
straw or coir, IMO.)


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Re: casing material q...? [Re: RoachMan]
    #7900851 - 01/19/08 09:11 AM (16 years, 13 days ago)

Sounds like a great substrate for shaggy manes, but for cubes I'd look for something without the bark and wood.
RR


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Re: casing material q...? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #7905534 - 01/20/08 12:04 PM (16 years, 12 days ago)

cool, thanks RR...the wood is what detracted me from it as well. i've got a bit to figure out what exactly i'm going to do, just nocced up m jars 2 days ago... and to the poster before, sorry, but i'm sick of people telling me to go back to BRF. i have experience growing oysters on rye, and pasteurizing straw for bulk subs, i'm just transferring all of that knowledge over to cubes, and naturally have to make a few adjustments. I've got a good enough dea of what i'm doing to make a few of these adjustments, and besides that i'm asking questions here


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