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Fragile sawdust/BRF cakes
    #8886604 - 09/06/08 12:03 PM (15 years, 5 months ago)

I just birthed some sawdust/BRF jars and one of them destructed on the way out.  The cakes were given ample time to colonize and a full week after 100% to grab a strong hold of the substrate.  The sawdust that I used was aspen hamster bedding that took a trip through my coffee grinder.

Has anyone had similar experiences with sawdust/BRF cakes?  Does vermiculite just hold together better than wood bits?

For anyone who is interested, I kept the crumbled bits of cake covered by the jar for an the hour and a half that it took me to speed-pasteurize (60 minutes @ 140°F with 30 minute rapid cool down in some cold water) some more sawdust in order to move the crumbles to a little bulk tray.  The tray seems to be colonizing well.  That little try will get its own grow log later.


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Re: Fragile sawdust/BRF cakes [Re: gluvbox]
    #8887810 - 09/06/08 05:56 PM (15 years, 5 months ago)

The mycelium should have held the cake together just as cube mycelium would hold a brf/verm cake together.  Oyster or Shiitake?
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Re: Fragile sawdust/BRF cakes [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #8891070 - 09/07/08 01:59 PM (15 years, 5 months ago)

It is shiitake.

The cake that did make it was very sold once it was out of the jar.  They were tough ones to get out though.  They didn't pull away form the jar like my other BRF/verm cakes did.

I wonder if a few pieces of wood made it through the coffee grinder without getting chomped nicely and formed a weak spot.  The next round I did will get an extra thorough grinder treatment.  I suspect that was my problem.

I'll have to pull out the camera sooner and do a grow log of sorts.  This grow was kind of a bastard test of two jars.  I moved some plug spawn into the jars after sterilization (G2G style) and then threw the dried verm on top afterward.  If I get any mushrooms, I'll make some spore prints and walk through a good ol' fashioned BRF/verm vs BRF/wood vs BRF/verm+coir vs BRF/wood+verm+coir.


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Re: Fragile sawdust/BRF cakes [Re: gluvbox]
    #8891280 - 09/07/08 02:57 PM (15 years, 5 months ago)

You can just take the lid off and fruit shiitake brf/sawdust cakes without birthing.  I think it works better that way.  It's still really just a novelty grow.  There's more work than justifies the amount of food produced.
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Re: Fragile sawdust/BRF cakes [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #8891768 - 09/07/08 04:29 PM (15 years, 5 months ago)

That is really why I am growing anyway.  If I really just wanted shiitakes every now and then, I'd just go to the store.

Growing is the majority of the fun for me.


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