Coir Brick?

[Bwpz]

It only boosted my current shipping up $4.

They do have some crazy shipping prices if you only buy 1 item though, I think minimum shipping is like $15.

 

[El Superbeasto]

Seems much more reasonable.

As a father of 3 kids, with a wife, I'm pretty cost conscious, my teenager is an eating machine, and the boy... Holy crap... They wont stop eating... Ever....

Have you checked bghydro.com for better prices? That 6" fan you picked out, they have for like almost $10 cheaper. And they have coco coir for cheap too.

It only boosted my current shipping up $4.

They do have some crazy shipping prices if you only buy 1 item though, I think minimum shipping is like $15.

 

[Bwpz]

Seems much more reasonable.

As a father of 3 kids, with a wife, I'm pretty cost conscious, my teenager is an eating machine, and the boy... Holy crap... They wont stop eating... Ever....

Have you checked bghydro.com for better prices? That 6" fan you picked out, they have for like almost $10 cheaper. And they have coco coir for cheap too.

BGHydro doesn't have the ducting or the t5 bulbs I need.

 

[El Superbeasto]

What I like to do, is find all the places that have what I need, and run it through the shopping cart, and see who has the best price with shipping and tax included.

It's always been back and forth for me with HTG and BG. Most times than not, when I call HTG, they will price cut what they have to, to be the cheapest. My last order, they cut off like $40 from a $230 order, because it was listed cheaper elsewhere.

BGHydro doesn't have the ducting or the t5 bulbs I need.

 

[Bwpz]

What I like to do, is find all the places that have what I need, and run it through the shopping cart, and see who has the best price with shipping and tax included.

It's always been back and forth for me with HTG and BG. Most times than not, when I call HTG, they will price cut what they have to, to be the cheapest. My last order, they cut off like $40 from a $230 order, because it was listed cheaper elsewhere.

I don't think either of those sites compare to the one I'm getting from. They're really cheap, it's where I've ordered all my grow stuff from.

 

[Bwpz]

I went ahead and ordered it, it should work I guess.

 

[canndo]

The difference between peat and coir is that the peat is highly acidic. It comes down in the 4.5 range so if you use peat moss you will have to adjust the ph with lime or calcium. You must not use hydrated lime - it is too strong. You can't use anything with too much magnesium in it - limestone works, oyster shell doesn't degrade fast enough. Mycelium will grow, reluctantly in peat moss but it will tend to contaminate very quickly. If you use peat, be sure you sift it for all of the woody bits as these are the places trich tends to start growing.

 

[canndo]

Oh, peat is "mined" it is cut out of bogs and dried, coir is the husks from coconuts. Coir is far more friendly to the environment as the peat takes a long time to regenerate.

 

[Bwpz]

The difference between peat and coir is that the peat is highly acidic. It comes down in the 4.5 range so if you use peat moss you will have to adjust the ph with lime or calcium. You must not use hydrated lime - it is too strong. You can't use anything with too much magnesium in it - limestone works, oyster shell doesn't degrade fast enough. Mycelium will grow, reluctantly in peat moss but it will tend to contaminate very quickly. If you use peat, be sure you sift it for all of the woody bits as these are the places trich tends to start growing.

We're talking about shrooms, not weed

 

[canndo]

Mushrooms are very sensitive to ph, as are their contaminants. You did see that part about "mycelium" didn't you? And trich refers to trichoderma - the dreaded forest green mold that will contaminate your bulk grow no matter what you do - the challenge is to keep it at bay for as long as possible.

 

[Bwpz]

Mushrooms are very sensitive to ph, as are their contaminants. You did see that part about "mycelium" didn't you? And trich refers to trichoderma - the dreaded forest green mold that will contaminate your bulk grow no matter what you do - the challenge is to keep it at bay for as long as possible.

I as confused at how all that made sense for shrooms to, I just saw trich and was confused

So that coco coir I bought above will work fine?

 

[canndo]

so long as it is fine, the more coarse stuff isn't so good - the woody bits invite trich and they tend to hold too much water - coir works better in my opinion because the PH is closer to optimum without too much amdenment.

 

[Bwpz]

so long as it is fine, the more coarse stuff isn't so good - the woody bits invite trich and they tend to hold too much water - coir works better in my opinion because the PH is closer to optimum without too much amdenment.

Thanks for all that information man, can't ever know too much

 

[canndo]

There are a hundred different ways to grow these things - some are easier, some are hard. Some give you good yield, some don't, the heaviest yeilds require a certain harmony of effort and perfect timing- that goes for every mushroom species.

Just doing it with any amount of sucess will give you more knowlege and put you more at ease than any amount of study (not that study is at all bad)

 

[Bwpz]

There are a hundred different ways to grow these things - some are easier, some are hard. Some give you good yield, some don't, the heaviest yeilds require a certain harmony of effort and perfect timing- that goes for every mushroom species.

Just doing it with any amount of sucess will give you more knowlege and put you more at ease than any amount of study (not that study is at all bad)

Yeah I've been reading up on it like crazy. Can you explain to me how I'd put the tub used in this thread into fruiting?

 

[canndo]

https://www.rollitup.org/hallucinatory-substances/414912-oh-just-some-nice-pictures.html


These pictures are from third or fourth flush if I recall

 

[Bwpz]

https://www.rollitup.org/hallucinatory-substances/414912-oh-just-some-nice-pictures.html


These pictures are from third or fourth flush if I recall

Damn man, those are some nice flushes

 

[canndo]

The big ones you see in the pictures lower in the thread were prompted by using veg. oil and or suplementation with cotton seed meal.

 

[Bwpz]

The big ones you see in the pictures lower in the thread were prompted by using veg. oil and or suplementation with cotton seed meal.

All that seems too to be difficult for me lol

 

[canndo]

All you have to do is watch the heat - suplements create lots of heat and will either kill the mycelium or invite higher temperature contaminants to start up.