Anybody growing mushrooms willing to talk???

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A.k.a

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7L!fTeD24 said:
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From the side they look almost done. All the verm you see trickled down from the top.
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Now on the bottom I can still see a little uncolonized brf. Even though I'm shredding them I should still be safe and wait for full consolidation huh? They were inoculated exactly a month ago today.
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I would use the middle two and the bottom left one together in one tub, and the other three in a second one. The other three jars look a little sketchy to me, especially the one with what looks like knots forming but some uncolonized areas still.
 
MoroccanRoll

MoroccanRoll

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don't nee
7L!fTeD24 said:
Should I dunk the cakes overnight before shredding them to bulk? Probably should to add more moisture huh? I'm wondering if I need to use a garbage bag inside and cut right above the substrate, or just tape the bottom off from the outside, or neither since it's only gonna be a few inches thick and doesn't matter if it pins on the sides. I also see that some people case the top in leftover substrate and some don't, and some wait to case for a little while. I read way too.much on shroomery and didn't look at dates So i have this info in my head that could be new or 20 years old. That's kinda why I asked if pepple wanted to bs about it so I could see what's goin on nowadays. So thanks.
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  • no need to dunk your cakes. getting your substrate to field capacity is the next critical part of the process. check philly golden teacher on youtube. follow his bucket tek. if your substrate comes out too wet, just squeeze it out - a handful at a time.
  • people like to use a garbage bag inside the tub to reduce side pins and so when the colonized substrate shrinks, it pulls away from the tub cleanly. not 100% necessary, but it's helpful down the road on subsequent flushes.
  • case or no case - whatever. if you don't get contamination, you'll get mushrooms either way.
  • another good source is r/unclebens on reddit. they have a four part "instruction manual" that is pretty foolproof if you keep your stuff clean. works just as well for spawn to bulk with grain spawn as it does with prepackaged brown rice.
 
7L!fTeD24

7L!fTeD24

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I'm about to bucket tek this Coco and vermiculite. I have six 1/2 pint brf cakes and two 6 quart shoeboxes. So 3 cakes per box.
 
7L!fTeD24

7L!fTeD24

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MoroccanRoll said:
don't nee

  • no need to dunk your cakes. getting your substrate to field capacity is the next critical part of the process. check philly golden teacher on youtube. follow his bucket tek. if your substrate comes out too wet, just squeeze it out - a handful at a time.
  • people like to use a garbage bag inside the tub to reduce side pins and so when the colonized substrate shrinks, it pulls away from the tub cleanly. not 100% necessary, but it's helpful down the road on subsequent flushes.
  • case or no case - whatever. if you don't get contamination, you'll get mushrooms either way.
  • another good source is r/unclebens on reddit. they have a four part "instruction manual" that is pretty foolproof if you keep your stuff clean. works just as well for spawn to bulk with grain spawn as it does with prepackaged brown rice.
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So I got a box of 10 x 250g bricks of coco. I watched the video, still tryin to figure out how much Coco and Vermiculite I need to bucket tek. He says use 5x the amount of water to substrate.
 
7L!fTeD24

7L!fTeD24

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Substrates pasteurizing right now. To keep everything as sterile as I can I'm going to do this inside my SAB. 2 Shoe boxes are made up with the garbage bags I'll take pics when I have it mixed up and ready to go in the closet for two weeks.
 
7L!fTeD24

7L!fTeD24

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I just followed Philly teachers bucket Tek even though it's probably going to be way too much substrate I just wanted to make sure I got the Field capacity right. I'll just do a casing layer on top with the extra.
 
7L!fTeD24

7L!fTeD24

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3 jars a box. Field capacity came out perfect. Mixed it up made it a few inches thick with a light casing layer on top, put the lids on, put them in a trash bag, and put them in the closet. We'll see what happens.
 
canndo

canndo

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7L!fTeD24 said:
I just followed Philly teachers bucket Tek even though it's probably going to be way too much substrate I just wanted to make sure I got the Field capacity right. I'll just do a casing layer on top with the extra.
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No, you must use very low to no nutrient casing.

However, coir is middle road nutrient. You won't do real well unless it is supplemented or you use plenty of rich spawn.

But mostly, don't use large amounts of coir for casing. The point of casing is to signal the mycelium that it has reached the extent of available nutrients, to store water, to act as an anchor for the fruit, to harbor beneficial organisms and to offer irregularities upon which to form primordia.

And the casing layer shoukd be placed after colonization
 
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7L!fTeD24

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Remember those shoeboxes we were talking about? Unlike the pf tek all I did was let them sit. As soon as they almost reached the lid I put a dub tub on top. 20220621_174701.jpg20220621_175517.jpg
 
7L!fTeD24

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I've been reading up on it. Don't know what would be better misting until it's absorbed enough water or water it. Also should I use distilled or tap. A Lil chlorine won't hurt right?
 
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