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[dial8]

Very nice! How do you prep your corn? Do you add gypsum?

[Hippie3]

strain using ?

[dial8]

With straw and a good performing strain I have found casing layers to be unecessary. I get great flushes without one but I do dunk inbetween each flush. No casing makes for very clean shrooms once harvested. Just my 2 cents...others will likely disagree.

[Hippie3]

i'd case with coir/verm, better pinset, imho

[Hippie3]

since coir can overlay
i'd wait

[dial8]

Yep, if your gonna case wait until substrate is fully colonized.

As for the casing layer itself, I have had great flushes even up into the third flush without a casing layer, but I was using a great fruiter isolated via cloning. You will most likely have a better pinset with a casing layer if you are going multi-spore.

BTW, time to actual fruit is quicker.

[dial8]

Oh shit, I did forget to add that when I use straw I do the rez effect tek. I add vermiculite at a 25% rate so that will definitely hold more water and produce a better pinning environment.

[Foster]

"BTW, time to actual fruit is quicker." Which way is quicker? cased or uncased? Is it the extra moisture a casing layer holds that promotes better pinning and fruiting? any difference in yields?

[Hippie3]

it's a complex interplay but the extra water, air and structure seems to help the mycellia form more pins in a flush. not required with cubies but generally still worthwhile, about the only reason NOT to case is a slightly lower risk of contamination, but still no guaranty of course.

[dial8]

Yes! Verm can be applied to straw logs. Just add it at about a 25% rate to the straw, pasteurize it all together, and make the log the same way.

[dial8]

sure it can be done very effectively. I would only add enough to coat the straw other wise you will get some uneven distribution and clumping.

[Hippie3]

update ?