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[rednospit]

Hello. This is my first time doing a bulk substrate and something strange has happened. The first picture is day 1. I am using pasturized cow dung and straw. It has been 4 days and there are good signs of colonization and no contamination, but there are a few sprouts that have popped up. Im guessing their straw sprouts. is this normal? what should i do?

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[reefer]

how did you pasteurize the straw?

[dial8]

Did you bleach psteurize with no heat? I would not worry about it too much.

[yerbaadam]

I am guessing you did not do a steam or hot water bath pasturization, as those would destroy viable seeds present in the straw/poo.

I have never done the bleach/ lime pasturization.

So here's my question:

Steam/ hot water pasturization kills off the low temperature bacteria/ endospores etc.. and the bleach/lime kills of the ones wich can't tolerate the hardcore ph shift. SO wich pasturization method kills the MOST undesirable micro organisms and perserves the MOST desirable ones?


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[rednospit]

I pasturized the poo and straw in 160F water for an hour and a half.

[reefer]

hmmm...i'd probably leave them be. Although I'm wondering if anyone else has ever had this happen. Maybe someone can share with us how it turned out?

[rednospit]

Here's my progress after 9 days. lots of sprouts, but everything looks okay. :teeth:

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[rednospit]

A smaller tray

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[rednospit]

Here are my first pins a few days after casing with verm.

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[rednospit]

Well, i guess the sprouts didn't do any harm. :cacti:

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[golly]

Those look good n' healthy Red...sweeet...:thumbup:

[yerbaadam]

BEautIEs!!!

God job THere. Next tiME, paTchiNg the casiNG and/OR waitInG a bIt loNger untIL tHe caSing is a bit mOre evEnly cOlloNized tO inDuce PINNinG, will give you a more evn and wiDespRead pInset.
GreaT jOb anYhoO. KeEp oN kEepin in 0N!
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[kodiak]

Little Beauties:bow: