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Tub Dunk

Started By Guest_Water_* , Feb 05 2007 06:16 PM

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#1 Guest_Water_*

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 06:16 PM

This cake weighed in at three pounds and has produced two flushes of B+ so far.

I first completely washed off the old casing layer from the cake.

I then did a ten hour dunk in the fridge using bleach and distilled water at a ratio of 1:400 (smelled some contams thus the bleach).

I cut some wire in the shape of a different tub (same type of tub) with metal rods to hold down the cake:

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I then recased and left in complete darkness for two days.

In the last pic you can see healthy white myc growing through the fresh casing layer.

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#2 Guest_vinz_*

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 07:03 AM

that is a very cool way to dunk a tub.. i just mist heavily .. no patience and motivation to do that haha thats awesome :eusa_clap

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#3 Guest_Water_*

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 07:15 AM

I would have kept misting heavily (like I did after the first flush), but it started to smell so I figured it was time for some bleach therapy.

Besides, I've heard you get bigger flushed from a freshly dunked cake.

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#4 Guest_vinz_*

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 07:30 AM

how big is it? inches-wise?

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#5 Hippie3

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 07:39 AM

clever but that hardly looks like a 'cake'

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#6 Guest_Water_*

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 07:44 AM

how big is it? inches-wise?

It's 12x9x4

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#7 Guest_Water_*

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 07:45 AM

clever but that hardly looks like a 'cake'

I was going to call it a casing (casing dunk), but I thought casings were only the top layer (casing layer).

What would you call it?

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#8 Hippie3

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 07:48 AM

don't know if there's a proper name
but generally i refer to such as
mycellial blocks or substrate blocks.

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#9 malefacter

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 08:39 AM

clever but that hardly looks like a 'cake'

yea where is the frosting

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#10 Guest_Water_*

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 08:59 AM

Actually if you think about it, a block of substrate is just a large cake.

Cakes are not always round, and the frosting is the mycellial ;)

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#11 Guest_Water_*

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 12:23 PM

If the myco community has yet to term a large block substrate like this why not call it a cake?

It looks just like one.

My wife bakes cakes roughly the same size parameters weekly.

When does a substrate go out of the 'size parameters' range for flatcake standards?

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#12 shortyisdaman

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 12:35 PM

hopefully you post a picture of that Phat casing while it's Fruiting:headbang:

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#13 Guest_Water_*

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 12:42 PM

Ok, will do.

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#14 Hippie3

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 01:09 PM

is it made of brf as per pf 's tek ?
it so then i reckon it might properly be termed a cake
because that is its primary meaning,
pf = cake
because it has its vermiculite casing internal.
but as time has passed the line has blurred a bit
with inner reservoirs and rez-effect etc.
so i'd say the primary meaning of a brf mix should
still be the primary determination of nomenclature,
brf = cake mix

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#15 Guest_Water_*

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 01:53 PM

Wow, ok, interesting.

Is PF still alive?... JK! ;)

But no, it wasn't BRF.

The mix was 60/30/10 cpoo/coir/verm.

Maybe the myco community could be so kind as to give this particular sort of 'cake' a more permanent name since at the moment it seems to be 'block substrate whatever'...

How about fatcake? :)

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#16 hour

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 06:05 PM

ehh i've heard fatcake before for i think eatyu's lazy mofo bags.. actually maybe not those, but I think it was an eatyu thing just like the flats..

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#17 Guest_Water_*

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 06:47 PM

Alright screw it.

It's a sublock.

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#18 cheshire

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Posted 07 February 2007 - 04:21 AM

If the myco community has yet to term a large block substrate like this why not call it a cake?

It looks just like one.

My wife bakes cakes roughly the same size parameters weekly.

When does a substrate go out of the 'size parameters' range for flatcake standards?

so wierd ive also been having a problem naming mine cuz they not cakes but wat else can u call em :p ?
been calling mine tubs or trays... :rasta:we need to name it heha

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#19 golly

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Posted 07 February 2007 - 08:00 AM

I just call em Subs...

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#20 Guest_Water_*

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Posted 07 February 2007 - 08:03 AM

Works for me.

Sub Dunk :thumbup:

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