The mix in these two tubs was made as follows:
1 40lb bag of premium cow manure compost
20 quart scoops of peat moss (about 5 gallons), seems like a lot, but it's about the same volume as the compost it seems, maybe a little bit more.
Mixed it all up, put into large roaster pans, cooked in the oven at 450 for 5 hrs, taken out, left covered in the tubs overnight warm still, then dumped out and spawned. Each tub needed about a half gallon of spring water to help moisten it back up.
Spawn was wbs innoced with multispore. I'd say about 8 cups were used per tub and each one has about 4 inches of substrate in it, the coir one a bit more.
That's my basic oven past tek, nothing fancy, have had nothing but great success using it. Really nothing special to it but you want to make sure the inside gets up to 160f in those pans or else it won't pasteurize stuff. Leaving the oven low like at 200 never gets those inner temps up quick enough unless you leave the pans in there for a day or two. lol So I heat it up sorta quick and cool down slow. It holds heat really well once warm.
One tub got a few large handfulls of coir and is labeled seperate to see what difference a lil bit of coir into the mix produces.
And that is it. Pic sets will start below for tubs A and B and I'll edit the posts themselves with new pics till pins form. Should be about 2 weeks.
The attachments are pics of the compost I use, love, and recommend to all. :rasta:
