You are really making me want to fruit something! Its been awhile since i actually fruited anything and im thinking maybe 100% straw with a thin coir moisture barrier. Your porn is dragging me back in! :)
Thats a healthy second flush Wharfrat!
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Coco Coir substrate with coffee supplement - A 4 part tek
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, Dec 12 2014 03:57 PM
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Posted 31 December 2014 - 07:03 PM
You are really making me want to fruit something! Its been awhile since i actually fruited anything and im thinking maybe 100% straw with a thin coir moisture barrier. Your porn is dragging me back in! :)
Thats a healthy second flush Wharfrat!
I've been playing a microwave "tek" that uses field capacity straw and once colonized, just hitting it with verm and letting it fruit, I have one in the FC now..
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Posted 31 December 2014 - 07:45 PM
You are really making me want to fruit something! Its been awhile since i actually fruited anything and im thinking maybe 100% straw with a thin coir moisture barrier. Your porn is dragging me back in! :)
Thats a healthy second flush Wharfrat!
i've had good success with straw logs fruited in an FC like cakes.. i used the skinnier food saver bags, packed spawn and straw in to them, colonized, then cut the bag off and fruit them in an FC. no casing required
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Posted 31 December 2014 - 08:01 PM
didn't the straw dry out sooner than later?
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Posted 01 January 2015 - 12:10 AM
here is an uncased tub of Lipa Yai.. i love the size of these fruits
i think i like to case them better..makes for a more uniform fruiting and keeps the myc from drying out too much.. just IME
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Posted 01 January 2015 - 09:04 AM
My microwave "tek" uses tupperwares and I just pop the lid when ready to fruit, IMO it holds the moisture a little better and if it fruits underneath "invitro", I just pull the fruits..
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Posted 01 January 2015 - 03:48 PM
My contamination rate always goes sky high when I use coffee grounds. I like to use a 50/50 mix of peat moss and horse poop. I've always had amazing flushes with it. Pin set is really good. The only to strains that I got mass fruits with is Mexican and golden teachers.
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Posted 02 January 2015 - 10:12 AM
I believe use after u make coffee maby a quick rinse...Nice wright Wharfrat.
Question. Is there any special way to prep the coffee grounds. Like soak them? Rinse them?
Or just use them after they cool down from making coffee?
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Posted 02 January 2015 - 04:37 PM
yes, i just save my spent coffee grounds. try and dry them ASAP or use them right away..
Or freeze, either field capacity or as is IME
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Posted 03 January 2015 - 06:03 PM
Am I missing something here, you have colonized three or four different substrates, all sterilized, with only inert materials, or of slight nutritional value. Where is the myc getting it's nutes to grow out so many times?
#56
Posted 03 January 2015 - 06:25 PM
I have or am just about done colonizing popcorn in a jar.
I know what my problem is. I did an extra step I believe.
What I was thinking at the beginning is that I will colonize a jar of popcorn then poor some of it in separate
dishes of substraight to grow my mushrooms.
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Posted 03 January 2015 - 06:29 PM
I have or am just about done colonizing popcorn in a jar.
I know what my problem is. I did an extra step I believe.
What I was thinking at the beginning is that I will colonize a jar of popcorn then poor some of it in separate
dishes of substraight to grow my mushrooms.
that's how it's done.. but your dishes/tubs might be small if you are only using one jar
#58
Posted 03 January 2015 - 06:30 PM
Am I missing something here, you have colonized three or four different substrates, all sterilized, with only inert materials, or of slight nutritional value. Where is the myc getting it's nutes to grow out so many times?
the coffee
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Posted 03 January 2015 - 06:32 PM
Gotch yea.
Now should I mix this recipe up and put it in my rubber maid shoe box. Put a cover on it and forget about it for a few days?
just follow the Tek to a T.. once spawn is mixed, ten days minimum.. maybe 12.. once 100% colonized
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Posted 03 January 2015 - 06:35 PM
Am I missing something here, you have colonized three or four different substrates, all sterilized, with only inert materials, or of slight nutritional value. Where is the myc getting it's nutes to grow out so many times?
the coffee
there is only 1 substrate, which is coir, and it does have slight nutes.. you only use enough verm to get to field capacity.. it's the coffee that provides most the nutes
