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Your filter material should do everything you'd need.
Won't necessarily hurt to leave the foil on, but it's just not totally necessary.
With PTFE SFD's, I've pretty much stopped using foil except for my media bottles.
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There's water in there to show the efficacy of both the SFD and the seal of one of those PP5 lids after many uses. These grey ones rock compared to the standard white ones.
I do not.Do you PC the coir too? Ive seen a lot of folks just hydrating it with boiling water before use.
Sorry i may have asked this already lol. But since you mentioned your media being in jars..
Do you PC the coir too? Ive seen a lot of folks just hydrating it with boiling water before use.
Sorry i may have asked this already lol. But since you mentioned your media being in jars..
I’m sure he meant agar media in this instance. Just letting you know people will call agar media and use substrate when speaking of coir, manure, peat etc...
There are people who do pc their coir though. And I personally like to properly pasteurize mine.
It's pretty useless and was once considered detrimental to pasteurize or sterilize inert substrates.
Coir is the media of choice because it's so resistant to contamination yet provides just that right amount of digestible material that many mushrooms thrive on.
It's even more impressive because you can pasteurize or sterilize it without causing a horrible bloom of bad microbes.
But it's really just a waste of time and energy.
For the record - oven pasteurization is very hit or miss. Because there's not a consistent transfer of steam and because there are hot spots, you can easily throw it off.
Not one to argue experience, but I would surmise the vector was something foreign to the coir.And yet that’s the exact reason I pasteurize instead of bucket tek coir. I’ve had too many bricks contam while just sitting to wait to be used. I’ve read a million times that coir will not contaminate but that is not my experience here. I fought my mind and eyes over the subject over and over because it’s preached about over and over. Once I started pasteurizing those problems stopped. And that was only after a local guy who’s been growing 10 yrs told me it was exactly why he didn’t like bucket tek himself.
Proper pasteurization is easily done right. Monitor your stuff and make sure the temp stays between 140f and 170f. It only takes an hour and a half of your day.
I will say this bucket tek worked for a long time it may have just been a couple of bad bricks but piece of mind for me is priceless. I don’t like failing.
@1diesel1 I agree shoeboxes are easiest and a good way to learn proper surface moisture before moving to bigger tubs.
Not one to argue experience, but I would surmise the vector was something foreign to the coir.
The shift to the 'Unbucket Tek' (tap water to field capacity and go) is gaining steam and piloted by one of the best and original in the community.
I've reproduced its success. I leave my excess coir to sit in a bucket and dry out every time. I've never seen anything grow on it unless I accidentally splash some spawn in there.
Curious, how do you pasteurize and with what substrates?
Wait for Pans!
Yeah, seems you can't throw a rock in the PNW without hitting someone who's growing.I met a local guy tonight thats taking me under his wing. He has his shit on lockdown, doing it commercially for a decade apparently. Funny enough i knew him already, just had no ide he did this. Pretty awesome lol, small island.
Anyway he has Pans, penis envy and about a dozen other strains in agar he is willing to hook me up with once i get the process down. And hes gonna come by to assist with my first grain culture. Pretty stoked. Fuk i love where i live.
You might wanna try bags.I’ve read all that. I can quote all of their opinions too. But again that does not coincide with what happened to make me switch.
It also didn’t just happen once. Like I said I don’t have time to mess around I’m doing 50+ jars at a time.
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