HorseFungus
08-04-2009, 09:48 PM
So I never tried casing before I have only experience with the PF tek so far with moderately good success (90% first round 50% next).
This time I got a 3lbs bag of millet seed and innoculated it with puerto rican spores. The time has finally come to case the material. I thought that for a 3lbs bag I would have enough for 2-3 small containers full of a layer of mycellium but i pretty much used 75% of the bag for 1.
I used a half an inch of moist vermiculite on the bottom, then the mycellium in the millet on top of that. When I started to pour the millet into the container I found that some of the millet on the inside of the bag was not colonized but was floating freely. I did shake up the bag three times during its incubation. So hopefully that won't hurt.
For the casing I used about half a cup of coco coir - a cup and a half of vermiculite and water added until it was slightly dripping when you gripped it. I actually had a cup of coir but once I poured hot water into it the coir expanded so much i ended up throwing half of it out. Oh well, I got 3 bricks for $10 and I hardly used much of the first one!
I used rubbing alcohol and h2o2 in a spray bottle to clean everything after doing this and nuked it for 10 minutes (as it says int he 60/40 verm coco coir casing on shroomery). I don't really like using the microwave but I was short on time and I don't have a pressure cooker yet.
I let it cool down in the larger bin which is going to be the terrarium for a few hours. That's when I poured the mycellium in with the millet and this is when things kinda went wrong. It was not the best sterile conditions and I had to abort halfway as people came here. Anyways I sort of broke up the millet so it would be almost a flat layer instead of having these huge clumps sticking out, poured in the casing until it covered everything, about an inch and closed the lid on it, put it in the closet where it will incubate for a bit more.
Hope this works out. I don't have good feelings about it.
This time I got a 3lbs bag of millet seed and innoculated it with puerto rican spores. The time has finally come to case the material. I thought that for a 3lbs bag I would have enough for 2-3 small containers full of a layer of mycellium but i pretty much used 75% of the bag for 1.
I used a half an inch of moist vermiculite on the bottom, then the mycellium in the millet on top of that. When I started to pour the millet into the container I found that some of the millet on the inside of the bag was not colonized but was floating freely. I did shake up the bag three times during its incubation. So hopefully that won't hurt.
For the casing I used about half a cup of coco coir - a cup and a half of vermiculite and water added until it was slightly dripping when you gripped it. I actually had a cup of coir but once I poured hot water into it the coir expanded so much i ended up throwing half of it out. Oh well, I got 3 bricks for $10 and I hardly used much of the first one!
I used rubbing alcohol and h2o2 in a spray bottle to clean everything after doing this and nuked it for 10 minutes (as it says int he 60/40 verm coco coir casing on shroomery). I don't really like using the microwave but I was short on time and I don't have a pressure cooker yet.
I let it cool down in the larger bin which is going to be the terrarium for a few hours. That's when I poured the mycellium in with the millet and this is when things kinda went wrong. It was not the best sterile conditions and I had to abort halfway as people came here. Anyways I sort of broke up the millet so it would be almost a flat layer instead of having these huge clumps sticking out, poured in the casing until it covered everything, about an inch and closed the lid on it, put it in the closet where it will incubate for a bit more.
Hope this works out. I don't have good feelings about it.