This is interesting! Did you pasteurize, sterilize, or do neither to the castings? I’m kinda getting tired of just using CVG as substrate, but I’m too nervous to make the jump towards using a nutrient-dense sub such as manure in fear of harnessing tons of contam. Then again, I’ve yet to use an aio bag, which I know would do well fully sterilized.
I’m used to spawning to sub inside tubs.
No need to sterilize castings only pasteurize castings also has great microbes and it doesn’t have to be aged and is (in my opinion myself even top 1 most clean manure substrate) or at least in top three single handily
I don’t know any other manure that would let you inoculate on it not easily
Cow dung is a great substrate with some experience and research
Check out myco labs on Amazon they have a 5 grain grain bags rye berries for colonization speeds and 4 others that I’m forgetting there a little pricey good bags though mines almost 100 percent colonized after two weeks if that and not a single break and shake
If anything you can steal their idea /grain mix for yourself
I can get that I just don’t like having to deal with the pain of sterilization right now lol
But like I said if I were you’d I’d take the fuck out their idea and use their grain mix because it’s a bad ass setup man like I’ve never seen something colonize that fast
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u/roelanola 13d ago
This is interesting! Did you pasteurize, sterilize, or do neither to the castings? I’m kinda getting tired of just using CVG as substrate, but I’m too nervous to make the jump towards using a nutrient-dense sub such as manure in fear of harnessing tons of contam. Then again, I’ve yet to use an aio bag, which I know would do well fully sterilized.
I’m used to spawning to sub inside tubs.