Great video and thanks for the education. One thing I would suggest is not to mix the spawn in like that because you expose the spawn and substrate unnecessarily to bacteria and contagion. Also, the spawn (like you said) can fall out. The best way is the sandwich method, layering the spawn between the straw. This way you handle your medium the least amount as possible and keep everything sterile. Great video!
That's just a superstition and it's absolute nonsense. Absolutely nothing wrong with outside open-air mixing. The pH of the woodash is going to pretty much eliminate any chance of significant contamination and the fact that bacteria and fungal spores are so balanced in natural air that non should be able to get a head start on the other and especially not the spawn. You are trying to sound experienced but your lack of experience prevents you from doing so.
Thank you so much for sharing this information with us ! This method is overlooked in my opinion as a low-tech, or low-effort growing method Awesome. Edit : if you wanted to reuse those plastic coffee containers you were using for colonisation, Would it be possible to soak them in a wood ash solution as well in order to clean them ?
Woooooooow, had no idea. hey don't toss those charcoal bits out. that's the first step to bio char! when you compost all this after your last flush, those little nuggets will be inoculated choke full of life!
Maybe if we screened the ash separate from the charcoal and stirred everything up to get a good consistency. The first scoop could have been 40% solid stuff and the next 70%, etc. Thats why I measured multiple times.
Usually sawdust needs more nutrients, so you add bran. But with the bran it makes it more prone to getting contaminated. So the sawdust has to be pressure cooked to be sterilized and then you have to add the spawn in a sterile environment, not out in the open.
Love your videos. Right to the point. Keep it up!
Great video and thanks for the education. One thing I would suggest is not to mix the spawn in like that because you expose the spawn and substrate unnecessarily to bacteria and contagion. Also, the spawn (like you said) can fall out. The best way is the sandwich method, layering the spawn between the straw. This way you handle your medium the least amount as possible and keep everything sterile. Great video!
That's just a superstition and it's absolute nonsense. Absolutely nothing wrong with outside open-air mixing. The pH of the woodash is going to pretty much eliminate any chance of significant contamination and the fact that bacteria and fungal spores are so balanced in natural air that non should be able to get a head start on the other and especially not the spawn.
You are trying to sound experienced but your lack of experience prevents you from doing so.
Thank you so much for sharing this information with us ! This method is overlooked in my opinion as a low-tech, or low-effort growing method
Awesome.
Edit : if you wanted to reuse those plastic coffee containers you were using for colonisation, Would it be possible to soak them in a wood ash solution as well in order to clean them ?
I had to laugh when he said "just run it over with a push mower to chop it up"... This guy and I would get along perfectly.... LOL...
Excellent video and info, thanks a million !!
Woooooooow, had no idea. hey don't toss those charcoal bits out. that's the first step to bio char! when you compost all this after your last flush, those little nuggets will be inoculated choke full of life!
PH is a logarithmic scale. if 1 scoop raises it to 9, then 10 scoops would raise it to 10.
Maybe if we screened the ash separate from the charcoal and stirred everything up to get a good consistency. The first scoop could have been 40% solid stuff and the next 70%, etc. Thats why I measured multiple times.
I love this
Hi..Thanks for the video...how are the yields compared to hydrated lime or other forms of sterilization/pasteurization?
I've read you can achieve higher biological efficiency using lime or lye (wood ash) pasteurization than with heat pasteurization
Is it rinsed or not?
Everybody wants some ash bud.. everybody
Do you recall roughly how much as you put in? You did say it took a while to get that high up, but stopped mentioning how many scoops
Hi, did you check the PH level of the substrate after draining it? if yes, what was the PH? Thanks
We didn't
Do you rinse after ash pasteurization, or just drain? I guess rinsing could introduce contaminants huh?
We just drained it, same thought process as yours.
Nice video. Can one use sawdust in place of the straw?
Usually sawdust needs more nutrients, so you add bran. But with the bran it makes it more prone to getting contaminated. So the sawdust has to be pressure cooked to be sterilized and then you have to add the spawn in a sterile environment, not out in the open.
@@mookie2000mhhs thanks for the info.
why not hay? its posible to use hay in this technique? thanks!
hay has too much nitrogen gets hot and contaminates
@@jasonedwards2622 yes it gets hot because it decomposes almost instanly when wet
do you drain the straw just outside?
Yes, we did it in the driveway.