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Deadkndys420 said:
That bucket tek is bunk.

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No it's not, every one of my grows was done using that tek. The only thing about it that is kind of wrong is that it says to use 4 qts of water and 2 qts of verm per brick. It's pretty agreed upon that that makes for a slightly under hydrated mix. I do 5 qts of water and 3 qts of verm, and it's on point every time.

People actually even use hot tap water instead of boiled water, and it does fine. Coir is the super-sub. For what it's worth, I can do a lot more with coir than poo, because mixing, pasteurizing, thoroughly cleaning the fruits is not something that I have time for. Coir is superior in my eyes, just my opinion though, man.

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Bulk substrates are pasteurized rather than sterilized. Pasteurization allows certain beneficial bacteria to survive in the substrate, which prevents harmful bacteria or mold from growing.

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Deadkndys420 said:

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Bulk substrates are pasteurized rather than sterilized. Pasteurization allows certain beneficial bacteria to survive in the substrate, which prevents harmful bacteria or mold from growing.

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http://mycology.wikia.com/wiki/Growing_with_bulk_substrates

I suggest you do more reading.

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Sorry man, but you are very wrong. As stated above, you don't need to pasteurize coir. It doesn't contain the beneficial bacteria that poo or other substrates contain. It is standalone. You are going off of outdated info, which is fine cause I'm sure you haven't been around the shroomery for a while or something, but don't come into mush cult spouting this off

Bad spawn is proven to be the cause of 97% of contamination pre-first or second flush. All of those tubs that went green in bucket tek are not because of the bucket tek. Just a bunch of noobs that needed something to blame that wasn't their piss poor sterile technique.

There is a reason why Roger Rabbit barely ever posts anymore, too. He was wrong a lot of the times, and had such a hot head he couldn't admit when someone knew more than him. Now he stays away and his useful and helpful contributions live on while his outdated logic got left in the dust.

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Sloppy said:
There is a reason why Roger Rabbit barely ever posts anymore, too. He was wrong a lot of the times, and had such a hot head he couldn't admit when someone knew more than him. Now he stays away and his useful and helpful contributions live on while his outdated logic got left in the dust.

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Thanks for the nice comments.  I started to make a thread to say goodbye but saw this one.  People need to realize I'm not moving on because of my new business-I'm moving on because of the abject failure of my most important mission in life.

Those of you who have followed this site for a few years know my wife Vivian has been fighting cancer for over ten years.  She appears in a few of the clips on Let's Grow Mushrooms, which I got out and watched yesterday just to have a chance to see her smiling face again.

My baby, the love of my life and my very reason for living died in my arms over the holidays. 

I suffered through 4 failed marriages before I found her.  I always knew that with Vivian I had true love and that it wasn't conditional on being in a good mood, or having a good financial year, or always saying the right thing, etc.  She was the only person I ever had who loved me no-matter-what and made sure I knew it.  Now she's gone after 15 wonderful years, and I'm all alone up here in the middle of nowhere.

I started growing medicinal mushrooms instead of psychedelic when we met because I was sure I could save her. John Holliday of Aloha Medicinals graciously provided her with products not yet on market but which had shown promise in jump-starting the immune system. She got a medical marijuana card in 2000 and a designated provider certificate for me so I could grow medical pot.  I've developed a high CBD strain that achieves nearly 20% CBD because it's rumored to impeded tumor growth.

Unfortunately, none of it worked and the only person I've ever truly loved in this world is gone.  My heart is broken and I've spent most of the last three weeks curled up in a fetal position on the floor bawling my eyes out.   

How can I continue to answer questions about mushroom growing when the most important reason for growing them in the first place turned out to be a devastating failure? 

Our local newspaper did a front-page story on her.  If anyone can get it, please post it here.  If not, I'll try to scan it and get it posted in a few weeks.  It's on the front page of the Jan 14, 2015 issue of the Ferry County View. It gives information that I've never released before about her life in Russia and the sacrifices her family went through to get to America.

Take care,
RR

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