Casings

[watertrade]

This might be a stupid question... given there is so much info out there about casings.

I have read a lot of info about casings, sterilising in a PC, pasterising - doing nothing, just mixing etc etc...

Rather than trial and error I want to know what you guys do ? I ill be using a 60/40 Vermiculite and Coco Coir Casing + calcium carbonate to correct pH.

I will be casing grain

I have never used a casing before...

any tip?

Cheers

[mescalito]

Sounds OK,the verm holds plenty of water which is good,the coir kind of acts like a trellis and is also lignis but I find it is prone to contaminate with trich and/or cobweb.

I prefer verm and some perlite in the mix to give an uneven surface providing micro-troughs and peaks...more conducive to fruiting and less likely to...what's the word? you know grow over and seal off???(brain dead moment )

I've never sterilised a casing layer and gotten away with it except where coir was involved but then again I haven't done a huge amount of casings.

Good luck anyway!

[Hyphal]

This might be a stupid question... given there is so much info out there about casings.

I have read a lot of info about casings, sterilising in a PC, pasterising - doing nothing, just mixing etc etc...

Rather than trial and error I want to know what you guys do ? I ill be using a 60/40 Vermiculite and Coco Coir Casing + calcium carbonate to correct pH.

I will be casing grain

I have never used a casing before...

any tip?

Cheers

Id use 40/40/20 Verm/Coir/Peat Ph adjusted and brought up to 'field capacity'. You can pasturise this by putting it in oven bags that you get from the supermarket, tieing this off with the metal twist ties included with the bags and submersing this in water that is 80 degress C. Leave it for 3 - 4 hours.

Alternatively, you can just sterilise it by putting it in those same oven bags and sealing them with the metal twist ties, then putting this in the oven at 140C for an hour.