blue.magic
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Most bulk substrate recipes I found call for something like 50% horse manure and 50% coir/verm to hold moisture as horse manure alone dries easily.
Unfortunately I have only horse manure pellets. 50 grams of these look like this:
I though this will expand to same volume as normal horse poo, but unfortunately adding 100 ml water only resulted to about 150 ml of this manure at field capacity, no expansion happens, it's more like a dense soil-like mass:
Unfortunately, I have no idea how concentrated this manure is. It seems the manure pellets are fermented, pasteurized, dried, ground and then pressed.
One source said that 1 kg of the pellets is same as garden roller full of fresh manure. That's still not a very useful information.
So I think I will just mix in some of this into my coir/verm substrate and see how the mushrooms grow. So far I tried as little as 50 grams for a mini-monotub and the mycelium grows vigorously.
Any better ideas?
Unfortunately I have only horse manure pellets. 50 grams of these look like this:
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I though this will expand to same volume as normal horse poo, but unfortunately adding 100 ml water only resulted to about 150 ml of this manure at field capacity, no expansion happens, it's more like a dense soil-like mass:
![9iKl5K0.jpg](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F9iKl5K0.jpg&hash=c10cba7379903f11537158329078242e)
Unfortunately, I have no idea how concentrated this manure is. It seems the manure pellets are fermented, pasteurized, dried, ground and then pressed.
One source said that 1 kg of the pellets is same as garden roller full of fresh manure. That's still not a very useful information.
So I think I will just mix in some of this into my coir/verm substrate and see how the mushrooms grow. So far I tried as little as 50 grams for a mini-monotub and the mycelium grows vigorously.
Any better ideas?