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Mushroom cultivation => Cultivation => Topic started by: Davie K on January 06, 2010, 12:33:16 PM

Title: Bail in a bag
Post by: Davie K on January 06, 2010, 12:33:16 PM
im attempting to do a worm casting/ straw culture.. tho w/ out going to a farm for the straw i saw.  Bail in a bag, of chopped hay for horse feed at the tracktor supply store..  its only 12$ an supposedly a hole bail of hay chopped up in a bag..   Any one object? w/ good reasoning?
Title: Re: Bail in a bag
Post by: dub504 on January 06, 2010, 01:16:25 PM
You have to use straw, not hay. Straw is golden in color and hay is more green. Hay also tends to contaminate. Hobby/Craft stores like Michaels' have a few inexpensive dif sized chopped straw bales. Otherwise feed stores will have it in bulk.
Title: Re: Bail in a bag
Post by: malabar on January 06, 2010, 01:27:04 PM
  Or you can cop a full bale of straw at Lowes for $3.00.  But, Dub has it right,..  That hay will do you No good!   Only headaches and heartaches,...... 
    :ph34r:
Title: Re: Bail in a bag
Post by: texshroomer on January 06, 2010, 01:37:47 PM
I know of a friend that grows straw or watever but when i asked him to gimme some straw. HE said," you mean like hay" I said "nah, straw" then he siad " thats what hay is" IS he just a dumass farmer or are they basically the same thing
Title: Re: Bail in a bag
Post by: dub504 on January 06, 2010, 01:39:49 PM
Unfortunately they are not the same thing, that would make it a hell of a lot easier if they were though.
Title: Re: Bail in a bag
Post by: malabar on January 06, 2010, 01:47:16 PM
So right you are Dub!    -_-
Title: Re: Bail in a bag
Post by: Davie K on January 06, 2010, 05:10:38 PM
a buddy of mine owns a farm so i guess ill just bother him for some fresh chop.   Im  goin 2 attemp to recreate a grow report from shroomery..  http://www.shroomery.org/8388/Bulk-Neglect-Report
Title: Re: Bail in a bag
Post by: dub504 on January 06, 2010, 05:52:38 PM
The deeper the sub the bigger the cubes! ^_^
Title: Re: Bail in a bag
Post by: malabar on January 06, 2010, 05:54:45 PM
Dub,
  And you know thats Right!    ^_^
    ~Malabar    :mellow: