What i read was that the bag is a better tech because it will shrink with the sub preventing side pins that can be an issue with just painted sides
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Iāve personally never seen side pins as much of an issue. I just harvest them like any others and clean up any aborts between flushes.
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Sometimes its a treat when you take the cake out and theres a 40g monster along the bottom.
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Alternatively, if you roll you cake in verm and place it on the rack in a martha tent you increase your fruiting surface area by 100%.
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I plan on doing monotub tech and grainbags and skipping jars all together. Or is that not a good choice?
Do you mean colonize grain a grain bag and transfer that to bulk for colonization of bulk? It would work well.
Otherwise:
You can colonize and fruit a block from grain bags, but you will have a far more productive grow if you colonize jars and then use the jars to colonize bulk substrate.
You may be disappointed if you try to colonize a monotub with syringes. It will take a very long time (months) to colonize a bulk tub from spores, increasing your chances of contamination.
I colonize jars and then transfer to bulk. It takes a month to 6 weeks to colonize quart jars (I use popcorn,) then it takes an additional 2 to 3 weeks for the bulk to colonize.
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Agree 100% its always better to not put all your mushrooms in one basket so to speak. If you make one big bag, a single contamination could cost you everything, where as you make several jars and one fails its not the end of the world.
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LOLā¦so this is funny. Just finished a first flush and half the tote, the substrate pulled away and the other side, the black bag is moving with it LOLā¦
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Id preferably like to use my own bags, but from what i watched, you definitely need a pressure cooker for those right?.. omgosh look what i found today!! An old The Magic Seal canner 14-21.
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Thank you 
i book marked so i dont lose it lol
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Yes, so the grain jars need to be pressure cooked. The substrate only needs pasteurization which is literally just putting the substrate ingredients in a 5 gallon bucket with a lid and pouring boiling water over it.
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Need a pressure cooker for any grain, regardless of the vessel it is in.
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Yes, and if you choose to put your grain in bags, be sure to weight them down with a heavy plate in the PC.
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Lol im still havent tested the pressure canner yetā¦ im a bit spooked about them blowing up lol
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@Caligurl how much water do ya put in the pressure canner.??
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Only up to about 1/2 way up the jar (maybe a little less) Put the jars on a rack so they arenāt on the bottom of the canner
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Iāve always filled the pot up the the rack level. Iāve not had one dry out on me.
Iām going to order some spores in late April after I get back from some travel. It will be fun to fire up a grow.
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It doesnāt need to be much off the bottom, I think my plate only has very small āstandsā to keep it up.
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