[morthos]

Good day sir!

Let me begin by saying that I've no experience with standard spawn bags, but I've glorious & proven experience using oven bags for a similar purpose, from which I will answer most of your Q's.

If you aren't familiar with my past growing, I have created the OBIRE tek,l embarassingly I've yet to do a formal writeup, but all the needed info is around here in my posts. That's Oven Bag Invitro Reservior Effect. I colonize WBS in jars, then mix it with prepared verm into a prepared oven bag, and fruit within that bag. With 3L of WBS & 3L of verm, I get about 3oz dry on the first harvest, with multiple declining-scale harvests to follow.

First, I have had bad experience with sterilizing substrate inside a bag in a PC. I tried this 3 times with a 1:1 brf:verm mix, and all of them ruptured enough to cause disaster. This may not be relevant, as others in the archives have likely done this in standard spawn bags with success.

Second, no, I don't think the presence of a patch alters PC'ing. If anything I might think it allows pressure to equalize within a bag, preventing rupture or some such.

3+4+5...not applicable.

Sixth, no, I do not reuse bags. I destroy each bag during harvest.

Seventh, not really. An hour in the PC should kill anything you can fit in there. Go for 75 min if you're paranoid.

Eighth, GOD YES!! If I grow again this is my way. Soooo low-maintenance & stealthy.

Ninth, that depends what you're comparing to. I hydrate the verm to capacity, which is typically 1/4 of it's volume in water. my WBS, popcorn or BRF is hydrated in a process I won't elaborate yet but I believe within the norm for other methods, yes.

Tenth, wouldn't hurt, but I'm too drunk to care

Eleventh, no, or I couldn't write this.

If you are willing to colonize a bunch of 500ml jars & grow invitro on a grand scale, pm me & I'll give you more details. Better yet, have a look at my past posts. No lights, heating, humidity control or odd gizmos.

Happy new year!