r/unclebens 5d ago

Advice to Others Uncle Ben brans substitute

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u/Eaegifts 4d ago

I’m having amazing success with great value brand (Walmart). Trying the Savvy fare brand (Dollar Tree) now which is the cheapest and driest I’ve found so far.

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u/Rilkespawn 4d ago

I bought the value brand from Walmart yesterday, too. But a couple of those bags already look like some of the pics I’ve seen on here where there is contamination in the bag 😂

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u/Eaegifts 4d ago

This is a GV bag on day 10 since inoculation with LC, I’d posted this recently because I was wondering if colonization time correlates to quality. Another thing I noticed but could be wrong is that it’s better to use LC with the rice bags than spores.

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u/Rilkespawn 4d ago edited 4d ago

That looks beautiful. I’m planning to inoculate tomorrow, also with LC. What strain are you growing?

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u/Eaegifts 4d ago

That’s great, the LC is definitely the way to go and I’m growing Blue Meanies cube, p.nat from LC and b+ in an aio bag from spore. What are you gonna grow?

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u/Rilkespawn 4d ago

Starting with Golden Teacher and Tidal Wave for a variety of potency. I want to try Ochra next simply based on a recommendation here in the sub.

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u/Eaegifts 4d ago

I got lucky with gt before by inoculating a co2 aio bag but that’s the one that failed on the UB bag for me. I’m gonna look into the tidal wave, I’ve heard of it before but not sure if I’ve seen it.

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u/Rilkespawn 4d ago

I selected those strains purely on the basis of comments in the guide. I’m already regretting that I didn’t buy more variety when making my initial purchase.

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u/Eaegifts 4d ago

Yea I’m kinda feeling the same way about variety because I found the LC after buying spores but I’m also a bit overwhelmed seeing how much some people are yielding lol, if things go well I may have more than I know what to do with 😅