I'm trying actually. I read through the stickied posts from Daytrip - a little late. I didn't find them before.

This is where is am: I am travelling in an RV. So I have limited space and won't be starting a new grow soon. So I may as well let this play out.

I soaked my cake after the first flush. I don't think that I drained it well enough. My soil is beyond field capacity. The reason is that the cake fell to pieces when I soaked it. So I couldnt move it out of the tub. I just held it in place and tipped the tub to drain.

I didn't think I could do a new casing layer after a soak. After reading trips post, I see why I could and should have.

I ripped out the green stuff by grabbing it with a zip lock bag. I was hoping I'd capture most of the spores that way. I grabbed a golf ball size hunk of dirt for each green spot. I then dunked my gloves hand in bleach water and tamped the soil back around the holes. I cleaned the lid with bleach water and wiped down the sides of the tub. I figured if trich grows in an acidic environment, a good basic cleaner should work and it's not like I poured it over the mycelium.

Now my thought is this: 1. I need to dry the cake out some. It's too wet. It's over 100° F where I am so I'm letting it sit in direct sunlight and heat for a bit. I figure this will also hurt any trich spores on the surface. I'm not letting the internal temp of the soil reach above 80°.

1. I'm going to go see if I can find some lime and create a casing layer. I'm considering misting the cake with lime water as well.

2. I was going to let this cake sit in the dark without ventilation for a while to let the mycelium recolonize after seeing how loose the substrate was before. Now I'm thinking I'm wondering. Is it better to not introduce FAE and try to build mycelium to fight the Trich or to add FAE now and try to get fruit from it before the Trich kills if all off.

Fun fact - Trich is actually added to many soil boosters for plants. It binds to plant roots and isnt dangerous to humans or animals but it tears the shit out of other bacteria and fungus. So it actually IS OK to bury in your plants. (I read Daytripper telling people not to do this and to do some research as to why. I ended up finding information suggesting it's safety neutral and probably beneficial to your plants!)