my latest question about casing/moisture

i just did a compost brf case job and the compost did colonize a bit. i had the compost soaked and i squeezed it out trying to get field capacity. it seemed like it dried out fast would you ever re dunk this case mix in water before fruiting? also what about just having water in the bottom of a terrarium with an airstone rather than perlite?

I don't understand what you are doing. What is a compost brf case job? I don't believe that you can squeeze out excess water in your substrate. The rest of your question makes no sense. (and you if you are using the standard tub, and fan sort of thing, you would be far better off with that pearlite).

ive been into knocking up large things of brf, because i am missing some casing know how. my last experiment was to break up a brf cake and mix it with some nice compost. the compost was soaked then i squeezed out extra water, hopefully around field capacity. i just mixed it up. the compost colonized a bit but i felt it was on the dry side after colonization and may have wanted a dunk?

would a sterilite blue tub with water in the bottom be better than a wetted perlite base? i ask because the walls of my tub were dry even with all the water sitting in the bottom. my terrarium was just bin water airstone glass jar with colonized substrate in it type of thing.

Firstly, you must bring your substrate to field moisture BEFORE you spawn with what ever you are using as spawn, otherwise you play a game of catchup that you cannot win. Secondly, the more you handle your substrate after it has been set (spawned, containerized and the like) the more you plead for contamination, not only on the top, but the sides and the interior itself. Nothing worse than encountering trich inside your substrate with no evidence otherwise (it happens).

Don't worry about the walls of your container get a hydrometer. You want to try to avoid condensation, difficult I know as it happens with temperature fluctuations but try anyway. One does not usually "dunk" bulk substrates unless they are cellulose based - that is blocks of innoculated sawdust or sawdust and bran, P. Cub is not something that grows well if at all on such substrates.

Dunking is for small cakes that have lots of surface area to mass and prone to lose moisture. Another plus for casing is that the "external" moisture from the casing can be adjusted far more readily than a bulk substrate that may well have suffered overgrowth that keeps the substrate from absorbing moisture anyway,