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HeavyMetal said:
Basically you want an ambient temperature of like... 74 - 79 for fruiting. Generally speaking.

If your room temperature is generally around that temp, then you can just have your fruiting chamber in that room ... because its going to be around the same temp as well.

That's what RR means when he's saying you shouldn't heat fruiting chambers.

If you have a way to heat just the fruiting chamber to be around 74 - 79 ... like a closet or something you can keep it in. Then do it.

There is no problem heating just the chamber to be that amount. It just seems it would be easier to have it in a room or area where the ambient temp is already set. Ya know?

As far as keeping it in a cupboard or box or tub... this is okay, as long as your getting free air exchange... that's a big thing you want to look at.  You may have luck placing the FC on top of a fridge or computer or something that produces a little bit of heat. Just to boost the temp of the FC itself.

Or if you keep it in the room its in now but have a space heater far enough away it isn't gonna heat it up to much. You will just have to try it and see what temps you get in/around the FC and play with it. But this will not hurt it at all if you use common sense.

Hope that helps

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djshoo said:
I put a fish tank heater in with my bubbler, worked for me. Used the pyrex jar of a coffee maker, the one where you push the plunger down. Didn't dry out the fc.

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RogerRabbit said:
The reason you don't want to heat a fruiting chamber is it robs your humidity to form condensation on the walls.  Condensation forms on the warm side of a surface with a temperature differential.  It's better to heat the room so that it isn't warmer inside the terrarium than outside the terrarium.  Find a room with a bright window.  You'll probably get enough daytime solar heating to do the trick for you.  60F at night is fine, as long as it warms up ten to fifteen degrees during the day.
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Thanks for you input rogerrabbit   Ive read alot of your posts and seen some of your videos and out of all the people on here you and a guy called Agar make the most sense to me and feel like your old hats as it were.  The only problem i have with your heating the room  that the chamber is in is the cost due to the fact that the only place i can put them is in my bedroom which is large and where i am it is cold (think northern U.K) I don't have a night time temp due to my thermometer only holding highs and lows for about a hour or so (it is digital)

I am getting temps in the low 60s in the day time so at night it must be in the fifties, I understand the point about creating the temp differential and robbing moisture but is this a sacrifice to make if it is the only way to keep temps to a point where fruiting is possible? Or do I do my best to get temps up and hope that they will fruit. Oh and as to putting them near a window to get some sun etc the sun doesn't come out much here if at all


Thanks for all your time and effort not just for me but to all the questions you have answered

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djshoo said:
I had a casing in the fc

2nd flush

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