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 LSDaytripper
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 Light source from the side, what will happen?
#8381955 - 05/09/08 01:45 PM |
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Hello everybody! Pretty soon, I will be starting my first grow using the PF tek, following the Lets Grow Mushrooms! videos step by step.
One thing I'm concerned about is my source of light during fruiting. While fruiting, they will be kept in a storage room on the top floor of my house. The light source is a small window in the room (it gets about 12 hours of dim light per day,) but the window is located right next to where my terrarium will be kept. Basically, most of the light will be hitting the terrarium directly from the side. Should I expect all my mushrooms to grow sideways? Are there any negative side effects to this? There will be some light that I'm sure will flood to the top of the cake, but the source comes in directly from the side.
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Edited by LSDaytripper (05/09/08 01:46 PM)
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Neobean
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Side pinning, your shrooms will grow towards the light. Nothing negative as long as you have space where they are growing to 
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LSDaytripper
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Re: Light source from the side, what will happen? [Re: Neobean]
#8381975 - 05/09/08 01:49 PM |
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Alright. That might actually be better, since my terrarium might not be quite as tall as I would like. Should I rotate the terrarium every 6 hours or so to expose the other side of the cakes to light?
Btw thanks for the fast reply
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***** (10:42:46 PM): This is so strange
***** (10:42:53 PM): Becuase I feel that I am very altered
***** (10:42:57 PM): But at the same exact time
***** (10:43:28 PM): I am closer to the real me, the real me who decides who I am, the entire me
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nonlinear
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i wouldn't rotate the FC. inevitably you will trip or stumble or knock into something and your cakes will bang around inside. best to just leave it and allow phototrophism to work as it should.
that said, why not just leave the lights on in the room? or get a small flourescent or energy-saving bulb that you can suspend above the FC? put this on a 12 hour timer if you want (but i've had 24 hours light before)
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