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boosthappyvw
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pins splitting
#5259693 - 02/03/06 03:25 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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so i have a nice breadpan of wbs cased and there is a good pinset. i noticed now the pins about 1/2" now or less all seem to be splitting up the side of the stem and apear to be wet looking around the edge of the gap, the larger pins showing it more and the very small ones only a faint line. any ideas to dry the humid is about 85% but i havn't misted the casing since it went into the fc
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psillyrabit
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any experience with those particular spores? could be genetic.
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agar
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Boost rh to 90+ ASAP. Hard to cure once they split. They will continue to grow, though.
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boosthappyvw
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Re: pins splitting [Re: agar]
#5260430 - 02/03/06 07:23 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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its not the strain wich is equadorian and has always preformed great for me. i'll boost the rh but i thought it was not necisary with a casing like cakes
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agar
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Understanding how a mushroom fruit-body grows in size is critical to optimal crop cultivation.
Plants and animals grow through cell division. Meaning, to get bigger they have to produce more cells, thereby increasing their mass in size.
Mycelium also grows by cell division.
However, a mushroom fruit-body does not grow by cell division.
A fully formed immature mushroom contains nearly the same number of cells that the large mature mushroom will have at its peak size.
How an immature mushroom exponentially increases in size very rapidly is by cell enlargement.
How fruit-body cell enlargement occurs, is that the mycelium pumps moisture by capillary action into the fruit-body cells, hyper- expanding, and inflating them with water. The same way a balloon expands exponentially in size, when you fill it with water.
A mushroom fruit-body can increase in size as fast as water can be pumped into its cells. That is how a mushroom can grow from an immature mushroom into a large mature mushroom, in a very short span of time.
Other than inherent genetic limitations, and nutrient availability, the size of a fruit-body is only limited by the availability & amount of moisture that mycelium can pump into it.
Another critical growth factor is that, mushroom fruit-bodies have no protective skin.
Mushroom fruit-body cells exchange gases directly with the surrounding atmosphere. Consequently, as mushroom fruit-bodies begin to expand in size, they require very high ambient humidity in their immediate environment, in order to grow to optimal fruit-body size.
Deprived of, or without high humidity in their immediate environment, fruit-body cells will lose moisture faster than it can be "pumped" into them. Resulting in an immediate drying effect that will cause abnormal growth, stunting, stems to split, caps to crack, and/or total abortion of all growth.
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boosthappyvw
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Re: pins splitting [Re: agar]
#5261312 - 02/03/06 11:53 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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ok misted and will ad some perlite. i understood how they grow. i just wasnt sure if this could be something else
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