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TIT Incubator Question
    #7658182 - 11/20/07 09:18 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Is it ok for me to open my incubator a few times a day to check the temperature? I have a thermometer inside the incubator and i wanna make sure the temp stays between 84-86F. I have aluminum foil on the lids lightly.

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Re: TIT Incubator Question [Re: mad genius]
    #7658186 - 11/20/07 09:21 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

sure, fresh air is good for it.


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Re: TIT Incubator Question [Re: mad genius]
    #7658190 - 11/20/07 09:22 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Yes. Incubation isn't even necessary, it just speeds up colonization a little bit.

And you can take the foil off of your lids, because it isn't necessary if you have the top layer of verm on your cake. That verm will protect your cakes from contamination, and not having foil on there will make gas exchange easier.


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Re: TIT Incubator Question [Re: mad genius]
    #7658191 - 11/20/07 09:22 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Yes. 84 - 86 is too high.

Bring it down to 78-80 if you even have to incubate.
I keep mine in a cabinet at 75 F ambient and they colonize perfectly.

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Re: TIT Incubator Question [Re: Mycodood]
    #7658305 - 11/20/07 10:04 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

why is it that on all the teks it says 84-86F is ideal for incubation.

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Re: TIT Incubator Question [Re: mad genius]
    #7658328 - 11/20/07 10:11 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

84-86 is ideal temp for mycelium growth. But when
the myc starts to grow since it is thermogenic it generates heat
so depending on how many jars you have in your inc the internal
temp of the jars may be 5 degrees or more above the actual
temp of the inc.

Soo, the hotter your jars are the more chance of contamination.
The cooler your jars are, slower growth but much less risk of contamination.

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Re: TIT Incubator Question [Re: Mycodood]
    #7658352 - 11/20/07 10:20 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

ya set at 78-80 and you'll be good :smile:and air it out all you want ..


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Re: TIT Incubator Question [Re: billhicks]
    #7658461 - 11/20/07 10:51 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

I just read like 6 threads that say 84-86F is ideal and i have also heard the same thing from two different grow videos. I am so confused.

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Re: TIT Incubator Question [Re: mad genius]
    #7658536 - 11/20/07 11:07 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

i seen it to man but  its just like mycodood said myc will heat up the jar if you go above 86f you can end up getting mold :frown:RR says not to use a incu and just let them do their thing but its up to you i still use mine i just set the temp at 78-80 now a days.. good luck:)


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Re: TIT Incubator Question [Re: billhicks]
    #7664416 - 11/21/07 07:01 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Changed it to 80F in my incubator. Takin you guys word for it.

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Re: TIT Incubator Question [Re: mad genius]
    #7665500 - 11/22/07 01:50 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

I'll go ahead and second all the opinions here. Somewhere between 70-80 is good. Much more and you get ideal bacterial environments.

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Re: TIT Incubator Question [Re: BlargIAmDead]
    #7665619 - 11/22/07 02:49 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

its just like hydro organic or indoor outdoor some ppl will say one thing and some will say another or what works for you may not work for me ..it may take a little longer but just do a sea of shrooms so if you want make more cakes each week that way each week you will birth cakes and have losts of the fuguy ..good luck


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Re: TIT Incubator Question [Re: billhicks]
    #7665696 - 11/22/07 03:39 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

The reasoning behind this is as follows:

The ideal temperature for mycelium to be at is 84-86ºF. But the mycelium heats up on itself as it consumes the substrate.

So if we heated the incubator to 84-86 the mycelium would heat to a temperature OVER 86ºF.

So you heat the incubator to 80ºF and the extra few degrees the mycelium heats up by itself brings it into that ideal 84-86 range.

But remember that in our case lower temperatures are our friends. While higher temperatures mean faster colonisation it also means faster colonisation of contaminants, which doesn't give the myc time to fight them off. At temperatures in the 70s range cubensis mycelium will grow quite happily but it will be a considerable slowdown for most of our contaminants.


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