air exchange query

Home | Community | Message Board

You are not signed in.
New Account

Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery

This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Substrate Mix

Jump to first unread post

Pages: 1

Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.

shirley knott
not my real name

Registered: 11/11/02
Posts: 9,114
Loc: London

air exchange query

#1060156 - 11/17/02 02:27 PM (23 years, 8 months ago)

All the reading I've done says that air exchange is vital to a good harvest.

Like other newbies, I'm moving from cakes to casings (Phase 2) and have prepared almost all my goodies ready for the cakes to finish colonising (12 cakes inoculated 18 days ago with Cambodian - most are nearly snowball lookalikes). I still have to buy a decent hygrometer, if such a thing exists, and plan to check out Harrods' pet dept tomorrow!

After lots of soul searching, I'm probably gonna ignore my humidifier, and just use perlite - everyone says the humidity needs to be lower for casings. The thing is, I enjoyed the bonus last year (cakes only) of 24h air exchange via the humidifier. Now I'm trying to keep it automated and to avoid the need for fanning three times a day. A fishtank air blower is noisy, and most authors slag it off as a waste of time.

Before I rig up some crazy vacuum-cleaner-on-a-timer device,does anyone have any tips?

--------------------
buh

Extras:

Top

MsPacMan
Stranger

Registered: 10/05/02
Posts: 1,054
Loc: Florida, USA
Last seen: 19 years, 1 month

Re: air exchange query

[Re: shirley knott]
#1060436 - 11/17/02 05:07 PM (23 years, 8 months ago)

yea-
get a large conatiner, i use an aquarium. fill it about 2 in. with perlite, soak the perlite with water, spray a little h202 (hydrogen peroxide). put your cakes on top of peat moss, definitely use peat moss....its awesome. the myc. will spread all over it, and give you a few more fruits. then make sure you fan out the container 3-4 times a day. dont waste your money on a hydrometer. they dont work. as long as you have some condensation on the sides, you are all good.

good luck.

Extras:

Top

Jump to top

Pages: 1

Shop: Substrate Mix

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation

Similar Threads	Poster	Views	Replies	Last post
best kept secret humidity & air exchange cheap !!! ( 1 2 all )	Psilocybin_monkey	7,427	20	05/30/08 01:21 AM by Mad River
A TropicAire Humidifier and Air Exchanger for chamber	volcomYAE23	7,850	14	07/28/03 03:25 PM by Psilocybin_monkey
Hydrogen Peroxide? ( 1 2 all )	o0brandnewcolony	3,501	24	02/17/05 05:18 AM by Damn_Skippy
misting casing w/ H202	jimsuzo	1,906	3	08/14/02 03:59 AM by Anno
Is Hydrogen Peroxide Underrated, or is it just me??? ( 1 2 all )	DocPsilocybin	7,372	21	05/23/12 01:48 AM by Psilosopherr
Hydrogen Peroxide? ( 1 2 all )	Leukoism	8,085	26	09/27/04 04:40 PM by scatmanrav
FAST colonization, h202, very easy.	AnArKey	4,994	12	08/15/20 11:50 AM by A.k.a
Hydrogen Peroxide harmful to mycelium ?	TrippleM	1,820	5	04/28/05 12:35 PM by lemunhed

Extra information

You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Shroomism, george castanza, RogerRabbit, veggie, mushboy, fahtster, the_chosen_one, LogicaL Chaos, 13shrooms, hamloaf, cronicr, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
570 topic views. 19 members, 122 guests and 86 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]