dicky21 said:

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With a gay lid.

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jenns_hot said:

tub in tub incubators

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noobieshroomie said:

i disagree with the lighting, try growing with
an incandescent light bulb and tell me ho well it turns out

also the wood chips, try growing on cedar and pine mixed
ant tell me those results as well

    -noobie-

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Cloneufc said:

Just use manure and gypsum for the PF tek. Manure is free. No need to spend money on brown rice flour, its expensive. You dont even need verm. You'll get bigger mushrooms and wont cost anything.

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tugwax said:

noobieshroomie said:

i disagree with the lighting, try growing with
an incandescent light bulb and tell me ho well it turns out

also the wood chips, try growing on cedar and pine mixed
ant tell me those results as well

    -noobie-

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If heated air in an enclosed space can be eliminated then incandescent will work. There is quite a spread of blue spectra in incandescent.

Agreed that fluorescent is the WTG, just not to waste resources over the color temp which is misleading with fluoros anyway.

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Doc_T said:

dicky21 said:

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With a gay lid.

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I think we're going to need pics of the lid.

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i googled gay lid
http://www.lidbrooklyn.org/

  -noobie-

tugwax said:

If heated air in an enclosed space can be eliminated then incandescent will work. There is quite a spread of blue spectra in incandescent.

Agreed that fluorescent is the WTG, just not to waste resources over the color temp which is misleading with fluoros anyway.

I did a side by side spawn run with pure beech compared to mixed woods from the English countryside including conifer. Mixed colonized significantly faster. I'll let you know next year how the mixed fruited.

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badman said:

You got a phone number?

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Doc_T said:

dicky21 said:

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With a gay lid.

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I think we're going to need pics of the lid.

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Like this?

tugwax said:

Here's the beginnings of list of things that I've read in the forum that aren't really necessary or involves excessive expense. Please add your own!

Trying to find lights with just the right color temperature.

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tugwax said:

Automatic moisture delivery or FAE for a small grow. I myself fell into this OTT solution for just 9 cakes. Even though it was successful I soon reverted to manual methods with greater yield. Now the timers, air pump and fogger are gathering dust, £70 wasted.

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tugwax said:

Trying to find hardwood chips when any old mixed stuff will do.

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tugwax said:

badman said:

You got a phone number?

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http://www.treefella.co.uk/
Dont forget to take a truck!

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wygram said:

Cloneufc said:

Just use manure and gypsum for the PF tek. Manure is free. No need to spend money on brown rice flour, its expensive. You dont even need verm. You'll get bigger mushrooms and wont cost anything.

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How do you figure? Manure is a bulk substrate and as such it must be used in bulk. It won't produce much in a 1/2 pint jar, BRF and verm will rock manure in PF tek anyday. Not to mention you'll probably have a really shitty time starting spores directly on bulk.




Sorry to burst your bubble but cubes will grow on anything. Ive done the PF tek with BRF and it was a waste of time. I did the PF tek many times with just manure and gypsum. There was no difference in speed but there was a difference in the size. The manure cubes were bigger.I have yet to see any substrate beat manure. I have even done the PF with just straw. Cube spores germinate all the same no matter what substrate you use. I have even used quart jars with just manure as spawn and everything turned out just fine. Cubes are just not particular. Until you have tried these experiments you cant talk, your just pointing fingers.

joska87 said:

jenns_hot said:

tub in tub incubators

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RogerRabbit said:

tugwax said:

Here's the beginnings of list of things that I've read in the forum that aren't really necessary or involves excessive expense. Please add your own!

Trying to find lights with just the right color temperature.

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Agreed, provided that a 50% or better increase in harvest weight for the next five or six years isn't worth a couple of quid/$3 for the correct spectrum lamp.  For most of us, the payoff on buying a natural daylight fluorescent or LED lamp comes on the very first harvest.

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id say a glovebox is a waste considering i never use one and rarely if ever get a contamination

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