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Enough light in this corner for a sgfc? What do you think?
    #14515879 - 05/26/11 03:09 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

This is where I want to keep the sgfc, for convenience. The room it is in is the hottest room in the house during the spring/summer. It is a north facing window, and it gets sunlight all day.

Is this enough light to make my cakes pin and fruit once I get to that stage in the growing process? Do I need to raise the fc more so that it's more at the same height as the window? That window faces the PUBLIC (front of my house) and although inconspicuous, I'd like to keep it a little below the entirety of the window.

Or do I need to buy some sort of light fixture?


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Re: Enough light in this corner for a sgfc? What do you think? [Re: occollegeboi]
    #14515949 - 05/26/11 03:24 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Should be good on light. How hot is hotest room, this may cause a slowing in growth.

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Re: Enough light in this corner for a sgfc? What do you think? [Re: mabachko]
    #14515964 - 05/26/11 03:28 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

It's definitely too dark inside your tub.  Raise it up even with the window.  If it's still dark, you'll need a 6500K lamp.  East windows are best.
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Re: Enough light in this corner for a sgfc? What do you think? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #14515978 - 05/26/11 03:32 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

RR is the shroom god, but I use a north facing window & have pretty good results.
Guess I'll try an east facing window to see if there is improvement.

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Re: Enough light in this corner for a sgfc? What do you think? [Re: mabachko]
    #14516023 - 05/26/11 03:41 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

So will the bottom of the fc need to be level at where the window starts at?

I can raise the fc about 10 inches higher than it is with a box I have.

Is this better:

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Re: Enough light in this corner for a sgfc? What do you think? [Re: occollegeboi]
    #14518165 - 05/26/11 10:18 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Bump. I posted pictures of my fc sitting on a box and am not sure if you guys saw them. Look at the pics in the post above this one. Thanks.

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Re: Enough light in this corner for a sgfc? What do you think? [Re: occollegeboi]
    #14518187 - 05/26/11 10:22 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Thats about where mine sits in a north window.

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Re: Enough light in this corner for a sgfc? What do you think? [Re: mabachko]
    #14523095 - 05/27/11 07:58 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

It is hard to tell from the pic and excuse me if I am a dumbass but is your chamber a few inches above whatever it is sitting on??

Also I am a newb but I have mine right near a window and found when I cracked the window just a bit they seemed to love the fresh air :smile: I dont know if thats good advice though but it seemed to work for me and I belive fresh air helps keep contams at bay.......maybe someone will correct me if I am wrong, I also live in a humid area though.

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Re: Enough light in this corner for a sgfc? What do you think? [Re: mrmonkey]
    #14523159 - 05/27/11 08:11 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

You need to put it on top of a few bricks or something so that air can flow underneath the tub. Do you have holes on the top and bottom of the sgfc? Air needs to be able to flow from the bottom to the top.


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Re: Enough light in this corner for a sgfc? What do you think? [Re: Wing]
    #14523194 - 05/27/11 08:16 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Re: Enough light in this corner for a sgfc? What do you think? [Re: iSHACKA]
    #14582207 - 06/08/11 09:46 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

I will have the sgfc sitting on top of something to allow air flow from the bottom of the sgfc. Yes, there's holes on the bottom and top.

I did not use anything to support the fc only for the purpose of taking the picture.

Tomorrow I will put 4 of my cakes in the sgfc. Been waiting a whole month for this.

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Re: Enough light in this corner for a sgfc? What do you think? [Re: occollegeboi]
    #14586285 - 06/09/11 03:50 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Good luck with it bro!!

How many jars do you have?? I have read that you want to use up as much as the room in your chamber as possible so if you have say 15 jars and 4 are ready and 11 wont be for another few days I am pretty sure you want to wait till all 15 are rdy as it will provide a better micro climate for your cakes.

I did cakes and only filled half my chamber and the ones that were surrounded fruited much much better then the ones on the outside. Just my opinion though.

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