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    #15189750 - 10/07/11 12:22 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)
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PF tek grow kit guide..When should i use the LED light mentioned in the guide? It's uploaded in pdf format..


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Re: PF Tek Grow Kit Guide [Re: countchocula420]
    #15190404 - 10/07/11 07:04 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Most likely people are not going to want to download this. You might be better off posting a link. Generally speaking though, you can use a 12/12 light cycle from day one. There is much more information on lighting in one of my signature links.


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Re: PF Tek Grow Kit Guide [Re: arp180]
    #15190511 - 10/07/11 07:55 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Lights are only for people who cant grow using daylight or roomlight.. Mushrooms only need light to trigger growth and not to grow off of like other plants. I would just use room light if you could.. save you batteries!

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Re: PF Tek Grow Kit Guide [Re: rkmate]
    #15190518 - 10/07/11 07:57 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

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Lights are only for people who cant grow using daylight or roomlight.. Mushrooms only need light to trigger growth and not to grow off of like other plants. I would just use room light if you could.. save you batteries!



This is just flat-out wrong.

Besides, mushrooms are not plants.
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Re: PF Tek Grow Kit Guide [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #15190536 - 10/07/11 08:05 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Are you saying mushrooms need light to actually grow? They need light to trigger growth and guide them in what direction to grow. The growing itself is not enhanced by light

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Re: PF Tek Grow Kit Guide [Re: rkmate]
    #15190932 - 10/07/11 10:12 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

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Are you saying mushrooms need light to actually grow? They need light to trigger growth and guide them in what direction to grow. The growing itself is not enhanced by light




Read the lighting link in my signature and some of the other recent lighting write ups on the boards. If you are still not convinced you might want to find another hobby, maybe one that doesn't require any common sense.

I kid, I kid, I joke, I joke, but seriously you get the point.


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Re: PF Tek Grow Kit Guide [Re: countchocula420]
    #15204159 - 10/10/11 07:56 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

hey,im new here and was thinking about growing for the first time.does anyone have any tips as far as where to get supplies and is it better to get a kit or do everything from scratch? and if i order things online do i have to worry about cops watching my house if i get stuff shipped there? any advice would be greatly appreciated

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Re: PF Tek Grow Kit Guide [Re: mrboomers]
    #15204220 - 10/10/11 08:19 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Items can be purchased at most hardware and grocery stores. Try the search function, works pretty good...eg where to buy vermiculite

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Re: PF Tek Grow Kit Guide [Re: rkmate]
    #15204453 - 10/10/11 09:19 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

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Are you saying mushrooms need light to actually grow? They need light to trigger growth and guide them in what direction to grow. The growing itself is not enhanced by light




More false info.  Mushrooms derive energy from light and use it all the way to harvest.  Why on earth would you think mushrooms need light to 'guide them in what direction to grow'???

Mushrooms are much more like humans than plants.  Do you need light to know which way is up?  Can't you bend down and touch your toes without the light on?  Don't just come in here to repeat disinformation you've read somewhere else.  We're breaking ground here, not repeating bad info from elsewhere.

No experienced mycologist would ever say mushrooms need light to know 'which way to grow'.  Mushrooms grown in total darkness may be small and worthless, but they grow straight up, opposite gravity, which is what tells them which way to grow, not light.
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Re: PF Tek Grow Kit Guide [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #15204668 - 10/10/11 10:30 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

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rkmate said:
Are you saying mushrooms need light to actually grow? They need light to trigger growth and guide them in what direction to grow. The growing itself is not enhanced by light




More false info.  Mushrooms derive energy from light and use it all the way to harvest.  Why on earth would you think mushrooms need light to 'guide them in what direction to grow'???

Mushrooms are much more like humans than plants.  Do you need light to know which way is up?  Can't you bend down and touch your toes without the light on?  Don't just come in here to repeat disinformation you've read somewhere else.  We're breaking ground here, not repeating bad info from elsewhere.

No experienced mycologist would ever say mushrooms need light to know 'which way to grow'.  Mushrooms grown in total darkness may be small and worthless, but they grow straight up, opposite gravity, which is what tells them which way to grow, not light.
RR





Thank you.  Makes sense to me.


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Re: PF Tek Grow Kit Guide [Re: countchocula420]
    #15204822 - 10/10/11 11:08 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

I'd like to know more about how mushrooms use light. Plants photosynthesize by photon absorption through pigment molecules like chlorophyll, any wavelength outside of the 400-700nm range and they don't have the proper energy level to excite leaf pigments. But how do mushrooms use it?


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