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Masticore
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Your guides are always well thought out and detailed. I'll be honest, I couldn't get through the entire thing, you cover a quite a lot. I'll probably point beginners in this direction, you were quite thorough.
That bit about the sawdust replacing vermiculite is interesting. I'm going to have to try that sometime. I was thinking about getting some Lion's Mane cultures soon.
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Interesting, I'll keep that in mind.
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Masticore
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Forget about the sticky, I'm all for keeping those down as well. Some of the teks on the main page are old and outdated, there was a lot of talk about redoing it and it fell through because people get too busy. This and your write up about spawn bags are the kind of in-depth guides that should be under the Mushroom Cultivation links on the main page. You should see if you can get that set up.
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Psycho Nautic said: Bookmarked, you would say that it's necessary to spray them even if it's a constant 100% humidity?
If you're getting a truly sustained humidity, you're fine without spraying. However, for most situations I've seen, a periodic spray is necessary to sustain the level of humidity you need.
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NoIdeaWhatImDoing said: Quick question. After the Inoculation period it says NOT to put the tinfoil back on the jars.
But the pictures during the germination period do show something covering the tops of the jars and i dont see any mention anywhere about putting anything else over it
But its entirely possible i missed something
If you properly sterilize your jars, you do not need to keep the foil on. The point of the dry vermiculite layer is to filter out anything that would ruin a healthy substrate. if you don't properly sterilize your jars, that extra amount of tin foil will not help you. Leaving the tinfoil on seems to make some people feel better, so if you want to do it, have fun. I personally just use it for my next batch.
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MushroomWizard420 said:
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Masticore said:
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Psycho Nautic said: Bookmarked, you would say that it's necessary to spray them even if it's a constant 100% humidity?
If you're getting a truly sustained humidity, you're fine without spraying. However, for most situations I've seen, a periodic spray is necessary to sustain the level of humidity you need.
constant high humidity isn't near as important as allowing the water to evaporate off of the surface of the mushrooms, which is why the mist/fan cycle is far preferable to using a humidifier. RR goes into great detail describing this but i can't find the page right now.
after the dunk and roll the humidity of the cakes is primarily fixed at a proper level, but misting the surface and allowing the surface to then evaporate causes pinning after full colonization. the misting is NOT primarily used to keep RH up, the SGFC should do that just fine until the cakes start to bear fruits. once they start fruiting, however, proper misting helps keep the mushrooms healthy and thriving.
Yeah, evaporation is key, and what I said is not exactly true. This is why most pump setups that mist a chamber periodically don't provide a good crop. That's probably the whole reason the SGFC was developed. If you're looking for full automation, a completely different rout would be best. It's not really a good rout for beginners because of the tweaking involved. If you want to put a hut together with a mobile closet or something, that's do-able, but you're probably not using the PFtek at that point for more than anything than grabbing a few mushies for cloning.
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