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How quickly does your CO2 dissipate once giving FAE? Will the myc do it itself?
    #18780981 - 08/31/13 11:22 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I have a mono I put into fruiting 3 days ago. I didn't open the lid, just took the tape off the holes, stuffed with polyfill (bottom tight, top loose) and put a fan on it (not directly on it, but to circulate the air in the room).

A few times a day I'll give it a smell check and visual inspection. It looks healthy, but still smells kind of musty like there's a lot of humidity and CO2 buildup still in there. The humidity is good I know, but what about the CO2?

I'm not sure if I should do anything or simply wait. I know it's only been a few days, but I don't want it to get contaminated if I should be fanning it directly with the lid or something to get that excess CO2 out faster.

There's also rather large water droplets on the lid so if I were to fan it with that then they'd spread all over and make pools which I fear might also encourage contaminatiom which has happened in the past. What would you do here, just wait? Is the musky smell bad? It doesn't smell bad to me, but it doesn't smell like fresh mycilium either.

I figure the best thing to do is to encourage the water droplets on the top to condense downwards causing evaporation, and thus FAE, but I can't think of a good way to actually do that. Is this merely a waiting game or am I forgetting to do something? It's a mono, cubes, WBS spawned to Hpoo with no casing layer btw.


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Re: How quickly does your CO2 dissipate once giving FAE? Will the myc do it itself? [Re: krypto2000]
    #18780992 - 08/31/13 11:27 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

If you packed the holes in the tub properly FAE should be sufficient. It's humid and warm in there so that could be what you describe as "musky".


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Re: How quickly does your CO2 dissipate once giving FAE? Will the myc do it itself? [Re: Trippy_Penguin]
    #18781000 - 08/31/13 11:29 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Yeah, that's what I figured the 'musky' smell was as well, probably just CO2 + maybe metabolite/oxalic acid evaporation, but I just wanted to check to make sure. It's been sometime since I've had a successful indoor grow, and even longer since I had a series of them in a row. I had awhile where I'd just get contamination after contamination, always the green nasty. I've been very mindful on this grow and even though it makes me look inexperienced I feel I'm better off consulting you guys along the way to make sure I'm doing it right.

Does anyone else ever smell check their bins at this point and can relate on this? I find it's a good way to check the state of the tubs, but having nothing to really compare it to I'm not all that sure what it means you know?


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Re: How quickly does your CO2 dissipate once giving FAE? Will the myc do it itself? [Re: krypto2000]
    #18781010 - 08/31/13 11:32 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Well best of luck to you :thumbup:

You should post some good pics upon success :cheers:


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Re: How quickly does your CO2 dissipate once giving FAE? Will the myc do it itself? [Re: Trippy_Penguin]
    #18781017 - 08/31/13 11:34 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I would if I had a camera, I can't even afford a phone atm :shrug:. I just had a nice flush come in on an outdoor bed and snapping some pics for you guys was one of the first things that came to mind.


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Re: How quickly does your CO2 dissipate once giving FAE? Will the myc do it itself? [Re: krypto2000]
    #18781030 - 08/31/13 11:39 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

The co2 should flow naturally out of the FC riding the heat and humidity currents.


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Re: How quickly does your CO2 dissipate once giving FAE? Will the myc do it itself? [Re: PussyFart]
    #18781055 - 08/31/13 11:46 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Cool, that's what I was thinking. My lower FAE holes are maybe an inch above the substrate because I didn't have enough spawn/want to risk running too low of a ratio, you think that's ok? It's always hard to judge where to put the holes since it consolidates anyway, you don't want it spilling out of the holes, yet you want them as low as possible as well.


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Re: How quickly does your CO2 dissipate once giving FAE? Will the myc do it itself? [Re: krypto2000]
    #18781075 - 08/31/13 11:51 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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krypto2000 said:
My lower FAE holes are maybe an inch above the substrate because I didn't have enough spawn/want to risk running too low of a ratio, you think that's ok?




Should be fine :thumbup:


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