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First grow question - SGFC with Cambodians (UPDATE)
    #19184659 - 11/24/13 09:40 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Hi,

I have been trying to find specific answers all day, but I'm getting a bit overwhelmed.

Ok so I birthed three cakes and put them in a 52 Liter tub, holes are just under 1/4 inch (6.0 mm) I have placed about 4 inches of wet / drained perlite. I have only 80% humidity, but from constant reading it could be a cheap reader and I should wrap it in a damp towel to see if it is reading correctly.

Now when I first put my cakes in the chamber, I misted every 30mins for 2 hours, then I misted again this morning.

My questions are basically
Did I mist correctly when putting in the chamber - I waited 30 mins for the first mist for the verm to dry first?

Did I miss any steps here?

Can I leave the humidity as is, not worry I've read quite a few posts saying humidity is not as important as misting and fanning?

Lastly these being Cambodians do they require a special light, I have a window with indirect sunlight coming into the room?

Thank you and apologies in advance for being such a n00b.

UPDATE :
So it turns out I didn't in fact have enough perlite, I was going of the How to grow mushrooms video and they state the perlite should have been about a hand width from the bottom, I assumed this would have been about 5 inches, coming from a metric system I dont deal with inches a lot, but I added another 5 liter bag and its now roughly 3.34 inches and my humidity did hit 90%, I hope someone else will be able to learn from my mistake.

I also noticed that the myc was going a bit fluffy and overtaking the verm, from further reading I discovered this was due to not enough FAE - my holes are roughly 2 inches apart but perhaps it was not elevated enough being on two bricks with alot of plastic underneath, I elevated it slightly higher and will mist / fan more than twice a day. Hopefully with these changes it will have less c02 build up. Here is a pic of the fluffy myc.




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Re: First grow question - SGFC with Cambodians [Re: Noven]
    #19184689 - 11/24/13 09:50 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

if you built a sgfc to spec your humidity is perfect but you did forget something..
PICS!LOL


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Re: First grow question - SGFC with Cambodians [Re: Noven]
    #19184693 - 11/24/13 09:52 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Noven said:
52 Liter tub, holes are just under 1/4 inch (6.0 mm) I have placed about 4 inches of wet / drained perlite.



Holes spread apart every 2" in a grid pattern on all 6 sides?

Quote:

Noven said:
Now when I first put my cakes in the chamber, I misted every 30mins for 2 hours, then I misted again this morning.

My questions are basically
Did I mist correctly when putting in the chamber - I waited 30 mins for the first mist for the verm to dry first?



Mist the cakes directly with a fine mist until they glisten, then fan out the chamber.

Mist again only when the water you previously applied has evaporated.

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Noven said:
Can I leave the humidity as is, not worry I've read quite a few posts saying humidity is not as important as misting and fanning?



If the chamber was built right(1/4" holes every 2" in a grid pattern on all 6 sides) then your humidity is fine and the hygrometer is just fucking with you.

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Lastly these being Cambodians do they require a special light, I have a window with indirect sunlight coming into the room?



Indirect sunlight is fine....they should be getting 12 hours of it....along with 12 of darkness....


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Re: First grow question - SGFC with Cambodians [Re: Noven]
    #19184712 - 11/24/13 10:03 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Yes, the holes are approx 2 inches apart, although I was not to anal about the exact length I measured out the first distance and then eyed the rest of them so they were in a grid like pattern.

I also had a tough time rolling the cakes and getting  the verm to stick on them after a 24 hour dunk then rinse, so they are not completely covered 100% with the verm.


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Re: First grow question - SGFC with Cambodians [Re: Noven]
    #19184716 - 11/24/13 10:05 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

try a finer verm next time


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Re: First grow question - SGFC with Cambodians [Re: cronicr]
    #19184735 - 11/24/13 10:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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try a finer verm next time





Will do, and sorry about the pics. I'm at work and I thought I could find the answers and didn't take any prior to posting,


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