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Bad Kitty
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To cold for oysters?
#19205701 - 11/29/13 05:26 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Some of my oysters are stalling. I'm not sure if it's too cold or if the air blowing on them is to dry. My grow space is not heated, it has a home made air handler with a few 4" filters blowing air in through a perforated duct. It's been getting down into the 30s and 40s at night and in the 50s 60s during the day. I use a compressed air fogger from hart environmental and the rh stays between 85-95. No fans inside other than the blowers pushing and pulling air. I'm getting oysters working outside just fine but some of them inside are stalling. Elm A and PL from aloha are stalling but amazingly the Phoenix is still fruiting. Now the Phoenix isn't getting blown directly by the ducts but the elm and pearl are. To cold, or is the duct drying them out and preventing primordial? I can post a pic, but they are just healthy columns with no fruit.
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Bad Kitty
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Re: To cold for oysters? [Re: Bad Kitty]
#19205712 - 11/29/13 05:28 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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It'll be in the 30s tonight so I threw a oil heater in there and turned the blowers off, hopefully to encourage some primordia formation.
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Forrester
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Re: To cold for oysters? [Re: Bad Kitty]
#19205765 - 11/29/13 05:44 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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What do you mean stalling?
Are they all dried up and dead, or do they continue growth at some point? It sounds like they might be getting dry and aborting
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Bad Kitty
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Re: To cold for oysters? [Re: Forrester]
#19205786 - 11/29/13 05:49 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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No no. Not aborting, the elm fruited once and then nothing for almost three weeks now. The pearl had not fruited yet and it's been a month. Maybe I'm a little anxious and maybe it's irregularity from using multiple strains. Last year I ran 3015 that I expanded and it rocked through the winter. Everything that pins grows up nicely.
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Re: To cold for oysters? [Re: Bad Kitty]
#19205831 - 11/29/13 06:04 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ok, so you're just referring to lag time between flushes? Gotcha! Yeah it will vary a lot between strains, 3 weeks to over a month isn't uncommon for some of the bucket grows I've done. They gotta have some time to digest the substrate and get energy for fruiting. Some strains/species are faster at doing this than others. Substrate makes a difference too, straw is much faster than pellets, wood chips are slower.
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Bad Kitty
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Re: To cold for oysters? [Re: Forrester]
#19205860 - 11/29/13 06:13 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Right on, I'll have some patience. I went with some commercial spawn while my place was under construction, and am just now rolling out with the 3015 that has been amazing for me in the past. Three flushes like clockwork in 8 weeks. I'll see soon enough if the co2 and warmer temps will speed things up. Thanks!
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Re: To cold for oysters? [Re: Bad Kitty]
#19205879 - 11/29/13 06:18 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Some fruit better then others at cooler temps. I know some around here are still good on the trees this time of year. Seems to be a strain that likes the real cold nights and mild days. Would usually pick some for thanksgiving.
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Re: To cold for oysters? [Re: Bad Kitty]
#19206236 - 11/29/13 08:00 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Keep the wind off them. If you have to use fans, place a diffuser so you don't ever put a blast of air on your mushrooms.
Those temps are near perfect for most oyster strains. My outdoor oysters love a bit of frost in the mornings and 50F or so in the afternoon. RR
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drake89
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yep, my grow room has been holding around 40 and the newer ones are still pinning like clockwork. but i had to insulate a heated space for colonizing. nothing but enoki really colonizes fast enough at these temps.
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Re: To cold for oysters? [Re: drake89]
#19206404 - 11/29/13 08:43 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have had oysters do there thing even covered with snow.
Hard to keep enoki from pinning, even in the fridge.
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Bad Kitty
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Re: To cold for oysters? [Re: Jeff]
#19207576 - 11/30/13 07:11 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thanks everyone. Just getting nervous I guess. My air ducts are blowing at the top row while the bottom still fruits, maybe drying them out a bit.
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liamtheloser
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Re: To cold for oysters? [Re: Bad Kitty]
#19208681 - 11/30/13 01:45 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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My oysters took forever to fruit outdoors, so I moved them into the house in a SGFC and they took off immediately. Same with lions mane and king oyster. They were sitting outside for 2 months without a hint of pins, as soon as I took them inside, boom.
That's what made me set up a martha style FC in my spare bathrooms bathtub. Now I have 4 shelves of fruiting sawdust blocks. YUM!
BTW, my outdoors temperatures were down in the 30's at night and 40's-50's in the day.
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Edited by liamtheloser (11/30/13 01:46 PM)
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