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First grow went bad - What should I do different?
    #21769814 - 06/06/15 10:23 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Hey everyone,

Decided to give this a go earlier in the year. Haven't touched shrooms in over 15 years, never grew my own.

I had no problem inoculating my jars. 5/6 were good, the bad one was thrown out.

For my fruiting chamber I decided to use a spare snake tank I have with a heat lamp, temp/humidity gauges, and an auto-mister. I went to Europe for 2 weeks after setting everything up. I figured the heat lamp would cause any excess water to evaporate and set the mister for 60 seconds every 4 hours.

When I got back home yesterday myh cakes were almost completely covered in water. 1 cake had massive shrooms which I've taken out to dry, the rest were drenched.

Is a reptile tank the right environment for this? Should I mist at all next time?

Thanks


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Re: First grow went bad - What should I do different? [Re: jewfacetomatonose]
    #21769839 - 06/06/15 10:28 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

So long as they weren't drowned you may still get more fruits.
Also, it's pretty cheap and wise to build a shotgun fruiting chamber. Keeps the humidity up while still providing sufficient fresh air exchange.
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Re: First grow went bad - What should I do different? [Re: YaMoonSun]
    #21769990 - 06/06/15 11:04 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

air exchange is 10x more important than humidity. if you have humidity but it can't evaporate and your cakes cant breathe that's no good. humidity should fluctuate anyway 99% humidity at anywhere but extremely close to the surface of your cakes or substrate is detrimental.

60 seconds every 4 hours sounds like a disaster to me. I would rather not mist them at all for 3 days straight they would likely do way better.

reptile tanks are only good if you can drill a bunch of holes in all 6 sides or make them into a monotub


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Re: First grow went bad - What should I do different? [Re: bodhisatta]
    #21770119 - 06/06/15 11:39 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

My bad


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Re: First grow went bad - What should I do different? [Re: mush madness]
    #21770158 - 06/06/15 11:48 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

thanks fellas. I cleared out all of excess water and salvaged what I could of the remaining cakes. mister is off.

Are drilling these holes the best way to keep humidity so high? Should I get another heat lamp?


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Re: First grow went bad - What should I do different? [Re: jewfacetomatonose]
    #21770399 - 06/06/15 12:55 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

You don't want to use a heat lamp...you just need a 6500K CFL bulb... and yeah sgfc are the fuckin way to go with cakes...


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Re: First grow went bad - What should I do different? [Re: jewfacetomatonose]
    #21770405 - 06/06/15 12:57 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

The holes are for fresh air exchange.
Ditch the heat lamp.
Look into a SGFC (shotgun fruiting chamber) rather than your reptile tank.


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Re: First grow went bad - What should I do different? [Re: mushmagic]
    #21770421 - 06/06/15 01:01 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

thanks, my second attempt should be much better.


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Re: First grow went bad - What should I do different? [Re: jewfacetomatonose]
    #21770496 - 06/06/15 01:32 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

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Re: First grow went bad - What should I do different? [Re: bodhisatta]
    #21770614 - 06/06/15 02:03 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Or turn that tank into a small green house nd load it with tubs, nd put in a FAE port nd bamm watch the shrooms hit the roof!


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Re: First grow went bad - What should I do different? [Re: jewfacetomatonose]
    #21771423 - 06/06/15 06:28 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

jewfacetomatonose said:
Hey everyone,

Decided to give this a go earlier in the year. Haven't touched shrooms in over 15 years, never grew my own.

I had no problem inoculating my jars. 5/6 were good, the bad one was thrown out.

For my fruiting chamber I decided to use a spare snake tank I have with a heat lamp, temp/humidity gauges, and an auto-mister. I went to Europe for 2 weeks after setting everything up. I figured the heat lamp would cause any excess water to evaporate and set the mister for 60 seconds every 4 hours.

When I got back home yesterday myh cakes were almost completely covered in water. 1 cake had massive shrooms which I've taken out to dry, the rest were drenched.

Is a reptile tank the right environment for this? Should I mist at all next time?

Thanks




Assuming your sterility is fine (which if you got a contam it probably wasn't) there really isn't much wrong with your grow except 1 major thing. You chose a grow which didn't match you're lifestyle at the time! There are plenty of set it and forget it teks but relying on an automated system for that long is begging for trouble. Still though, sounds very salvageable.


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