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Designer Drugs
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Effects of improper lighting during a mushroom grow.
#22404903 - 10/19/15 06:46 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Photo's at bottom.
Hey guys, just wanted to ask a quick question on what kind of negative effects poor lighting can cause during a fruiting cycle, more specifically, a Pf tek fruiting cycle.
for the first few days of fruiting I was using a CFL that is definitely at or below 3000K. I feel that this may be the cause for my shrooms maturing too early. I have 2 different strains running right now in my SGFC, 6 cakes Creeper 6 cakes Golden Teacher. All other factors other than lighting I am confident enough to say have been optimal, some things were a little off but everything has been corrected. SO, assuming everything is optimal besides lighting, I would like to know common signs of insufficient lighting.
I just went out and bought the best light I could find in my town, couldn't find any 6500K CFL's, they had a better selection of LED's and went with the best one there which 5000K natural daylight. here's a link to the light http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=29320346&cp=13200274.4029043
Can bad lighting cause: 1. Small fruits? 2. Veils breaking very early, at fruit sizes less then 2in, some breaking at just a few cm in size? 3. Not so great pinsets?
Extra info: Golden Teacher fruits have seem to be growing to around 2 inches or more before veil breaks, so I wasn't too worried untill I realized the Kreeper pins seem to be breaking their veils much sooner, like in the below 1 inch range. Yes this grow was done through MS inoculation so i know it may also just be bad genetics. basically just wana know if I should expect improvement on fruit size and maturity before veil breaks now that my lighting has been improved. Lastly i just wanted to note that from a visual perspective I see a HUGE different between the old 2700K-3000K CFL bulb I was using in comparison to my new 5000K LED. The warm CFL gave off a definitely orange, warm type of light. The LED gives off a BRILLIANT white light, feels like my rooms is a Lab or something now.
Thanks guys, much love to you all!
Kreeper: veil opening waaaay too early, only a few cm large.

Kreeper: premature veil opening

Golden Teacher: these veils are about to open, fruits almost 2 inches?

Golden teacher: another one about to open, size < 2in
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Designer Drugs
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Re: Effects of improper lighting during a mushroom grow. [Re: Designer Drugs]
#22405575 - 10/19/15 09:04 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Maybe i'm just being a bit paranoid I guess.
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Re: Effects of improper lighting during a mushroom grow. [Re: Designer Drugs]
#22405596 - 10/19/15 09:09 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I would say it's cake moisture level related before i'd say it's light related. Did you dunk for 24 hours before putting it in the chamber?
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Designer Drugs
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Re: Effects of improper lighting during a mushroom grow. [Re: natedawgnow]
#22405647 - 10/19/15 09:20 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yea i dunked for 24. I also thought it was moisture, and it still may be as i just recently corrected my misting and added a wet verm layer on top to give some more water to the cakes. previously I was under the impression that you only sprayed the walls, never the cakes at all, so they were in the FC maybe a week without proper misting.
So maybe they will recover, and excel, now that I have corrected two major factors. Also my humidity was kinda low before, just got a hygrometer and it was reading in the 80's the way I was maintaining before. Now that I have improved my method its staying in the 90's never below 89-90% humidity, usually around 95%.
Thank you for the response natedawg!
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Re: Effects of improper lighting during a mushroom grow. [Re: natedawgnow]
#22405655 - 10/19/15 09:20 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Those golden teachers do not appear to be opening imo. They look that way under the caps when they are streching/growing. I can't see the creepers very well but your GT should be fine.
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Re: Effects of improper lighting during a mushroom grow. [Re: GoblinKing]
#22405740 - 10/19/15 09:42 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Good to know GK, thanks for the info! The creepers are still pretty early into their fruiting cycle, they started pinning a bit later then the GT's, so its still pretty hard to tell whats going on with them. They seem okay, but I got a feeling i'm going to produce a few mutants from them for sure.
Like the creeper pin in the second picture, if you look closely you can see the cap has seperated from the stem, but only underneath (facing the perlite). Also the one in the first pic is extremely small (like 2-4cm) with its cap basically flat, not touching the stem at all looks like the veil hasn't torn yet though.
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Designer Drugs
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Re: Effects of improper lighting during a mushroom grow. [Re: Designer Drugs]
#22408272 - 10/20/15 09:09 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Little update, Golden teachers gained a nice bit of size overnight. They're looking good around 4-5 inches, not bad, and still growing. The kreepers seem to like to start spreading their veils early as I am seeing this happen with a lot of them before they even reach an inch in size, must be genetic.
I would still like to know about my lighting though, if someone could please tell me if they think switching from 2700K light to 5000K light will possibly cause any noticeable difference? Do you think that being closer to 6500K will induce higher yields or better pin-sets? Thanks guys!
Edited by Designer Drugs (10/20/15 09:10 AM)
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Re: Effects of improper lighting during a mushroom grow. [Re: Designer Drugs]
#22408286 - 10/20/15 09:12 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yes closer to 6500k the better.
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Designer Drugs
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Re: Effects of improper lighting during a mushroom grow. [Re: wowimflabbergasted]
#22411343 - 10/20/15 09:21 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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thx for the reassurance
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