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acoustic5679
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Anyone have good luck with this Sper Scientific hygrometer?
#23799926 - 11/04/16 07:36 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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NDStepp84
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Re: Anyone have good luck with this Sper Scientific hygrometer? [Re: acoustic5679]
#23799934 - 11/04/16 07:40 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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If you plan to use it in a SGFC any hygrometer is a waste of money, tells you nothing you need to know.
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Mushierage
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Re: Anyone have good luck with this Sper Scientific hygrometer? [Re: NDStepp84]
#23799945 - 11/04/16 07:48 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I used a hygrometer briefly for about a week when I got back into mushies. Then I tossed it in the trash, after realizing it wasn't even needed. (And it was a piece of shit).
All you really need ia two eyes to tell you what your substrate needs. You need to find balance between fresh air, humidity, and substrate moisture. Looking at the substrate can tell you what you need.
If your mycelium is starting to get a bit fuzzy over the top, and continuously grows even in fruiting stages, then increase fresh air. If the substrate surface looks dry, then mist it or dunk it, get that moisture up. If humidity is not high enough, you'll notice your substrate drying out faster and you'll need to replace that moisture more often. Do it, and takes steps to increase humidity (adjust polyfill, moisten perlite, etc).
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Terpfreak
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Re: Anyone have good luck with this Sper Scientific hygrometer? [Re: Mushierage]
#23800081 - 11/04/16 08:47 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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What he said. We have one in the house but it's pretty much for the humans not the mushrooms.
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Huskies
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Re: Anyone have good luck with this Sper Scientific hygrometer? [Re: Terpfreak]
#23800129 - 11/04/16 09:08 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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save your money!
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acoustic5679
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Re: Anyone have good luck with this Sper Scientific hygrometer? [Re: Mushierage]
#23800595 - 11/04/16 12:45 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thanks for the advise. ok one less thing great! Now I know people hate questions on here about humidifiers and heaters. However I live at 10,000 feet with very low humidity(arid climate). Also where my fruiting chamber will be (big closet in basement) is not heated. So without a secondary heat source it is usually 55-60 degrees on average. The room is 4x7 feet and 7 feet tall. I was planning on using my infrared quarts heater for keeping the room in the 75-80 range. I also thought of getting a humidifier for the room as well, just to aid in the low humidity environment. My reasoning for this is because I am gone from the home 11 hours a day 4 days a week. Also the heater will naturally make the air drier as well.
What are your guys thoughts on the heater and humidifier in my situation? None of these will be directly in or pointed at the chamber, just trying to make the room more suitable.
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Re: Anyone have good luck with this Sper Scientific hygrometer? [Re: acoustic5679]
#23800642 - 11/04/16 01:12 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Are you doing monotubs or cakes?
Cause if it's tubs, it should be the interior humidity that matters, since it's basically a closed little ecosystem, if it has enough it should be fine.
The coldness is a bigger issue, idk about that though!
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acoustic5679
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Re: Anyone have good luck with this Sper Scientific hygrometer? [Re: Huskies]
#23800788 - 11/04/16 02:19 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I will be doing cakes in a SGFC
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Re: Anyone have good luck with this Sper Scientific hygrometer? [Re: acoustic5679]
#23800874 - 11/04/16 02:52 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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if you're doing cakes in a SGFC the last thing you need is a hygrometer. your eyes do a far better job.
the only time you might even consider using one is if you have a walk in sized greenhouse
for the most part humidity is quite unimportant. your cakes make 99% humidity near the surface as the evaporate. as long as your caps are not drying out and cracking you're fine.
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