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How important is sun light vs artificial light?
    #24258004 - 04/19/17 06:42 PM (7 years, 8 months ago)

My apartment is really small and gets barely any sun light except for in one small area right in front of my door. I've been keeping my terrarium there but its wicked suspect where it is and its making me nervous.

Will it make a huge difference if I just use light from a light bulb instead of the sun? I don't have anything fancy so it would be two regular 15W florescent light bulbs.

If anyone also has suggestions of better lights on a budget, I'm all ears.

Edited by mxv (04/19/17 06:43 PM)

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Re: How important is sun light vs artificial light? [Re: mxv]
    #24258011 - 04/19/17 06:44 PM (7 years, 8 months ago)

get a cfl in 6500k range... not expensive and dont keep your felony where people can see it... I dont even talk about mushrooms, because peoples minds default to the illegal variety.

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Re: How important is sun light vs artificial light? [Re: mxv]
    #24258012 - 04/19/17 06:44 PM (7 years, 8 months ago)

My Light cost  4.bux. Extension cord was 1.dollar, receptacle from home Depot was $.98

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Re: How important is sun light vs artificial light? [Re: mynakedrat]
    #24258057 - 04/19/17 07:05 PM (7 years, 8 months ago)

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My Light cost  4.bux. Extension cord was 1.dollar, receptacle from home Depot was $.98




Is it just a regular bulb or anything special?

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Re: How important is sun light vs artificial light? [Re: mxv]
    #24258075 - 04/19/17 07:14 PM (7 years, 8 months ago)

Most people use artificial light. It's fine. Get one with a high color temperature, as mentioned above. 6500K is the gold standard.

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Re: How important is sun light vs artificial light? [Re: freespeech]
    #24258150 - 04/19/17 07:41 PM (7 years, 8 months ago)

Get a daylight blue CFL lamp. They only need some light to pin and grow toward the light, the intensity does not need to be very bright as it just gives them a reference which way is up.


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Re: How important is sun light vs artificial light? [Re: Eywa_devotee]
    #24258179 - 04/19/17 07:50 PM (7 years, 8 months ago)

Light helps with the symmetry of the fruits too.  Without light the fruits will grow long, and stringy stipes with disproportionally small caps.

Mushrooms grow in the shade in the wild, so as mentioned above they only require low levels of ambient light.  As freespeech said, 6500k is the gold standard. 

The more artificial light that's added will cause the ambient temperature of the fruiting area to increase, so keep that in mind.


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Re: How important is sun light vs artificial light? [Re: mxv]
    #24258189 - 04/19/17 07:53 PM (7 years, 8 months ago)

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mynakedrat said:
My Light cost  4.bux. Extension cord was 1.dollar, receptacle from home Depot was $.98




Is it just a regular bulb or anything special?



It's one that days 6500k from Walmart. Very special

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Re: How important is sun light vs artificial light? [Re: hamloaf]
    #24258196 - 04/19/17 07:55 PM (7 years, 8 months ago)

these were grown in a window that faced north. never direct light.



ignore the hose contraption, never worked, never used. but it was all ambient light. i loved it.

now i use 6500k cfls. 4pack at lowesdepot was 5.99:thumbup:

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