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'I incubate in ambient light' VS 'checking too much is bad'
    #26476021 - 02/08/20 07:10 PM (4 years, 8 days ago)

Trying to reconcile these two statements. I got the idea from reading here that maybe my premature pinning was the result of "checking too much" -- i.e. pulling the jars of their darkness once or twice a day, and examining them under a fluorescent room light.

Then in other places, I'm reading about folks that don't even incubate in darkness but rather in ambient room lighting.

What am I missing?


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Re: 'I incubate in ambient light' VS 'checking too much is bad' [Re: 920]
    #26476023 - 02/08/20 07:14 PM (4 years, 8 days ago)

Picking jars up and turning them around in your hands disturbed the myc a bit every time. You CAN do so, but it’ll stunt growth a little. If doing PF tek, fucking with the jars disturbs the dry verm barrier and can lead to contams.

Light is beneficial at every stage.


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Re: 'I incubate in ambient light' VS 'checking too much is bad' [Re: feldman114]
    #26476074 - 02/08/20 07:57 PM (4 years, 8 days ago)

Never had any trouble. Basically have colonizing jars everywhere there is room to stack them up. They get moved, bumped, inspected, neglected, kept in well lit areas and sometimes in the dark for days on end. All of them do about the same. If the mycelium is healthy to begin with none of these things should be of concern. More warmth (to a point) seems to help them colonize a little faster.  If you're seeing pins "too early" it is probably due to competitive organisms causing a "Hail Mary" mushroom to pop and make spores for emergency purposes.

FAE causing surface evaporation is the biggest trigger for pinning.


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Re: 'I incubate in ambient light' VS 'checking too much is bad' [Re: 920]
    #26476108 - 02/08/20 08:22 PM (4 years, 8 days ago)

premature pinning is usually from contamination not light. 'checking' tubs wont contaminate or do anything either.

biggest pinning trigger is 100% colonization imo:smoker: hence jars pinning invitro with damn near zero fae.

i colonize my jars wherever i can stash them.

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Nichrome said:
..colonizing jars everywhere there is room to stack them up. They get moved, bumped, inspected, neglected, kept in well lit areas and sometimes in the dark for days on end.





yup.
:hank:


Edited by mushboy (02/08/20 08:24 PM)


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