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Growing Shrooms in Summer Months?
    #26615574 - 04/20/20 02:37 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Hey everyone, I looked for a thread about this but didn’t see one. Just a quick curious question. In temperate climates where summers get fairly hot, like New York City, etc., growing shrooms indoors sounds like it would be a very difficult thing, unless you leave your air conditioner running all day, I’m guessing. Is this true? Or can these things grow indoors in summer weather? I’m guessing no, or that you would have to have some sort of coolant system? Other than that or running AC 24/7 during colonization, consolidation, and fruiting, it sounds like spring and fall, even part of winter, would be best?

Edit: Sorry! I posted this from my phone, and I thought I was in the mushroom cultivation forum, not the psychedelic experience forum.


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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? [Re: LSA Woodrose]
    #26615656 - 04/20/20 03:20 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

I don’t understand the question exactly.
But, I will try anyway.

Yes. Shrooms grow great indoors.

But, If you can’t/won’t cool your house... then yeah, 100 degrees is not shroom growing temps.

More interestingly, are you saying that, when the temps Do go over 100, you DON’T have the air conditioner on?


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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? [Re: Shr00mEater]
    #26615672 - 04/20/20 03:28 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

No, I was saying that not everybody leaves the air conditioner on all day when they’re not home. If I’m out all day I shut the AC when I’m leaving, and turn it back on when I get home. It just occurred to me to ask the question, because of the fact that everything I read says you should keep the temperature between 70° and 80°F. And I was curious what people do in the summer when temperatures are about 90 to 95° on hotter days.


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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? [Re: LSA Woodrose] * 1
    #26615834 - 04/20/20 05:05 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

I no longer grow in the summer (for the reason you mentioned, my room gets incredibly hot when I'm not home). But, I don't need to grow in the summer since one grow a year is usually more than enough to supply myself.

I did grow in the summer before. The temps increased my colonization times. Luckily didn't run into contams although the A/C blasting in my room did dry out my cakes quicker.


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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? [Re: LSA Woodrose] * 1
    #26615895 - 04/20/20 05:32 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Ahhh. That’s why I didn’t understand. I am one of those weenies who kicks the air on as soon as the mercury goes over 79, and then it stays totally on until autumn. :tongue:


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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? [Re: Shr00mEater]
    #26615986 - 04/20/20 06:21 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

lol Shr00mEater!

So, I'm in the middle of fruiting my current first grow with PF Tek. I have already have enough to last me at minimum, say another 25-30 weeks if I trip an average of once a week during summer. Since my adaptation of PF Tek was certainly quite n00bish, I'm not sure how much more I'm going to get out of these 24 BRF cakes. I have finished my first flush on all but 4 Golden Teacher cakes. They are sooooooo slow compared to the Costa Rico cakes I inoculated. lol Some of those Costa Rico cakes are actually just about ready to start their third flush in a few days to a week! I am hoping for a ton more shrooms, but am preparing mentally just in case I get weak 2nd (and subsequent) flushes off all the Golden Teachers, and my Costa Rico cakes end up fizzling out on the 2nd through whatever amount of flushes I get.

I may want to do another grow just for shits and giggles, but based on what I already expected you guys to say, which you both did, I am not even going to consider summer as a growing time.

That said, living in The Big Apple, I am thinking of doing this, and please correct me if my idea is shitty:

Maybe I will inoculate a shitload of jars in, say about early September. This way, if it takes 4-6 weeks for colonization and consolidation, that puts me in about early to mid October. Then I will have all the rest of October and the month of November, before it gets winter cold, to finish up the fruiting on that grow.

Note I just checked average temperature with Alexa:

April - Average temperature is 56 degrees F
May - Average temperature is 62 degrees F


September - Average temperature is 68 degrees F (a little high considering high temps in the 70s. Probably good for colonization and consolidation, though?)
October - Average temperature is 57 degrees F 
November - Average temperature is 48 degrees F


I guess what's good about November is even during nippy cold days, I will have my home furnace heating the house as a safety net.


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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? [Re: LSA Woodrose]
    #26616133 - 04/20/20 07:21 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

I was growing them last summer and it was hot as fuck

Second floor sun blaring in balls sweating no ac fan blowing windown blocking from sun crazy shit trying to cool the place down hot

Hot as fuck

Room full of mush

Can be done but yeah, mainly you just give more fae, i think i had days i left them open air till night

Summer in my last place, that was bad


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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? [Re: Enkidu]
    #26616266 - 04/20/20 08:20 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Quote:

Enkidu said:
I was growing them last summer and it was hot as fuck

Second floor sun blaring in balls sweating no ac fan blowing windown blocking from sun crazy shit trying to cool the place down hot

Hot as fuck

Room full of mush

Can be done but yeah, mainly you just give more fae, i think i had days i left them open air till night

Summer in my last place, that was bad




Yeah I hear you. Well, given how many shrooms I am continuing to harvest from my Spring N00b grow, I don't think I need to jump through summer hoops to grow. Probably better if I go with my plan to wait until September to get started, to take advantage of October/November moderate temps for fruiting.


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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? [Re: LSA Woodrose] * 1
    #26616913 - 04/21/20 06:32 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

I personally much prefer to my mushroom work during months where I'm heating vs cooling the house.  My a/c is not the most efficient, runs all day, and keeps my room a little cooler than I'd prefer.  More of an issue is the fact that it's fkn running all day.  So short answer, I like to work from say September to May, run some little fun projects o/d in the summer.

Also, I obv turn off hvac when I work and it's harder to cool the house after an hour of it being off.  My .02.


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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? [Re: seldom seen]
    #26617737 - 04/21/20 01:00 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Quote:

seldom seen said:
I personally much prefer to my mushroom work during months where I'm heating vs cooling the house.  My a/c is not the most efficient, runs all day, and keeps my room a little cooler than I'd prefer.  More of an issue is the fact that it's fkn running all day.  So short answer, I like to work from say September to May, run some little fun projects o/d in the summer.

Also, I obv turn off hvac when I work and it's harder to cool the house after an hour of it being off.  My .02.




I had a feeling this would be the consensus when I made this thread. I will definitely NOT do any growing in the summer months. However, above I was very meticulous about figuring out average temperatures in my neck of the woods. So it seems like for a temperate climate like NY City, with four distinct seasons, that the earliest I should even think about starting would be early September. If I inoculate whatever I am using (say BRF 1/2 pint jars) then it will give me 4-6 weeks to colonization and consolidation, so that my main fruiting times will be mid to late October through some part of November.


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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? (moved) [Re: LSA Woodrose]
    #26618101 - 04/21/20 03:33 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

This thread was moved from The Psychedelic Experience.

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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? (moved) [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
    #26618149 - 04/21/20 03:58 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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LogicaL Chaos said:
<img src='/forums/images/moved.gif'> This thread was moved from The Psychedelic Experience.

Reason:
Proper forum.




Thanks, I knew the thread went here, but I made it on my phone, and somehow posted it in the Psychedelic Experience Section.



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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? (moved) [Re: LSA Woodrose]
    #26618299 - 04/21/20 05:12 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Happens all the time :wink:

If u have subtropical Summer weather, u can even grow outdoors!!! :eek:


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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? (moved) [Re: LogicaL Chaos] * 1
    #26618324 - 04/21/20 05:24 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

My last batch of monos is about to wrap up then im done for the summer. Time to take en and get out and have some fun. Ill miss it and then when summer breaks ill be itching to come back and try new things.


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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? (moved) [Re: shevanel]
    #26618641 - 04/21/20 08:18 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Something a lot of growers don’t realize is that mold spore load is much higher in the summer months.  That and fighting hot weather makes summer growing more of a challenge than winter months.

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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? (moved) [Re: fahtster]
    #26618670 - 04/21/20 08:28 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

When I brewed beer in central Florida... I used a fridge(or freezer) with aftermarket temp control to keep the fermenting beer at a constant temperature say 70 degrees in grueling summer heat and humidity that’s obviously the case in Florida in the summer.  I used the fridge with ultrasonic humidifier to grow
GT with no problem at all .  Just had to open it a couple of times a day for fresh air exchange.. 
so it’s do able if you set your mind to it ..


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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? (moved) [Re: Bsfixit]
    #26618712 - 04/21/20 08:51 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Man I’m noticing the sporeload. My contams seemed go up like 400% in the last month now that it’s 80 outside.

I had a couple shoeboxes fruiting recently that I didn’t realize were getting over 100 degrees for at least 4 hours every afternoon. They still did ok I was worried the myc would cook and die but the only difference I noticed was the stems seemed longer than normal.

It’s supposed to be up around 100 here by the end up the week so I’m about to find out if I want to keep goIng or take a few months off.


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Re: Growing Shrooms in Summer Months? (moved) [Re: fahtster]
    #26618830 - 04/21/20 09:37 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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Something a lot of growers don’t realize is that mold spore load is much higher in the summer months.  That and fighting hot weather makes summer growing more of a challenge than winter months.

Faht



that makes sense,  humidity is higher in summer as well and combined with high temperatures its a breeding ground for mold


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