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nunkui
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Grow tent setup in a hot and sunny living room
#26707447 - 05/30/20 04:40 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hi there,
I'm a long time lurker and have been gathering so much knowledge from here, so first of all hello to all and thanks to anyone who's been sharing their work! I have searched a bit but couldn't seem to find anything that answers my question.
I've moved to a new apartment and finally have enough space to start growing mushrooms on a somewhat bigger scale. So far I've done small kits and monotubs but want to start growing culinary mushrooms. The apartment is a rather spacious loft on the 5th floor, so there's a lot of sunlight and I'm afraid it'll get very hot in the summer (could imagine around 35C/95F).
My idea is to basically build a grow tent 2m x 2m x 1,2m (6,5ft x 6,5 x 4ft), but not sure what the best approach would be. Initially I thought to just build a wooden frame and then some semi transparent LDPE foil and place the tent in a corner that only gets indirect sunlight. But would it be necessary to make an insulating layer with styrofoam or rockwool to better control temperatures?
Also since it's in my living room, I'm not sure how I can achieve good FAE without potentially pumping my room full of spores and also would like to keep noise levels at a minimum. Any good ideas?
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Re: Grow tent setup in a hot and sunny living room [Re: nunkui]
#26707662 - 05/30/20 06:10 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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tents are great. till they contaminate. they cannot be decontaminated.
tubs are popular because they can be decontaminated, and they can be moved or hid if needed.
best wishes but if you wake up and see trich, your tent has trich. a small tent and a big pressure cooker would be your only remedy.
im sure youll see differing opinions based on environments skill and experience. i would suspect however the general consensus is that if you cant absolutely "for real" decontaminate a tool or enclosure, your asking for trouble.
Edited by panne cyanne (05/30/20 06:19 PM)
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nunkui
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Re: Grow tent setup in a hot and sunny living room [Re: panne cyanne]
#26710826 - 06/01/20 08:03 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks for the reply! I have a small autoclave and know how to work clean, so sterilisation and so on shouldn't be a problem. It's more or less the same approach as commercial growing, but on a small scale.
My main doubts really are how to do the actual setup?
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Re: Grow tent setup in a hot and sunny living room [Re: nunkui]
#26715482 - 06/03/20 12:08 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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If you have windows in your tent it may work more like a green house even with indirect sunlight. And you'll need to cool it down somehow, if it gets so hot. With an AC or so. Another option is to keep the tent dark and insulated that will take less energy to cool down. Easiest would be a big fridge if you can set it to 70F. You could use LED lights inside the fridge for the mushrooms, 1 hour light a day is enough for them. LED's don't heat up as much. Blue LEDs work the best: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23610542/
I recently read about spores being a health issue, especially from oyster mushrooms. Workers in mushroom farms can develop allergies after some time. The easiest solution to that would be to harvest the mushrooms before they drop spores. Or filters and face masks when you're in the tent. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10024747/
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Re: Grow tent setup in a hot and sunny living room [Re: deda_mraz]
#26719629 - 06/04/20 04:39 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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deda is right. your gonna need industrial anti spore control.
the blue LED in an old fridge is 100x better than a tent. you can decontaminate a fridge
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Re: Grow tent setup in a hot and sunny living room [Re: nunkui]
#26793088 - 06/29/20 07:54 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thank you for asking this question. I was also considering a tent-like setup, but it sounds like a contained setup with boxes is better for my purposes right now.
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Re: Grow tent setup in a hot and sunny living room [Re: NeuroMyc]
#26811549 - 07/08/20 06:52 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I’m using a tent but not for its intended purpose as it’s small, not sure if I will keep it as I have two shelves anyway but I’m going to test it first, it stays unzipped.
Edited by CrashTest (07/08/20 06:53 PM)
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Re: Grow tent setup in a hot and sunny living room (moved) [Re: nunkui]
#26814302 - 07/10/20 04:50 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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This thread was moved from Advanced Mycology.
Reason: Not advanced
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