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Light too bright/close?
    #26909335 - 08/31/20 09:13 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I have 3 cakes in the FC, the one on the left has about 30 pins, the other two only have about 4 or 5. I'm wondering if the lamp I'm using to the right of the FC is too bright on the cakes closest to it and discouraging the growth of pins. The lamp is giving off very little heat so I don't think the right-side of the FC is becoming too warm or dry. Should I move the lamp farther away or do you think maybe it's just coincidental that the cake farthest from the lamp is having the most success?



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Re: Light too bright/close? [Re: hankwheels]
    #26920375 - 09/06/20 01:51 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

6500k light is best for them, 5000k works too though... I don’t think that would be a issue. How much heat is it putting off? May be sucking the moisture out of the one close to the lamp or it could just be how that cake is growing. Would probably be best to have the lamp in the middle pointing down.


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Re: Light too bright/close? [Re: MadHatter333]
    #26920455 - 09/06/20 03:56 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

It says 40w on the bulb, can't tell ya for sure but 40w might be warmer than you think when it's that close...


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Re: Light too bright/close? [Re: Forrester]
    #26920469 - 09/06/20 04:33 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Light makes more pins turn into smaller mushrooms, in my experience.

In my experiments with light, I’ve discovered that a low intensity light like the incandescent bulb in your light socket on the ceiling will cause a casing to grow fewer pins to maturity and abort many of the casing’s pins, but the mushrooms will be larger.  When I put the casings under the 6500w shop lamp, every pin on the casing will mature, causing the highly prized canopy, but the mushrooms are all going to be smaller than the ones under the lower light.

All of the 50+ gram mushrooms I’ve grown have been under lower levels of light, while all of the monster canopy flushes I’ve grown have been under high light, though the weight of harvested material remained about the same.

I have a Grow Log which followed the experiment.


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Re: Light too bright/close? [Re: Ep1429]
    #26920482 - 09/06/20 04:58 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

I’ve also just grown mushrooms in ambient room light with great success, no bulbs needed :super:


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Re: Light too bright/close? [Re: MadHatter333]
    #26920531 - 09/06/20 06:41 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

:whathesaid:
Unless you're growing in a room without windows, indirect sunligt in plenty.


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