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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: Stromrider]
#28156094 - 01/24/23 07:06 PM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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I tried that for a while but the lowered speed of the exhaust made an even lesser seal against the frame and I went back to 2 on 8 off with full exhaust. Right after the exhaust cuts the fogger kicks on with a timer as well for basically 5 min of every 10 fresh air. Need to fix that leak. With that fixed I might go back to always on low.
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: Southerner]
#28156103 - 01/24/23 07:18 PM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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I'd also highly suggest putting your fogger on an rH Controller. A lot of people like Ink Bird but I swear by WILLHI being easier to dial in. Whats your fogger set up look like? Also a perhaps quick fix on your doorway would be to replace the magnetic clips with a zipper. You can buy adhesive zippers and put each side on the slit at your entry. But then for real, you want that exhaust going all day every day - literally every major farmer friend I have does so. Infact its best to have slightly negative pressure in your FC, this way you are sucking away ALL the CO2 they are exhaling so they can fruit without having to search for a place to breathe.
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: TravelAgency]
#28156105 - 01/24/23 07:19 PM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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Wait lowered speed of the exhaust? I dont follow. Have it going full blast 24/7
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: TravelAgency]
#28156137 - 01/24/23 07:36 PM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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I like the zipper idea although my issue is at the bottom of the entrance. I’ll try to remember to snap a photo tomorrow if I don’t come up with a way to seal it.
The humidity controller is a whole other situation. I have to use a timer for right now. It’s a 3 disc fogger in a tote so it wouldn’t be able to keep up with full blast exhaust 24/7. It has a speed controller if I decide to go back to always on once this is fixed. Little bit of a pain to dial in but think I’ve almost got it down.
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: Southerner]
#28156147 - 01/24/23 07:41 PM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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What are the dimensions of the FC?
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: TravelAgency]
#28156160 - 01/24/23 07:53 PM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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TravelAgency said: For FAE when fruiting P. o. I can almost guarantee you won't achieve perfect fruits without doing so. I tinkered with it for years to see if I could save on energy costs and fan lifespan, but every single time I wasn't running the exhaust 24/7 my fruit quality, and generally yield as well, suffered.
If your exhaust fan is large enough it can be on a cycle timer. Been paying my bills for years with mushrooms grown in a growroom with a fan that doesn't run 24/7
Prefer my humidity run by a cycle timer over a humidistat as well
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: Stromrider]
#28156182 - 01/24/23 08:01 PM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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What dimensions are your space what cfm is your exhaust? I literally don't know a single major farmer that doesn't run 24/7 and I'm friends with quite a few of them. And in my own experience my fruits performed MUCH better that way.
On a timer:

24/7:

Same strain same sub same humidity same temps. Only difference was FAE
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: TravelAgency]
#28156205 - 01/24/23 08:21 PM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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Guess I been doing it wrong all this time
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: Stromrider]
#28156215 - 01/24/23 08:26 PM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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Didn't say that, I asked what cfm for the space you had was. I see your TC badge so you obviously know what you're doing but so do I and my farm owner friends so I'm curious how you were able to do what none of us could.
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: Stromrider]
#28156216 - 01/24/23 08:29 PM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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It’s a small tent 6x4x7 and 195cfm exhaust although I don’t think it actually pulls that.
I had to switch to a timer on the humidity and I prefer it as well. Mine still needs a little bit of dialing in but after I get that sorted out I’d say it’s almost easier than a controller. No need to protect/replace sensors, calibrate, etc.
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: Southerner]
#28156239 - 01/24/23 08:47 PM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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Do you have an intake fan bringing the foggers in or are the foggers just inside? If you are running on just the exhaust fan then that means the air coming inside will be dry and your foggers will have to work harder. For that space, if you made a Humidibucket with an intake fan, had two foggers going constant and one fogger on a humidity controller you could get a good fluctuation going and be able to keep both fans going 24/7. I might add an extra humidifier inside also on the controller to really get the job done. I found for oysters a fluctuation of 89%-96% yielded best. My theory on that is you trick them into thinking the humidity will become scarce so they take more advantage of it when it kicks back in.
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: Southerner]
#28156357 - 01/24/23 10:53 PM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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Southerner said: Thanks for the confirmation TA. I wish it was going to be as simple a fix as that Door isn’t airtight so it’s not drawing the air across the entire fruiting room. Glad to figure this issue out now as opposed to later when there will be less time to do repairs.
Use a circulation fan inside the fc and don't give a care of there are "leaks" in the tent. I don't have a sealed tight fc, and you shouldn't either, fresh air gotta come from somewhere.
I also run my fan on a timer but I have a tiny fc.
What was your old setup like ta? You planning on using the whole 3 car garage for mushroom setup? You have an goals set?
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: deadmandave]
#28156384 - 01/24/23 11:24 PM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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Check the links in my sig to see my other set ups. This will be my FC in my new space, may expand to two of them if I get enough interns (my "day job" is pretty demanding) but I'm also saving space to build out a taxidermy station for my fiancee so between lab, colonization and fruiting that's about as much space as I can take up. But I should be able to hit 40# a week with just the one if I get it down. Building out a trough SS I should be able to fit about 40 10# bags in, more than double a 55gal. I've got 3 interns lined up and ready if I can get two more I'll ad another FC. It won't be as big as I have done before but it'll satiate the craving.
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: TravelAgency]
#28156715 - 01/25/23 09:25 AM (1 year, 3 days ago) |
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TA - it has a fan to push the mist up through the intake pipe. Standard humidity bucket setup people have shared. 3 mins on and it fogs the hell out of the tent. Slightly offset with the exhaust to allow for a slow drop in humidity until the exhaust kicks on then restarts the cycle.
DMD - I have a circulation fan which I think has been saving me up until I saw that Timelapse showing me I needed more air. The issue is it’s exhausting a large amount of air that’s just been drawn in to the room through those small openings a foot or two away.
There’s a vent flap like Shrooms talks about on the opposite corner from the exhaust and I can feel a slight draw from it and intake pipe when exhaust kicks on. If I can get a majority of the pulled in air from those two I think I’ll have perfect mushrooms.
Thank you both for the suggestions and sharing your experience on this. Hopefully I can figure out a simple fix for this today.
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#28158115 - 01/26/23 10:17 AM (1 year, 2 days ago) |
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More King Oysters! This is my very first flush from my new workflow. Fully supplemented sterilized bags. Thought I'd loose the attitude and try out what I perceive to be the commercial standard and see what all the fuss is about.

Substrate: 368g Alfalfa Pellets (7.5% Moisture) 460g Hardwood Fuel Pellets (5% moisture) 1422g Water
Yields EXACTLY 5 lbs of substrate with exactly 65% moisture content and exactly 1.4% Nitrogen.
14A Bag, spawned with 1/3 Mycoquart of spawn.
Yield was 525g (1.15lbs) mushrooms, about %66 Biological efficiency! Better than yields reported by Mycelia.be for king oyster (150-180g / Kg Fresh Substrate)!
I'm almost ready to admit they were right!! 
Still trying to figure out how to reduce the labor involved in the whole bagging and sterilizing process.
Edited by father_fungi (01/26/23 10:19 AM)
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: father_fungi]
#28158165 - 01/26/23 11:03 AM (1 year, 2 days ago) |
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Well done. great looking kings, where's the culture from?.
Interesting recipe. Wish I had some notes to compare with results using bran but I haven't grown eryngii in over a year and I forget what kind of be I got.
Great job
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: deadmandave]
#28158509 - 01/26/23 03:00 PM (1 year, 2 days ago) |
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That's a great looking flush there mate!
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: TravelAgency] 1
#28162880 - 01/29/23 01:13 PM (11 months, 23 days ago) |
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My first time growing gourmets, first of the fruits coming in. Have a ton more coming after too lol in buckets, bags, logs, trays, all kinds of sht lol.
These are Sporeless Oyster (I think Blues?) on a 5lb unsupplemented block.
Wasn't expecting them to turn out this well being top fruited on unsupplemented block.
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Re: Post Your Gourmet Cultivation Picture of the Day [Re: d1spatch]
#28163389 - 01/29/23 07:16 PM (11 months, 22 days ago) |
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Nice work
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Massively Overgrown King Oyster Mushroom [Re: Stromrider]
#28163915 - 01/30/23 07:40 AM (11 months, 22 days ago) |
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A king oyster mushroom ignored long after it was ready to harvest.
Crazy how different mushrooms can look depending on their age. Almost resembles overgrown P. Ostreatus. 7-8" across it's widest dimension.
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