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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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I just used a headphone extension cord to extend my humidity probe but solder works too.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: SHROOMSISAY01]
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This is great! I am excited to follow your journey!

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: SHROOMSISAY01]
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This one works fine for me

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: fungilove]
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Some use 3 poles and some use 4 poles just make sure which one you need by checking your probe.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: SHROOMSISAY01]
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Hello everyone,
So I've been in the dark for quite a awhile now, wish it was because of positive reasons, but it has not been. Ive have some personal issues I've had to address and still managing to handle. I wont go into details on it but, know I am back now and plan to continue where i left off. Ill do my best to post weekly again but no promises.



Current Updates/Questions:


Need some input on best options to heat the grow room. my garage isn't well insulated, its the best i can get it. the temp will down in the 40-50 degrees in the winter months but stays in acceptable temps in the summer months.

My current thoughts are insulation the exterior of the grow room with that 1.5-2in thick foam sheets from home depot and either use a water proof space heater inside the grow room or design some kind of heater that pumps heat in from the intake of the fogging system, instead of trying to heat the whole garage. my agar plates and bags are grown out in my office where the temperature is controlled. What are your thoughts on this?

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Are you deadset on climate control? I know a lot of farms switch up the species/strains they grow and just go with the seasons, possibly shutting down production in the hottest or coldest couple of months depending on region.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Soviet Data]
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:whathesaid:

It takes a lot of time and effort to make a cold garage into a good place to grow. If you use heaters, what ends up happening is that they will dry out the air. Mushrooms like humidity, not dry air.

I would say your options going from here is either...

1. Wait until the Late winter / early spring for the weather to be better

2. Start a smaller grow in a different location that is normal room temperature

I think Blue oysters are a type of mushroom that likes the cold so you might want to look into stuff like that

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Hikeadellic]
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I'd say insulation is a great start. Either way your temperatures will fluctuate between seasons, however, the insulation not only lessons the swing of temperatures, it's also going to save money when it comes to heating/cooling.. Like it's designed to do.

Who knows it might just not need heating or cooling after being insulated. Depending on your location and stain choices.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Harry Manbach]
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Soviet Data said:
Are you deadset on climate control? I know a lot of farms switch up the species/strains they grow and just go with the seasons, possibly shutting down production in the hottest or coldest couple of months depending on region.


That was a thought I had, i ordered a cold weather oyster culture for testing this out. I dont want to completly shut down for months at a time.


Hikeadellic said:
:whathesaid:

It takes a lot of time and effort to make a cold garage into a good place to grow. If you use heaters, what ends up happening is that they will dry out the air. Mushrooms like humidity, not dry air.

I would say your options going from here is either...

1. Wait until the Late winter / early spring for the weather to be better

2. Start a smaller grow in a different location that is normal room temperature

I think Blue oysters are a type of mushroom that likes the cold so you might want to look into stuff like that


Also had these thoughts, the only reasonable idea I came up with is running the heater air through the fogger system to keep it from drying out the grow room, but then there is the issue of the fogger coolong the warmed air running through it. So as of now I have insulated my garage which helped and ordered a cold weather oyster culture to test.

Harry Manbach said:
I'd say insulation is a great start. Either way your temperatures will fluctuate between seasons, however, the insulation not only lessons the swing of temperatures, it's also going to save money when it comes to heating/cooling.. Like it's designed to do.

Who knows it might just not need heating or cooling after being insulated. Depending on your location and stain choices.


Only way to find out is to try!! Just waiting for my culture from northspore to come in, its taking forever

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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When you say it gets down to 40-50 in winter do you mean the lows at night? Or the average highs?

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Soviet Data]
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Update:


Installed the lights and sealed each plug/connection with silicon.





Hard to see in photo but they are sealed with silicon





Fogger Controller, still might switch to a timed method, but I we see how this works out












System works well




Ive thought of a way to try and heat the grow room even if it just by a little bit. Im thinking of buying a fish tank heater and heating the water in the fogger reservoir to see if that will do anything, but now that i think about it, i think i read hot water is not good for the ultrasonic fogger. I'll give it a go anyways.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Soviet Data]
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Soviet Data said:
When you say it gets down to 40-50 in winter do you mean the lows at night? Or the average highs?


its about the average temperature throughout the winter months

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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You will destroy your ultrasonic heating the water. The ultrasonic will heat the water by itself and if you don't have enough water to keep it cool it will die quickly. Don't heat your water it won't make a difference anyway. I don't know your set up but what I did to heat my room some was I cut a hole in the plenum of my furnace. and ran duct to my room then I put an electric damper on right before it entered the room and connected a temperature controller to it. So when my hose heat is on and the room needs heat the damper opens and if the room does not need heat it closes. The drawback is my room only gets heat when my house is being heated. I can always patch the hole I put in the plenum with a piece of galvanized sheet metal and duct seal if I ever need to. If you are renting I don't know what to tell you.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: SHROOMSISAY01]
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SHROOMSISAY01 said:m https://ibb.co/wRbxM2Q
You will destroy your ultrasonic heating the water. The ultrasonic will heat the water by itself and if you don't have enough water to keep it cool it will die quickly. Don't heat your water it won't make a difference anyway. I don't know your set up but what I did to heat my room some was I cut a hole in the plenum of my furnace. and ran duct to my room then I put an electric damper on right before it entered the room and connected a temperature controller to it. So when my hose heat is on and the room needs heat the damper opens and if the room does not need heat it closes. The drawback is my room only gets heat when my house is being heated. I can always patch the hole I put in the plenum with a piece of galvanized sheet metal and duct seal if I ever need to. If you are renting I don't know what to tell you.


cool noted! thanks

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cold weather oyster culture came in! time to do some agar and gain work!


Edited by rizhomushroom (12/11/21 08:47 AM)

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Are you guys having issues with my pictures not loading?

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Not there for me. I had that issue too and just started uploading directly to shroomery through my profile. You're limited on upload space but it works every time :cool:

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Soviet Data]
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such a pain in the ass finding a good photo hosting site. i find it a pain to upload then cope and paste to my forum. ill try to fix this

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Yeah I did some googling about photo hosting and decided it would be way better to just upload here. I hope your oysters do well BTW!

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Soviet Data]
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Soviet Data said:
Yeah I did some googling about photo hosting and decided it would be way better to just upload here. I hope your oysters do well BTW!


thank you, working on the imagine hosting as wee speak so ill try to edit all of photo in a day or two

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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okay this is going to take awhile to fix these picture issues since i can only upload so many pictures to shroomery so please give me time to fix all the photos

Sorry guys i didnt realize this was happening

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