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sporesandsuch
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Some healthy looking tubs/shoeboxes. Do I really need to put these in a fruiting chamber?
#27470580 - 09/16/21 12:12 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Last time I grew B+, I kept all my shoeboxes inside of a big monotub-sized plastic box filled with lava rocks and water and a little bubbler creating 90% humidity and moving air around, and did a bunch of fanning every day, yada yada. Worked GREAT!
And I'm happy to do that again if necessary. But do I have to? I've read a bunch of reports from people who just keep their shoeboxes out in their ambient room with a second shoebox flipped on top or some other basic way to keep the humidity in. They don't worry about getting much fresh air in there, or mess around with fanning/evaporation.
Right now, I've got these tubs of various sizes sitting on my fridge, gathering natural indirect daylight, colonizing their beds of coconut coir and horse poo beautifully. They're covered with Saran Wrap with tiny holes poked in for a modicum of fresh air. They seem to be doing great.

Should I just let them be, or will I have much better results if I do what I did last time (stick them in a big plastic box with lava rocks/water humidity, fan their surface from time to time) ?
In case any of this matters:
* It's EXTREMELY dry where I live * Temperature ranges from 70-80 F * The larger tubs have a much moister ecosystem, mycelium covered with tiny fairy droplets. The smaller ones look much drier.

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Ora
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Re: Some healthy looking tubs/shoeboxes. Do I really need to put these in a fruiting chamber? [Re: sporesandsuch]
#27470595 - 09/16/21 12:32 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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probably just move them into the tub when you get pins since theyll need the room to grow. theyll probably be fine for now
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MojaveMyc
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Re: Some healthy looking tubs/shoeboxes. Do I really need to put these in a fruiting chamber? [Re: Ora]
#27470625 - 09/16/21 01:03 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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It’s typically 5-15% humidity here and I leave my shoeboxes out in the open, lid latched until pins form, then dub tubbed until it’s time to harvest. For what you posted, I’d put them into a fruiting chamber of some sort.
But for actual shoeboxes, they can be set and forget if you prep em right, even here in the desert
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sporesandsuch
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Re: Some healthy looking tubs/shoeboxes. Do I really need to put these in a fruiting chamber? [Re: MojaveMyc]
#27471039 - 09/16/21 08:07 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
MojaveMyc said: It’s typically 5-15% humidity here and I leave my shoeboxes out in the open, lid latched until pins form, then dub tubbed until it’s time to harvest. For what you posted, I’d put them into a fruiting chamber of some sort.
But for actual shoeboxes, they can be set and forget if you prep em right, even here in the desert
Thanks! Based on your advice, I will throw them in a fruiting chamber once I see some pins/growth, which I think should happen pretty soon.
But what about misting and fanning in the meantime? I remember last time maniacally fanning the boxes a couple times a day until the bed was covered with pins. Superb results! And not a bad exercise regime. But was all that fanning necessary/helpful for pin growth? I remember reading about evaporation, evaporation, evaporation, like some kind of mantra.
Or is that what you mean by set it and forget it? No need to fan, just keep the mycelium happy in its little shoebox microenvironment until it starts fruiting?
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