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shuffil
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Growing Aesthetics, Experienced Growers
#27811918 - 06/09/22 08:50 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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This is my first ever post, and it will consist of questions for information that I would consider difficult to obtain by a practical standard.
When it comes to growing aesthetics, in other words defined as the visual traits we can observe on the mushroom fruiting body: What are the effects of light exposure? In a hypothetical scenario, you are growing for the aesthetic of short and stubby, big cap with a small stem. What are the conditions of light that would best produce these fruits? Genetics play a large factor in deciding these things but I would think it's naive to think that the very limited favoring factors of life don't play a key role. I would add that of these factors, I think that humidity and air are other deciding variables.
Let's say that you have a fully controlled environment, you have the resources to control these variables and experiment. Rather than starting from the very beginning and testing out all spectrum of light for all kinds of combinations of hours, you decide to ask a community forum for their guided expertise. In hopes that instead of having to experiment from nothing, someone out in the world can be the tie to an already thought out experiment and provide proper education.
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The Tao
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Re: Growing Aesthetics, Experienced Growers [Re: shuffil]
#27811966 - 06/09/22 09:36 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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You don’t need to experiment from nothing. You should do some research first and then ask for clarification. You may even answer your own questions. Try this. Keep your initial searches to the past few years to find current information. Check on the trusted cultivator box to further limit your searches. Best advice I saw on this site was,” Read more, post less.” https://www.shroomery.org/forums/search.php
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PBJ710
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Re: Growing Aesthetics, Experienced Growers [Re: The Tao]
#27812003 - 06/09/22 10:03 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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I lurked for a year just reading before I even made an account. Just about every variable you can think of to modify (and lots more) has been tried ad nauseum and documented here. You just need to learn how to find that information.
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Nichrome
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Re: Growing Aesthetics, Experienced Growers [Re: PBJ710]
#27812052 - 06/09/22 10:41 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Light helps. Good light helps more. Sunlight is always the best.
Can't beat nature.
When you do learn to manipulate factors to consistently cause morphology please take good notes and share. Personally I don't at all like to "manipulate" results. Support and enhance, don't manipulate. That is how to go with nature instead of working against it in an effort to design nature in a way of your own preference (you and your compulsions just like mine are nature too, by nature ).
Things like spawn:substrate ratios, wetness of substrate, airflow, and top layering practices have more play on expressed macroscopic features in the end. Lighting leads to healthy robust expression, pinsets, pigment formation, but not so much size anymore than those things promote overall health and vigor. Albinos and leucistic varieties don't seem to care as much about light either.
Find the pattern of growth you like and support it. Keep your culture entertained and healthy. It will reward you if you can learn what it is on it's own as a living thing (or colony of things). They feel too. They choose to coexist with you or not. It is not a cut and dry fight for survival and there are elements of want and desire involved in the expression of any organism. They respond to psychic influence and love most of all.
Good luck with your experiments.
-------------------- discussions are a healthy alternative to arguments
There is only one electron, and it's you.
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