Proposition 122 said:

coversall said:

I've been afk for ~1 year. What drama/big news did I miss? What's the latest trendy tek? What's the newest short cut that people are trying to defend?

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Uncle Ben's has been found to be the ultimate in mushroom cultivation.

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ehehe I was ammused to log back in a see a thread about UB with three pages of predictable responses and chat to it

coversall said:

I've been afk for ~1 year. What drama/big news did I miss? What's the latest trendy tek? What's the newest short cut that people are trying to defend?

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Huskies said:

So I did a big harvest, not all of it fit in the dehydrator, so I put some in the fridge in a bowl. I noticed many were VERY blue, and I was like: hell yeah, potent (is this truly a myth?). ...
Thing is, I left them towards the back on the top shelf without thinking, an area that in my fridge has caused stuff to freeze.

After drying, the bluest ones look a bit sketch, by nearly turning black.
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Which made me realize: crap, did these freeze and all the cell walls burst, thus the heavy bluing? Are they considered rotten? Is the potency of them gone? Or is all fine and dandy?

I did have a tiny mouthful of 4gs wet of some blue ones, thinking that maybe if they are more potent, I might get a tiny buzz, but didnt feel anything, which is to be expected.

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fahtster said:

Zav3r said:

Okay but what's the purpose of increasing FAE then after pins show?

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I’m not a scientist or anything so this is from many observations only but like most things in life it’s all about balance.. as the mushrooms grow up into the empty space of your fruiting chamber, that space gets smaller and needs less evaporation to maintain maximum rh.  The mushrooms themselves evaporate moisture off them.  They are the end of a water cycle that starts in the substrate and goes to the fruit bodies (the sub feeds water to the mushrooms).  The fruits can only hold so much of that water.  That’s where the balance comes in… if you allow too much FAE, the fruits and sub dry out but if you don’t give them enough FAE, that water cycle gets clogged up and the water isn’t evaporated off the mushrooms fast enough and they become water-logged. 

Since the space is reduced inside the fc by the fruits themselves (that are evaporating water constantly), more FAE is needed to maintain that balance that was required when there was more space in your fc when there wasn’t wet fruits occupying it.

This is also why if you need to add water to your grow, do it by watering your substrate not your mushrooms because your substrate is where the water cycle starts and the fruits is where the cycle ends and needs to be free to evaporate.  Ie, don’t mist your fruits directly

Ime

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Mycolorado said:

You want it as tight as possible so a large amount is used.  Trimming tidies it up, especially on the underside so it’s not hanging into the grain/getting grain stuck to it or possibly acting as a wick, potentially allowing contaminates to work their way through.  It also looks better.

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Mycolorado said:

FAE, regardless of whether it’s introduced at pinning or before, is critical for proper fruit development.  Mushrooms are the spore bearing structures in the lifecycle of the organism and spores are evolved to be disbursed on the air.  Low FAE creates leggy fruit with malformed or underdeveloped caps. Here are examples to illustrate the differences between low and ample FAE of a few different species in order (the oysters are the exact same culture).  FAE is also the bane of molds and bacteria.

Low FAE



Ample FAE

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Hey Colorado
Top row, third from left, he's smiling at you

Zav3r said:

Do I need more FAE because of the fuzzy feet?

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Zav3r said:

Zav3r said:

Do I need more FAE because of the fuzzy feet?

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Hey guys, I think my question got bumped out. I don't think anybody responded (I promise I checked!) Just wondering what your thoughts are. this is after the first flush. I think I need more FAE because of the bowing stalks and the fuzzy feet. But I don't really know how to increase FAE since I already placed a gap in the lid. This is unmodded shoebox so I don't know what else to do. Thanks.

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