Dkeppel said:

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I need to get some strip lighting sometime.

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I thought for one second that you must be growing that box on its side to get all of those fruits to bend that hard. lol

Do it. I used these
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XHJX115
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TQ1ZCYX
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B086Y8P4F3
and a soldering iron and those little heat shrink insulators to make a really nice light set up.


No more bendy mush or rotating tubs. Well, you still get spaghetti in some species if you don't have enough fae, but not bending for light.

Dkeppel said:

Aquarium sand, that's the fancy stuff, I would think it's even cleaner.

In theory you could use a layer of sand to kill gnats, used to work for the plants, something to keep in mind if you have an infestation.

Thanks fid, they seem to be enjoying their modified shoeboxes and the twice daily mistings.

Boy do they feel slow when you have pans less than 10 inches away that visibly grow by the hour.

I do wish someone would sort out the lighting in my fruiting area so my fruits would grow straight

I need to get some strip lighting sometime.

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fiddle_head said:

Here are some pics of my semp plins on agar. I got these from faht's culture, i think he knows people have it and knows they are growing it everywhere.

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vfb123 said:

2nd flush from 1qt spawned 4:1 the same way I do cubes, for shoeboxes I always take my quart of rye and mix it thoroughly with 3 qts of coir, pack that down with a trowel and then add the remaining qt of coir as a top layer and pack down again. I'm not worried about squishing the coir too hard, I use a good bit of force because I don't like side pins, I'll use a liner if I remember to when I'm spawning but its only to make cleanup easier. this was just sitting here with its lid flipped upside down since last flush



heres a nice pic illustrating how the myc aggressively colonizes that last quart of coir before pinning

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Be-hold

Yet Another Demonstration of the "25% yields more" theory and "more is not better in pans and semps".