Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!
|
 juniperbob
Stranger
Registered: 01/21/05
Posts: 1
Last seen: 13 years, 5 months
|
 fruiting chamber help 
#3659087 - 01/21/05 05:28 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
so I set up a chamber in a tupperware container (one of the storage ones about twice the size of a shoebox). There's a layer of perlite on the bottom to create humidity and the whole box sits on a heating pad to keep the temp up. Anyways, I've had one cake in there for almost a week, it hasnt started pinning yet, but the setup seems to be creating a lot of water which condenses on the cover and drips onto the cake. I know the cake shouldnt be soaking up this much water, so any suggestions on how to fix this before I put all my other cakes in?
|
penlight438094
1 spliff 16.1g +1 man alone =Blitzed!
Registered: 10/01/04
Posts: 933
Last seen: 4 years, 11 months
|
 Re: fruiting chamber help [Re: juniperbob]
#3659129 - 01/21/05 05:34 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
get rid of the heating pad, you only need it warm to incubate, fruiting takes place at room temp
--------------------
Grown on Uncle Ben's 5 Minute Rice
Looks nice, Think again, read and see http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/3576624/an/0/page/0
|
Elahrairah
new-growth
Registered: 01/17/05
Posts: 67
Last seen: 12 years, 11 months
|
|
The shroomery FAQ says fruiting and pinning should take place at 74 to 78 degrees F. this is by no means room temperature in the northern hemisphere.
source: http://www.shroomery.org/index/par/23457
to prevent the lid from dripping on the cake tilt it about five or ten degrees, then the water will run down the side. how you best do this is up to you.
--------------------
All instances of FOAF in this post have been replaced by I and My for clarity of reading. No relation to the poster is meant or implied.
|
Vertigo6911
Entheobotanist
 
Registered: 12/04/04
Posts: 1,834
Loc: Netherlands
Last seen: 11 years, 10 months
|
Re: fruiting chamber help [Re: Elahrairah]
#3659661 - 01/21/05 07:11 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
|
|
something else u can do is smear vaseline on the lid..
or u can do what i did and tape something like a towel to the top of the lid... that way the lid will hold heat longer and be slightly warmer then the sides and so condense wont form there...
http://home.planet.nl/~vertigo69/growlog/data/fungi/2.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vertigo69/growlog/data/fungi/3.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vertigo69/growlog/data/fungi/5.jpg
--------------------
-Know ye not that ye are gods?-
My homepage
|
psilocyben
bad guy
Registered: 12/03/04
Posts: 1,026
Last seen: 11 years, 8 months
|
|
one thing that is said about temp is that (considering that your jars were incubated at 84f) the drop to your room temp is enough to create a massive flush and usually cold shocking the cakes is not necessary.
completely off the subject too but the first time my friend ever did pf cakes he decided at the last moment to case some of the cakes but do others in poor man pods. if you're cakes could wait a few days (which they always can, don't be afraid of casings, it is as easy as putting them in bags, cutting it with a sterile spoon, and casing it in any sort of container with a non-nutritious sterile(in the microwave) layer. you increase your yields and also your surface area when you do this.
under the casing section, look for casing 101; excellent for first time. you could use a few of your cakes as an experiment and birth the others as you desire.
whatever your choice, good luck with it
--------------------
|
oddiseus
The PsychofunkFirefly
Registered: 10/05/04
Posts: 456
Loc: Doldrums & Faultlines
Last seen: 4 years, 10 months
|
|
You can also install a drip sheild. But this is not really going to be necesary until Pinning actually starts. The worst thing your doing right now is keeping the cakes moist which IMO is really good. I have water droplets dropping on mine all the time and they love it .... No ill affects.
Good Luck
-ODD
--------------------
Though you can't go back and make a new beginning. You can start today to make a new end.
Traveller, there is no path, paths are made by walking
If Jesus was jewish...Why does he have a mexican name??
| |
|
|
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Roadkill, Magash, Shroomism, george castanza, RogerRabbit, Citric, total, FooMan, 13shrooms, stonesun, cronicr, PussyFart, Tmethyl, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta
551 topic views. 31 members, 137 guests and 13 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Toggle Favorite | Print Topic | Stats ]
| | |
|
|
|
Threaded
Previous
Index
Next
Shop: 
Edit 
Reply 
Anonymous
