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incubation and light
    #5365908 - 03/04/06 10:01 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

doing quart jars of WBS soon, and am planning everything out...

during incubation do they need to be kept in the dark of light?


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Re: incubation and light [Re: jenerikcairet]
    #5365916 - 03/04/06 10:07 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

keep them dark...if you think of it as their natural growth habit, the mycelium grows underground, leaves, soil, logs and the such. As the mycelium grows to the surface, CO2 levels decrease, humidity goes down about 10% (for best fruiting) then, and only then are they exposed to light


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Re: incubation and light [Re: j21kickster]
    #5365954 - 03/04/06 10:28 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

yep makes sense

thanks :smile:


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Re: incubation and light [Re: jenerikcairet]
    #5365977 - 03/04/06 10:35 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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dark of light?




No, the dark of dark! :wink:


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Re: incubation and light [Re: FooMan]
    #5366008 - 03/04/06 10:49 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

lol yeah im sure u guys know i meant "or"


haha


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Re: incubation and light [Re: jenerikcairet]
    #5366595 - 03/05/06 07:05 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Actually, light has absolutely no effect on colonizing mycelium, either good or bad. There is no need to keep colonizing quart jars in the dark. I have not incubated in the dark in years.
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Re: incubation and light [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #5366599 - 03/05/06 07:10 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

likewise.


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Re: incubation and light [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #5366677 - 03/05/06 08:30 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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Actually, light has absolutely no effect on colonizing mycelium, either good or bad. There is no need to keep colonizing quart jars in the dark. I have not incubated in the dark in years.
RR



Of course myc doesn't need dark but we use it to our advantage as a pinning trigger! When the coincidence of optimal triggers is there thats when we have the best odds at the best pinsets (fact).


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Re: incubation and light [Re: j21kickster]
    #5366683 - 03/05/06 08:34 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

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keep them dark...if you think of it as their natural growth habit, the mycelium grows underground, leaves, soil, logs and the such. As the mycelium grows to the surface, CO2 levels decrease, humidity goes down about 10% (for best fruiting) then, and only then are they exposed to light



Now thats the way we (myc) think! Your learning fast! 5 :mushroom2: 4U


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Re: incubation and light [Re: hyphae]
    #5366891 - 03/05/06 10:00 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

"Of course myc doesn't need dark but we use it to our advantage as a pinning trigger"

Exactly. After spawning the grains or brf or whatever into manure, it's a good idea to cover with foil to keep it in the dark during substrate colonization and casing colonization, then remove the foil for light and sudden air/gas exchange to trigger pinning. However, I've found no benefit or harm from allowing the grain jars to be exposed to light from day one. If a few pins form in the grains, it is actually a good thing. Contrary to popular belief, a few pins in the grains can be spawned right into the manure or straw(or used in grain to grain transfers) and they do not rot or otherwise cause contamination. There is evidence they actually help to give a faster, more uniform pinset in the eventual flushes. Stamets believes it's the harmones or other chemical triggers in the pins that do this.
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