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How to get your PF tek cakes to grow away from perlite.
    #5814712 - 07/03/06 03:50 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

When I first started doing this (not too long ago) I was constantly annoyed by shrooms twisting and turning about, growing upside down, and into the perlite due to reflected light.

I have never seen anyone else on the boards do this, so I thought someone might find it useful. I got the idea to cut out part of a black window screen (not metal, some sort of plastic) and place it directly over the perlite. I just sterilize the screen with rubbing alcohol and allow it to dry before I place it in the terrarium.

Ever since then all of my shrooms have grown straight up, away from the perlite. Picture perfect cakes. Unfortunately, I don't have a photo of a bunch of shrooms growing vertically at the moment. I do, however, have an example below displaying pinning Equadorian cakes.



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Re: How to get your PF tek cakes to grow away from perlite. [Re: etam]
    #5814743 - 07/03/06 04:27 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

As long as you have a light centered over top of the terrerium...it shouldnt be an issue.... how long do your lights run for?


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Re: How to get your PF tek cakes to grow away from perlite. [Re: SouthPArk]
    #5814751 - 07/03/06 04:36 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

My light runs 12/12 and has always been centered over the top of the terrarium.


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Re: How to get your PF tek cakes to grow away from perlite. [Re: etam]
    #5815166 - 07/03/06 09:10 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Very nice idea. I know a lot of guys fight this problem. The perlite has a larger surface and is closer to the fruits than the light above, so that's the direction they seem to grow.
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