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CosmicFunGuy
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Its hot..... too hot....
#5851841 - 07/12/06 07:09 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm busting my ass off trying everything i can come up with to lower the temperature in my fruiting chamber its recently reached 90 degrees! what can i do to lower this?
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Edited by tickettothemoon (07/12/06 07:10 PM)
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Liquidkick
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Re: Its hot..... too hot.... [Re: CosmicFunGuy]
#5851865 - 07/12/06 07:15 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Air Conditioning. I was in your position, and i bit the bullet and went and got one. Works well, definitely worth it for the fruits i got.
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decepticon
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Re: Its hot..... too hot.... [Re: CosmicFunGuy]
#5851867 - 07/12/06 07:16 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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lower the temperature in the room
get a/c.
if you only lower the temp in the fruiting chamber, you will get a bad case of condensation. I see it as a futile effort.
cool the whole room. you wouldn't want to live in a 90 degree room would you?
you can try the frozen milk jugs or whatever, but I have no luck with that.
keep your moisture in your substrate where it belongs. get a cheap a/c unit that goes in a window.
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Re: Its hot..... too hot.... [Re: decepticon]
#5851948 - 07/12/06 07:32 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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One cheap solution is to get some water bottles. freeze them and place in the chamber. Freeze multiple bottles so you can rotate them as needed. Granted this is only a temp. solution and eventually you'll need to fork out for the A/C like they said.
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Re: Its hot..... too hot.... [Re: decepticon]
#5851991 - 07/12/06 07:40 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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You could try a swamp cooler.
-FF
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Omnicracker
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Re: Its hot..... too hot.... [Re: fastfred]
#5852002 - 07/12/06 07:42 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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move to washington
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Re: Its hot..... too hot.... [Re: CosmicFunGuy]
#5852029 - 07/12/06 07:46 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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ice packs and fanning!
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CosmicFunGuy
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Re: Its hot..... too hot.... [Re: Omnicracker]
#5852047 - 07/12/06 07:48 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Well unfortunately ac is not within my current reach. And this is the room I live in and it is 90 degrees so i understand how the mushrooms feel. As for moving to Washington... thats funny I'm moving there in 4 months.. swamp cooler I'll have to search that and try it... current method I'm trying is a second container (same as fruiting chamber) with a layer of ice at the bottom and the inside the second container sitting on the ice... (if this is bad please inform me) It is too early to tell if it will work but i am fortunate enough to have an ice maker if it does work. I have also tried ice packs in the chamber and I do fan.
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♫ ♪ In the garden of many fields, there is no me or you. There is no right or wrong. There is no up or down. There is no black or white. Everyone is the plow man. Everyone is the seed. Everyone harvests and everyone yields. In the garden of many fields, everyone is one with one love and one love is one with everyone. ♪ ♫ lyrics from: Transglobal Underground - Eyeway Souljah (from Psychic Karaoke)
Edited by tickettothemoon (07/12/06 07:49 PM)
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Re: Its hot..... too hot.... [Re: fastfred]
#5852061 - 07/12/06 07:50 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
fastfred said: You could try a swamp cooler.
-FF
Hear! Hear! Also adds moisture... Swamp cooler is more cost effective also!
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Re: Its hot..... too hot.... [Re: Tippinthru]
#5852885 - 07/12/06 10:22 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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A variation on the swamp cooler thing to try is to lay a wet towel over the chamber and blow a fan on that. As the water evaporates off the towel it will pull heat out of the chamber. RR
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CosmicFunGuy
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Re: Its hot..... too hot.... [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5855131 - 07/13/06 03:57 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Well its been about 24 hours since i set the fruiting chamber in the other tub with ice. It lowered the temperature to 68 degrees until about 2 hours ago... TIME TO CHANGE THE ICE SOON! It worked wonders for the temp 22-23 degrees temperature drop... There however is a problem it lowered my humidity to about 70 %. I've got a cool mist humidifier though so I've got that covered. I never did figure out what a swamp cooler was but in my searchings yesterday (i admit i didn't dig TOO deep for an answer). If anybody wants to throw me a bone and just explain swamp cooler to me that'd be nice I'll definitely look into it. Thanks all you wonderful shroomers for your help! peace. Wish me luck!
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♫ ♪ In the garden of many fields, there is no me or you. There is no right or wrong. There is no up or down. There is no black or white. Everyone is the plow man. Everyone is the seed. Everyone harvests and everyone yields. In the garden of many fields, everyone is one with one love and one love is one with everyone. ♪ ♫ lyrics from: Transglobal Underground - Eyeway Souljah (from Psychic Karaoke)
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Re: Its hot..... too hot.... [Re: CosmicFunGuy]
#5855190 - 07/13/06 04:14 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Buy some ice packs - they last longer than just frozen ice + they are relatively cheap! Works for me!
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Re: Its hot..... too hot.... [Re: Zwieback0]
#5855299 - 07/13/06 05:00 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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i live in texas and went 4 months without a working air conditioner. jesus h. christ it was hell. i told my roommate/landlord that if he didnt get it fixed i was out of there. 3 days after the ac was installed my babies pinned and were happy.
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Re: Its hot..... too hot.... [Re: CantiSama]
#5855595 - 07/13/06 06:44 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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A swamp cooler is an evaporative cooler. Basically a pump pumps water up to the top of some sort of non absorbent wick and the water flows back down into the reservoir. There is a fan in front of the wick that blows air across it. The evaporation of the water is quite effective at dropping the air temp. It's effectiveness depends on the humidity in your area though.
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