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ShroomyDoo
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Humidity in my terrarium & a couple other ?'s
#6397273 - 12/22/06 03:29 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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I usually boil some water (make the water steamy) and then leave it inside my terrarium. i do this about twice a day to keep the humidity constant and the air fresh. It seems to work really well but does this have any negative effects for my lil guys? ps does constant air circulation matter or is still air fine (and the fanning good enough)?
1 more thing :-D. If a mixture of say finely ground up grain and water were used to feed a casing pod in between fruits, would the dynamic system of the culture absorb the nutrients from the mixture at the bottom or would it just rot and mold from sitting and destroy it??
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creamcorn
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Re: Humidity in my terrarium & a couple other ?'s [Re: ShroomyDoo]
#6397643 - 12/22/06 06:15 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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excessive heat absolutely can damage your crops. it also sounds rather tedious to me to have to do that daily. there's tons of ways to humidify without heat and with much less effort, i'd highly suggest looking into them - perlite being the simplest and cheapest for small scale, and there's a wide variety of ways to incorporate humidifiers for medium to large scale. if your chamber floor is nearly covered with casings, the casing layers themselves typically provide enough humidity. look into monotubs to see this principle at work, as they're a way to grow without providing a humidity source at all - the grow itself is its own humidity source.
as for fresh air, more is *always* better - but its a balancing act, exchanging air in your FC means a loss of humidity. so as much air as you can provide without sacrificing humidity is optimal (monitoring things with a hygrometer is handy for this at first until you get a feel for how your FC responds). moving air is important because many contaminates thrive in stagnant air, but have a really hard time in moving air. the air doesn't need to be continuously moving, if you're manually fanning things, 3-4 times a day is usually sufficient. again there's lots of creative ways to set up automatic fresh air as well from air pumps to fans to cool mist humidifiers that exhale air as they humidify. depends on the scale of your grow and the style fruiting chamber you're using to determine what's most appropriate.
and no, there's no benefit and only downfall to be had when it comes to trying to "feed" your crops. your mycelial network has done most of the "eating" its going to do before fruits are developed (it does gather up energy again between flushes, but there's really no way to feed it additional nutrients, it just doesn't work that way, they can however absorb more from the existing colonized substrate since its already been in the process of digestion for a while by this stage.) it will very likely mold if you try to apply it after the fact. the best and only practical way to provide more nutrition to your crops, is to use more substrate when you start.
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