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Offlinechucklehead
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64F too low?
    #6806061 - 04/18/07 08:16 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

My fruiting chamber is at a constant 64F. Is that too low to fruit?
3 Golden Teacher Cases
2 Ecuadorian
Spawned to bulk Coffee+Coir
Cased in 60/40 Vermiculite Coir + Crushed Oyster Shells

It's sort of obvious so I don't want to take it out of my basement. It doesn't hold heat at all since I made all the walls out of Plexiglas. If I need to raise the temperature should I install a light bulb for heat inside or maybe just add a submersible water heater to my FAE cool mist humidifier that sits outside of the fruiting chamber? I'm afraid the light bulb might be too hot, and I'm concerned the heater will cause contamination maybe. Thoughts?

By the way I saw someone else do the heater in the humidifier in a post on this site but I don't remember the context. I didn't want to give the impression that it was my idea. Since so many people told me to get a cool mister for my FAE I can only guess that was because I shouldn't be heating the water....

Here's what it looks like and what some of the casings look like.


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Does any of this look like overlay? I took these out of the incubator a couple days late. According to everything I've ready I'm still 10 days from seeing pins.



So am I screwed? Is the Temperature too low to fruit or will it just take longer at 64F?

I can definitely see the mycelium just below the surface of the casing on several of these. Am I doing ok or is some form of maintenance required?

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Re: 64F too low? [Re: chucklehead]
    #6806069 - 04/18/07 08:18 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

It will just take a bit longer.

It appears that you should have let the mycelium colonize the casing layer more
(on all of your casings) before introducing them into the fruiting chamber/greenhouse.


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Re: 64F too low? [Re: chucklehead]
    #6806101 - 04/18/07 08:24 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

64F too low?




Yes it is.


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Re: 64F too low? [Re: agar]
    #6806141 - 04/18/07 08:33 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Roachman they looked like this before I cased them.



Should they look like this again before I fruit?

Tomorrow I'll install a low wattage light bulb for heat.

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Re: 64F too low? [Re: chucklehead]
    #6806187 - 04/18/07 08:45 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Yup, 64f is pretty darn low and will take quite awhile for anything to happen. My suggestion is to make a heat bomb. Take a gallon jug, like one of those big gatorade or juice jugs, make sure you clean it out real good, fill it with good CLEAN water, and take a submersible water heater and put it straight down into the water. Don't worry too much about contamination from the heat bomb, and if you are you can always use duct tape to tape around the mouth of the jug to keep it sealed good. I'll try to take a picture of mine that I use in my greenhouse a little later tonight so you can get a better idea of it. It works really well and will easily give you your needed +10 degrees. 74f to 76f is optimal for fruiting.:thumbup:


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Re: 64F too low? [Re: TheEnd]
    #6806200 - 04/18/07 08:50 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Excellent! Thanks man! That's exactly what I needed to know.

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Re: 64F too low? [Re: chucklehead]
    #6806396 - 04/18/07 09:25 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

No problem! Glad to be able to help out those with questions that I can actually answer, lol.

5 mushies for you and your grow op;)


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Re: 64F too low? [Re: chucklehead]
    #6806397 - 04/18/07 09:25 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Don't heat the terrarium. You'll only make condensation that will suck the humidity out of the air. Heat the area around it with a small space heater or lights, but don't heat the inside of the grow area. 64F is fine at night, but during the daylight hours, use lights or whatever to provide a bit of heat from the outside, not in.
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Re: 64F too low? [Re: chucklehead]
    #6806758 - 04/18/07 10:43 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

If gotten near wall to wall pinning in temps that went as low as 60oF and only as high as 65oF. However, the growth is slowed dramatically. This was with the B+ strain tho. I've heard it's rumored to fruit well in low temperatures. I've also heard all cubensis strains should have the same growing parameters... but from my observations B+ does not have a problem with temps in the range of 60-65

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