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OfflineMush Lush
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What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes?
    #7597283 - 11/05/07 02:07 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I heard compact flo, soft blue light, I just want to make sure though


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: Mush Lush]
    #7597285 - 11/05/07 02:09 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

fluorescent is great.

get a bulb that says "daylight" on it.

it should read: 6500k

that's what you want.


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: monstermitch]
    #7597290 - 11/05/07 02:15 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Has anyone ever fruited using a metal Halide? I have a hortilux blue, (200 dollar bulb) that has plenty of blue spectrum. Any ideas on if this will work or not?


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: monstermitch]
    #7597300 - 11/05/07 02:22 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I have a theory. I believe that by taking a regular 12-hour blue glowstick and cracking it the evening after the mycelium has been properly birthed and placed in the FC, the glowstick can simply be placed on top of the container to coincide nicely with other methods of pinning initiation. It looks kinda cool and its just one glowstick potentially providing a whole, long-term realm of assistance to your future experiences.


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: Ellezdey]
    #7597386 - 11/05/07 04:52 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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Ellezdey said:
I have a theory. I believe that by taking a regular 12-hour blue glowstick and cracking it the evening after the mycelium has been properly birthed and placed in the FC, the glowstick can simply be placed on top of the container to coincide nicely with other methods of pinning initiation. It looks kinda cool and its just one glowstick potentially providing a whole, long-term realm of assistance to your future experiences.




maybe thats why you have 3 mushrooms for your 3 casings!?!


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: oh_ollie]
    #7597400 - 11/05/07 05:12 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Any light-source with a color temperature within the 5000-6500K (kelvin) range is ideal. Avoid the "plant & aquarium" fluorescent lighting, their color is typically around 2700K.


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Keep in mind that inoculating or whatever in front of a flow hood won't help your bad substrate, your bad inoculant, your bad sterile procedure, etc. etc. etc. It's not a +3 flowhood of magic, it's just a tool.


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: mycocurious]
    #7597452 - 11/05/07 06:06 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

is natural sunlight a few hours per day a good way to go?


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: substraight]
    #7597467 - 11/05/07 06:19 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

candle light!!!

wooohooooo.


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: jeetered]
    #7597648 - 11/05/07 08:27 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

The light that I have is a fish tank light and the bulb read "full spectrum". I am not sure of the number readings, but do you think this is good to use?


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: ShRm22]
    #7597658 - 11/05/07 08:35 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I use incandescent light, from a room, just ambient light, and of course sunlight comes thru windows. If using a "special" light is needed, then I'm missing out, instead of 2kilo harvests maybe i would get 4?


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: jeetered]
    #7597671 - 11/05/07 08:41 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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and of course sunlight comes thru windows




There's your special light.  :shrug:

Why we need a brand new thread three times a week to regurgitate the same two decade old knowledge over and over and over again is beyond me.  Perhaps we should simply disable the search posts feature?
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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: jeetered]
    #7597681 - 11/05/07 08:43 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Indirect sunlight is the best anyway...


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: Slimz]
    #7597716 - 11/05/07 08:58 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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Slimz said:
Indirect sunlight is the best anyway...




Actually, unless you're fruiting chamber is directly in front of the window during mid-summer, it is *not* going to be the best light source... You want something in the 5000-6500 Kelvin range for color temperatures and the only time sunlight meets those requirements is during the mid-summer range.

Below is a short-list of some various light-sources and their related color temperatures...

Approximate Correlated Color Temperature for Various Light Sources
http://www.digigo.com/color_temperature.htm


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figgusfiddus said:
Keep in mind that inoculating or whatever in front of a flow hood won't help your bad substrate, your bad inoculant, your bad sterile procedure, etc. etc. etc. It's not a +3 flowhood of magic, it's just a tool.


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: ShRm22]
    #7597720 - 11/05/07 08:59 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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The light that I have is a fish tank light and the bulb read "full spectrum". I am not sure of the number readings, but do you think this is good to use?




No, it's not, I've used them before and got really piss-poor pinsets. Even though it says "full color spectrum" the temperatures are still only in the 2700-3300K range...


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figgusfiddus said:
Keep in mind that inoculating or whatever in front of a flow hood won't help your bad substrate, your bad inoculant, your bad sterile procedure, etc. etc. etc. It's not a +3 flowhood of magic, it's just a tool.


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: mycocurious]
    #7597730 - 11/05/07 09:05 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

alot of the "blue" headlights are in that range.. wonder if one could use one of those with a 12v power supply??


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: Slimz]
    #7597735 - 11/05/07 09:07 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

oh.. nevermind.. energy saver replacement bulbs are perfect...
Grandrich Replacement Bulb model PLE26HT3C 15 bucks on the Lamps USA website


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #7597773 - 11/05/07 09:26 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Didn't we used to have some kind of "do these posts relate to your posting?" confirmation screen as part of the posting process?

I'm sure it would be annoying for old-timers, but possibly less annoying than the:
is this trich?
CO2 drainage methods?
What strain will fuck me up the most?
Nutrient injection to PF cakes?
What is perlite?
How long should I wait to see pins?
When should I harvest?
etc.
etc.
questions coming up over and over.

And yet, even with such a feature, I'll bet we'd still see a ton of these questions.


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: MotorCityMadman]
    #7597962 - 11/05/07 10:37 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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MotorCityMadman said:
Didn't we used to have some kind of "do these posts relate to your posting?" confirmation screen as part of the posting process?

I'm sure it would be annoying for old-timers, but possibly less annoying than the:
is this trich?
CO2 drainage methods?
What strain will fuck me up the most?
Nutrient injection to PF cakes?
What is perlite?
How long should I wait to see pins?
When should I harvest?
etc.
etc.
questions coming up over and over.

And yet, even with such a feature, I'll bet we'd still see a ton of these questions.




didn't it do that for like the first 100 posts you make, then it considers you not a "noob" and lets you post regardless.


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: jeetered]
    #7597970 - 11/05/07 10:39 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

its whenever you start a thread.. but it does not work all that well.. and people have a need to make their own post...


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Re: What kind of lighting is best for fruiting cakes? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #7598098 - 11/05/07 11:26 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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RogerRabbit said:
Why we need a brand new thread three times a week to regurgitate the same two decade old knowledge over and over and over again is beyond me.  Perhaps we should simply disable the search posts feature?
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Agreed RR. It's pretty annoying. :mad:


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