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wocka
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Cool mist w/ small FC
#7725129 - 12/06/07 03:59 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Im using a PMP. Basically I have a clear tupperware container than is about 14" long x 10" high x 5" deep. I have about 2.5" of rinsed perlite in the bottom and a pf-style cake. I got a cool mist humidifier with a 5" long big plastic tube connected from the cool mist output into the chamber. The chamber has the lid loosely on top to let out a little of excess air. MY question is will my humidifier create enough humidity to fruit my cakes or will all the fresh humidified air dry out the some what sealed chamber?
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poot
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Re: Cool mist w/ small FC [Re: wocka]
#7725223 - 12/06/07 04:24 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i think the humidifier is a waste of time. Misting as well as the perlite should humidify sufficiently
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Re: Cool mist w/ small FC [Re: poot]
#7725244 - 12/06/07 04:30 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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You will have 100% humidity at all times.
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Re: Cool mist w/ small FC [Re: TheFish]
#7725296 - 12/06/07 04:47 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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poot- the humidity was not doing it as my cakes were not pinning.. so i figured my humidity wasnt high enough and I dont have a humidity reader.
TheFish- thanks for letting me know that maybe i have a chance at getting some fruit. will my cakes absorb water to pin if maybe they were dried out from before (being in low humidity)
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Re: Cool mist w/ small FC [Re: wocka]
#7725744 - 12/06/07 06:47 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i tried to do it once, make sure you dont have droplets of water flying onto your cakes. you might want to put the humidifier on a timer so its not going constantly because i experienced an excess in humidity and aborted many pins.. you could probably humidify 4 pmp's at a time with one humidifier
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Re: Cool mist w/ small FC [Re: poot]
#7727439 - 12/07/07 05:33 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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yah.. i ran it all night and didnt see one new growth this morning.. im maybe thinking that the chamber is so small it cant hold the humidity. im probly gonna put them in a bigger chamber and run the humidifier to that..
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Re: Cool mist w/ small FC [Re: wocka]
#7727446 - 12/07/07 05:38 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Without a humidity gauge your not gooing to know what your humidity is. Perlite should hold 95% humidity pretty easy.
While its important to have neer 100% humidity at the surface of the mycelium for good hyphol knot formation, this is not the only cause.
Chances are your humidity is ok. How long have you been waiting on them pinning. if you have been waiting less than a week, Wait more. Pinning can take upto 2 weeks.
FAE is very important. 4-6 times a day is usually sufficient with misting.
Unless you have a greenhouse, perlite is the simplest and most efficient method of humidification. I am using it in a 30 litre tub. Maintains humidity between 92%-96%.
12/12 light cycle ??
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Re: Cool mist w/ small FC [Re: veda_sticks]
#7729660 - 12/07/07 05:00 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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perlite is not efficient.. do you enjoy cleaning all that shit out of you FC when its time to put new perlite in? perlite is the messiest stuff ive ever encountered in cultivation. perlite sucks ass, if you get the humidifier to work, ditch the perlite.
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Re: Cool mist w/ small FC [Re: poot]
#7729780 - 12/07/07 05:35 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i rescently moved the cake to a bigger single monotub. i added a bag of moist perlite to give me a good layer is perlite on the bottom. then i hooked up my humidifier to it. the cakes been trying to fruit for 2-3weeks, and i think it dried out from the past fruiting chamber because the hyphal knots outermost parts were blueing blueish like they were out of moisture. so im dunking again for 24 hours and putting it back into the chamber..
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Re: Cool mist w/ small FC [Re: wocka]
#7731119 - 12/07/07 10:46 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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They're probably bruising because you keep moving them around.
They have personalities too, ya know? Let them do their thing.
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Re: Cool mist w/ small FC [Re: TheFish]
#7732029 - 12/08/07 05:55 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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tru tru. but im pretty sure they dried out from being in the bobo small fruiting chamber. it has to be, the knots looked like they were going to for primordia but instead of having red cap tops the tip of the buldge just tinted a lil blue. its really small. like the size of a white pimple on some ones face :X
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