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livewire
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Skinny stagnant shrooms fruiting
#7725584 - 12/06/07 06:08 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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if any of you already read my post on the "really small shrooms", i'm sorry, i just wanted to start a new thread to make sure some people saw this. i'm pretty new at this and want to see if i'm screwing something up.
(as well, some of these were growing very small shrooms inside the jars before i birthed them; this is actually why i birthed two of them b/c i figured it was time. is this unusual and did i make the right decision in birthing them if they weren't quite as white as some others?)
i am growing a few cakes individually in some sized down 2L bottle poor man terrariums like in the MMGG. they were all birthed 5-8 days ago. some have not pinned yet (is this normal?) , and the ones that have pinned have grown some small, skinny mushrooms that don't look aborted but are growing very slowly. by small i mean 1-2 cm in length and very skinny, maybe 0.5 cm in diameter.
how long do mushrooms normally take from pinning to maturity, like when they are 3 inches long, 1 inch in diameter? i don't know if these are just going to take a few weeks to get larger, or if i'm out of luck and they're going to abort, or something else needs to be done. the caps are still light to darker brown (the caps are also very small). they are just so skinny as well as short and i just had the impression they were supposed to go rapidly once they pinned.
these are cambodians if that means anything to anyone.
like i said they are in 2L bottles, with a damp paper towel at the bottom underneath each cake. i can't directly measure the humidity but there are always lots of water droplets on the sides and top when i take them out. i believe it's 75-80 degrees where they are being kept. they are being given 1-2 hours of light per day, and i take the tops off and fan them 2-3 times per day.
does anyone have any idea what is causing these to be so small? will they keep going? should i do something differently? advice/suggestions/opinions would be greatly appreciated because this is my first time and i'd like to get it right.
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Nibin
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Re: Skinny stagnant shrooms fruiting [Re: livewire]
#7725603 - 12/06/07 06:12 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Skinny = Excess CO2.
Fan more often
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ewikk055
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Re: Skinny stagnant shrooms fruiting [Re: Nibin]
#7729715 - 12/07/07 05:16 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Nibin said: Skinny = Excess CO2.
Fan more often
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buggas
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Re: Skinny stagnant shrooms fruiting [Re: ewikk055]
#7770763 - 12/17/07 06:10 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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That's good that you started this post, you got a couple of different answers here than on the one that i started.
This is interesting to me too, and i think i may have found the solution over the weekend.
I bought some 5" square, 10" high tupperware's with a "steam port" in the lid. I then drilled a hole 3" from the bottom on one of the sides (just above my geolite).
I have air pump hoses going in the top holes (3 containers), then some hoses coming out the holes near the bottoms for the CO2 to escape. I used hoses on the bottom, so that any contams won't land directly inside the tub. This way i have lots of air blowing on the cakes for FAE, and increased evaporation of the water for high humidity; hopefully getting rid of our little shroom problem.
I get a bit more humidity than the water jugs i had before, and i think that with the air hoses, it will keep fresh air moving through there quite often.
I think the optimal FAE is 5-6 complete air exchanges per day.
I think the rule is to keep lots of fresh air moving through there, while you keep humidifying the new air up to 100% quickly and constistantly.
Wet and Fresh... like a good girl should be!
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_OttO_
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Re: Skinny stagnant shrooms fruiting [Re: buggas]
#7771091 - 12/17/07 07:26 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
buggas said:
Wet and Fresh... like a good girl should be!
You nailed it....
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