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LateForTheFuture
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Re: Favorite Fruiting Chamber, and why... [Re: Crake]
#7798436 - 12/25/07 02:17 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I always enjoy classic humidification technique through perlite.
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Crake
Stranger


Registered: 12/04/07
Posts: 194
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So we have a lot of aspiring mono-tubs out there and a couple shotguns... Very interesting. One thing I must say is I'm not quite too familiar with the mono setup. I does sound appealing to a working person... if it truly IS set and forget.
Thanks for the pictorial Glacier, I love a good visual. That is my hope that I could coax people to plaster a couple of good or original pix up here... Maybe drag an idea out that no one has seen or heard of yet, but I'm not picky.
As for me, well... I haven't had ANYTHING in a long time. I'm going to do <THIS> sometime in the future (modified of course). I voted OTHER for myself... the second pic in that link doesn't fall into any of the categories I assigned.
Keep em' coming everybody...
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chubbmeister
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Re: Favorite Fruiting Chamber, and why... [Re: Crake]
#7799127 - 12/25/07 07:34 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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automated greenhouse is the way to go.
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mushnoon
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Re: Favorite Fruiting Chamber, and why... [Re: chubbmeister]
#7799239 - 12/25/07 08:14 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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just switched to the monotub and have found that its the way to go. its as easy as it gets to construct. i like to tinker here and there so i cant quite call it set and forget, but it does require very low maintenance. I work and go to school, so often times i cant get to my setup for a day or two, making the monotub even more convenient. I open mine up atleast twice a day and im yet to see contamination, thank the mushroom god.
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FooMan




Registered: 02/02/05
Posts: 8,957
Loc: Earth
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Re: Favorite Fruiting Chamber, and why... [Re: chubbmeister]
#7799252 - 12/25/07 08:19 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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chubbmeister said: automated greenhouse is the way to go.
Is it really "automated" though? You have to keep the humidifiers filled with fresh water, set timers for ultrasonics, check humidity, deal with electrical components and cords, etc, etc. With all that damn gadgetry, you have to keep checking on it to make sure things are running smooth.
I'd rather set up my monotub and not worry about it again until harvest time. No outside components, no worries.
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chubbmeister
meisterofchubb



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Re: Favorite Fruiting Chamber, and why... [Re: Crake]
#7799275 - 12/25/07 08:31 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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true it's not as easy as the set it and forget it of mono/double tubs,but once setup properly a greenhouse will give so much more fruiting space to work with.my 4 tier holds 6-8 12 quart sweater boxes which has produced much more than 3 mono tubs in my experience.plus if you get a contam in a mono tub the whole things fucked.all and all i only spend 30 minutes a week filling humidifiers and checking everything.it's all about preference.
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FooMan




Registered: 02/02/05
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Re: Favorite Fruiting Chamber, and why... [Re: chubbmeister]
#7799298 - 12/25/07 08:43 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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The yield would depend on the size of the monotubs. I haven't had any problems with contams in a monotub, but I would rather have it isolated to a single tub rather than one tray contaminating an entire greenhouse with mold spores flying around from a blowing coolmist humidifier. It definitely is a preference thing though.
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chubbmeister
meisterofchubb



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Re: Favorite Fruiting Chamber, and why... [Re: Crake]
#7799421 - 12/25/07 09:23 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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good point on the mold...greenhouse saves on space also. as apposed to 3 or 4 mono tubs.
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Glacier Creek
The Chef



Registered: 09/23/07
Posts: 384
Loc: PNW
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Re: Favorite Fruiting Chamber, and why... [Re: chubbmeister]
#7843397 - 01/07/08 12:42 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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chubbmeister said: good point on the mold...greenhouse saves on space also. as apposed to 3 or 4 mono tubs.
Care to put that to a challenge? I will bet anyone that I can outgrow, in dry wieght, same size grow room or closet, with tubs compared to greenhouses.
You can stack tubs, and yeilds grow from edge to edge of the tub.
Green houses have several small trays inside of them, leaving tons of unused space around the edges of your trays. Even if all your trays touch one another, the space between the plastic edges is wasted.
That is like saying that if you put two small trays inside a 18 gallon tub, you are going to get a higher yield than if you spawned bulk from in the entire tub, cased, and fruited.
There is no way.
Tubs are the most efficiant use of growing space there is.
There only advantage I have found over a greenhouse, is not having to restack your tubs, when you need to get inside of one.
The greenhouse design allows you to just unzip, and remove trays, instead of having to manipulate several stacked tubs to get to the bottom one.
But grow area compared to dry yields, tubs will win hands down, in any room or closet. Let's not spread mis-information.
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uncle_rico
my own worst enemy


Registered: 03/28/06
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Re: Favorite Fruiting Chamber, and why... [Re: Glacier Creek]
#7843578 - 01/07/08 01:33 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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Check out Akira's Orissa India Bulk Grow (Tub Tek)
It is a monotub with auto (Coolmist) misting / FAE .....
........ it is impressive.
Hey, someone teach me how to link a tek to a post ...
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BlargIAmDead
Shroom Samurai




Registered: 11/04/07
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Re: Favorite Fruiting Chamber, and why... [Re: uncle_rico]
#7843772 - 01/07/08 02:26 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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Alright Glacier I challenge you. You go ahead and grow an amount of substrate in tubs then grow the same amount in a greenhouse with the largest tubs feasible and get back with the results .
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Gr8fulJ420
strange but nota stranger



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Re: Favorite Fruiting Chamber, and why... [Re: BlargIAmDead]
#7844317 - 01/07/08 04:09 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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I've never heard of a "shotgun" FC until this thread. I guess I'll have to use the search :-)
I've got my first monotub colonizing right now. In the past I've used bins & perlite, but didn't like fanning or dealing with the perlite.
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Blutjager
Inhuman


Registered: 06/11/06
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Re: Favorite Fruiting Chamber, and why... [Re: Gr8fulJ420]
#7844400 - 01/07/08 04:29 PM (16 years, 25 days ago) |
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Its been a while since I had it up and running but my greenhouse was practically a mushroom factory where as long as I had things timed out well so new projects were going in as I disposed of old ones there was a period of time where there were mushrooms being harvested on a near daily basis
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