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420God

420God

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DarthD3vl said:
if you get a gourmet mushroom grow going i'd really like to see it also, i love mushrooms.
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I'll let you know for sure. I'm going to be starting a thread on my garden later today also for anyone interested. I'll post a link in my sig.
 
canndo

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420God said:
Awesome info!! Thanks so much! Think of these shrooms as my trial run for doing gourmet mushrooms. I'm doing a lot of gardening and really getting back to nature lately in my life so all this information is helping out greatly.

I'm should be ordering some button mushrooms and maybe some others in the near future and it's those kind that I'm really trying to learn how to spawn to bulk, should be the same concept.
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I wouldn't start with the agarici. They are hard, the substrate has to be perfect, they must grow in complete darkness. I suggest a high temperature oyster (depending on where you live and if you can control the temps). They are fairly forgiving, the substrate can be pasturized straw and they run quickly. I have a batch of shaggy manes in the works isolated from a long little shaggy mane I found in a neihbor's yard. I suspect my substrate is wrong - they have been in static mode for over a month and I have yet to see fruit.
 
420God

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canndo said:
I wouldn't start with the agarici. They are hard, the substrate has to be perfect, they must grow in complete darkness. I suggest a high temperature oyster (depending on where you live and if you can control the temps). They are fairly forgiving, the substrate can be pasturized straw and they run quickly. I have a batch of shaggy manes in the works isolated from a long little shaggy mane I found in a neihbor's yard. I suspect my substrate is wrong - they have been in static mode for over a month and I have yet to see fruit.
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Good to know, I think I'm going to stick to the easy stuff in the beginning and with the substrates I have to work with.

I have compost and a large selection of grains and manures to choose from for bulk so hopefully things will go well.
 
420God

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I've built a small shotgun terrarium for the mushrooms. I originally wanted something a little more automated but after all the suggestions and advice this seems to be the best/easiest way to go.
 

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your shotgun looks perfected!!!

i would use a more perlite PERSONALLY since I live in such a dry area.
but you will obviously know if you'll need more perlite or not.
 
420God

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HeatlessBBQ said:
your shotgun looks perfected!!!

i would use a more perlite PERSONALLY since I live in such a dry area.
but you will obviously know if you'll need more perlite or not.
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Thank you, and yeah, I'll probably add more perlite. That's all I had left from transplanting from my garden so I'll have to pick some more up.
 
420God

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So after a 24hr dunk in cold water then a quick roll in vermiculite I've put the cakes into the fruiting chamber and set the light cycle to 12/12.

I cut the cakes in half so they fruit out more. :mrgreen:
 

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choempi

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I made some fcs that I put like 4 1/4" holes along the longsides and 3 on the short sides about 1" above the perlite then stuck a small fan on a timer on a short side right up tight to the tub. The air will go up and under the loose lid and flow out of the tubs holes in a controlled fashion. I used those for cakes and trays. Would just mist a bit before the fan would kick on.
 
420God

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choempi said:
I made some fcs that I put like 4 1/4" holes along the longsides and 3 on the short sides about 1" above the perlite then stuck a small fan on a timer on a short side right up tight to the tub. The air will go up and under the loose lid and flow out of the tubs holes in a controlled fashion. I used those for cakes and trays. Would just mist a bit before the fan would kick on.
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Good idea, I think I may have a spare computer fan laying around somewhere. Maybe I can fashion something up.
 
choempi

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420God said:
Good idea, I think I may have a spare computer fan laying around somewhere. Maybe I can fashion something up.
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you can tape over holes till you get the desired amount of air flow, it worked well for me. Not a fan of the sgfc tek
 
canndo

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Sgt. Floyd said:
Check out this ultra sonic humidifier made for reptile tanks. It's got an output control on it. Combine that with a timer and you might could get a pretty automated set up.

http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3355594

I don't know if it would work but when I saw it in the pet store it's the first thing I though of.
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Get an aquarium pump, then get yourself a platic bottle, put your fogger in the bottle three quarters filled with water and pipe your air pump through the bottle into your growing chamber. Now you have 100 percent humidity AND air exchanges. Add water every few days.
 
choempi

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canndo said:
Get an aquarium pump, then get yourself a platic bottle, put your fogger in the bottle three quarters filled with water and pipe your air pump through the bottle into your growing chamber. Now you have 100 percent humidity AND air exchanges. Add water every few days.
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how do you get evaporation to initiate knotts and pins at 100% rh?
 
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