southernhood93
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China lamps. They love those. Or you could jus pull yur car up there & turn tha headlights on
See i always wanted to know if they could fruit in cooler temps hopefully it works out for meyou need more heat for colonization than fruiting...the cooler the temps the thicker the fruit...I try to fruit around 60-65 degrees...and less heat means less chance on contams...hth
Don't worry about light on the mycelium, it doesn't matter (unless you are shooting for perfect pinsets). And don't worry about light to fruit either, ambient daylight, incandescent, flurescent, doesn't matter, you don't need special lighting at all and they will fruit in the darkness as well, though they will not look very pretty - long stems and tiny caps. Even a tiny hint of light, just a few seconds a day is enough to trigger decent flushes and you will find that all of the fruit leans toward whatever light they have or had.For sure lol the only reason iv checked up a couple times on em was to just make sure the temps werent to high. They been freakin me out a little but its pretty much spot on now. There isnt much light that gets to the room anyhow. Both windows r covered and the doors shut so even n the day its pretty damn dark lol. Not using any lights now but iv heard a 6500k spectrum (daylight) bulbs work when there fruiting and i got a couple layin around from my plant so i think im gonna run one of those. Any one else got suggestions for lights when it comes time for them?
See i always wanted to know if they could fruit in cooler temps hopefully it works out for me
I think you are actually better off with higher temps when it comes to contamination, it is true that contamination grows slower at the lower temperatures but so too does the myclium, and the quicker you have full colonization, the less chance you have of getting mold invasions. In most cases, you either have contamination or you do not so temperatures don't matter at all - that is unless you go up beyond around 85 which will inhibit mycelial growth but not necessarily conatmination.you need more heat for colonization than fruiting...the cooler the temps the thicker the fruit...I try to fruit around 60-65 degrees...and less heat means less chance on contams...hth