Question for experienced mushi growers-

taknitEZ95

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So, I am pretty new to the mushroom game. Been growing herb for a while but dont have alot of experince with mushies. Anyway...being a begginer I am using the pf-tek. My jars fully colonized about a week ago. And I put them into my shotgun terrerium yesterday. (using the perlite humidification tek).

I'm a little worried becuse my hygrometer in the tererium is reading 83% humidity. So...I covered up some of the holes but the humidity won't seem to get any higher:wall:. Than i put a small heating pad under the tererium in hopes that a little warmth would help. But nothing seems to work. I also live in a pretty dry climate.

Does anyone have any suggestions to help get my humidity up??? PLus rep to all suggestions. And Thanks in advance.
 

jollygreengiant8

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the holes in your fruiting chamber should be stuffed with polyfil
you can mist the walls a few times or get an air pump and stick the hose in a cup of water so it bubbles.

be patient, pins will take about a week to start forming.
 

Pockets le Peu

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no your not supposed to use polyfill in a SG terrarium, but you can use a cup with an airstone but make sure the water level is low enough that sprinkles wont escape and oversaturate ur perlite, no pooling water.
btw you home RH should hover around 50 for you to get 100%.
also most digital hygros dont read above 85-90 as they are crap, get a analog hygro from a tobaconist store
80+ will work, just mist and fan 3 times a day.
 

jollygreengiant8

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no your not supposed to use polyfill in a SG terrarium, but you can use a cup with an airstone but make sure the water level is low enough that sprinkles wont escape and oversaturate ur perlite, no pooling water.
btw you home RH should hover around 50 for you to get 100%.
also most digital hygros dont read above 85-90 as they are crap, get a analog hygro from a tobaconist store
80+ will work, just mist and fan 3 times a day.
why are you not supposed to use polyfil? it still allows for air exchange but also keeps out dust and other particles that can contam the chamber
 

Psychedelics and Chronic

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Do you have condensation on the sides of your terrarium? Also, I too would suggest misting the sides and top of the terrarium. Mist less on the top and more on the sides. Also your fruiting temperature should be 5-10 degrees F colder than your incubating temp. The heat should probably not be needed.

The first time I tried growing mushies I used a plastic terrarium (perilite of course) with holes all over it and medical (breathable) tape over the holes. Didn't have much luck, small and few mushies. Kept having trouble keeping the humidity up. Now I changed it and just put a clean black garbage inside the terrarium and made it to line the inside. Put perilite in that and made a lid with a another garbage bag and cut out a sandwich bag sized square in the middle and taped a sandwich bag to it so light can enter in the top and only the top. I was able to fan 2-3 times a day and mist and not have to worry about anything. Great big mushies and flushes. 4-5 flushes on each. On one of my grows I even forgot for about 2 days to fan as I was out of town and just went back to the usual fanning schedule when I got back and it was all fine. If you rolled them in verm before you put in fruiting chamber you might notice some white mycellium growing around it before and during pinning and growth. This just means the humidty is high and you should probably fan slightly more often. I was scared the first time and thought it was mold, but it was pure white....safe.

Sometimes they like to take some more time to pin, sometimes they start pinning 5 days after full colonization while I still had them in the jars. Be patient, they should still grow and when they do you will love to watch them grow. Barely hang out with your friends for 5-7 days. Then next thing you know you got a nice handful of boomies, dunk, roll again, and back in fruiting chamber, and about a week later....more pins. I just love how incredibly cheap it is in the end. You spend a certain amount for start up materials. But you get many grows out of the amount of verm, BRF, and perilite you use. I use new perilite half the time, some re-use all the time, some use new every time. The jars and lids are all re-usable, and I only use 1-2cc per jar so 1 syringe is between 5-10 jars. Bought 5 syringes at first then a few extra. Total start cost was around $75 and first good grow got me around 30-35g's. an Ounce of mushies around me generally costs $160-$200. So I already got my money back x3 and got 4 more grows with the verm and BRF. Still had perilite for another few grows. It really is soooo cheap. I use tap water so that's nothing, and either sunlight or a light shining down. Barely any light is needed. I do around 6-10 hours of light a day
 

Pockets le Peu

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why are you not supposed to use polyfil? it still allows for air exchange but also keeps out dust and other particles that can contam the chamber
well you can do whatever you want but the tek calls for, no restriction. this is why your room rh has to be around 50 give or take, the equalization of rh is what causes fae, this is why you dont have to fan this tek. as far as contams, a fully colonized substrate will be alot more resistant to contams as contams need a uncolonized area to colonize.
 

ANC

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In all likelyhood you are useing a digital hygrometer, which is not suiatble for use in such high humidity... Try and look for a nice analog one from a cigar shop.
 
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