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Mushroom cultivation => Cultivation => Topic started by: jonny boy on September 16, 2009, 09:29:59 AM

Title: misting
Post by: jonny boy on September 16, 2009, 09:29:59 AM
so ive been seeing alot of ratios for peroxide and water (10%-90%) to mist is it really necessary or would i be fine just using boiled water. i know it would still be a good idea to use the peroxide but just throwing the question out there...
Title: Re: misting
Post by: psilocybin warrior on September 16, 2009, 10:42:26 AM
Depends on how dirty your lifestyle is, I usually dont add any peroxide unless I get a little cobweb. the ratio is usually 1;100. Bottled spring water works fine, in my old house I always used strait out the tap with no problems. Dont go thru the trouble of boiling water just to mist.

PW
Title: Re: misting
Post by: MT on September 16, 2009, 03:00:38 PM
I have always used tap water. With good results
Title: Re: misting
Post by: fattrout on September 16, 2009, 05:26:05 PM
i mist with spring water, no boiling, no peroxide. straight from the jug..
like PW said as long as your environment is clean, your cool... :mellow:
Title: Re: misting
Post by: Davie K on September 29, 2009, 08:18:20 AM
Srry to interupt, tho i've having a small fruit fly infestation... i think i need 2 pasturize the poo a little better, but in every chamber i seem to have a couple fruit flys, just doin their thing..  No molds, or noticable contamination.. beside the flys.. an the bloomers are growing fine, 20+ grams wet, each..  do you think adding a little peroxide would help. or not have any effect of the flys
Title: Re: misting
Post by: dub504 on September 29, 2009, 03:32:56 PM
Hate to be a stickler for the proper terms, but those are fungus gnats. Fruit Flies actually look different. I deal w/ the gnats in my profession from time to time. The problem is that the fungus is their food source. On the job I would treat the source problem "the fungus" w/ a fungicide (nasty stuff). Obviously in this case we don't want to do that! If you're in the midst of a flush, things look okay and It's not out of hand. I would roll w/ it. I don't think peroxide is going to do anything for you in this case.
Title: Re: misting
Post by: dub504 on September 29, 2009, 03:41:48 PM
Davie K, I've read hedge balls work! Or... gnat strips, they just get stuck to those.
(http://prairiehighway.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/hedge-balls-2.jpg)
Title: Re: misting
Post by: psilocybin warrior on September 29, 2009, 05:11:20 PM
dub, those are monkey brains not hedgeballs. Get a grip man!

PW
Title: Re: misting
Post by: dub504 on September 29, 2009, 05:25:48 PM
Chilled monkey brains... ^_^
Title: Re: misting
Post by: Davie K on October 05, 2009, 05:48:40 PM
thanx, ima have 2 look into thoes... but how would the flys get into the chamber 2 begin with? do they come from the poop?  I use mono tubs for my chambers