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#61
PF - Tek / Re: small ones
May 19, 2009, 06:04:48 PM
small mushrooms are almost always lack of moisture within your substrate.

Did you dunk your cakes prior to the first flash and before each other flush??

Also, if its pf cakes and you get a massive pinset they will tend to be much smaller. small substrates really dont hold alot of wahter, so you usually get a few big shrooms, or alot of smaller ones.

The over all yeild should be similar in the right ocnditions. Ive seen cakes put out a good 70 grams fresh per flush,
#62
PF - Tek / Re: I am at a loss...
May 19, 2009, 06:02:19 PM
what are you doing for FAE, which is a very important pinning trigger.

were talking about cubensis are we? if so cubes dont respond to drops in temp, temp drop is not a pinning trigger for cubes, which is a tropical species.

#63
PF - Tek / Re: Wha'd i do?
May 19, 2009, 05:58:29 PM
Quote from: Davie K on May 15, 2009, 01:07:55 PM
I used a boiling pot, used for steaming clams..  it keeps the jars out of the water and steams them pretty good.  is the pressure cooker nessisary?

For PF tek (brown rice flour, vermiculite and water) no you can steam your jars. For grains you need a prssure cooker.

Make sure that when you steam, you start timing from when steam starts escaping the lid not when it starts to boil. It will take time from when the it starts to boil for the surface of that jars to reach 100C. 90 minutes after steam escapes the lid, which is usualyt around 30 minutes after hoiling.

Make sure to turn down your stove to maintain a boil so that you dont boil your pot dry.
#64
PF - Tek / Re: Need a lil help
May 19, 2009, 05:55:58 PM
You really need a PC to prepare grains. Grains harbour things that cant be killed by steam sterilisation.

Stick with the pf tek, and if your wanting to improve results, then spawn to bulk substrate which only has to be pasturised. Like coir and coffee.
#65
Your first problem is probably that cheap hygrometer that your using. many low humiditry reports of humidity are due to inacurite readings.


You need hygrometer that you can calibrate. It will have a screw on the back, wrap it in a damp towel and after 1 hour adjust to read 99%.

Heating your terrarium is not a good idea. heating a terrarium directly will actually rob you of humidity, as it will cause lots of condesnsation to form on the walls (which  incidentaly is not a sign of high humidity). moisture condensing out of the air is no good, you want that moisture in the air. Some condensation however is normal since when loaded with substrate will raise the terrairum a few degrees. 72F is fine for fruiting cubensis, there not picky and willl fruit anywehere from 69F-80F.

Yo had the right idea drilling holes in your terrarium, as fresh air exchange is a very important pinning trigger, and is also our number 1 defense againts contamination during fruiting. They just look to big.

dril 1/4 inch holes ever 2-3 inches, in all 6 sides, top and bottom, and raise your terrarium of the table its sitting so air can get in through the bottom. that design will give you atleast 90% if not mid to upper 90's. Ive even heard of it maintaining 90% with the lid of.

PMP's are ok but that requires extra expense of an air pump, which really dont cut it for FAE . Mit then fan your terraium a few times a day.
Also, i ice boost is giving your substrates bright light in the daylight range on a 12 on off schedule. Inderect sunlight is fine, a few minutes of direct sunlight can hlep stimulate pinning. But if you can use natural light. A CFL bulb marked daylight or 6500K works great.