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Would you suggest cleaning and using new perlite when you dunk and roll as well?  Or when you add more cakes?

Oh man one of them started to pin!    Do I continue misting and fanning regularly?  Been doin' so probably 2-3 times a day

Here are the remaining survivors, they seem to be doing well.  What do you think? rH = 95-99%, Temp = 74 (currently), using 12/12 for light w/the Daylight CFLs





(Sorry folks, I broke my 3.2 (super old) megapixel camera trying to take pictures, so I used my phone, lol)

Yeah definitely unfortunate, I'm praying that only 3 out of 9 are going to be contaminated and the rest will fruit beautifully

Turns out it was, so sad =(

I actually had to get another one out because it was contaminated as well, I need to bleach more for serious

What is that blueish/greenish spot on top?

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/1323/photo03311411.jpg

Okay, better safe then sorry is best...at least the other 8 are doing well so far 

How funny is it that after my previous post all of a sudden one of my cakes has a contaminant!  What I did was take it out of the FC immediately and placed it in another container.  The contaminated part of it is about the size of a nickle (from what I can see on the inside) and I think it might have started pinning on the top.  What should I do?  Should I just toss the entire cake, or should I chop it in half?    I used a Q-tip and green stuff came off, so it's most definitely mold 

Oh no I don't mist till everything is saturated in water, usually until the vermiculite on the cakes is a little sparkly, then I fan it out, and I put the lid back on.  On top of that I check the hygrometer (best decision: getting one from a cigar shop.  THANKS RR!) and make sure that it still is reading properly.  And now that I know that having the temperature just above 70 is okay, I feel a tons better about my current situation 

All right, now armed with Daylight CFL Bulbs (which are crazy, btw) I feel that fruiting is going to go along much quicker now.  RH is high, temp is around 77-78 (should I make that higher?) and I'm fanning and misting like a mad man.  I can only imagine how I'm going to behave when I have kids...

Just looked at the box (after digging in the garbage) and saw that it's a Soft White CFL, could I pick up a Daylight bulb at HomeDepot or Wal-mart?

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Nevermind, all I had to do was look, haha, on my way to grab one now!

Okay, so I've got a 14 watt CFL (60 incan. equivalent) lighting my chamber 12 hours on and 12 hours off, but the thing is is it too much to point it directly at the FC?  It's about 5 feet above the FC itself (on a high rack in my closet).  At the same time, I think it actually warms the FC a few degrees when it's directly pointed at it.  I turned it away today out of paranoia and the temperature dropped to about 73 degrees.  Any suggestions?

Ahh I'm on day 4 and it feels like forever, hopefully I'll have your luck olzo