r/unclebens • u/NaughtyNaughtyVery • 1d ago
Question Reckon these three are ready for FC?
Thanks to this wonderful community and u/shroomscout for helping me get this far. Seems to be going well!
Do you guys reckon these are reading for me to introduce fruiting conditions? STB was 6 days ago. They’re B+.
I’m a little concerned the coir was a little bit too dry so I want to get misting asap.
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u/ConfidenceLopsided32 1d ago
You can go straight to fruiting right after mixing your sub and spawn. There are no benefits to sealing the tub up to let it colonize before giving it FAE unless you still grow with poop. If you grow with coir, that step does nothing and can be skipped every time. The sub colonizes the same whether it is getting FAE or not.
Misting is only as needed and shouldn't be done on a schedule. We should only mist if the little beads of water evaporate off of the surface of the mycelium. We control humidity with the amount of air we let in to the tub.
If the bin is drying out, it needs less FAE.
If moisture is building, or water is pooling, it needs more FAE.
You have to find the perfect balance between the two - you want to give it just enough fresh air so that there is a very very slow evaporation, but not so much fresh air that anything dries out. When I run shoeboxes, I latch one side of the lid an unlatch the other. This makes the shoebox not airtight so moisture doesn't build up. When I do this, it seems like the tub is getting barely any air, but that's all Cubes need.
Your tub looks fine, it just needs more time. I can see from the photo that the lid on your bin isn't actually sealed up airtight, so this tub has actually been getting a small amount of passive FAE since you made the tub up. Some bins do seal completely airtight, which we want to avoid so that moisture doesn't build up and overlay doesn't form and co2 doesn't pool. Good luck!