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  • May 13, 2015 at 9:18 pm #574
    Alfonso Burgio
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    A warm welcome to everyone,

    my name is Alfonso and I would be very happy to share ideas with someone who grow mushrooms in a basement. I have not started yet with growing, but I will do it in a basement, I have no other places to choose at the moment. In the basement I will use there is not much light, and it would be great if someone could give me general advice about setting the fruiting condition. For example: would be normal light like neon OK? Which devices should I use for creating necessary temperature, moisture, in the fruiting basement?

    Thanks for answering to my post.
    Alfonso / Hamburg / Germany

    May 13, 2015 at 9:45 pm #575
    Alfonso Burgio
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    A warm welcome to everyone,

    my name is Alfonso and I would be very happy to share ideas with someone who grow mushrooms in a basement. I have not started yet with growing, but I will do it in a basement, I have no other places to choose at the moment. In the basement I will use there is not much light, and it would be great if someone could give me general advice about setting the fruiting condition. For example: would be normal light like neon OK? Which tools I should use for creating necessary temperature, moisture, in the fruiting basement?

    Thanks for answering to my post.
    Alfonso / Hamburg / Germany

    May 15, 2015 at 5:56 pm #576
    Anthony Campbell
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    Alphonso,

     

    The light you’ll need for oyster mushrooms is not neon, but close to the colour temperature of natural sunlight.  The important thing is that the light is a cool white colour and not a warm yellow colour that indoor lights often are.  The colour temperature should be about 6,000 to 6,500 Kelvin.

     

    See the following article and charts for more details:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature

     

    I use an LED light that is approximately 6,000 to grow indoors.  I will post a picture on the site.

     

    Hope this helps.

    June 8, 2015 at 11:09 am #601
    Adam
    Keymaster

    Hi Alfonso and Anthony,

    Apologies for being a little slow in helping out here – it’s been a really flat out few weeks here re-building our growing rooms in a new building.

    Anthony’s advice about lighting is spot on and in addition I’d just add that we’ve found Oyster mushrooms are not particularly fussy with lighting requirements – we’ve grown them well in diffuse natural light, under normal neon lights and also for as little exposure as just 2 hours a day. Of all the growing conditions, lighting is the least important.

    With regards temperaure the best solution would be to measure the existing conditions and then select a strain which is used to growing at this temperautre, rather than needing to heat or cool the space drastically.

    Best of luck with it and do let us know how you get on,
    Adam

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