Anybody try fruiting shrooms in a grow tent?
Is a typical small (1000) Marshydro LED ok to use? I’ve read mushrooms like more blue light not red.
Mushrooms do fine with a $7 plain 60 watt light bulb. Light doesn’t help mushrooms much. All light does for mushrooms is tell them in which direction (up) to grow and it helps a bit with having well-formed fruiting bodies. The light I use for growing shrooms is a regular table lamp with a 60 watt bulb in it and the lamp is placed 10 feet away from the tent. Mushrooms need very little light to do well.
I use a Martha tent for growing mushrooms as it is easier to hit the humidity levels (RH = 80%+) necessary for growing mushrooms.
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Exactly. If you can see enough to read a book, then you have plenty of light. @Jerdan03
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The ambient light in this room is all my shrooms get. It’s a table lamp all the way over to the left with the mushroom tent all the way on the right. It’s a 60 watt plain old GE light bulb in the lamp over to the left.
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I prefer ambient light for my setups.
Nice Martha @MidwestGuy
Hadn’t seen one in awhile 
haven’t been in the game either so that’s not saying much.
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@Jerdan03 You might like this thread:
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I was using the tent mainly for temperature control, my basement sits around 65-68 degrees F. What is your ideal fruiting temperature?
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Upper 70s. I use a Martha tent and seedling mats to get to the high 70s.
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Who got them azeteca’s then ? I want some of those absolute best ever ever mushrooms!!
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