Fruiting chamber idea for hot environment

[0omnidirectional]

My surrounding environment is anywhere from 75 - 105 degrees F with 0 humidity. So just leaving a terrarium with perlite out there gives me funky temps.

I plan on making a couple 2.5 gal spawn bags, and once they are ready to pin, I will transfer the entire bag to my new terrarium.

The terrarium will be some type of cooler with the bottom 3.5 inches filled with water. The aquarium heater will be set to 70 degrees. And I'll just have the bag sitting in the cool water.

That is the best that I can come up with for hot environments. I hear it is bad to have sitting water, but I could just replace it every four days. This is also pretty stealthy.

[feralronin]

I have heard of a similar situation in a thread about a year ago. I believe he was trying to fruit woodlover's out of season indoors and needed to find a suitable FC for the cooler temps needed for fruiting.

Looked for a little while and couldn't find the thread but I imagine your situation would work well with something like that.

If I find it ill post it for ya.

[nyi]

It hink that an peltier thermoelectric plate would drop the temps by 10C = 18F (from 33C to 23C = 92F to 74F). I have some succes with cubes at 28C = 82F.. . some. For pans it's good, but not ideal cubes.

A Peltier thermoelectric plate works by transferring free subatomic particles to the hot side by applying electric current to the semiconductor material in it. The free particles are transfering heat with them. One side becomes hotter and one side becomes cooler. The electric flow generates heat, so the hot side has to be cooled by a heat sink.

I have 2 thermoelectric plates at hand, both are 12V/140W and they price was low, about 10-15 USD at most with shipping. I'll build an air chamber from 2cm = 1in thick polystyrene. To 1 hole in the chamber a polytyrene tube will be connected. In 1 side of the tube the cool side of thermoelectric plate with regular CPU cooler will be built in (without the fan).

No air will be capable to miss the cooler. On another side of the plate a regular and probably bigger CPU cooler with fan will be mounted to cool the hot side, making the cool side even cooler.

In the polystyrene chamber my aquarium bubbler will be placed. The bubbler will pump cool air into the FC the same way as now it pumps the hot air. The plate and fan will be powered by an old modified PC power supply. 140W is plenty, the sides can have 60C = 108F difference in temperature.

[PsyBearknot]

Originally Posted by 0omnidirectional

I hear it is bad to have sitting water, but I could just replace it every four days. This is also pretty stealthy.

One would think a diluted bleach water or peroxide water bath would be of benefit to set the bags in.

PBK

[roscoe]

Originally Posted by 0omnidirectional (Fruiting chamber idea for hot environment)
I hear it is bad to have sitting water, but I could just replace it every four days. This is also pretty stealthy.


super salty water will do the trick. bleach and h2o2 go away quickly, salt does not. you want the water saturated with salt, to where you cannot disolve any more salt into it.