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SWIM's PF Tek Progression
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Entheogenerator
Homo discens
Those are some nice-lookin' little babies you got there! I don't know why but this makes me really happy, even though they aren't my own babies! :lol:
Entheogenerator
Homo discens
:want:
Wow, those are looking amazing nice work! Sorry if this has been asked already but what mushroom strain is that?
infinitynlove
Mushroom Explorer
Lookin Good budy!
FAE = Fresh air exchange, its the biggest pinning factor of all...
if you are noticing bluing on your cakes and you have shrooms mainly coming from the bottom of the cakes and there is more water there than in other areas, then your cakes may be a little dry
its the evaporation of water from the mycelium surface, hence why one dunks and roles in verm, that encourages pinning... if you have lots of FAE then your cakes might be drying out a bit at the top and the water is running down to the bottom which means they are more likley to pin from the bottom, easy fix, spray / mist a little more...
Also when you place your cakes on foil, put a bit of fresh, sterile, wet verm on the foil then place the cake on it, it acts like a water reservoir for the cakes to draw from, which aids in slowing down drying.
You can literally drench your cakes when spraying BUT only before they start to pin, once they start to pin, I have found to much water can make the pins abort and then the heads rot and turn black and stop growing.
I literally spray each cake separately trying to avoid getting the pins too wet.
If you have good FAE there will always be some drying of a cake, but the verm you rolled them in, can hold quite a bit of water, so keeping the outside verm moist offsets the rate of dehydration.
Great progress so far...
keeping your fruiting conditions perfect can be quite a challenge, but getting things close enough is often all that is needed to get an above average flush.
Also if your cakes don't flush that much the first time, its safe to say they still have nutrients left that will be used in further flushes, I have found heavy flushing cakes don't flush as heavy on flush no 3 and onwards, but cakes that flush less on the first flush, seems to be more consistent on later flushes.
Keep up the good work!
Peace
FAE = Fresh air exchange, its the biggest pinning factor of all...
if you are noticing bluing on your cakes and you have shrooms mainly coming from the bottom of the cakes and there is more water there than in other areas, then your cakes may be a little dry
its the evaporation of water from the mycelium surface, hence why one dunks and roles in verm, that encourages pinning... if you have lots of FAE then your cakes might be drying out a bit at the top and the water is running down to the bottom which means they are more likley to pin from the bottom, easy fix, spray / mist a little more...
Also when you place your cakes on foil, put a bit of fresh, sterile, wet verm on the foil then place the cake on it, it acts like a water reservoir for the cakes to draw from, which aids in slowing down drying.
You can literally drench your cakes when spraying BUT only before they start to pin, once they start to pin, I have found to much water can make the pins abort and then the heads rot and turn black and stop growing.
I literally spray each cake separately trying to avoid getting the pins too wet.
If you have good FAE there will always be some drying of a cake, but the verm you rolled them in, can hold quite a bit of water, so keeping the outside verm moist offsets the rate of dehydration.
Great progress so far...
keeping your fruiting conditions perfect can be quite a challenge, but getting things close enough is often all that is needed to get an above average flush.
Also if your cakes don't flush that much the first time, its safe to say they still have nutrients left that will be used in further flushes, I have found heavy flushing cakes don't flush as heavy on flush no 3 and onwards, but cakes that flush less on the first flush, seems to be more consistent on later flushes.
Keep up the good work!
Peace
Archmage
Rising Star
Infinity, Kash, and anyone else who has made suggestions / comments - I just wanted to thank you all for your help.infinitynlove said:
It's amazing to me to see a community like this come together and help the little guys...
Stay tuned for todays pics. I'm posting them shortly.
Archmage
Rising Star
Entheogenerator
Homo discens
Gimme! 
Mr.Peabody
Rising Star
This is the best part of the whole operation. All of that hard park and patience has paid off, and it's so cool to watch those bad boys grow!
Good job, they look very magical!
Good job, they look very magical!
Mister_Niles
Esteemed member
Excellent!
Are you going to make some spore prints?
Are you going to make some spore prints?
Man those look tastey, what a great yeild. Can SWIM extract them plzzzzzzz? :twisted:
:twisted:
infinitynlove
Mushroom Explorer
Awesome flush!
Your going to be a very happy man
Great Job!
I always wonder why some cakes flush several days earlier that others, when they are all birthed and dunked at the same time?
Your going to be a very happy man
Great Job!
I always wonder why some cakes flush several days earlier that others, when they are all birthed and dunked at the same time?
Archmage
Rising Star
Mr.Peabody said:
It's absolutely ridiculous how fast they're growing.
When I went to work this morning, the one cake was only and inch of so tall. When I got home, the largest shroom in that cake was like 3-5" tall and all the veils had ripped and all the shrooms were ready to be harvested on that particular cake.
I pulled a large dinner plate's worth, hit them with a fan on low for 4 hours then staged them on a grate above some desiccant in a dark salad bowl in the fridge. Should be ready for storage when I get back at the end of the weekend.
Archmage
Rising Star
Kash said:Man those look tastey, what a great yeild. Can SWIM extract them plzzzzzzz?
I'm excited and nervous at the same time.
My wife can't wait to trip. She's never had shrooms before, but has had several other psychedelics and loves tripping.