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everythingerased
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Question on Casing 101 - shotgun terrarium
#12028266 - 02/14/10 03:39 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Tonight I was going to birth & begin the 24h dunk on my 1 successful cake. After reading this guide, http://www.shroomery.org/50/Casing-101
Initially I was going to put it on a piece of aluminum in the terrarium, but now I started thinking perhaps my yield would be dramatically more if I were to break it up & put it in an aluminum case.
Q1: With a shotgun terrarium, would breaking up the individual cake into a smaller aluminum pan increase my yield? Q2: The jar is already pinning, one of the mushrooms in the jar is about an inch and a half. Should this affect whether or not I proceed with the casing? Q3: Lastly, is it possible to break up the cake after it's third flush, put it into aluminum casing and reuse it?
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ImaginingEmotions
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Re: Question on Casing 101 - shotgun terrarium [Re: everythingerased]
#12028396 - 02/14/10 04:08 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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1. Generally people leave cakes as cakes. But if you do decide to break it up, you can put it in a tray and case it. Your yield will probably be the same as if you left it as a cake though.
You can increase your yield by breaking it up and spawning it to some more substrate such as a coir/verm mix, horse poo, straw etc... but you will have to let that colonize for a few more days before you initiate pinning.
2. So, since your jar is already pinning, that means your mycelium has pretty much stopped growing and is now putting its energy into its fruits; pins and knots. What I would do is birth the cake, pick any pins off of the cake, dunk for your 24hrs and then roll it in some vermiculite and put it into your shotgun.
3. Once its done with all its flushes you can try and spawn it to another substrate, but you are more susceptible to contaminations since the cake has been in open air for a while. You can give it a shot, im not sure if the mycelium would spread to another substrate after a few flushes...maybe someone else could answer that question. Its always worth a try though.
Good luck mang
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dont brak cakes unless you are spawning to bulk. if you just break them up you will get way less mushrooms in the end. cakes are for fruiting. http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=30&Number=8231041&PHPSESSID=&fpart=1#8231041 this is what you want to do.
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biologys
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ImaginingEmotions said: 1. Generally people leave cakes as cakes. But if you do decide to break it up, you can put it in a tray and case it. Your yield will probably be the same as if you left it as a cake though.
You can increase your yield by breaking it up and spawning it to some more substrate such as a coir/verm mix, horse poo, straw etc... but you will have to let that colonize for a few more days before you initiate pinning.
2. So, since your jar is already pinning, that means your mycelium has pretty much stopped growing and is now putting its energy into its fruits; pins and knots. What I would do is birth the cake, pick any pins off of the cake, dunk for your 24hrs and then roll it in some vermiculite and put it into your shotgun. Good luck mang 
dont remove the pins, dunk it with the pins on...they will survive the dunk and grow..
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Re: Question on Casing 101 - shotgun terrarium [Re: biologys]
#12031556 - 02/15/10 12:17 AM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Q3: Lastly, is it possible to break up the cake after it's third flush, put it into aluminum casing and reuse it?
Once the mushroom has switched into fruiting mode, it won't colonize a substrate much anymore. That would be a waste of time.
In addition, you don't really want aluminium trays. Mycelium often "consumes" parts of the tray, making it useless for later grows.
The rest was already said above.
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