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Difficulty harvesting. Please help!
    #16778285 - 09/02/12 07:29 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Hey all!

I'm currently harvesting my mushies in my monotub and I'm having one problem.

I'm having huge difficulty cutting the mushrooms at the base so that I don't pull up the new pins or hurt the substrate.  Also it's very difficult because they are so close together and I am using a razor blade.  (just the blade)

Does anyone have any tips on harvesting that could help me?

Thanks!

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: minifry]
    #16778304 - 09/02/12 07:34 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

I just twist them and they pop right off.  But that is on cakes not on a monotub.

Edited by tiger93rsl (09/02/12 07:35 PM)

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: tiger93rsl]
    #16778311 - 09/02/12 07:36 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Magnifying glass :shrug: exacto knife

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: SimpleFarmer]
    #16779885 - 09/03/12 03:06 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Scissors


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: Kizzle]
    #16779901 - 09/03/12 03:15 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

i pull most and cut some

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: twistedty]
    #16779988 - 09/03/12 04:08 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

scissors, or a knife.
i'm thinking a 2-3 inch exacto-type razor bent to one side at a 45-90 degree angle with a handle would make a good tub harvesting tool. something you could break into a full canopy with with minimal damage.

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: Fungal growth]
    #16780081 - 09/03/12 05:10 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

I use hair trimming scissors. :laugh:

Or some other kind I bought at the nursery


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: Fungal growth]
    #16780168 - 09/03/12 06:14 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

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Fungal growth said:
scissors, or a knife.
i'm thinking a 2-3 inch exacto-type razor bent to one side at a 45-90 degree angle with a handle would make a good tub harvesting tool. something you could break into a full canopy with with minimal damage.




good idea here


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: shamanamba]
    #16780220 - 09/03/12 06:42 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Yeah monotub's are difficult to get a good harvest starting area, if you have a nice canopy.

I have about every exacto you can buy but I've never came across those blade's. I need to look harder. lol

I can see it being a great tool to use to start a area in a canopy for sure. I would use that and switch to trimming scissors, once I could fit my hand dow to the substrate. If I get dense fruit's a exacto knife seem's to want to saw the the fruit's, where trimming scissors snip right threw.

But I'm defiantly going to try to find some of those blade's. I think that largest I have is 1.5"-2".

The idea remind's me of the old weed wakers. :laugh:


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: x CiVil x]
    #16780247 - 09/03/12 06:54 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

You should look into medical scalpel blades.
The blade I use is a #11 on a #3 handle.
It is a offset angle blade.


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: clueless] * 1
    #16780274 - 09/03/12 07:05 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Bonsai scissors.

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: clueless]
    #16780697 - 09/03/12 10:06 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

clueless said:
You should look into medical scalpel blades.
The blade I use is a #11 on a #3 handle.
It is a offset angle blade.



pic and link please! or vice-versa.

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: Fungal growth]
    #16784206 - 09/03/12 09:52 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

i just give em a twist and pull em out, if u pull up some pins dont worry itll make more.  if you pull them right u can grab them right under the cap and get em out. takes some practice


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: Grumpyorc]
    #16784256 - 09/03/12 10:01 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

"Twist N' Pull" harvesting is generally discouraged for bulk subs.

Inadvertently harvested pins can be moistened at the base and stuck back into the surface of the substrate. More often than not, the pins will replant themselves and continue growing as normal.


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: shamanamba]
    #16784809 - 09/04/12 01:14 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

i only cut clusters and pull singles.

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: twistedty]
    #16785017 - 09/04/12 03:03 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

I use combination large scissors, small scissors, and pulling them out at first to get a pocket to cut in from.


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: ZappityZap]
    #16785052 - 09/04/12 03:19 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Twist and pull, patch....


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: HybridprX]
    #16785125 - 09/04/12 03:51 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

HybridprX said:
Twist and pull, patch....



^^^^ THIS ^^^^

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: PussyFart]
    #16790437 - 09/04/12 11:50 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

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Notahacker420 said:
Quote:

HybridprX said:
Twist and pull, patch....



^^^^ THIS ^^^^




:shockingsurprise:

BAD!

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RogerRabbit said:
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I twist and pull because I've found the substrate is happier without little pieces of fruit rotting on top of it




In nearly 5 decades of growing many tens of thousands of bulk substrates, I've never seen one single stump left after cutting at the base start to rot. It's best not to repeat crap posted by noobs who blame any failure on the tek they used rather than their own mistakes.

I have however seen thousands of grows ruined by green mold which starts in the divot caused by ripping out a chunk of substrate.
RR




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RogerRabbit said:
Twist and pull never fails to damage the substrate.  I challenge you to provide pictures of a new flush of mushrooms growing from the damaged area.  This is why mushrooms should be sliced off at the base, not ripped out like a gorilla did the harvesting.
RR




I agree with RR 100%.

I've done the experiment several time's and post result's.


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: x CiVil x]
    #16791203 - 09/05/12 05:30 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Good info civil.

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