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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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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)

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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)

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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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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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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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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: TheApprentice]
    #16791216 - 09/05/12 05:38 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Twist....Pull......Patch....

Did you see the word "Patch" this time?

If you pinch the base of the mushroom, twist it and pull hardly any substrate (if any) will come up at the base of the mushroom.....often times If the mushroom is really stuck in there I'll just pinch it and remove it.

If I do happen to rip up a small chunk of substrate I just fill it in with some verm/coir.....

It's not bad advice, just a different way of harvesting....god forbid any of us do anything different or we automatically go down as not being able to cultivate.... :rolleyes:


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: HybridprX]
    #16791232 - 09/05/12 05:50 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

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Twist....Pull......Patch....

Did you see the word "Patch" this time?

If you pinch the base of the mushroom, twist it and pull hardly any substrate (if any) will come up at the base of the mushroom.....often times If the mushroom is really stuck in there I'll just pinch it and remove it.

If I do happen to rip up a small chunk of substrate I just fill it in with some verm/coir.....

It's not bad advice, just a different way of harvesting....god forbid any of us do anything different or we automatically go down as not being able to cultivate.... :rolleyes:




:pantytail:

It is terrible advice! Your fruitbodies that you're tearing from the substrate are cover in knot's at the base. Do what you want, but your wrong. Go ahead a cut your own dick.

WTF is with patching? WHat does it haft to do worth the thousand's of knot's you just unknowingly tour from the ground? Twist and pull is the dumbest thing I've ever done in this hobby. Commercial grower would NEVER twist and pull.

Like RR said about it that quote, a noob came up with this and it's old bad information.

Quit being a little butt hurt baby. Your wrong. Go cry somewhere else.

:chalkup:


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: TheApprentice]
    #16791242 - 09/05/12 05:55 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

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Good info civil.

Girl power!!!:feelingfeisty:



Hehe.. civil is a little girl  :nicesmile:  :jiggletits:

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: x CiVil x]
    #16791255 - 09/05/12 06:17 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Normally the base of the mushrooms either have mature fruit bodies in a cluster or aborts at the base.

Commercial growers will not be concerned with a few knots being damaged or destroyed when harvesting a mature crop, clearly the knot (if not a pin) is a dud.

After harvesting, dunk, 24-48 hour recovery period and fruit again, new knots :wink:

Grow some more before trying to tell me anything Civil.

as far as RR, his word is NOT the word of god, I know lots of other people that find RR's information questionable. (Some of it)

And im not going to go cry, im going to go spawn a case of 50/50 rye/millet jars to two monotubs to help the new guys with prints......Was going to post pics but the upload service is bugged out atm.

Anyways, If you twist, pull and patch its not going to hurt anything, just dont rip them out like a gorilla :wink:


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: HybridprX]
    #16791266 - 09/05/12 06:27 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

I have done the experment serval time's! I'm not going to agrue about this. It's dumb, you'll learn one day.

As for needing to learn how to grow more... show me one flush of your's, that look's like these. :p








"twist & pull"


Cut at base of stem.




EDIT - Also not MAZ is extremely easy to harvest. Try and twist and pull with Golden Teacher and you'll never twist and pull again.

Dunking coir is pointless. But that's another subject.


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: HybridprX]
    #16791280 - 09/05/12 06:38 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

I twist and pull...not gorilla style, either. Not saying that scissors arent necessary sometimes. Ive found that most of what is directly adjacent to the mature bodies is so embedded that you have to pull them with. Even when I was carefull to separate them, they aborted and werent much as it is.

When I pull them,  they are rocked on all directions and twisted IN PLACE WITH NO PULLING to cleary remove them from the sub. In a dense flush, I take my time and stategically pick and choose what to pull first. I will say that I have never cut it to a nub and left it. I always though this was unadvisable.




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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: x CiVil x]
    #16791288 - 09/05/12 06:41 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)



I harvested two Oz's of mature mushrooms and a half oz of aborts....the aborts were a pain in my ass, especially a half oz worth (dry) .... They were twisted and most of the time, when harvesting, after twisting them a few times they pop right off....





Trust me, if twisting and pulling caused major damage to future flushes I would not do it....but I do not rip up chunks of substrate either when harvesting. :shrug:

One more pic....



Do any of you guys see chunks of substrate on the stems? And no, I did not clean those, just harvested by twisting (2-3 times) and pulling if a pull is even needed.


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: DoDahDay]
    #16791297 - 09/05/12 06:47 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

How many strain's have you grown?

If you twist and pull Golden Teacher, you'll end up with half a substrate. MAZ. come's off the substrate super easy. You can almost flick the fruit's over. However, look in the two photo's I compared. If I had twist and pulled the photo I cut, I bet money it would've fruited all from the side's.

If you guy's want to twist and pull and pass on bad info. More power to you. :wink:

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: x CiVil x]
    #16791312 - 09/05/12 07:02 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Civil....this is a 2nd account.... my original shroomery account was under Pr0_X but asked for it to be shutdown due to another members mental deficiency and posting fire arms with his grow and threatening to murder me over who grew mushrooms better.... :rolleyes:

And its not the "strain" they're all p.cubensis, some do grow (thicker)
then others but if you really want to know how many cube varieties Ive grown in 8 years....

South American, Pes Hawaiian, PES, Creepers, Malabar, Two of the Mex strains, Tapalpa, Kou Thai Samui, Orissa, Lizard King, Malabar, F+, Tasmanian, Golden Teacher..... That's all that I can remember off the top of my head.

If anyone needs to verify my experience with p.cubensis then check my trade list under both accounts, I use to hook up the new guys with prints on a regular basis until people started being ignorant pos on these forums.


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: HybridprX]
    #16791323 - 09/05/12 07:09 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

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Civil....this is a 2nd account.... my original shroomery account was under Pr0_X but asked for it to be shutdown due to another members mental deficiency and posting fire arms with his grow and threatening to murder me over who grew mushrooms better.... :rolleyes:

And its not the "strain" they're all p.cubensis, some do grow (thicker)
then others but if you really want to know how many cube varieties Ive grown in 8 years....

South American, Pes Hawaiian, PES, Creepers, Malabar, Two of the Mex strains, Tapalpa, Kou Thai Samui, Orissa, Lizard King, Malabar, F+, Tasmanian, Golden Teacher..... That's all that I can remember off the top of my head.

If anyone needs to verify my experience with p.cubensis then check my trade list under both accounts, I use to hook up the new guys with prints on a regular basis until people started being ignorant pos on these forums.




Okay, I'm sorry for saying your a newb. lol

But you haft to know what I'm talking about.

It almost look's like your twist and pulling but still leaving the stem base in the substrate. At least that's what your photo suggest's to me.


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: x CiVil x]
    #16791419 - 09/05/12 08:02 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

I don't have this problem because I have yet to get a flush with an even canopy in the two years I've been doing this lmao :rolleyes:


how I evny your tubs civil :mushroom2:. When I tried to make a tub like yours (expanding shoebox show off) I got like 1 oz total.


I cant seem to make agar transfers right either :/ Tossed like 25 plates cause I got rage-y that they're all a 4th transfer and still had circles of bacteria growing faster than the myc could :rolleyes: Plus the only plates that made it to a second transfer were the ones i dropped pins on. All the tissue clones and spore drops contamed too bad on first plate and were tossed :thumbdown:

I know its not my hood cause all the bags and jars I opened for g2g are just fine.

Is it strange that the bags I shot 4cc of glc into are leaps and bounds faster (already 100%) than my g2gs?


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: Kizzle]
    #16791457 - 09/05/12 08:17 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

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Scissors



Qft.


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: PureHash]
    #16791525 - 09/05/12 08:44 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Indeed
I will use a razor my next flush and see how it goes:nodofunderstanding:


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: Grumpyorc]
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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: x CiVil x]
    #16793278 - 09/05/12 03:59 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

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Commercial grower would NEVER twist and pull.





Skip to about the 4 minute markes...TWIST AND PULL BABY


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: PussyFart]
    #16793327 - 09/05/12 04:09 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

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Notahacker420 said:
Quote:

x CiVil x said:
Commercial grower would NEVER twist and pull.





Skip to about the 4 minute markes...TWIST AND PULL BABY



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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: cloudpersona]
    #16794384 - 09/05/12 06:49 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

PWNT!

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: Grumpyorc]
    #16794581 - 09/05/12 07:25 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

why cut at the base and leave nasty fruit bottoms to rot on your stuff?  twist carefully, the pull till removed.. problem solved.

running 4 strains, including golden teacher.. and no idea what that dudes freakn out about lol. 

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: boneynerd]
    #16794666 - 09/05/12 07:39 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

I had the same issue and I got bitched out for twist and pull. Cut at base with sharp knife, after the dunk I found for me at least, the rest can be rubbed off and if not, take a knife and cut as close to it as you can. Boom baby.

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: vapormonkey]
    #16794768 - 09/05/12 07:59 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

The cut stems do not rot!  I will not say i dont twist and pull but only certain strains does it work well.  Although you will be told none of them should be twisted and pulled.

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: zepski]
    #16796337 - 09/05/12 11:58 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

civil is right about gt's, those babies hold on for dear life. funny, that strain did make me a scissor and razor man. i twisted and pulled an entire corner off, removing a baseball sized chunk. cutting leaves the surface cleaner looking, and i remove th sub stuck to the harvested shrooms with a knife anyway, so it saves some time.sorta.

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: Fungal growth]
    #16796471 - 09/06/12 12:27 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

PB, z-strain also like to hold on for dear life.  The z-strain was the most interesting since yuo would twist and pull and it would look almost like a tap root would be on the bottom.

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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: zepski]
    #16796509 - 09/06/12 12:37 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed how terrible and difficult it is to twist and pull GTs.

I had a great first flush with some cakes and, out of sheer laziness, I pulled them all as gingerly as possible. Dunked and the second flush didn't pin for over a week, and barely at that. I usually cut them, and now that I have experienced the difference in results I will continue to do so.

Also, I fucking hate cleaning sub off stems. I ended up cutting the damn things anyway.


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: boneynerd] * 1
    #16797580 - 09/06/12 09:29 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

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why cut at the base and leave nasty fruit bottoms to rot on your stuff?  twist carefully, the pull till removed.. problem solved.

running 4 strains, including golden teacher.. and no idea what that dudes freakn out about lol. 

some people just argue to argue.



Those "nasty rotting stumps" become the healthyest part of your sub in about 2 days. Not to mention, they DON'T rot.... It is the exact same mycelium as the res of the substrate. It will not rot. Thirdly, if you twist and pull, you WILL pull up small pins on future flushes. If you cet em down, these pins poke throught the stump, and will grow up healthy.


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: PureHash]
    #16808632 - 09/07/12 11:03 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

I would just like to thank everyone for contributing to this thread, it helped me immensely!

I started my first monotubs (started two at a time to use all my spawn), they were spawned about a week apart.

The first got tore to shit because I had no idea that GT were notorious for shredding substrate when you attempt to twist and pull, and I'm wondering if it's even going to give me a second flush.

The second tub, thanks to reading this perfectly timed thread, was harvested using a razor blade and looks immaculate!  The substrate is still white and healthy with little stumps, rather than mangled and excreting some orange discharge.

In conclusion, I should be expecting another one or two healthy flushes from my second mono, thanks to this information!

Good vibes everyone.


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Re: Difficulty harvesting. Please help! [Re: CoupsDeGrace]
    #16810302 - 09/08/12 10:09 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

yes, Expect another 2 flushes from your cut down mono, And expect them to show up faster then if you twist-n-pull. When you twist and pull, You pull up future flushes. This doesnt happen when you cut em down, Thus, future flushes pin, and grow faster then twisting and pulling


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