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ShroomHungry
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About to harvest my first flush...
#1686041 - 07/04/03 08:43 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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I actually was successful on my first grow, and my cakes are growin like crazy. Im about to pick off the first flush on one cake and I was just wondering, what should I do about storing them. I want to eat some as soon as I take them off, so should I eat them wet or dry them? What should I do about the rest, dry them? I hear that they loose potency when you dry them so is there any way i can store them to where they stay fresh and I can eat them later? If i do need to dry them, how should I go about doing this? Well thats all, im psyched to trip off my own grow!
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diacamomo
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Re: About to harvest my first flush... [Re: ShroomHungry]
#1686051 - 07/04/03 08:50 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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eat some fresh dudes and dry the rest.... if they loose some power you don't gonna feel it...
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ShroomHungry
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Re: About to harvest my first flush... [Re: diacamomo]
#1686053 - 07/04/03 08:52 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Whats the best way of drying them? and is there any way to keep them fresh for a while to eat later?
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diacamomo
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Re: About to harvest my first flush... [Re: ShroomHungry]
#1686056 - 07/04/03 08:58 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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if you want to keep those dudes fresh for a few days put them inside a paper bag in your fridge, they gonna be ok for like 5 days... dry them over a fan like this.... :
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ShroomHungry
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Re: About to harvest my first flush... [Re: diacamomo]
#1686072 - 07/04/03 09:13 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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ok now im starting to see some blueish greenish on the stems of some little shrooms starting, I cant really tell if its blueing or its more like a green contam, what should I do about this?
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lemunhed
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Re: About to harvest my first flush... [Re: ShroomHungry]
#1686124 - 07/04/03 09:34 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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You should watch it like a hawk. Look for weird smells, look out for green color, mushrooms bruise in shades of blue/gray/purple but not really green. Is it all over the cake on different spots or just on one or two spots? And also how old is your cake? Old cakes, that are depleted often get blue.
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ShroomHungry
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Re: About to harvest my first flush... [Re: lemunhed]
#1686134 - 07/04/03 09:37 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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The cake is about a week old, and the blueish green isint in spots of its own on the cake, its just kinda growing on the stems of some little pins. I took a q-tip and touched the area and it made the blueish green spot kinda spread, and get a little darker but it did not come off onto the q-tip. So i dont know what this means, I hope it is just bruising, cause i really wanna eat this shrooms.
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Zodiacz
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Re: About to harvest my first flush... [Re: ShroomHungry]
#1686150 - 07/04/03 09:43 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Sounds like you are just seeing the Blue bruising effect of shrooms..not to worry but try not to handle or open your terrarium just to look or play with things. That is asking for contams on what sounds like a great first grow!
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ShroomHungry
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Re: About to harvest my first flush... [Re: Zodiacz]
#1686160 - 07/04/03 09:46 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ok sounds good, If the blueing is growing on the stems of the pins and they keep getting bigger and ready to harvest, should I still eat them?
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MycoCakeEater
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Re: About to harvest my first flush... [Re: ShroomHungry]
#1686330 - 07/04/03 11:58 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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FEAST my friend!
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TxTec
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Re: About to harvest my first flush... [Re: ShroomHungry]
#1686387 - 07/04/03 12:26 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah they are all bad so just send everything you have grown to me..ok
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longshot
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Re: About to harvest my first flush... [Re: TxTec]
#1686440 - 07/04/03 12:56 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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A green problem will spread sooooooooooo fast you will see the difference when it happens, compared to what you have currently. Just bruising. Bruising wont rub off. Eat up my mom would say as a child.
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lemunhed
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Re: About to harvest my first flush... [Re: longshot]
#1686551 - 07/04/03 01:55 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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It's only bruising. Eat away. =) You lucky bastard, i still haven't eaten my first shrooms and i have been growing like 2 months. Soon...
-------------------- You're pompeius, aren't you? I'll make a pompeian of you unless you hold your toungue! -Tiberius Claudius Nero
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fIsh in my head
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Re: About to harvest my first flush... [Re: lemunhed]
#1686736 - 07/04/03 04:15 PM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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Haha, in 5 months of relatively intensive newby cultivation, I harvested something like 3 or 4 doses, that's horrible!! But now I don't screw my projects anymore
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soochi
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Re: About to harvest my first flush... [Re: ShroomHungry]
#1687813 - 07/05/03 10:29 AM (20 years, 8 months ago) |
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blue/bluish green bruising is normal on the cake and on the fruits.
get a fan. pick harvest (with dirt and everything still attatched) and put them on a cookie cooling rack or a metal trivot. elevate rack so it is in line with the fan blades and set fan on medium speed. Fan for 1 day or until fruits shrivle considerable and are relatively dry but still pliable. Next, go to Walmart and by some dessicant (dry-rite, dry z air, damp rid, or some other white pellet dessicant) these usually come plastic tubs. cut the top off an egg carton then cut it in half crosswise, lay the fan dried fruits in the carton and place in a sealable container (rubbermaid roughneck) with the egg carton half on one side and a good handful of dessicant on the other (don't worry about putting them in the little preforated container that comes with the dessicant, you can jus place it directly in the bottom of the rubbermaid contatiner). Cover the container with plastic wrap (or a Saran quick wrap) and place the cover on. Do not place the carton directly on top of the dessicant because then the carton and the fruits will get soaked with the residual liquid that the dessicant absorbs. Leave this covered for another day or two and you should have "cracker dry" fruits.
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