Pastywhyte said:

Don't patch the divot,  that's no Bueno. Personally I like twist and pull but sometimes cutting is a help to prevent undue damage.

I should note that leaving stumps is a bigger mold magnet than a divot IME. I think a lot of it is species dependant, certainly you should only cut shiitake.

Using a casing layer helps prevent divot from reaching too deep and exposing the grains. This is an additional benefit.

Another thing to note is that with cubes the goal should be to get as much in the first flush. With a high performance culture, 200% BE is attainable  even with bulk. At that point keeping for more than a single flush is moot. Show me where to start cutting in a tub like this anyways.

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Pastywhyte said:

Yes often the myc will retake the divot as it recovers.

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inked4life said:

On the 2nd flush of my mini s, one  tub  280 wet an 2nd tub 225, 1st flush 530 , 2nd flush total  505. Pretty similar  results

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ralphraven18 said:

nice job man, ive been keeping up to date with this, even though i haven't been commenting. just wanted to let you know that youre doing awesome! my tubs started to pin about 3 days ago, hope it comes along like this!

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Hey thanks a lot! Glad your enjoying the pics/grow. That is awesome you got some pins man. One of the main reasons I am posting here is so others can read this and hopefully benefit from it in some way. There are so many teks and threads so I tried to put it all in one spot on my first post. I'll be harvesting more tonight and pouring the water on top of the substrate (mostly on the sides as RR and Pasty have mentioned in other grow logs).

I will update with pics tomorrow - have a good day!

mupetmower said:

so, this is flush three? or the end of flush 2?

either way, awesome stuff man! youre on a roll.

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Yeah I'm not really sure myself

I left around 50 grams in there too. I re-hydrated the substrate last night, tried something that may be a new tek, ill post what I did after lunch. The tek I did allows for you to keep the substrate in the tub, without having to remove it, and you avoid damaging the mushrooms still fruiting.

The re-hydrate was delayed because I just kept getting mushrooms, which is a good thing, but it kept me from removing the substrate because I knew it would ruin the mushrooms (specifically the mushrooms growing on the sides of the substrate). Every time I went to pull the bag up the mushrooms on the sides would start to cave in and tear, so I knew I had to come up with a different way of draining the excess water the substrate didn't absorb