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Silverspork
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Big BRF Cake
#23489494 - 07/29/16 02:40 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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So over the duration of my first grow (14 cakes, plus what you see in the photos below), I used 1/2 pint brf cakes. I wanted to see how well a larger cake would do, so I inoculated a 5 pint container. In order to reduce colonization time, I inoculated the center of the container as well.
Here are the results so far:

55 grams wet: 
edit: The other cake you see in the background is not a 1/2 pint, it was made in a bourbon glass (larger than 1/2 pint).
Interestingly enough, I did not use a pressure cooker to sterilize any of my jars, even the big one. Had zero issues with contamination.
Edited by Silverspork (07/29/16 04:09 PM)
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I am highly offended that I was tricked into clicking on an offsite link when I thought I would be zooming.
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Re: Big BRF Cake [Re: Inocuole]
#23489503 - 07/29/16 02:43 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Inocuole said: I am highly offended that I was tricked into clicking on an offsite link when I thought I would be zooming.
Someone is testy today.
I'm trying to change that.
Edited by Silverspork (07/29/16 02:44 PM)
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Re: Big BRF Cake [Re: Inocuole]
#23489506 - 07/29/16 02:44 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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h0ldthedoor
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Can't see the big pics, just the thumbnails, due to the site being blocked by the firewall. Looks really nice though, congrats! Wonder if those little guys are going to be super potent, you could probably pull some nice spores out of the one in your hand, too.
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Trusted Cultivator said: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/upload.php?action=upload
Thanks. I fixed the photos.
Edited by Silverspork (07/29/16 02:46 PM)
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Trusted Cultivator said: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/upload.php?action=upload
Thanks. I fixed the photos.
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h0ldthedoor said: Can't see the big pics, just the thumbnails, due to the site being blocked by the firewall. Looks really nice though, congrats! Wonder if those little guys are going to be super potent, you could probably pull some nice spores out of the one in your hand, too.
I'm not experienced enough to try to make spore prints. I'm gonna chill out for a bit on cultivation for the foreseeable future after this cake is spent, I've gone through 14 cakes already. My only interest in growing is to micro dose.
The picture is my hand is deceiving because I have huge hands (I'm 6'4'').
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All you do is take a Cap cut the stem off and put it on some foil
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Trusted Cultivator said: All you do is take a Cap cut the stem off and put it on some foil
I must have read a different tek, or I'm confused.
I used a spore syringe from one of the sponsors, and it was very interesting to see the size and appearance variations that were produced. The photos above are by far the biggest shrooms that have grown. My second largest was 18 grams (wet) from one of the 1/2 pint cakes.
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Trusted Cultivator said: All you do is take a Cap cut the stem off and put it on some foil
And even if you take a break, the spore prints will probably still be good when you start again
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I still have half a syringe left .
Edited by Silverspork (07/29/16 02:57 PM)
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Quick question about dosing:
I haven't used any of my yield yet (have over 2 dry OZ).
I know that with MS syringe the potency of each shroom can vary. Should I grind them all up in order to homogenize, then weigh out my doses?
I've dried them all in a food dehydrator set at 160 degrees F.
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Best to homogeneously mix them yes
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Best not to grind your whole stash at once though....
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Re: Big BRF Cake [Re: Inocuole]
#23489615 - 07/29/16 03:23 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Inocuole said: Best not to grind your whole stash at once though....
Why is that? I store them in a dark and temperature stable environment, within an airtight container.
Is your reasoning that grinding increases exposed surface area of the shrooms, accelerating potential degradation of the "good" compounds via light and/or air?
Edited by Silverspork (07/29/16 03:23 PM)
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Anyone who has ever ground up more than a half ounce and left some for later has found out the hard way I'm sure. I'm not up to bothering to think about the exact reason, I'm sure it has to do with surface area and exposure but experience tells me that the potency declines pretty quickly once ground. Probably about ~50% potency loss in 1-2 months. If your powder for any reason becomes slightly hydrated there will also be no way to re-dry it, which is another great reason to store whole and only grind before dosing, if your method of dosing does in fact require grinding. I kinda smash mine up but making powder has never done me any good.
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Re: Big BRF Cake [Re: Inocuole]
#23489630 - 07/29/16 03:29 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Inocuole said: Anyone who has ever ground up more than a half ounce and left some for later has found out the hard way I'm sure. I'm not up to bothering to think about the exact reason, I'm sure it has to do with surface area and exposure but experience tells me that the potency declines pretty quickly once ground. Probably about ~50% potency loss in 1-2 months. If your powder for any reason becomes slightly hydrated there will also be no way to re-dry it, which is another great reason to store whole and only grind before dosing, if your method of dosing does in fact require grinding. I kinda smash mine up but making powder has never done me any good.
Thanks for the tip. I did not think of that. I will make sure to not grind them all up at once.
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If I grind it goes into gel caps or tea right away. Gel caps kind of suck. Tea is great
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Trusted Cultivator said: If I grind it goes into gel caps or tea right away. Gel caps kind of suck. Tea is great
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Trusted Cultivator said: If I grind it goes into gel caps or tea right away. Gel caps kind of suck. Tea is great
Planning on weighing out powder each time I want to dose. Too lazy to put into individual capsules.
Not sure how you would put ground up shrooms into gel caps? Are you injecting the ground up material into gel caps filled with DI water or something?
Edit: This forum's user interface needs to be updated
Edited by Silverspork (07/29/16 04:00 PM)
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Inocuole
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This forums user interface will never be updated. Learn it, it's not hard.
Further, gelatin caps are not... liqui-gels or whatever you're thinking of. You know... two halves of a capsule, that you stuff powder in and put together, like tons of supplements come in?
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