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Good idea/bad idea? Wax paper to catch sporulating PFcake in SGFC
    #23799574 - 11/04/16 12:53 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)



I'd like to let these caps flatten a bit before picking but murphy's law says I'll be asleep when they decide to drop spores, so I constructed this wax paper "bowl" in hopes of catching the majority of them so I have less to clean off the perlite & chamber later.

I realize this is a non-critical issue to bring up, but I'd like to ask if this is a good idea or bad idea or pointless idea? Air currents could carry the spores anywhere certainly, but I figure this will at least make it easier to keep the majority off of everything else. Will it annoy or disrupt the climate around the surrounding cakes? They won't be misted while the paper is in the FC, it'll be removed in the morning when the cake is harvested.

[edit] feel free to yell at me about the condition of some of those cakes btw >__<


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Re: Good idea/bad idea? Wax paper to catch sporulating PFcake in SGFC [Re: Aneres]
    #23799580 - 11/04/16 12:58 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

why are you wanting them to flatten more? Are you wanting nice open caps for spore prints?


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Re: Good idea/bad idea? Wax paper to catch sporulating PFcake in SGFC [Re: TheMadHatter420]
    #23799593 - 11/04/16 01:16 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

I guess I just think they look cooler when flattened and as large as they'll get. Not too worried about prints yet (and besides I still have gobs and gobs of apparently viable MS LC and have not started agar yet). Plus, on those two particular cakes, they've got several large and nearly mature shrooms and also a clump of less mature ones in the center which are not ready for harvest. I was hoping to wait another 8-10 hrs on them, but those big ones will likely drop spores well before that.

Shrug, as I said it's a non-critical issue, I was just hoping I wasn't ruining the rest of the FC with this idea.


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Re: Good idea/bad idea? Wax paper to catch sporulating PFcake in SGFC [Re: Aneres]
    #23799611 - 11/04/16 01:40 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

You should be able to gently pop the open ones off the cake, without disrupting the ones still growing.


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Re: Good idea/bad idea? Wax paper to catch sporulating PFcake in SGFC [Re: TheMadHatter420]
    #23799612 - 11/04/16 01:41 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Do you know what you did to cause the bruising on the cakes?


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Re: Good idea/bad idea? Wax paper to catch sporulating PFcake in SGFC [Re: TheMadHatter420]
    #23799625 - 11/04/16 01:59 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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Do you know what you did to cause the bruising on the cakes?




Maybe? the cakes in the middle and second-to-right rows were recently harvested so that is harvest bruise mostly (and they were terribly over-watered at the beginning), but the just-about-to-fruit ones on the far left and second-to-left rows and far right row are newer and may be bruising from dryness? I'm a complete noob so I'm just guessing, it could be anything - too moist, too dry, some kind of bacterial infection, too much handling (though I'm as ginger and infrequent as possible I think)... learning to tell the difference and maintain proper moist/air ratios is the hardest part of this hobby for me so far, heh. Especially as so many cakes are in different stages from each other.

And yeah I guess I could just pluck the mature ones and be done with it but I'm still in honeymoon mode on this hobby and wanted to get pretty pictures of the fully flushed cake >__>


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Re: Good idea/bad idea? Wax paper to catch sporulating PFcake in SGFC [Re: Aneres]
    #23800099 - 11/04/16 08:54 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

To me the vermiculite looks dry as well as the cakes a bit. Make sure your perlite is moist but not pouring water out the bottom and they need missted a couple times a day. The ones that pin/fruit can use one or two more light mistings a day as they will suck it up and use it in the fruits. Remember the mushrooms are 90% water so those cakes will use more when fruiting. Did you dunk the cakes again a day or 2 after harvest? Its a good idea to redunk so they get rehydrated. If you read on here there is some dispute as to how long after harvest to redunk, but it is agreed that they should get dunked again. Some ppl on here are saying that waiting a couple days and then dunking mimics nature, like in wild they will flush after a rain, no rain for a few days so they dry out, then a rain comes, rehydrates the mycelium and triggers it to hurry and flush again. I would NOT intentionaly dry them out though to mimic nature, not worth the risk. Like I said if you read some ppl say wait a couple days some say do it right away. I like your pinsets your getting on the top of a couple of those. Keep it up and you will get better yields and things will get easier.


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Re: Good idea/bad idea? Wax paper to catch sporulating PFcake in SGFC [Re: TheMadHatter420]
    #23800214 - 11/04/16 10:00 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Thanks! Yeah I've been dunking pretty much immediately after harvest, or within the same day (if, for example, more than one cake will be harvested on the same day but hours apart). One cake I know I forgot to dunk after first flush, but I lost track of which one it was, heh.

As for my original question; I did it and it worked for my purposes and doesn't seem to have harmed much of anything since it wasn't there for very long. The wax paper caught a large majority of the spores which fell while I slept, which is exactly what I wanted. The wax paper "bowl" also made it very easy to lift the cake out without touching it (which is also a non-critical issue unless your hands are filthy I guess).

Here's the pics I was hoping to get out of this, so yay! Combined, these came out to 123g wet:


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