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TreeNugget
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Citric Cup-o-shrooms revisited
#24913925 - 01/14/18 04:00 PM (7 years, 3 days ago) |
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This is the original "Tek" https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/10804378/fpart/1/vc/1. I use quotations because Citric never really considered this a tek, more of an experiment, something for fun not for yield. I however approached this is as a personal stealth tek. It was also my first grow and I'm not looking for a massive yield here. I will describe my steps and results for educational and documentation purposes.
Step 1: Rye Grain Spawn (1 quart)
Step 2: Fully colonized Rye Grain with Cube mycelium
Step 2.5 [optional]: Get Verm to Field Capacity and PC (approximately 1 cup)
Step 3: Shake that bad boy up and pour into solo cups. Take a couple spoonfulls. You should be able to make 8 cups, although I only had 4 because I saved some sub. in the original jar and cased as an experiment. You will want to be doing this under a sterile environment
Step 3.5: Still in your SAB or under your hood, crack open that Verm from 2.5 and put a spoon or so on top of the rye berries in the solo cup. This casing helps hold onto moisture.
Step 4: Cut a hole near the top of each cup and stuff with polyfill.
Step 5: Place a sandwich bag over the top of the cups with a rubberband to hold in place.
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Approximately 1 week later
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Step 6: You may or may not be able to see myc. poking through the casing layer. Either way now is time to fruit. Remove rubber band and spray inside of sandwich bag and place onto cup. This is misting. Hold the sandwich bag in place over the top of the cop with one hand, and with the other push and pull the bag into the cup repeatedly. This is fanning.
Now I repeated this misting and fanning process a whole bunch. At least 3 times a day. I was occasionally misting the casing / cup, but was careful not to let any water pool up. Just aim for a glistening surface.
This is my set-up: 
After maybe a week of this you will have this: 
Now the rest is self explanatory. Just keep mist + fan until the veils under the caps begin to break. I actually went away during the time they should have been harvested, so that's why some of my fruits have fuzzy feet / spore prints on the caps. Nevertheless, here is what I came home to:

Here is a pretty little cluster: 
And here is the experiment using the mason jar: 
And here is the final yield (unknown weight): 
So why would somebody want to use this variation on the cup-o-shrooms tek? Well basically it's the same as Citric's... I just didn't have any clear plastic cups so I went with plastic bags. It was also easier to fan with these by pumping them like little respirators. Also for the following reasons: -Only got rye berries and verm -No need for a whole ounce (microdosing or enough for you and some friends for one session) -Unable to conceal a SGFC / traditional PF tek* -The joy of novelty grows
*This grow will not be stealthy if these things are seen out of context. For more stealth place cups in dark corner of closet and expose to light for limited supervised periods daily.
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mushpunx
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Re: Citric Cup-o-shrooms revisited [Re: TreeNugget]
#24913979 - 01/14/18 04:22 PM (7 years, 3 days ago) |
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" Step 3.5: Still in your SAB or under your hood, crack open that Verm from 2.5 and put a spoon or so on top of the rye berries in the solo cup. This casing helps hold onto moisture."
The grains are fully colonized, no need to fill the cups or case under sterile conditions. They get exposed to open air when you open them to mist anyways. Also straight verm doesn't need to be sterilized to be used as a casing, you can just bring it to field capacity and put it right on.
No need to fan either. You can just mist when needed and leave them be
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