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InTheCosmos710
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Mycelium question
#25294657 - 06/27/18 10:21 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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So after a nice finished grow and harvest, there is this beautiful thick mycelium where the stem enters the cake. What would be the best thing to do with it? Should i have snipped closer to the cake, or should i leave jt for another flush? Thanks!http://
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Fuzzy feet. Nothing to worry about and yes, you can harvest it closer next time. Probably to much humidity or you substrate is a little wet? Increase your FAE maybe.
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I don't cut them from a cake. Cutting leaves bits of fruit to rot. I snap them off. Its cleaner. I have yet to fuck up a cake from doing this.
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InTheCosmos710
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Re: Mycelium question [Re: 7munkee]
#25295238 - 06/27/18 03:39 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Okay sweet, so would leaving the mycelium there do anything negative or would it end up spreading and growing more mushies? I thought it would have been better to harvest it as well but didn't know if it would hault more yield
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Cut it way closer to the surface (ideal is the most you can get without making a ton of work cleaning off substrate before drying.
Also, cutting is fine, the leftover stumps are most definitely not going to rot (they're still part of the mycelium network, and will get reabsorbed if anything, or just covered with new myc)
And leftover fuzzy feet aren't going to help or hinder future growth, so it doesnt matter if you leave it there or not.
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Re: Mycelium question [Re: Sivarted]
#25295735 - 06/27/18 07:27 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thank you, this is great info. It looks even larger since then and the mushrooms around that area were beautiful so I'm in the process of cloning one of them. I noticed how fuzzy, and was excited so I'll keep that in mind for next time though, the cake is doing really well still so hopefully more magic to come.
Is there any way or possibility of transferring or breaking that specific cake/substrate up for a bulk tub since this first flush, or would that aggravate the growth too much? Don't wanna ask too many questions since there are a lot of forums about it, but i really appreciate the straight forward info
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InTheCosmos710
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Or would anybody possibly know if scroopy, the noopy?
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Re: Mycelium question [Re: 7munkee]
#25296137 - 06/28/18 12:31 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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7munkee said: I don't cut them from a cake. Cutting leaves bits of fruit to rot. I snap them off. Its cleaner. I have yet to fuck up a cake from doing this.
Stumps don't rot. It's just mycelium. As you can see from OPs picture it just turns into more branching mycelium. Eventually it will sink back towards the substrate once it realizes theres nothing to colonize. I have yet to see a single stump rot and I've left a fuck ton of them on the substrates I've grown. Never once seen contamination originate from a stump.
It doesnt rot because it's still connected to the substrate, being provided water and nutrients. It doesn't have any reason to rot.
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InTheCosmos710
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Sweet, yeah as of now there is still no rot at all, it's actually covered in mycelium now. I wasn't worried about any rot to begin with, just if it would slow down more growth if i snipped it closer to the surface or if leaving it would cause extra growth. So i can see for myself with the last check up that it's doing really well, just covered in myc, so hopefully it'll shoot off and more fruits will come
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Since it was brought up, just assuring there is still 0 rot at all or anything changing from that specific location just even more fuzzy and lots of pinners this morning when checked. Excited about this one, this was the most basic and unexpected grow so far and have been given nothing but great suprises
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Re: Mycelium question [Re: Sivarted]
#25300087 - 06/30/18 12:47 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Sivarted said: Cut it way closer to the surface (ideal is the most you can get without making a ton of work cleaning off substrate before drying.
Also, cutting is fine, the leftover stumps are most definitely not going to rot (they're still part of the mycelium network, and will get reabsorbed if anything, or just covered with new myc)
And leftover fuzzy feet aren't going to help or hinder future growth, so it doesnt matter if you leave it there or not.
I've had them rot after 1st flush and after a rehydration dunk. I alwats twist and pull now
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Re: Mycelium question [Re: 7munkee]
#25300117 - 06/30/18 01:41 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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7munkee said: I don't cut them from a cake. Cutting leaves bits of fruit to rot. I snap them off. Its cleaner. I have yet to fuck up a cake from doing this.
Wrong way do you rip the fuck out of the shit Go take a look at mushroom farms and stuff they all cut not rip the fuck out of the stuff, the reason you don't think you have fucked up before is because you've never done it correct. One more thing I challenge you to show me mushrooms coming out of a rippid up piece of mycelium.
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Quote:
Straight Mush said:
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Sivarted said: Cut it way closer to the surface (ideal is the most you can get without making a ton of work cleaning off substrate before drying.
Also, cutting is fine, the leftover stumps are most definitely not going to rot (they're still part of the mycelium network, and will get reabsorbed if anything, or just covered with new myc)
And leftover fuzzy feet aren't going to help or hinder future growth, so it doesnt matter if you leave it there or not.
I've had them rot after 1st flush and after a rehydration dunk. I alwats twist and pull now
How did you know they were rotting?
Ive glanced at a couple thousand grows here where people habe cut and ive never seen it.
If it gets all blue and kinda shrivles up that's not rotting. Thats just mycelium doing its thing.
If you saw it turn BLACK (and i do mean BLACK) andit started getting holes in it with insects living in the holes then that's rotting.
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Quote:
Straight Mush said:
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Sivarted said: Cut it way closer to the surface (ideal is the most you can get without making a ton of work cleaning off substrate before drying.
Also, cutting is fine, the leftover stumps are most definitely not going to rot (they're still part of the mycelium network, and will get reabsorbed if anything, or just covered with new myc)
And leftover fuzzy feet aren't going to help or hinder future growth, so it doesnt matter if you leave it there or not.
I've had them rot after 1st flush and after a rehydration dunk. I alwats twist and pull now
I leave little bits of trimmed stem when removing parts that have firmly attached cvg on the surface all the time.
I just cut the bits off, let em fall, and leave em.
Those dont even rot, and they've been fully separated from the mycelial network for a brief time.
Whatever you think "rotting stump" looks like isnt what you think it is.
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Re: Mycelium question [Re: Sivarted]
#25300922 - 06/30/18 01:42 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Well we can confirm here that the stump i left just looks incredible and only bruised blue up until the mycelium completely covered the whole thing, which makes complete sense anyways, if it were rotting in any way it would be totally noticeable and pretty sure wouldn't still be sprouting pinners and more super white mycelium all over. It's covered now, as if there isn't even a stump there at all. As far as snipping, why would i rip it and twist it anyways and risk destroying the whole network going on, how is that any more efficient or sanitary? Plus ripping just makes the mushroom and cake look like shit when you could easily just have some sterile snips to take it off safely with much less risk. I mean yeah I'll probably cut closer next time, or not, depending on the fruit that's growing. Rot looks like black slime. This is white cotton candy.
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InTheCosmos710
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Okay, so yeah there is a slight case of grumbo but nothing that can't be fixed. Trim a hizzard, pet the iron. It's safe.
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