Leon Sabanna said:

Acting like those cakes are not F’d makes you sound a bit foolish. You are happy to throw the pins in everyone’s face as a “see look how wrong you guys were”. Since you kept them around as a experiment I hope you will continue to publish the results of these cakes regardless of the outcome.

Good bad or ugly, please let us know what kind of harvest you end up with.

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juniperus said:

I guess it's the fact that you keep saying "win". Barely surviving is not "winning" to many of us

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juniperus said:

I guess it's the fact that you keep saying "win". Barely surviving is not "winning" to many of us

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If you manage to get a print it's salvage at best, imo.

It's hard to get 0 mushrooms. The goal of cultivating is good results. So we all see a couple sickly shrooms as failure from a cultivating perspective. In the wild, cubes have crappy results trying to grow along with contams all the time.

LtLurker said:

juniperus said:

I guess it's the fact that you keep saying "win". Barely surviving is not "winning" to many of us

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If you manage to get a print it's salvage at best, imo.

It's hard to get 0 mushrooms. The goal of cultivating is good results. So we all see a couple sickly shrooms as failure from a cultivating perspective. In the wild, cubes have crappy results trying to grow along with contams all the time.

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ThePinMan said:

juniperus said:

I guess it's the fact that you keep saying "win". Barely surviving is not "winning" to many of us

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If the battle was between me and the mold, as in how much fruit can i gain i would use "Barely surviving" or something to  that exten because this is one fucked up cake, but the battle is clearly between the mycelium and the mold, and the goal for the mycelium is naturally to produce fruits so it can spread the spores and survive before mold kills it, hence win

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I hear you, but it doesn't change my mind. If a cancer patient manages to father a child just before they die from the disease. I would not say they won against the disease.

Anyway, good luck with your future endeavors

juniperus said:

ThePinMan said:

juniperus said:

I guess it's the fact that you keep saying "win". Barely surviving is not "winning" to many of us

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If the battle was between me and the mold, as in how much fruit can i gain i would use "Barely surviving" or something to  that exten because this is one fucked up cake, but the battle is clearly between the mycelium and the mold, and the goal for the mycelium is naturally to produce fruits so it can spread the spores and survive before mold kills it, hence win

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I hear you, but it doesn't change my mind. If a cancer patient manages to father a child just before they die from the disease. I would not say they won against the disease.

Anyway, good luck with your future endeavors

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ThePinMan said:

LtLurker said:

juniperus said:

I guess it's the fact that you keep saying "win". Barely surviving is not "winning" to many of us

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If you manage to get a print it's salvage at best, imo.

It's hard to get 0 mushrooms. The goal of cultivating is good results. So we all see a couple sickly shrooms as failure from a cultivating perspective. In the wild, cubes have crappy results trying to grow along with contams all the time.

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I think you forget what this post is about.

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LtLurker said:

ThePinMan said:

LtLurker said:

juniperus said:

I guess it's the fact that you keep saying "win". Barely surviving is not "winning" to many of us

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If you manage to get a print it's salvage at best, imo.

It's hard to get 0 mushrooms. The goal of cultivating is good results. So we all see a couple sickly shrooms as failure from a cultivating perspective. In the wild, cubes have crappy results trying to grow along with contams all the time.

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I think you forget what this post is about.

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I think the post misses the point of what cultivating is about.

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LtLurker said:

Looking forward to it.

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LtLurker said:

Looking forward to it.

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juniperus said:

Dude, the mold is still there. The fact that you managed to get some sickly looking fruits out of that cake doesn't change that.

That's like if I was diagnosed with ALS, but was adamant that "hey, I can still stand!". Sure, but in the long run I'm fucked.

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I just wanted to say, this analogy is gold.

teladi said:

Dude, be a bit more humble and don't take things so personally. That you got some mushrooms from a contaminated cake is a testament to the fungus, but by no means a success. This is a tough place to be. Spend a bit of time, and you will learn why.

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ThePinMan said:

juniperus said:

I guess it's the fact that you keep saying "win". Barely surviving is not "winning" to many of us

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If the battle was between me and the mold, as in how much fruit can i gain i would use "Barely surviving" or something to  that exten because this is one fucked up cake, but the battle is clearly between the mycelium and the mold, and the goal for the mycelium is naturally to produce fruits so it can spread the spores and survive before mold kills it, hence win

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teladi said:

Dude, be a bit more humble and don't take things so personally. That you got some mushrooms from a contaminated cake is a testament to the fungus, but by no means a success. This is a tough place to be. Spend a bit of time, and you will learn why.

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Well said.

Also, @OP, I know you probably don't have much exp, but those pins are definitely small and skinny. They are doing what an infected substrate usually does. This is pretty common, and I mean if you call it a success to you, cool stuff, but to me you could do so much better. Let me see if I can find some examples..





compared to healthy fruits..



There's literally tons of pics on here showing some beautiful specimens. These are just a few I picked out of my own gallery.