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Leaving Town , Can I take BRF cakes out of SGFC and refrigerate?
#26871696 - 08/09/20 02:16 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanks for the help so far,
My Pf Tek went very off schedule due to a much longer colonization time than expected (about 6 weeks).
I have my cakes in the SGFC and they are beginning to pin. I will be around for the next 7 days to mist fan and hopefully with some luck harvest some mushrooms.
But then I will have to leave town for a week. Bad timing due to the extra wait on colonization.
Is my project doomed or can I put the whole SGFC or maybe just the cakes in a refrigerator and press pause on the grow until I return ?
Or should I just leave the cakes sit in the SGFC , give the perlite a good soak and see what happens 7 days later ?
I hope I can grab at least the first flush before I leave. Is there anything I can do If I have to leave before the pins on the cakes mature?
SGFC sitter is not an option.
Shame to lose the cakes this way but this was a dry learning run for me so not a complete waste in that sense.
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Re: Leaving Town , Can I take BRF cakes out of SGFC and refrigerate? [Re: jimineycricket] 2
#26871723 - 08/09/20 02:37 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Harvest what you can before you go. Mist the hell out of it and hope for the best when you get back. I wouldn't put anything in the fridge.
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Re: Leaving Town , Can I take BRF cakes out of SGFC and refrigerate? [Re: Forrester]
#26871790 - 08/09/20 03:21 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Leaving Town , Can I take BRF cakes out of SGFC and refrigerate? [Re: Forrester]
#26871912 - 08/09/20 04:46 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Good advice
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Re: Leaving Town , Can I take BRF cakes out of SGFC and refrigerate? [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#26872760 - 08/10/20 06:13 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I guess another question about this situation is what will happen if I leave as the mushrooms are not yet ready to harvest , will I come home to a SGFC full of withered mushrooms with the perlite blackened in spores ?
Out of curiosity why is refrigerating a cake from the SGFC such a bad idea ?
I have seen refrigerating colonized cakes recommend here on the shroomery as a practice to slow things down so the other cakes can catch up to fruit together.
Edited by jimineycricket (08/10/20 06:27 AM)
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Re: Leaving Town , Can I take BRF cakes out of SGFC and refrigerate? [Re: jimineycricket]
#26873549 - 08/10/20 03:14 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Heres the thing, sure it'll slow down your myc growth but rn you're in a fruiting stage which means you can't just slow it down. Say you want an agar dish to slow down so you can decide what cuts to make, sure fridge it. Lets say you're going off and your cakes aren't even close to fruiting? Fridge em. tossing them into the fridge rn? You'd come back to your myc being so stalled that it would take two weeks just to get them to fruit again. So that brings us back to, add as much moisture as possible, and pick when you get back. Sure there will be a mess of spores, but depending on how your sgfc retains moisture and how long you're gone they wont be shriveled up. EDIT: One last note, It would be pretty wonderful to come back to a full mush forest instead of cold stalled cakes.
Edited by mushhead (08/10/20 03:26 PM)
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Re: Leaving Town , Can I take BRF cakes out of SGFC and refrigerate? [Re: jimineycricket]
#26873556 - 08/10/20 03:18 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
jimineycricket said: I guess another question about this situation is what will happen if I leave as the mushrooms are not yet ready to harvest , will I come home to a SGFC full of withered mushrooms with the perlite blackened in spores ?
Out of curiosity why is refrigerating a cake from the SGFC such a bad idea ?
I have seen refrigerating colonized cakes recommend here on the shroomery as a practice to slow things down so the other cakes can catch up to fruit together.
First, its super dry in the fridge is the main reason. U could i guess put a saucer plate underneath.
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Re: Leaving Town , Can I take BRF cakes out of SGFC and refrigerate? [Re: jimineycricket]
#26873558 - 08/10/20 03:18 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I think you could do that if you had to, and if you do decide to do what you originally planned please document and post it i'd be really interested in the outcome.
Some shrooms benefit from a cold shock
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Re: Leaving Town , Can I take BRF cakes out of SGFC and refrigerate? [Re: Kyngwhatt]
#26895270 - 08/23/20 11:47 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well so I managed to harvest the first flush before I left.
Then I dunked the Cakes and put them in the SGFC the day I left for one week.(First picture)
On return the SGFC looked like below.(second picture)
Now I am hoping that the black stuff is just spores and the white stuff just fluffy mycelium and not rot and mould.
I would appreciate the opinions from more knowledgeable eyes.
Are these safe to dehydrate and use ?






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Re: Leaving Town , Can I take BRF cakes out of SGFC and refrigerate? [Re: jimineycricket]
#26895289 - 08/23/20 11:52 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Everything fine with them
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