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Fruiting question - to pick or not?
#26928362 - 09/10/20 02:05 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Fruiting a BRF jar in-vitro (a sandwich bag over the top of the jar). One mushroom is large and nearly mature, the other mushrooms are smaller and need a couple of more days to mature. Usually, I'd just pick the big one, and harvest the other ones when they mature.
However, I noticed something on the previous flush. Same deal, one really big shroom, multiple smaller ones. I picked the big one, and left the smaller ones, which looked like they were going to be monsters once they were fully grown. I picked the big one before bed, and the next morning I was surprised that the other ones had grown only a tiny amount, and all of the caps were opened up wide...the mushrooms were mature at that point. I was disappointed since they looked so healthy and strong only the night before.
I wonder if picking the big mushroom somehow triggered the smaller mushrooms to open their caps and drop spores? I was thinking maybe removing the big one changed the micro-climate in the bag, and that resulted in the other ones stopping their growth and opening their caps. Or, maybe picking the big one triggered the mycelium network to 'tell' the other shrooms to drop their spores ASAP, if this is even possible. Or it could just be a coincidence.
Should I pick the big one in this latest flush? I'm worried the other ones will stop growing. So I was considering leaving it in there until the other ones are fully grown, then harvesting them all at once (though I may have a spore disaster at that point). Am I overthinking this?
Edited by jgotti (09/10/20 02:13 PM)
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Re: Fruiting question - to pick or not? [Re: jgotti]
#26928570 - 09/10/20 03:59 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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jgotti said: I wonder if picking the big mushroom somehow triggered the smaller mushrooms to open their caps and drop spores? I was thinking maybe removing the big one changed the micro-climate in the bag, and that resulted in the other ones stopping their growth and opening their caps. Or, maybe picking the big one triggered the mycelium network to 'tell' the other shrooms to drop their spores ASAP, if this is even possible. Or it could just be a coincidence.
This is a multispore grow, yes?
It's just varying genetics. Picking a mushroom doesn't cause the others to do anything as far as I know.
(Actually in some cases, pruning can cause the other mushrooms to grow bigger since the substrate still has x amount of energy to fruit with and it gives it to the ones left) but that's not the case here...
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Re: Fruiting question - to pick or not? [Re: Forrester]
#26928664 - 09/10/20 05:09 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Forrester said:
This is a multispore grow, yes?
Correct.
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Forrester said:
It's just varying genetics. Picking a mushroom doesn't cause the others to do anything as far as I know.
(Actually in some cases, pruning can cause the other mushrooms to grow bigger since the substrate still has x amount of energy to fruit with and it gives it to the ones left) but that's not the case here...
Alright, you convinced me to pick it. Thanks for the feedback.
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Re: Fruiting question - to pick or not? [Re: jgotti]
#26928682 - 09/10/20 05:20 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah i’ve never noticed harvesting a mushroom early to affect anything. i used to wait to let the littler pins grow out but IME they all tend to start opening their caps around the same time
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