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thecuriouscyclist
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nervous first time grower hoping for feedback on first flush! 3
#28371461 - 06/23/23 03:18 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Hello! First time grower here. Totally fascinating experience. I could not have done it without the shroomery community - I've spent MANY long hours absorbing your wisdom. Thank you everyone. I'm growing to support microdosing for long term OCD / depression, I think it will be super-beneficial. However my OCD brain is asking for reassurance on my first ever flush... Pics are below. They started pinning early due to light contact, so I moved to fruiting early, hence, (I think) not a fully colonised cake. But all has been well until I went to work today and they went haywire in a few hours, the veil broke, some spore leakage has occurred. I was concerned about some of the shrooms that have dark patches on the caps. No bad smell. I have gingerly dabbed with a qtip and those darker patches come off. So, I'm assuming its spore drop. I believe the fuzzy bases are OK too, just a result of too much humidity?
But (many of) you are the experienced ones - and I would be deeply grateful for any reassurance / feedback / advice / warnings! I'm going to leave em on a wire rack overnight once harvested, then into a dehydrator before breakfast. Thanks folks, I appreciate!
ps not only am I a growing noob, I am also a forum virgin - my apologies if this has been posted in the wrong place or not in the right way. Peace x
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Pandaskis
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Re: nervous first time grower hoping for feedback on first flush! [Re: thecuriouscyclist] 1
#28371480 - 06/23/23 03:39 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Congrats on the fruits, beautiful cakesbsome of the best pf tek cakes ive seen. Gonna leave this here for now, before i have some time to give some advice!
EDIT: They look great, the dark patches are spores, perfectly safe and okay to consume. Youre on track good job mate
Cubes benefit from light at all stages, its unlikely they started pinning due to light exposure. If it pins early before full colonization, then its likely the cake was bacterial. If you do choose to birth not fully colonized cakes in the future due to early pinning make sure to cut out the uncolonized part as they are a vector for contamination.
Fuzzy feets are sometimes an indicator of not enough FAE, or its simply genetics. It looks like your fruits arent skinny and have relatively large caps, so i would say your fruiting chamber is well dialed in. You did your homework
I would suggest immediately dehydrating them
Edited by Pandaskis (06/23/23 04:00 PM)
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VP123
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Re: nervous first time grower hoping for feedback on first flush! [Re: Pandaskis] 1
#28371577 - 06/23/23 05:12 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Nice growth. They are ready to harvest. Don't worry about those spores. If you have a dehydrator put them there right away. If you leave them on a wire rack overnight before they go in the dehydrator, they may loose some potency (hard to predict how much).
Now stop reading this and go harvest those beauties. You have work to do. Congratulations and welcome to the shroomery.
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thecuriouscyclist
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Re: nervous first time grower hoping for feedback on first flush! [Re: Pandaskis]
#28372144 - 06/24/23 02:16 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Aw thanks friend! I appreciate your words and positivity! All harvested and now in the dehydrator. Almost as rewarding as the whole growing process has been dipping my toe into such a supportive community - cheers!
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thecuriouscyclist
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Re: nervous first time grower hoping for feedback on first flush! [Re: VP123]
#28372148 - 06/24/23 02:20 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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And thank you too Strange as wel! I was hoping for a midsummer harvest to achieve a kind of serendipitous cosmic balance, but there are many beautiful sunsets to come. Peace!
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