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Are these tiny mushrooms ready to harvest
    #28371545 - 06/23/23 04:48 PM (1 year, 6 months ago)

hey yall i think the veil might have been torn or whatever its called on these shrooms which signals its ready to harvest i think the blue is it just getting a little dry unintentionally lmk if i can harvest them they're pretty small idk why its the first flush
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Re: Are these tiny mushrooms ready to harvest [Re: shroomzz69] * 1
    #28371549 - 06/23/23 04:53 PM (1 year, 6 months ago)

Yes those are ready it seems. Also you need to up your BRF game and toss that Perlite out.

Water Tub tek: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/26601054#26601054

Looks like you need to acquire for yourself some coco coir and case your cakes in it.
You'd get a much better reaction than rolling it in Vermiculite. See below my own BRF cake, cased in coir, and kept in a water tub.


You already know why your mushrooms are small.
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shroomzz69 said:
the blue is it just getting a little dry unintentionally lmk if i can harvest them they're pretty small idk why its the first flush



They need to be dunked and cased in coir, then placed in a water tub instead of a Shot gun fruiting chamber with Perlite.
SGFC are known to dry out cakes just like yours had dried out while seemingly being wet.


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Re: Are these tiny mushrooms ready to harvest [Re: mushhead] * 1
    #28371560 - 06/23/23 05:04 PM (1 year, 6 months ago)

I love your watertub, mushhead!

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Re: Are these tiny mushrooms ready to harvest [Re: Hysteria] * 1
    #28371590 - 06/23/23 05:20 PM (1 year, 6 months ago)

Thanks! It's not ideal obviously my lids are rusting and I could have just used a glass jar as my way of lifting it above the water.
All in all I'm pretty happy with it. Hope OP takes my advice.


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Re: Are these tiny mushrooms ready to harvest [Re: mushhead] * 1
    #28371753 - 06/23/23 07:41 PM (1 year, 6 months ago)

You innovated, you adapted, you overcame. I love it. Looks cool, too.
Hope they take your advice, too. They are so much easier and better.

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Re: Are these tiny mushrooms ready to harvest [Re: mushhead]
    #28372153 - 06/24/23 02:29 AM (1 year, 6 months ago)

two of my three cakes have yet to pin yet but I'm not worried about it cause i put them in like two weeks later. How would i turn those into the water method? would i scrape off the vermiculite and put the choir on it? I thought standing water was bad? i tried vermiculite at first instead of perlite and it seemed it was probably too wet and it never pinned till i switched to perlite. it seems counter intuitive to go even wetter now. I'm open to switching things up i just need some justification

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Re: Are these tiny mushrooms ready to harvest [Re: shroomzz69] * 1
    #28372354 - 06/24/23 07:13 AM (1 year, 6 months ago)

I gave you a link in my original post, with an image showing you how awesome coir is when used with your brf cake.
Should be justification enough.
Just dump out the Perlite, elevate your mushrooms, and fill it with water. Standing water is fine as long as it's evaporating away.

Here's what a water tub should look like. But you can literally make any tub that holds water into a water tub.
Casing in coir is easy, don't scrape anything off or whatever that's a waste of time.
Step 1: Find a 5 Gal bucket.
Step 2: Put brick of coir in that bucket.
Step 3: Put 1 gal boiling water in the bucket with the coir.
Step 4: Cover and allow to cool.
Step 5: Case your brf cakes in coir. just cover them with a nice layer of coir, it should stick with proper pressure used.
Don't be afraid of trying something new. The justification is that your mushrooms will do better and you'll have a better harvest because the coir will protect your cakes and keep them hydrated.
This removes the need to mist and micro-manage your grow.
Please just listen to me. I've been growing mushrooms since I was a bloody 10 year old.
EDIT: Adding updated pics of the BRF mini water tub here for OP to see and realize he's doing it wrong and give him justification to switch to a better method.

Edited by mushhead (06/24/23 07:24 AM)

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