So, I tested this thread out in the pub before posting it here.  I was adequately hazed and ridiculed there, so I figure it to be time to hang my head and come clean to the cult forum and my fellow TC's.    Even as we speak, i have a yeti sub showing lots of promising pins after only mere days of this technique. I hate a delinquent substrate.  This is the way I clean the slate and make them pay what they owe.  Im  not sure if god even likes me anymore and I know I may face harsh reception for this here by my peers and at the gates of heaven later but here we go. 



As overheard in the pub:

BeefSupremeJr said:

Yeah I think I should come clean about my tub punishing antics.  I confess I've been recommending people do this and I should be exposed for it.  Not really ready to make this an official tek, because It may not be well received.  Im ready for the wrath of my colleages.

Ok after any first flush, what Ill do thats pretty standard and accepted, is, with a gloved hand, wipe all the aborts, stumps and whatever other nonsense there is remaining.

Heres a comically stupid first flush:



And here it is, humiliated:



So then what I do when I have a surface that I dont like anymore after a first flush--overlaid, matted, covered in spores etc.  it happens--I take it to the sink, and with luke warm water, i use the dish sprayer to harshly wash the surface off of the sub.  I "paint it brown".  that makes sense if you try it. 



punished:




OK I admit I pretty much do this with every tub, despite whatever the surface looked like after the first flush.  I do it because I get really nice results. I think the thing I run into more often than anythint else is over-pinning.  Tooooo many pins makes for a batch or micro-fruits and then youre left with a ton of aborts after harvest.

What wil happen is it will fuzz back over and make a whole new surface in about 4 or 5 days and pin again.  typically, I get much bigger fruit the second flush.

Its harsh, yeah, but I've been secretly running side by sides for the last 6 months and seeing what Ive seen, its a no brainer.  I punish everything the same.  Even semps. 

Ok bring it. Be honest.  Say whats on your mind.

Heres an example of a yeti tub that was harshly punished for giving me a ton of micro-fruit on its first flush, as is yetis custom. 

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I also admit, this is an extenstion of something i learned from our old dear friend baked beings, who told me in hushed tones, that he simply takes his tub to the sink and runs water over the surface.

I saw that dish sprayer watching me do this with its little sea-horse flat-face like "sir, i can help"



so heres that same tub.  all pictures were posted the day I did what did. 



edit 1/31/26

Some time last year, i started adding a layer of field cap coir, LOOSELY after punishment. At first I had mixed results, but i've played with it some. I go a little wetter on the prep now than I would a substrate, and i mist it A LOT as it becomes colonized after second flush.

To my delight, I'm now getting some brutal second flushes and now EVEN A THIRD flush on really heavy fruiters like Sporeless GT:

Behold, this is a THIRD flush on a sub that already gave me 200% bioefficiency on the first flush. I'll weigh it all when its done, but we are way way beyond all previous efficiency data for this strain folks.

First flush canopy:


second flush chonkers:


Now third flush:

BeefSupremeJr said:

I imagine Im a patch of psilocybe aztecorum living on a mesa meadow and Ive just been humiliated by a deer who is now writhing and foaming for its sanity.  Im covered in deer saliva, matted down.  But aw, the sky darkens and the rain begins to fall...

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Shroomadillo said:

What about little aborts/pins that don't come off while spraying, do you remove these by hand before/afterwards?

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Shroomadillo said:

What about little aborts/pins that don't come off while spraying, do you remove these by hand before/afterwards?

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BeefSupremeJr said:

Shroomadillo said:

What about little aborts/pins that don't come off while spraying, do you remove these by hand before/afterwards?

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a gloved hand seems to be the perfect texture to wipe it all clean.  not really for sanitary reasons, it just works well.  faht taught me that move.

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