LewDoja said:

✂️ ....electric carving knife...

You're gonna get some no matter what... whether it's a the bottom from cutting or towards the top where you grab it to pull/twist off the sub.

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Mr Piggy said:

Might just be a color reaction from eating the dye.  What's it look like from the back?

I'm honestly curious about it.  I might send it to a single jar just to see what happens.

Once you get your base skills down you get to fuck around with funky stuff and understand what's happening.  It's a lot of fun.

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squigglez said:

is growing PE/APE different from other cubes? or do they just need standard agar/grain/sub like any other cube

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LewDoja said:

As any domesticated cubensis has undoubtedly already been printed countless times...probably that very same way.


If you're looking for clusters, cloning those will be the better choice.

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Mr Piggy said:

Handle carefully?  Cubes bruise when you harvest them, no way to get around the cut turning blue.  Is there a reason you're trying to prevent all bruising?

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999999999 said:

sometimes I harvest with my mental powers, but they get even more traumatized

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  You'll have to work on your meditation technique and tranquility before starting!

ThurmanMurman said:

Mr Piggy said:

Fiet said:

This is P. Natalensis Strain I transfer Agar to Grain and i see a fast Growth is this Natalensis specific?

I see a tiny Spot i make a Macro looks ok?

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Why are there a dozen wedges in each jar?  Just carefully transfer one very clean wedge in and leave it at that.  You're inviting contamination with so much activity over an open jar.

I'm going to do this in all caps so it is very clear:

SHROOMS DO NOT DEFEAT CONTAMINATION OF ANY KIND. 

Once your plate, spawn, or spawned sub is contaminated it is contaminated.  It's done, yeet it into the sun.  The only contaminated grain I spawn is bacterial, and then I top fruit. 

Shrooms do not defeat mold.

Shrooms do not defeat bacteria.

CLEAN SPAWN ONLY.

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Listen to this right here. The second half is obviously true too, but I think the first half gets kind of glossed over bc the learning material often shows the more experienced cultivators slicing a whole plate and transferring. Ive been chasing a minor bacterial issue in all of my jars for...idk...months. I did everything I could think of, including inspecting my PC for some random shit that could have probably never been the problem anyway. Im confident that this is where I was fuckin up - too much time with an open jar, too much time trying to transfer 12 wedges while being under pressure to hurry...all of that. Take it slow with the wedges and save yourself the headache, amigo. More inoculation points are meaningless if the jar shits the bed in the end.

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Hey,

I do another Agar transfer after a failure with too many wedges this time i transfer only 1 Agar wedge is that OK?

SWBZA said:

Mr Piggy said:

Handle carefully?  Cubes bruise when you harvest them, no way to get around the cut turning blue.  Is there a reason you're trying to prevent all bruising?

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Hi.  I've been told you lose potency with a bruise.  Is that rubbish?

Kind regards

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LyleChipperson said:

SWBZA said:

Mr Piggy said:

Handle carefully?  Cubes bruise when you harvest them, no way to get around the cut turning blue.  Is there a reason you're trying to prevent all bruising?

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Hi.  I've been told you lose potency with a bruise.  Is that rubbish?

Kind regards

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Bruising is an unavoidable reaction, it is what it is. Whatever amount of actives is lost is miniscule compared to what remains. I'm yet to grow weak mushrooms and I'm not paying any attention to how much I bruise them.

What's the point in worrying about losing a tiny bit of potency when you can get a lot of fruits even from one good shoebox. You can always take a little bit more if you don't think your dose gave you the expected effects. I'd be much more concerned about drying them well for long term storage, because messing that up will have the biggest adverse effect on their potency.

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LyleChipperson said:

SWBZA said:

Mr Piggy said:

Handle carefully?  Cubes bruise when you harvest them, no way to get around the cut turning blue.  Is there a reason you're trying to prevent all bruising?

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Hi.  I've been told you lose potency with a bruise.  Is that rubbish?

Kind regards

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Bruising is an unavoidable reaction, it is what it is. Whatever amount of actives is lost is miniscule compared to what remains. I'm yet to grow weak mushrooms and I'm not paying any attention to how much I bruise them.

What's the point in worrying about losing a tiny bit of potency when you can get a lot of fruits even from one good shoebox. You can always take a little bit more if you don't think your dose gave you the expected effects. I'd be much more concerned about drying them well for long term storage, because messing that up will have the biggest adverse effect on their potency.

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LewDoja said:

I would put the MP tape on asap.

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