flapping_bird said:

OFFICIAL ENTRY - FLAPPING BIRD - ECUADOR, CAKE 8 (HARVESTED 1/23/26)


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Some data and observations from my experience with the cakes that I grew:

• I made 8 cakes this event, 2-each of: Ecuador, Treasure Coast, Fiji, Thai Pink Buffalo.
  
  
• 7 cakes progressed to competition (the 8th was finally birthed yesterday, a Treasure Coast jar)
  
  
• 6 cakes have fruited to-date (the last to fruit was Treasure Coast, with one small fruit, 3 days ago)
  
  
• My approximate combined total harvest from the 5 cakes that have been harvested to-date = 246g wet, which should have dried down to about 7% of the wet weight, or about 17g dry had I dried them. I didn't need the fruit, so I disposed of them. Not a bad haul for virtually no effort.
  
  
• I have made **hundreds** of 12-hr prints from these cakes for trading purposes. I was able to print most of the caps (even the small ones) 5 or 6 times with good dark prints all the way through. I feel that I could have kept on printing for at least one more round, but I now have an insane number of prints and enough was finally enough for me. I will be happy to share these prints - just send me a PM or hit me up through one of my giveaways.
  
  
• I learned that I should probably always fruit PF cakes "right side up", meaning to make the top surface as it is in the jar to be the top-most surface in the fruiting chamber. I had fruited the first 3 upside down (one Thai Pink Buffalo and 2 Fiji cakes), and the last 2 (the Ecuadors) right side up.
  
  
• I found that using a deeper lid in the fruiting chamber, such as a plastic wide-mouth mason jar lid, upon which to rest the cakes, was very desirable, as I could easily add supplemental water to the cakes by filling the lid.
  
  
• The speed of fruiting of the different varieties, from fastest to slowest, for me in this round was: Thai Pink Buffalo > Fiji > Ecuador > Treasure Coast. 
  
  

Peace to all!

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Well fucking done