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krishko
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An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes
#5131740 - 01/02/06 03:50 PM (18 years, 29 days ago) |
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Ok,
So i found an intersting way to recycle old cakes. I had about 15 spent PF Cakes. They were small and hard. Each cake had been dunked and produced 3 flushes a piece. When it was time to get rid of them, i decided to try something.
I took a big bucket and put all the cakes in it. I then dunked in cold water for 24 hours. After the 24 hour dunk period, i broke the cakes apart with my hands into an aluminum tray. All of this was done in very non-sterile conditions. No cleaning of any sort was done. I didn't really expect anything to happen.
Anyway, once i broke them up into the tray, i just smoothed it out real good and threw it right into my fruiting chamber. I misted daily and nothing happened for a good week. After two weeks i had quite a few big ass pins. They grew very slowly, but got pretty big.



The biggest fruit there in my hand was 58.5 grams!

This obviously didn't produce a huge flush, but i'm more than happy considering i was going to throw the cakes away. I'm still drying the flush, so i don't know the final weight. But i'm expecting to get pretty close to a full ounce.
BTW, for those who may be wondering, the strain was Stropharia. Try it out and have fun!
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: krishko]
#5131804 - 01/02/06 04:04 PM (18 years, 29 days ago) |
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You've made a believer out of me.
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JoeyShmoey
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: krishko]
#5131853 - 01/02/06 04:11 PM (18 years, 29 days ago) |
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About five years ago, I was growing some bud, I buried a spent cake in a pot with a plant. I didn't expect anything, and about 4 days later or so I had 3 giant mushies growing right out in the open air under a 400watt HPS lamp. I took a beautiful picture of it with the plants, but I have since lost it! Wish I still had that pic!!
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: JoeyShmoey]
#5132022 - 01/02/06 04:50 PM (18 years, 29 days ago) |
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Mushrooms are pretty hardy...
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: Snaggletooth]
#5132214 - 01/02/06 05:36 PM (18 years, 29 days ago) |
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yeah mushrooms are pretty hardy till you can't seem to grow any aha... Some people or in some times in a persons experiments you just can't not get them to grow.
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: Snaggletooth]
#5132247 - 01/02/06 05:45 PM (18 years, 29 days ago) |
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iam doing this right nw,i new that you can start outdoor patches with spent cakes or any spent mycel..so i just made regular cheap casings..casing layer is just plain potting soil..nuthin special
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: bongtoke]
#5132366 - 01/02/06 06:18 PM (18 years, 29 days ago) |
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Cool. Did you case your spent cakes with anything, or just spread them out in the aluminum tray?
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krishko
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: tofey]
#5132836 - 01/02/06 08:10 PM (18 years, 29 days ago) |
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no casing. just spread them out. i really didn't expect anything to happen at all. i was just bored one day and started messing around.
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eNmity
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: krishko]
#5132874 - 01/02/06 08:19 PM (18 years, 29 days ago) |
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sounds like cakes even after many flushes still hold some strength . if broken up and mixed with enough cakes it could restart ?? hm
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: eNmity]
#5133037 - 01/02/06 08:55 PM (18 years, 29 days ago) |
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I'll take a print of that bigun!
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: krishko]
#5133050 - 01/02/06 08:59 PM (18 years, 29 days ago) |
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Did you dunk between the original cake flushes or just the one big 24 hour dunk before you spread them out together?
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krishko
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: uneven]
#5133629 - 01/02/06 11:23 PM (18 years, 29 days ago) |
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Before i first birthed the cakes i dunked them for 24 hours. After that i did not dunk between flushes. The next dunk was before i broke them up.
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: krishko]
#6667880 - 03/14/07 07:50 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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good god man
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: the_owl]
#6667941 - 03/14/07 08:38 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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when putting those cakes togehter sterility isn't as big of an issue because the mycelium can somewhat protect itself by that time.
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: Bridgeburner]
#6667944 - 03/14/07 08:39 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thats awesome man. Happy you got good results.
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: Shepx83]
#6668151 - 03/14/07 09:55 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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This thread is over a year old.:(
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Re: An Interesting Way To Recycle Old Cakes [Re: Premedman1]
#6668245 - 03/14/07 10:19 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Premedman1 said:
This thread is over a year old.:(
yeah...
and the cakes weren't spent!~
spent
–verb
1. used up; consumed. 2. tired; worn-out; exhausted.
—Synonyms 3. weary, drained, fagged.
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