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Schilderij
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First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS
#7734646 - 12/08/07 08:34 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Firstly I would like to thank everyone in the forum for the help and support given throughout the process. I've gathered heaps of crucial information for my grow here, and couldn't make it without you.
I have grown 5 brf (1 pint) pf-tek cakes, inoculated with FSRE Mexican-TULUM psilocybe cubensis spores. It took very long (almost 2 months) to colonize. My terrarium has about 3-4 inches of perlite in it. Holes on the bottom and top of it, and a few on the sides at perlite height. I keep temperature in this cold winter using my radiator (measuring with digital thermometer). Fanning 3-6 times a day.
First pinning took 8 days after exposing the cakes to fruiting environment. It took another 5-6 days until I had my first harvest. They didn't all fruit the same time and so I had it going very comfortable by means of drying, dunking (for second flush) and so on...
One last cake have micro-pinned, and all aborted. It is now fruiting marvelously.
All in all I guess the first flush gave a healthy 150-170 fresh grams.
I've fan-dried for 36 hours, and they are now sitting in a drying chamber above 350 grams of Epsom Salt (pre-cooked in the oven) for total drying.
All of the (fruited) cakes have been dunked for 24 hours in filtered water and rolled in dry vermiculite, double-end-cased with wet coarse verm and misted about 6-7 times for the last day and a half. I'm expecting many more from them.
Yesterday I ate about 25 grams of it and had a great trip in the forest with a friend. I called some friends later and we all munched some aborts and small shrooms through the night and had a nice mellow high. I am very happy with the results!
here are the pictures:
my setup:

first 2 cakes:

first cake before harvest:

first cake harvest:

second cake before harvest:

second cake harvest:

third cake before partial harvest:

third cake partial harvest:

third and fourth cake before final harvest (I like this picture best):

third and fourth cakes harvest (WOW):

drying shroomz:

If anyone has any notes, feedback, criticism on the process or the outcome I would very much like to hear you.
A few questions to end with:
- How many flushes should I be expecting?
- I know bluing of the cakes is normal where touched (bruising), but my cakes are extremely blue after harvest and dunking, not only where they've been touched. Should I be worried?
- Does bluing of the shrooms soon after harvest indicate the shrooms are potent? (I've heard the blue stuff is psilocybin)
- Does second flush pinning usually take longer than first flush pinning?
- Should I be cooking the epsom salt again after they dry and before drying the second flush?
Thanks again to all of you. You are wonderful!
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: Schilderij]
#7734669 - 12/08/07 08:42 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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nice first grow
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: usg543]
#7734686 - 12/08/07 08:49 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Show-off 
well done
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: Nibin]
#7734749 - 12/08/07 09:08 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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awesome.
i have a question for you, where did u get the spores? I have been to Tulum a few times and it's one of the most beautiful places i've ever seen. the ruins are incredible.
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: Schilderij]
#7734773 - 12/08/07 09:13 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Great grow 
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: KaptKid]
#7734827 - 12/08/07 09:27 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I give you 3 out of 3... STANDING ON ONE ANOTHER!


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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: Crake]
#7735242 - 12/09/07 12:21 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Nice flush
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: BUDDHA_702]
#7736209 - 12/09/07 11:24 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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wow that looks great. i cant wait for my first grow, im still waiting on spores to come
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Schilderij
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: Yrat]
#7739383 - 12/10/07 06:22 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Yrat said: awesome.
i have a question for you, where did u get the spores? I have been to Tulum a few times and it's one of the most beautiful places i've ever seen. the ruins are incredible.
I got 'em by mail from www.FSRE.nl
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: usg543]
#7867949 - 01/12/08 02:07 AM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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WOW MAN !!! I hope that my first grow comes out like yours did. Good job bro'. Im working on making sure there are no suprises and I get a good many grams out of my first grow too. I have to agree with you; everyone here at this site has been real helpfull on answering my beginer questions too. as soon as my spores come and i inoculate im gonna take some pics to show too.
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: patsfan1430]
#7868051 - 01/12/08 03:12 AM (16 years, 20 days ago) |
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Great results, congratulations  Compared to my first grow your first flush produces bigger yet fewer shrooms than my first flush. I got the big ones at the second and third flush. BTW, what strain did you use? And what's the size (volume) of your cakes?
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: Nebula]
#7868077 - 01/12/08 03:31 AM (16 years, 20 days ago) |
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Congratulations, those are pf-tek cakes to be proud of.
The digi gauge isnt the greatest, but since your flushes are nice and large, and were quick to mature, your humidity must be at least 95%.
I love the PF tek.
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: veda_sticks]
#7868241 - 01/12/08 07:26 AM (16 years, 20 days ago) |
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I have casings that are in the incubater now and Hope my first grow comes out as well as yours, GOOD JOB!
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: fisher7989]
#7868244 - 01/12/08 07:29 AM (16 years, 20 days ago) |
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I think its about a week after first flush for second flush to begin... if your cakes are blueing it may mean they are dehydrated... make sure to dunk? Those cakes look awesome btw, clone some of dem bitches.
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: Schilderij]
#8434611 - 05/22/08 09:04 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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Im doing this same method, I have about a week left until fruiting time. Did you use perlite? and what is that cord running into your chamber. Can you tell me a little about your setup. Im just trying to play it safe on fruiting. Anyways your first time harvest is awesome.
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: KimPeek]
#8434780 - 05/22/08 09:40 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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Show-off, indeed 
VERY nice!
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: Schilderij]
#8434944 - 05/22/08 10:26 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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grats dawg just wait for your upcoming flushes
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: Nnflogg]
#8435294 - 05/22/08 11:48 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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really good job the only thing is i did my first grow with 1 pint jars ive then went down to 1/2 pint they will speed it up you just do twice as many you can even do 1/25 pint jars pf tek is slow anyway to speed it up is a good thing. KEEP GROWING FRIEND
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: gethyn]
#8435619 - 05/23/08 01:50 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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Wow, those are some great fruits off those cakes man 
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: andrewss]
#8435841 - 05/23/08 04:40 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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i hope mine goes as well as yours. mine are also colonizing slow
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: djblackout]
#8435920 - 05/23/08 05:44 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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Looks great. Hope you have fun with those. 
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: Schilderij]
#8435985 - 05/23/08 06:25 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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nice! at first im thinking 150??? then im like.. ohhh of course.. hes saying 150 g wet, duh
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: Locus]
#8436204 - 05/23/08 08:40 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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Looking good there!
To answer your question, I've never found a correlation between bluing and potency. Some of the most potent mushrooms I've ever seen had almost no bluing. Others may disagree, but that's been my experience. I've found both weak and highly potent mushrooms, regardless of the amount of blue. RR
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: RogerRabbit]
#8436297 - 05/23/08 09:38 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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That cake looks great. I am impressed with the size of the fruits. Usually, my cakes explode with pins, but the fruits are tall and skinny with very little meatiness to them. Those look pretty hardy.
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: HoleSnype]
#8436486 - 05/23/08 10:58 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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cant wait for my spores to get here from FRSE, i dont see anyone disatissfied with them 
goodjob on your cakes man!
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Re: First grow. First flush. brf-pf-tek. AMAZED!!! + PICS [Re: djblackout]
#8441474 - 05/24/08 07:28 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
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