Anybody growing mushrooms willing to talk???

[HydoDan]

I'm not familiar with cakes, but my monotub gets side pins and a few from the bottom.
Just a little harder to harvest but normal.

 

[A.k.a]

Yeah that’s ok, they’ll snake their way up.

like hydodan said they grow on the sides of tubs all the time no problem.

 

[Drop That Sound]

I've got nice ones I can see through the bottom of my clear tub, but will never get to em without ripping through everything..

I wonder if you could just suspend the cakes in the air with fishing line or something. Let them hang and get full 360 degree fruiting action going on.

 

[canndo]

Light is a major fruiting trigger. Keep the portions where you dont want mmushrooms completely dark.

 

[7L!fTeD24]

 

[7L!fTeD24]

I've got nice ones I can see through the bottom of my clear tub, but will never get to em without ripping through everything..

I wonder if you could just suspend the cakes in the air with fishing line or something. Let them hang and get full 360 degree fruiting action going on.

Yeah that would be awesome. I'm sure it could be done

 

[A.k.a]

i went through a phase of that when I started out. Usually they come up from the bottom but I had a few that just grew straight out of whatever side they were on it looked pretty cool.

 

[ProPheT 216]

Been years but I used to grow penis envy mushrooms

 

[ProPheT 216]

I used a big 8 foot tall clear plastic zip up clothing wardrobe thing, put a white plastic shelf inside, and had 5 tubs going... made dmt from scratch too!

 

[7L!fTeD24]

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i went through a phase of that when I started out. Usually they come up from the bottom but I had a few that just grew straight out of whatever side they were on it looked pretty cool.

Yeah I like the idea of having it on a rack like that then sitting flat on foil. But I don't know maybe that microclimate between the cake and the foil is what made those grow because they seem to be the most vigorous out of them all.

 

[ProPheT 216]

Microclimate super important. I had a humidity controller inside the wardrobe that kept it so humid their was always water droplets on the wardrobe and fog rolling across my tubs

Yeah I like the idea of having it on a rack like that then sitting flat on foil. But I don't know maybe that microclimate between the cake and the foil is what made those grow because they seem to be the most vigorous out of them all.

My shit looked like dildos

 

[7L!fTeD24]

Microclimate super important. I had a humidity controller inside the wardrobe that kept it so humid their was always water droplets on the wardrobe and fog rolling across my tubs

My shit looked like dildos

The child in me has to respond with Dick Farm.

 

[7L!fTeD24]

So I've heard that you should Harvest right before the veil breaks. I don't know if these are fully mature or not but it looks like the veil has broken do I harvest these or do I let them keep going? Also they all seem to be attached to the same body so do I pluck the whole thing off or just the ones that are ready? definitely going to have to pull some aborts off I see all over. I see different pictures of harvests where ones will have more of a round cap with an unbroken veil and then some harvests with big flat wide caps with completely open veils. Kinda confused. Thanks a lot for any input. After seeing the full cycle I'll be able to tell next time.

 

[Thundercat]

Those have more to grow. Don’t even worry about “peak” harvest right now. Watch the mushrooms and learn the life cycle. They should get bigger and the caps should start to open which is when you should see more clearly the process.

 

[A.k.a]

Yeah those are still pins.

the caps will start to get round when they’re almost ready. Those are gonna hit a growth spurt today or tomorrow night that will blow your mind.

 

[7L!fTeD24]

Those have more to grow. Don’t even worry about “peak” harvest right now. Watch the mushrooms and learn the life cycle. They should get bigger and the caps should start to open which is when you should see more clearly the process.

Thanks a lot! That's pretty much what I'm going for with this grow is to watch and learn and see the life cycle and talk to people that have done it and learn from them. After realizing pftek wasn't the best option and it being my first time I wasn't expecting anything let alone a large yield. Currently working on putting the monotub together so I can shred my already inoculated cakes to bulk substrate next. Just need a little help knowing when to harvest these, thanks a lot

 

[7L!fTeD24]

Here's the next six jars colonizing. These ones seem to be taking off a lot quicker than the last ones did. I got them from two different vendors to see what one had better genetics.

 

[7L!fTeD24]

Yeah those are still pins.

the caps will start to get round when they’re almost ready. Those are gonna hit a growth spurt today or tomorrow night that will blow your mind.

Yeah I wasn't expecting them to grow that fast I had a couple pins that stalled and I thought they were growing super slow until yesterday morning they were exploding out the bottom. So I realize everything is pretty slow up until fruiting and then blast off!!!

 

[7L!fTeD24]

One more thing, should I be misting and Fanning above the chamber like when I'm trying to initiate pinning? Or should I just spray the sides of the tub and Perlite? Sorry for rambling on but I'm excited these things are literally growing as we speak.

 

[canndo]

Keep the humidity high but not 100 percent. If the caps crack it's top dry. If they rot, it's too wet.