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Gone into the fruiter this week. I'll update when there's noticeable improvement (likely in 2-3 weeks).

PS: For those who may wonder why I'm fruiting the cake before it seems to be completely colonized is because it began to sweat alot on the inside of the jar (bowl in this case) and it wasn't spreading much anymore so I decided to play it safe. The cake's still pretty solid though and held together well by the mycelium. It's such a beautiful thing - the mycelium. Even if I got nothing out of the cakes, I'd still love the experience of having been able to watch the mycelium colonize... although I do hope to get something decent from the cake.

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if you know what you're doing and have a good fruiting chamber, you'll have something to update in a week or less. 2-4 days you'll have hyphal knots, 5-8 days you'll have pins, ~10 (maybe less) days you'll harvest.

Hmm awesome... I seem to prefer your idea reality better than mine when it comes to the length of time it'll take :P... I read somewhere that cakes may not do anything for up to 2-3 weeks when they're placed in the fruiting chamber hm.. perhaps I missunderstood...

This is the second time I'm growing; first time with any success getting to this stage. I'm airing out the chamber daily, and misting as well to keep the humidity up. My fruiting chamber is essentially an upside down clear (frosty) water pitcher. The yellow thingy you see the cake and perlite sitting in in the photo is actually the lid of the pitcher.
It gets decent indirect sunlight throughout the daylight hours but not enough to disturb the cakes.

I'll post a pic of the fruiting chamber all together tonight when I air it out and let it breathe a bit.

Any addition tips, comments, advice or constructive criticism would be great and are always appreciated.

Did you dunk your cakes after birthing? I'm toying with dunking them since I've read on shroomery that it helps increase the amount that you harvest. Just wondering.

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No I didn't dunk them, I never heard of the idea of dunking them after birthing; only after flushes.
Even so though, I wouldn't have dunked this cake in particular because the mycelium seemed to refuse to wrap itself around the entire cake so just incase it was a little weaker inside, I wouldn't want it to fall apart underwater lol.

true. I read your post and the posted my question after reading through a few more so I forgot that your mycelium is being wack. yeah, ive been doing some reading and people are suggesting 12-24 hours dunk in water in the fridge after birthing to rehydrate the cakes. And then sometimes dunking between flushes. I think i may do a few cakes this way and few cakes normal and see the results for myself.

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nice good luck and let us know how that works out for you

on another, but similar note, i was obviously really really baked last night and totally forgot to take a photo of the fruiting chamber when i was airing it out last night lol... i'll try to remember tonight. sorry about that.

Sweet I just saw the first shroomm growing! I didn't see any signs of it coming though, it just popped out of nowhere, so I'm hoping it's not the only one cause I don't see any signs of others coming out yet. IT's about 1 inch long already; that's between last night and tonight.

pics please.

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