PF tek - Shotgun Terrarium - GT & Cambodians Cubensis

and instead of tossing my cakes away...

where and how do i spawn my cakes in mother nature?

do i have to wait until spring until i can bury my cakes? (of course i cant save the ones i have now til then)
if so...ill just toss them now.

but for future references...i have some questions...

what kind of environment?
i was thinking of buying a bag of mushroom compost and burying it under that.

and once i successfully grow mushrooms outside and spores drop....can the mushrooms grow back next season?

i have no idea how this can be done....or even if it can be?

i live 5,000+ feet above sea level. high altitude. it rains a lot in the months of April - July. but can still be considered dry no matter what.

any info would be awesome.
and have any of you successfully spawned your cakes outside and gotten results?
if so...what is your average climate and environment like around you, outside?

dankillerbs said:

how do you know when a cake is completely spent?

It contaminates eventually. Typically under ideal conditions it will produce over 80% of it's weight in the first 3 flushes so many just toss it out after that... It's more productive to have more cakes ready to go after your previous cakes flush 3 times... That way you get more weight and you don't have to deal with mold spores from projects eventually contaminating.

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I know mine are spent when they stop producing lol, my cakes never contam, ever!!!! thats when i bury them outside under loose dirt and leaves. water and wait!!

hmmm. =]

i love cultivating mushrooms

bahahahahaha!!!!!

dude i'm in love with aborts.

i ate 0.4 grams of a closed cap dried cambodian and 4-5 tiny little aborts.

i cant believe i am even feeling anything.

=D

HeatlessBBQ said:

bahahahahaha!!!!!

dude i'm in love with aborts.

i ate 0.4 grams of a closed cap dried cambodian and 4-5 tiny little aborts.

i cant believe i am even feeling anything.

=D

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I'm surprised as shit on how potent mine turned out also.

I ate 3 grams on NYE and it was scary as hell. The next weekend I ate 1 gram and still tripped balls.

I definitely have enough to last me for a long time at that dose.

yeah dude....

we toldja...

haha

dont under estimate the power of mushrooms.

i remember my first mushrooms trip eating 3.5 grams having no idea what they would do to me.
then accidentally I got a front row seat to see what they really did do to me...

scary as hell when it was happening but i wouldn't give up those memories for anything =]

ever since then i know how to dose them right.
but sometimes the dose can be totally out of whack because of strain, the way it grew, what substrate, conditions...etc

thats what i love about mushrooms....they can be totally un-predictable.

that's why you gotta test the new batch with 0.5 grams - 1 gram at the most for the first time.
even if you are the experienced with a high tolerance or someone who has never tried mushrooms....
you should do this

Lol, for sure from now on.

It was a hell of a ride and experience.

you will cherish those memories and each day after today you will keep remembering each part of the trip more and more...
=]

Hey Heatless, just curious how your harvesting from your cakes...? Once you have caps opening are you just picking the mature fruits only? Or are you picking the entire cake, pins and all, before you dunk and roll again?

when i flush i cake. i flush a cake.
aborts, small pins, mature fruits and all before i dunk them again.

i read you should do this before but i dunno why...

can you please explain my good sir?

little pins can rot if you dont pick them, leading to contams

ahh ha
gotcha my good friend

Actually, its the opposite... you should only pick aborts and fruits that have fully matured. Your damaging future flushes by picking everything. All those pins your picking would have turned into mature fruits had they been left on the cake. It only prolongs the time it takes to get all the fruits the substrate will produce. If it takes you 8 flushes to get all the fruits your sub will produce its because you keep destroying the mycs chance to give it to you sooner by picking the pins. There is no problem dunking a cake with pins on it, in fact they will sometimes double in size during the dunk.

dankillerbs said:

Actually, its the opposite... you should only pick aborts and fruits that have fully matured. Your damaging future flushes by picking everything. All those pins your picking would have turned into mature fruits had they been left on the cake. It only prolongs the time it takes to get all the fruits the substrate will produce. If it takes you 8 flushes to get all the fruits your sub will produce its because you keep destroying the mycs chance to give it to you sooner by picking the pins. There is no problem dunking a cake with pins on it, in fact they will sometimes double in size during the dunk.

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im gonna have to disagree...
at the end of each flush all the mushrooms should be fully mature, if there not.. your dunking to early, it can take all day and night even two days(personal experince) to pick a flush completely..

the second one of those pins heads turn black, its rotting, and will contam, if its an abort its as big as it gonna get. search shroomery you will see no pro leaves that shit on there. I did my first two flushes with cakes because I suspected they may grow bigger, after dunking the aborts had rotted, rotting shrooms will make you sick.

im pretty sure thats even in those RR videos...

and here and excerpt from the dunk and roll tek posted on shroomery


When Should I Dunk and Roll?

• Immediately after birthing a cake and before placing it in the fruiting chamber you should always dunk and roll. A lot of water has been lost during the weeks the substrate has been colonizing.
• Between flushes. Once you have picked all the fruits off the cake or none have been growing for a few days you know your flush is over. Now is the time to dunk again, preparing the substrate for the next flush.
  
  
  heres the link if you wanna take a look
  http://www.shroomery.org/10253/PF-TEK-Update-Dunk-and-Roll

Oh Yeah..!!!
Subscribed... :bonghit:

HeatlessBBQ said:

harvested a few today =]
i think ill be flushing the first 6 cakes tonight or tomorrow.

then this time i am going to grind up the verm (very fine) and roll it after the dunk after i flush.
=]
things are lookings awesome.

i cant wait to chomp that 1 grammer below

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check out some of these beauties from recent flushes

hell yeah shroomies

If you read my post right you would see that I said to pick aborts, but leave pins that haven't matured yet.

its all good.

we get it now.

no hard feelings
=]

damn nice thread! Im sub'D

JP