u/Inner-Mud-1701

Image 1 — 4th flush and they're still looking good.
Image 2 — 4th flush and they're still looking good.

4th flush and they're still looking good.

This is the 4th flush of my WGT monotub. After they were dried I ended with 40 grams from the 4th, all flushes combined it's closer to 7 ounces. This is the longest I've let a cake go, usually due to time constraints and not being home to monitor things. I've taken a spore print of a fruit from my 2nd and 4th, when should I call it quits? I know there's been some debate about this, that the potential for contamination goes up while the myc exhausts itself. My surface is still showing primordia and pinning, but I don't want to begin growing a bacteria box especially in my grow tent. From liquid culture, inoculation, to harvest, it's been going since February. When would you dump the cake?

u/Inner-Mud-1701 — 7 days ago

I have been growing these white golden teachers since January/February that was my inoculation time. I have had 2 successful flushes in my shoebox and 1 in my monotub so far. But I had a family emergency and even though I saw my monotub and my other shoebox pinning I had to leave. I dropped the temp in my grow area, it stayed at about 68-70 during the time I was gone hoping to slow down the process.

When I came home 8 days later, my fruits had grown very long and fuzzy, but also fewer matured than I expected. I usually let more fae in at certain points I'm sure that caused the fuzzy feet and cakes. But the caps didn't fully open except on one and it was a pretty big one, it looked like a heart with 2 connected bodies (in the pictures posted). I just want to be sure they look healthy enough, I plucked them off the cake and the blue that showed up on the mushrooms was a much deeper blue from both this monotub and shoebox previously .

Just curious, I did start the dehydration and dunking process just in case but I have no other grows in that area so if something looks amiss it won't be hard to remove and start over.

u/Inner-Mud-1701 — 15 days ago