How To HARVEST And DEHYDRATE Your Mushrooms

Hello everyone, In this video I show you how I harvested and dried my first successful max yield bin grow!

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[noiseinmyblood]

Great quality videos. Your temperatures are spot on, there is no need to go above 125 and it can be detrimental if you do.

Can I offer a tip on how you go about selecting candidates for genetic sampling?

First, size has no statistically quantifiable affect on Pb or Pn content, bigger does not automatically mean more potent. It can, but because you are dealing with probably one of the most amazing things in nature, it is not possible to know. It is common to have an absolutely giant specimen and have little potency to show for it. Unless you are running an HPLC test on every single mushroom to determine content %, there is simply no way to being sure.

Secondly, waiting until the Veil is about to break is not the ideal moment to harvest a Psi containing mushroom. Just prior to a mushroom developing and breaking its veil, it has ceased producing Psi, and instead focused on producing spores, dedicating all of its energy towards reproduction and not protection (Psi is a defensive chemical).

The ideal moment is largely intuitive, it is at some stage in the fruiting body process when it is still an Adolescent growing towards an Adult fruiting body, but well prior to Mature, which is when it enters its sporulation phase. If a veil begins to develop and you can see it separating, you waited too long. It takes time to develop this intuition. The "feels like a marshmallow" test is only valid for certain strains of Cubes.

My suggestion, if you're going to pursue mycology this way, is to create a system that you can repeat on every batch and flush. How much you are willing to commit to it in terms of finances and space is largely going to dictate everything.

Every batch, tub and flush is given a number, correlating to an entry in a notebook that contains all the relevant information from inoculation to fruiting, dates, substrate, supplements, etc.

I nominate 4 mushrooms per flush for sampling. The candidates are 1st to Fruiting Body (1FB), Largest in Flush (LIF), Visually Ideal (VIP, because why not) and 1st to Sporulation (1S). 1FB and 1S are typically your strongest genetics, since the goal for every mycellium network is to reproduce as quickly and energy efficiently as possible. 1S requires you to 'sacrifice' the candidate, since you won't be able to harvest it at its ideal moment.
I do this for each Flush.

Depending on how many tubs you are running concurrently, it can become cost prohibitive to have this many agar plates. I can easily go thru 12 to 18 plates per tub, sometimes more. After a few weeks in an Agar plate I discard the weakest developers and instead turn my attention to the plates that developed the best.

The reasoning behind this is that the most valuable thing you can gain from sampled genetics is Time.
Considering that it can take anywhere from 2 to 6 months, depending on strain or species, to successfully fruit a tub, the strains that colonize and successfully develop to fruiting bodies in the shortest amount of time are the most valuable.

[pshaskins]

YOU are the first person I have found to state WHY you need to get the shrooms before they drop spores. THANK YOU!!! 🎉

[aza]

I’m doing my first harvest within the next 72 hours, they look amazing. So excited

[kdgdeuce]

Best quote “You really don’t wanna eat that considering theirs shit in it”

[brnnbks]

First time grower. I had a manual for my grow kit but this video was worth gold for my golden teacher harvest. Thanks!

[sinccc]

Shoe box with cut holes at front and end with any working pc fan and thread to put muchrooms on, will dry and preserve them perfectly not a single dark spot just dry as stone that can be crushed in powder, takes 1-2days costs ~3$ for those who dont want to buy expensive dryers and dont want their fruits to have contact with heat of dryers.

[hockey_boyz]

This channel is going to go off. Incredible quality

[LeeMckenna-op]

To stop side pins, I used an elastic band around the middle (using 4lb bags, outside the bag!) and as im now using tubs, I use kids stretch string to make a band around my soil block(inside my tubs)

[tjzambonischwartz]

In the future, it probably isn't a great idea to pick an already sporulated mushroom for cloning. If you're gonna clone a specimen, pluck it in advance of the veil breaking.

Once the spores enter the equation it's a crap shoot whether the culture that takes off is actually from the cloned tissue or not.

[pi]

Really well put together video, congrats man

[Tokiiplaysguitar]

God damn some of those second flush shrooms were massive ! Happy growing

[E.TGropeHome]

I find the blacks bags aren’t to stop side pinning but for easy cleanup for next run.

[raylowskee]

I’m glad u added that clip bcuz that beat 🔥🔥🔥🔥 at about 7:40

[jh.]

Fucking love this guys energy, subbed when he said “massive donger” 😂

[donniebrown]

I think you were right to clone from the first flush. My understanding is that the latter flushes almost always produce larger fruit due to the fact that they simply have less competition for nutrients, water, space, etc. also great video! 👍🏻

[codgamer]

once you transfer it to a mono-tub and you start seeing pins, then it seems like the growing process speeds up dramatically.

[anamositykilla]

Love the content! I also enjoy taking shrooms. But gotten to a point where i wanna grow my own! ❤!

[dahlusion]

Excellent. Prime info (all of it) for this first time Shroom Farmer. Thank you.

[closedmindsneveropendoors]

Second flush usually always has biggest mushrooms. Mycelium has had enough time to fully colonize so all energy goes to growth ✌️

[Darryn-fxgp]

Second flush “he’s a grower & a shower” 🤣 the mushroom had a jump off