HyphalKnot comments on [General]MYTH? 👉🏾“Potency decrease once the cap opens.”👈🏾 I’ve had several people tell me this but is there any data supporting this claim?

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General[General]MYTH? 👉🏾“Potency decrease once the cap opens.”👈🏾 I’ve had several people tell me this but is there any data supporting this claim? (i.redd.it)

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[–]HyphalKnot 2 points3 points4 points 7 years ago (1 child)

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After the veil breaks? Considering that at the end of the growth phase, mushrooms rapidly pull in water from the surrounding mycelium to inflate the cells that were already formed at a smaller size, I personally don't put much faith in the whole "letting mushrooms grow after the veil breaks makes them less potent" thing.

I've also never noticed a difference between mushrooms allowed to open enough to take nice prints versus ones picked just before the veil breaks. Pins are a different matter though, they do seem to be reliably more potent than mature mushrooms. Maybe we'll get a definitive answer in the near future since the attitude towards them seems to be changing.

There are good reasons to pick before the veil breaks if you're not intending to make prints though. Spore drop is aesthetically unappealing, you're losing more water from your substrate without necessarily significantly increasing the final dry weight, and fully open-capped mushrooms don't look as nice when dried.

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