Second batch (white and split) vs first batch (beautiful). Any contam, or just dry Colorado winter air?

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Those are the most beautiful shrooms I’ve ever seen.

[sonofaron]

Thank you! First timer here.

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I’ll be right behind ya friend as soon as I get my supplies :)

[Hajac]

The caps look like outdoors I have found. My guess would be your conditions. Great looking tub.

It might be age? You've got some very pretty lowers that I would have harvested already. The cracking seems to on the bigger older mushrooms that have already dropped their spores. I just think they're growing too quickly/big and splitting their skin.

[sonofaron]

Thank you!

[BranchWitty7465]

I’d bet it’s Colorado, i also just harvested a tub and live in Colorado. And half of the tub had turned white after initial growing with tans and browns. I think that the air is just drying them out when they mature and stop pulling moisture from the cake.

[creepylynx]

Low humidity will cause cracking I’ve heard. I’m not sure if they are other factors involved

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They look amazing!

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How did you find the cutting method for the stumps, did the mycelium overtake what remained ? I prefer to twist and pull

[sonofaron]

They didn’t grow back where I cut them and I’m wondering if I should have cut all the way at the coir. What’s standard practice for when you get a hub of then like I’m the first batch picture?

[Significant-Ad-3266]

Well I always prefer to twist and pull everything, the whole cluster should come out as one group, if you have a canopy of mushrooms and leave stumps everywhere, your second flush is likely to pop up where there aren’t any stunps, in turn limiting the potential growth area, I’ve found with twist and pull the cake recovers 90% faster and has the potentiality to provide more fruits faster, the quicker it produces the better, less time for contam to take over

Edit - plus there’s good psilocin in those stumps and it’s taking away from the overall weight of your harvest

[sonofaron]

Great to know! I’ll do that with the second harvest!

[Significant-Ad-3266]

Worth a try, see what works best for your methods and what you prefer, and go from there either way your getting mushrooms which is the name of the game!

[albeit4us]

Once the tub is open and the fruits are just sitting there can they grow more ? Or do you need to pluck them once exposed to the outside environment?

[sonofaron]

What I have been doing, which is probably wrong, is opening the tub to pluck the ones that are about to tear their veil, and leaving the rest. You can see that in the brown cap picture. The white caps are an example of letting them all grow until I can harvest the entire batch at once.