Birthing a substrate cake

The basic removal of a mushroom cake that has been colonized using the pf-tek method.

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[jpullum2]

question to any ...just starting out not quite clear is brown rice flour brow rice ground into a "flour" or is it ground brown rice mixed w/ regular flour if so what the ratio? also whats the deal w/ soaking the cake i've read that if you break the cake up you can case the cakes would soaking help in that case also or is it not necessary? last question does any one know how to get multiple flushed using the casing method?....thanks to any who can help w/ my questions

[uberscientist]

@jpullum2 google: "brown rice flour" and baby steps, read up on casing, there's plenty of videos if you don't like to read even. Google is a complex tool, but things like "mushroom casing methods flushes" may bring good results, try different keywords without quotes.  Maybe even google "How to use google"

[KidInsight]

I just birthed my cake and I guess it wasn't as ready as I thought it was. It was fully covered in mycelium but when it dropped out the jar a patch of myc stayed stuck to the jar, so now the is an area of substrate that is exposed =/ Shall I just see how it goes? Am I probably gonna have to scrap it?

[uberscientist]

@KidInsight yeah you didn't wait long enough it sounds like, I haven't grown mushrooms in a while... so the exposed substrate may be delicious to other things, keep that cake away from the others, or if you live somewhere mushroom crumble the cake in a nice little patch of foresty/mushroom loving area.

[ReallyPsilly]

NO COLD SHOCK WITH CUBENSIS.

They grow in warm, humid environments. Put the cake straight from colonization chamber and into fruiting chamber.

The moron who tried arguing cold shocking helps was mistaken with Azure. and Cyan species which live in cold climates here in the Pacific Northwest.

[Masterrese]

when its 100% colonized, contams have a fuck of time trying to infect the cake, its rare to see a full cake go rotten

[Tinderboxing]

@tlarson91119 It will help to roll the entire cake in verm, it helps give the mushroom pins something to cling onto.

[weirdingoodways]

fuck your cake

[tlarson91119]

Yo, after my substrate jar looks like this and is all colonized and I leave it in the water over night, after that could I just put the cake in the spawn chamber as is without putting more verm on it?

[BigBadDipper]

even tho mycelium is almost contam proof you should definetly wash that verm layer off becuase that was your contam barrier just a little tip. if your mycelium ever got contamed you know why

[Lookagainz]

he is dunking it man

[Feelthefx]

u soak the cake to re hydrate the mycelia so it produces larger flushes but i guess u like to get small yields

[Lookagainz]

is 12 hours enough? 

[BigBadDipper]

@joeyazzz y dont you do shrroms i dont understand the problem i like acid better but shrooms are natrual i think there much better for u

[joeyazzz]

and thats why i dont do shrooms.