Quick question

[ocean99]

Say I just wanted mushrooms in my room because they look awesome, could I have a fish tank filled with shrooms that I picked every once in a while, but never fully harvested? Like, when I want some I pick em, but when they die off eventually (or do they?) would they re-colonize and send up another generation of caps? Or do they need new substrate?

Hope that question makes sense.

 

[VT_Fire]

kind of but not really...

you'll be able to pick mushies off every day or every few days when their veils break and the cap opens...but that will only last a few weeks. in between flushes of mushies the cakes will get kind of spent so you can dunk them in water overnight to rehydrate them. You could do a sort of perpetual harvest where you inoculate jars every few days and take fully colonized cakes and put them in your tank the same day, but that sounds like a bitch to time out because each cake has their own time frame..if that makes sense. you could always try it

 

[ocean99]

Thanks for the reply. I was thinking of having them more as like a decoration since I like acid more, I just think the shrooms look cool as fuck when you're high/tripping. I'll probably end up keeping a few cakes in my room anyways, never hurt to have a doomer stash for a rainy day.

Does anyone else call them doomers? I can't remember where I heard it but it's the coolest fucking word.

 

[geopolitical]

I've done straw logs that had very long flushes, but never had any luck with repeated flushes using cakes.

 

[VT_Fire]

I've done straw logs that had very long flushes, but never had any luck with repeated flushes using cakes.

ever give the cakes a dunk n' roll? helps a lot with the flushing.

and ya fruiting mushies do look awesome

 

[79towncar]

You would need to use new substrate after a few flushes.. All the food for the mycelium gets expelled.. I wouldn't use cakes.. I never reccomend them. Even for a 1st timer grains are just as easy.. Using a bulk substrate is easy too..