Lots of weird growth on my cakes

[VT_Fire]

Sooo I've been having some great luck with my cakes but I've noticed some really strange but awesome fruits. Such as backwards growing mushies with the cap coming first then the stem, a mushie with two caps, a mushie that came out of the myc and then dove back in kind of like a worm, and a mushie that started with a wide base...split in 2 and then the 2 caps grew back together if that makes sense. Is it normal to have such weird fruiting or did I end up with some weird genetics? either way it looks awesome and it deff gives me something new to see everytime I check on em..

79towncar where u at? Betting u got an answer?

 

[piranha]

thats another thing thats nice and exciting when growing shrooms, they just appear in different sizes and forms. take a pic of each and collect varieties of shapes hehe.who knows what figure might aPPear..
enjoy

 

[Brother Bear]

hmmm...
i would like to see pics please

 

[piranha]

yeah be interested to see those u have.i i saw some with other people's grow on another forum thats weird looking but not as the ones you describe u have..

 

[VT_Fire]

word i'll snap a few pics today

 

[Denial N Error]

If you're coming from multispore, thats to be expected, mutants here and there. They pop from time to time. Ive seen all kinds of weird ones, i've had shrooms growing on top of caps of shrooms, shrooms with 3 stems and 1 cap.. all kinds..

Now if you're coming from an isolated culture or something you know what to expect everytime.

 

[79towncar]

Sry I've been away for a couple days.. Anyway what your seeing is just mutations.. Most multispore grows have mutants.. It's nothing to worry about.. If they are unattractive then pluck them early.. Other then that there is no reason to do anything extreme.. Most novelty strains you see today where once isolated from a mutation.. Penis Envy uncut for example.. Looks very mutated but it still has the same function as other Cubensis.. If you have an attractive mutant you should try and isolate the characteristic.. I knew a girl who had mutants that would grow upside down.. The cap would be at the bottom and the stem would grow upwards.. They looked like an upsidedown umbrella haha.. Anyway she spent many months trying to get her whole flush to grow like that.. She was pretty sucessful but never acheived more then about 40% flipped over.. Adventually she started other projects and I don't even know what happened to the stock cultures..

 

[piranha]

pics?

 

[VT_Fire]

later today...laziness has got the best of me

 

[VT_Fire]

couldn't find the picture of the double headed mushie...might have deleted a few by accident but anyway heres a few pictures of my set up.

backwards one...

 

[79towncar]

They are fine.. But see all that bluinf in your cakes?? That's a very good sighn of overhandleing and poor growing conditions.. Congratulations on getting shrooms... Now comes the fine tuning of your method...

 

[piranha]

nice shrooms on those cakes haha never had the backwards position, nice

 

[VT_Fire]

word yeah next time i'll be a lil' easier on the cakes. this was my 1st time and i learned a shitload and got about 2 oz's total...deff fun stuff

 

[Brother Bear]

dude it looks like you just ripped that shroom out and turned it around for the pic
still even has a gob of verm on the end

 

[VT_Fire]

dude it looks like you just ripped that shroom out and turned it around for the pic
still even has a gob of verm on the end

ya it does look like that but a lot of the mushies end up having verm on their caps...i mean they grow through the layer of verm, think about it.

plus why would i take the time to stage that? i have bonghits to take

 

[Brother Bear]

your right, it just looks that way, especially tonight for me

 

[EllieGrows]

Brother Bear, its good to know I have people looking out for me.

 

[VT_Fire]

79, I have a few more jars colonizing...was thinking about crumbling the cakes over a bed of perlite and then adding a casing layer, maybe 60/40 verm and coir. any advice? and do you have any experience with cloning and liquid cultures? just ordered a few treasure coast syringes i want to clone a few nice fruits from those

 

[79towncar]

Coir shouldn't be used for a casing.. Casings should always be non-nutrional.. Casings in my opinion are not worth doing with Cubensis.. To me all a casing does is delay the time it takes to fruit.. A non cased substrate will perform just as well.. Plus without a casing you don't have to clean your fruits like crazy.. So my opinion would be use your cakes as spawn.. Spawn them to a Coir, Coffee and Verm mix.. And fruit them in a Monotub.. Perlite beds to me are a weak substitute for a monotub.. Ok now cloning.. I'm alittle confused what you mean.. You can clone a fruit.. But I don't know what you mean by clone a syringe.. Also if you want to do any kind of serious isolation work you need agar.. Liquid cultures an obsolete method in my opinion.. There is no benefit of using liquid culture instead of using agar.. Any serious cultivator/mycologist will tell you the same..

 

[VT_Fire]

what i meant by cloning was that i ordered a few syringes, and i plan on cloning one of the better looking fruits from that batch so that i can move away from multi-spores. so i wont even bother with the casing, i know what you mean by delaying fruiting i really dont want to wait for the myc to colonize the casing layer after i just waited for them to colonize their jars...thanks again for the advice 79 u deff know ur shit