How to Grow Mushrooms: Picking Fruits Sterile Spore Swab Tek!

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[@bertrambuddy9217]

I appreciate you guys.

[@PickingFruits]

🤩🤩🤩We appreciate you too!

[@apriltata5142]

Thankyou. I was just gonna ask if u recommend bag tek but I got my answer.

[@TheTubejunky]

Bags yes all in ones ughhh watch a few videos from Ed grand

[@mateuszceeport6006]

For how long we can store swabs spores?

[@the-visual-eye]

Can you make a video showing you taking one of those swabs directly to agar. Very curious about this techniques success.

[@PickingFruits]

I sure can. Until then, here is a video where i use swabs on agar:kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoquYZuCmsahjMU this video is the results of the attempt: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5jTnX2nnq5lgKM

[@mushroomcult]

I want those scissors!

[@PickingFruits]

🤣😂

[@WhiteBeardHashtag1205]

That looks like an XLS-a fruiting bag to me. Question, why so much sub? That might be why youre not happy with the harvest. I use 1qt spawn, and 3qt sub, and average 550-700g first flush most varieties. I experimented considerably with spawn/sub ratios and amounts, and this seems to be the golden ratio/amount for XLS-a fruiting bags. Higher/lower spawn ratio = less fruits, and larger amounts of colonized sub had diminishing returns and therefore a waste of spawn and sub. I do understand results vary due to conditions, and this is my anecdotal evidence. However, I have been running bags for years, filter/no filter, varying sizes, varying materials, varying micron ratings, varying subs. 1:3 is my go to. Btw, first time Ive seen someone let it spore bomb first and collect it off the lower caps on purpose, interesting.

[@PickingFruits]

Hey Whitebeard! We've used unicorns but these bags are a bit bigger all around. Taller, wider, etc. and you're right an XLs is comparable in size, good observation:) Lmao, I know wet, 😵but how you have room for 19 zone in a bag? I also run 1:3 3 spawn:6 Substrate. Ill make a video showing you exactly why I still use this much material at this ratio and you'll understand:) I've used tents, tubs, and open air fruiting to far too long, so the bag doesn't quite give me the euphoria that I experience when walking into a room full of mist and spores in the air🤩 I've also not been happy with the way I beat up the mushrooms without cutting the bag and I have not found a good workaround to that issue. The issue being the impact to the environment not the price of the bag. If you'd like to share your bag recipe we would appreciate it and id definitely make a video demonstrating your tek. You can dm me if that something we can do! I appreciate you watching! Thank you! We've used this spore swab tek for several years now because I truly believe its the best way to provide my customers with clean & consciously harvested valuable genetics without risk at an amazing price from a reputable brand/experienced cultivator/Mycologist without compromising someone's investment into agar work. All this with beginners especially in mind because beginners could very easily be discouraged by contamination. Cheers. -ff

[@WhiteBeardHashtag1205]

@@PickingFruits 3 spawn and 6 sub is a 1:2 ratio. You telling me you have 9 quarts in that bag?!? 😲 You said to DM you, can you DM on KZbin? Or are you saying to DM you on IG?

[@firstnamelastname5883]

Don't waste the ones on top lol.

[@PickingFruits]

never do:)

[@stevehall7372]

I dont get wrkn infront flow hood your workn in dirtiest part of room its suckn all dirty air rt to your wrk station i agree they must but not were do it i think sab better lol labs have flowhoods in ceiln suckn away from them up2ceiln🤦‍♂️

[@TheTubejunky]

"U r dum " You clearly do Not understand what a flow hood is or hepa filtration. 99.97% efficiency.

[@TheTubejunky]

Ughhh I hate all in one bags.... Cringe