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Help with harvest (imgur.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi guys,

First time grower here, I mistakenly left the lid on my kit while in the bag ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ, the shrooms still grew and popped the lid off, but there was some green mold present and 1 huge shroom.

I harvested them just after taking the picture I've attached, and I dried them in a dehydrator, you can see the second image.

Questions I hope you can help with:

Is the green mold going to affect the shrooms?

There's some mold on the cake, I'm attempting a second harvest, but suspect probably a bad idea due to the mold?

The dried shrooms have a blueish tint, I've read this is normal, called bruising, just double checking it's not related to the mold.

The size of the large mushroom, will this be less potent per gram, and impact my dosing?

Any guidance would be appreciated, trying not to use reddit for this ๐Ÿ˜…

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't know if you'd get sick or not, or how bad it would be if you did. But in my opinion it's not worth rolling the bones over a couple weeks of waiting time. I'm not your dad, you can do whatever you want but personally I'd wait for uncontaminated ones.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah you're right, the whole reason for making this post was to get some clarity, was kinda hoping for a "they're grand, no need to worry" response, wishful thinking.

Anyway trial and error, I know what to do / not do do next time, hopefully I'm more successful second time round ๐Ÿคž

I think I harvested this a little early too, I should have waited for them to open up around the bottom a bit, is that right?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish I could have told you that my dude but I'd feel hella bad if you poisoned yourself. The nice thing about shrooms is they don't take that long to grow, so next time we'll be here before you know it.

Usually guys wait for the Caps to open up to harvest. It's hard saying though with the level of contamination that you have I don't think that frankly I would have harvested them at all. If you would have waited longer you just would have had moldier shrooms

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I hadn't dried shrooms before, so it was a good trial run at that too, I think I'll slice them all thin next time before I start drying them, the sliced ones were cracker dry a lot quicker than the whole ones.

Thanks for the guidance man, much appreciated ๐Ÿ™Œ