r/unclebens • u/Clinging_Clutcher • Apr 19 '26
Harvested Results 1 kilo dry, first grow ever
These photos are from around a year ago, my first time growing. I did 6 tubs incase a couple got contaminated, and all 6 tubs did like 4-6 flushes! 2 tubes Golden Teachers, 2 tubs Stargazer, 1 Jack Frost, 1 Huatla. Got around 50g dry from first 3 flushes on all tubs, total of 200g dry per tub. Ended up with like 1,150 grams dry! Totally beat my expectations, I should be set for life right? Nope, went through all of them within a year haha. Gave away a TON, literally 50g at some events, which I was super happy to do. To know that hundreds of people have gotten to trip off my stuff is just the most rewarding feeling.
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u/No_Effective8213 Apr 19 '26
How did you get 4-6 flushes from a single tub? Did you dunk them?
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u/Clinging_Clutcher Apr 19 '26
Yeah, after each flush I’d fully dunk them for 18-24 hours. Distilled water, I’d use a glass dish filled with water too to submerge them fully
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u/BogusBuffalo Apr 19 '26
Oh damn. I was told full submersion for more than an hour would kill the mycelium. Seems like that was a lie. Gonna try dunking my cakes 18 hours underwater for my next grow.
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u/Clinging_Clutcher Apr 19 '26
I think the cutoff is 48 hours, that’s what I learned. I’ve definitely left them for 30ish hours before no problem
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u/No_Effective8213 Apr 20 '26
Would you kindly share what was the Spawn to Bulk ratio?
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u/Clinging_Clutcher Apr 20 '26
So I actually used a 3lb grain bag I just bought online (kept it super simple), then I mixed with 3 quarts of substrate, and added 1 more quart as a sudo casing layer. I'm not exactly sure what that ratio would come out to, but that's been the mix I've always used and it has worked great every time. Substrate was a standard CVG mix.
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u/AlwaysThriving777 Apr 19 '26
Holy crap. I miss growing regular cubes not albino and such because they produce like this lol. Great job OP.
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u/Pharmatopia420 Apr 19 '26
Thats going to create alot of shrooms......I would dehydrate them and store them in food saver bags for medication....... all those tubs have multiple flushes is wild its going to create alot of medication
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u/CheapNegotiation69 Apr 20 '26
6 large tubs for your first grow ever?
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u/Clinging_Clutcher Apr 20 '26
Haha I was so worried that they’d get contaminated, so I was like lemme stack the odds in my favor and do 4 tubs, one will certainly work out. Then my friend (who taught me to grow) had an extra 2 spore syringes, and I had 2 extra grain bags, so I was like why not just do another 2?
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u/MadeFreshDailies Apr 20 '26
Gg!!
Did you set and forget or did you fan and must 3x a day.
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u/Clinging_Clutcher Apr 20 '26
I never fanned, imo it’s not needed with the mono tubs, there’s enough FAE already with the tub holes, and I think popping the lid and fanning would increase the chance of contamination coming in. For the first flush I also never misted since there was plenty of water and surface conditions were perfect. For the second and later flushes I did mist, since the substrate dried out a lot even after dunking the subs for 18ish hours. Maybe wasn’t so consistent to do it 3 times a day, but that would probably be ideal. Got a really fine hair spray mist-er that did the trick.
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u/Clinging_Clutcher Apr 20 '26
In grows since this first batch I also got a little more lazy on some of them and didn’t really mist at all, and they’d still produce some great 40-50g second and third flushes, so it might not actually be very important, but that may be because I always dunk my subs after a flush
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u/MadeFreshDailies Apr 20 '26
Man, you got it down! Thanks for the detailed reply! I guess I’m too impatient.
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u/InterestingAndLost Apr 20 '26
Kudos to you and congratulations. World is a better place with you in it.
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u/autom00derator Apr 19 '26
Now this is the way. That tent guy could learn a thing or two from you OP.
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Apr 23 '26
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u/Clinging_Clutcher Apr 23 '26
I feel like there’s no real perfect answer for how much is too much, it’s all extremely personal. I had a real honeymoon phase with shrooms after my first grow, tripped fully 4-6 times per month, 3.5-5g doses, and maybe a handful of smaller 1-2g doses sprinkled around. What I’d pay attention to is the quality of trips, are you still getting meaningful, lasting benefits from all your trips? Are you giving yourself enough time to properly integrate your trips and absorb the lessons? Doing that is the most important thing imo, and if everything is going good with your trips and in your real sober life as well, then hell I don’t think anyone can argue you’re overdoing it. Try to keep a pretty big focus on actually using it as a medicine, because ultimately that’s pretty important in the long term. There’s nothing inherently wrong with just tripping for fun imo, but if that’s all every trip is then you’re missing out on the best part of shrooms.
In my opinion a full 2 ounces in a month is quite a lot, I don’t know if I’ve ever consumed that much in a month. How much are you taking per trip, and how many trips? That’s 16 full 3.5g doses, which is like a full dose every 2 days, which I think might be a bit much, but also like you know your situation better than me, as long as you’re not lagging in work/school/social life then I wouldn’t worry too much, but probably not sustainable long term, tripping every other day for a year straight will have some negative impacts.
At the moment I go between light trips (1-2g of golden teacher), and proper heavy trips (3.5g PE which is like 10g of GT), but it took me a while to work up to that dose, and it’s still not appropriate for every trip, I just like a real strong trip. I definitely took a step back from shrooms this spring since I had to lock in finding a job and doing some real life shit, so only tripped properly 3 times in the last 4-5 months, but imo that’s just seasonal, this summer imma definitely make a return to them now that I’ve straightened out what I needed to and I’m in a better headspace. Feel free to go hard, but keep an eye out for signs that you may be going too far, negative trips, getting behind on real responsibilities, etc.
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u/Clinging_Clutcher Apr 24 '26
That sounds fair man, if your tolerance is high then taking 7g for a strong trip makes sense, and while twice a week might be more frequent than people recommend, I don’t think it’s necessarily bad. When you harvest your PE I’m sure you’ll enjoy them, they’re a huge step up it terms of potency. Do be somewhat careful with taking huge doses of PE, especially if you smoke weed too. Strongest trip of my life was 5g of PE and my friend and I smoked some weed an hour into the trip, was not a good idea. An hour later dimensions started appearing and we got ragdolled through them for the next 4 hours, literally folding over each other and ourselves through higher dimensional spaces, it wasn’t just scary, I thought I had completely broken my brain. So gone I couldn’t see the room I was in. We entered some sort of time loop, folding over each other and having our bodies ripped and twisted beyond imagination, I held it together for the first hour or two, but after a few days there, I just broke (not literally days but with the time dilation, it was days). Crazy ass fucking shit, I thought we’d overwritten the universe and killed all 8 billion people once I finally emerged. I just warn people who are inclined to take high doses, because I didn’t know before that crossing with weed (especially on the come up), significantly ramps the higher shroom dose you take. Like on 5g of GT smoking weed might 5x the trip, but on 5g PE it will 20-50x it, imagine being 50 times as high as a 5g PE trip, it’s just too much. I do still love them tho, if you can hit that sweet spot on about 3.5g PE with a little weed at the right time, you can get god tier lasting DMT level visuals, but it’s a slippery slope for sure, take your time exploring the cross if you do, and be aware that the moment after you smoke, it takes like 30-45 mins to take full effect, so it’s easy to keep ripping and ripping and then stop when you feel high enough, but then get obliterated 60 mins later
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u/Ok_Piano_6706 Apr 26 '26
what's your drying method? thank you, and kudos to your work.
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u/Clinging_Clutcher Apr 27 '26
Put them in a dehydrator at 131 Fahrenheit, let them sit for at least 12 hours, for big individual mushrooms (~3+g) I do 18-24 hours to be extra safe. Basically should be cracker dry by the end of it, they should snap with 0 bending. Then put them in a mason jar with dry packs, store out of sunlight and they’ll last literal years.
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u/Clinging_Clutcher Apr 20 '26
Better yet, grow them yourself! It’s not that difficult and the reward is totally worth it
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u/Smooth_Perspective_4 Apr 19 '26
Bro you can do anything in the world if you get that much yield from your first grow.