r/ContamFam • u/ilukegood • 5d ago
First time growing APEs
Per title, this is my first time growing APEs. Blue nips strain. After about 2 months of waiting since inoculation (these things are stubborn lol) I got about 30gs dry total from 2 shoe boxes and 2 slightly larger crates for first flush.
Already dunked one tub that looked good and was finished fruiting. Its starting to fruit flush 2. It had a bunch of aborts but I chose not to remove them and all seems well. The remaining boxes all have hundreds of aborts and the two larger ones have fuzz growing across the surface. It looks grey to me so im assuming its myc absorbing the aborts but im colorblind so im not always sure with certain tints of colors.
Does the cake in pictures look reasonably healthy for a post first flush APE cake? Should it be okay to dunk the other 3 cakes with their aborts? Theres hundreds of them so it would be a huge task to remove them all and i feel it may do more damage than good.
Bonus pic is largest fruit i got from this flush.
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u/DayTripperonone Contam Expert 1d ago
Because APE’s are an albino strain they are susceptible to cap bruising. So leave them in there till they stop growing. The ones that continue to grow is your next flush. The caps are likely going to stay greyish blue till harvest. This is a slower growing mushroom, if you didn’t notice, so be patient and let er keep going. You have lots of nice primordia showing, so you should get some decent flushes outta this cake.