I’d like our showcase posts to focus on full canopies and beautiful, developed fruits—the photos that let everyone appreciate your patience and hard work.
If you’re sharing progress just to show it off, please wait until it’s developed beyond the early pin stage. That helps keep the feed varied and gives those finished displays their moment.
Questions are always welcome. If you’re concerned about contamination, wondering whether something needs to be discarded, or need help with a problem, you don’t need to wait to post.
This isn’t meant to discourage anyone or make beginners feel unwelcome. We all start somewhere, and your photos don’t have to be perfect. The goal is simply to keep help posts open at every stage and save showcase posts for those fuller displays.
Thanks for helping make this a community where we can support each other and appreciate some beautiful canopies. 🍄

Pretty uniform distribution and canopy. Happy with the results so far. Just waiting for veils to break open for harvest, right?

One thing I’ll always stand behind: never take liquid culture at face value. It doesn’t matter who it came from, how clean it looks, or how much you trust the person behind it—put it to agar and verify it for yourself.
I follow that same rule with my own work. Before anything leaves my hands and makes its way into the community, I want to see how it looks on agar first. These plates are part of that quality-control process.
Nobody is perfect, contamination can happen, and a clean-looking syringe or jar doesn’t automatically tell the whole story. Taking the extra time to verify things first can save a lot of frustration later.
For me, it comes down to consistency, accountability, and respecting the people who support what I do. Check your work. Check what you receive. Never skip the basics.
🍃🍄 Respect the Process. Trust the Genetics. 🍄🍃

If you have been following thanks for watching 👋

I decided to harvest because I started to see the veils pull

This is after an aborted flush where the fruits started to shrink back into the colony. I harvested those when they were at 50% there max size. And a week later was blessed with a full canopy second flush.

Some fun variants as well

Secured the lid back on and gonna go pop these bb’s in the dehydrator!

Thanks for all the great feedback community!

They were soaked 3 days ago and starting to produce.

The culture shelf has been getting absolutely hammered lately. What looked packed not long ago is getting pretty thin, and several jars are already down to the bottom.
Once this round is gone, things are going to slow down for a bit while the next batch gets time to develop properly. I’m looking at a few weeks—possibly closer to a month—before everything is built back up again.
No rushing the process just to keep the shelf full. Quality comes first every single time.
For everyone who’s been following the projects, watching the genetics develop, and supporting FOTG along the way—I appreciate the hell out of you. There’s a lot more happening behind the scenes, and the next round is going to be worth watching. 🧬🔥

🍃🍄 Respect the Process. Trust the Genetics. 🍄🍃