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FragOutpost · 01-31-2006, 04:46 PM

I was fragging some mushrooms to give to a local reefer and decided to blow the dust off of my camera and take some photos.

stephanie · 01-31-2006, 08:50 PM

you make it look so easy! How do you keep them from curling up?

FragOutpost · 01-31-2006, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by stephanie

How do you keep them from curling up?

I try to cut the shroom as far down the stalk as possible when removing it from the rock. They really don't curl up on me too bad.

Capt. Sean South FL · 04-28-2006, 02:10 PM

Hello, I have found this to be the case with my mushrooms as well. So, what I did was, I used my 12" tweezers and put them underneath the mushroom so it was in the middle with the (wings) flapping over the tweezers then I gently lifted them to force the mushroom to a semi closed position and cut the base then. It works most of the time.
Hope this helps!

FragOutpost · 04-28-2006, 10:01 PM

Welcome Capt Sean and thanks for the great tip!

joey10sl · 09-05-2006, 01:25 PM

Today im feeling brave and im planing to propaguate one of my mushrooms.The mushroom im going to do is kinda "stealing" the spotlight from my other 2 mushrooms next to it. Ill be sure to tell you how it goes!
Ill post a picture before i propagupate it, feel free to comment or point something out if im doing it wrong.