Here is the followup to Video 54 on the fungus gnat infestation I had back in September 2023. In it, I summarize the simple steps I did to completely eliminate gnats from my home without the use of any chemicals.

I also show the first pins we are getting after leaving a shoebox in the fridge for 3 weeks, along with the first of my live casing experimentation!

Mush Love,
Sage

I think the title is pretty self-explanatory for today's Patreon reupload! This will be a 2 part video, with this being part 1. In the second part, I will discuss and reflect upon why this method worked so well, and how it can be applied to those facing fungus gnat infestations.

I also show updates on how the Fridge TEK tubs are doing! Plus discuss some upcoming outdoor grow experiments in September.

I hope you are all having a great day or night!

🍄💜

Sage

Key Topics:

- Minimizing side pins and blobs in PE-based varieties

- Should you re-apply a casing layer after a few flushes?

- Can Mexicanas benefit from blue light?

- Things don't have to be complicated with most "exotic" species -

-The importance of keeping your casing layer WET (and the consequences of not doing so!)

- Mexis are looking like Wavy woodlovers! And PEU first flush + premature harvest!

I hope you are all having a great day or night!

🍄💜

Sage

Key Topics:

• Why some grows from the same plate succeed whereas others can’t, given all factors are the same.

• Why even monocultures can have different phenos from grow to grow

• Wild vs. Domesticated genetics, differences in genetics priority

• PE Uncut! First time, first flush!

• Avalanche 2nd Flush

Key Topics:

• TTBVI flush ready to harvest! Yield!

• Alabama F1 flush 2, textbook specimens!

• The most crazy substrate shrinkage I have seen after a flush, and mycelium bluing! Stormtroopers aftermath

• PE Uncut starting to fruit!

• Mexicana Rancho Agosto shoebox coming in hot!

• Why Ranchos produce so many weird fruits compared to other mexicana strains

• Why trich often pops up AFTER a flush

Key Topics:

• When to harvest albinos?

• Alabama F1 second flush

• Rancho Agosto sclerotia information

• Tip for avoiding truffle aftertaste

• Rancho Agosto new pins! Shoebox Exotics

• TTBVI shoebox! Awesome flush

• Benefits of TTBVI versus other coir lovers

• Size vs. quantity in potency

• Getting poolover caps to open up in shoeboxes

• Feverish Stormtrooper tub update!

• Trying out PEU and Gandalf (Old Cultures)

• Avalanche Second Flush update

Key Topics:

• Split caps vs cracked caps, what they each mean about your fruiting conditions

• MS Poolover TTBVI, Shoebox update!

• Random bluing. What does it mean?

• Misting poolovers, does it cause aborts? How should you water them?

• How much moisture is needed Poolover substrate?

• Why is it that one grow from the same materials as another might contaminate, while the other thrives?

• How is it that MS grows can synchronize and grow relatively uniformly?

• Click video for full description

Key Topics:

• Comparing cased and non-cased shoeboxes, direct comparison

• Completely neglecting my shoebox without flipping the lid. How are they doing?

• Preparing to leave for a few weeks, how I plan to preserve my current grows

• Why contamination can sometimes INCREASE immediate yield

• How I prevent blobbing growing mutants, and get beautiful fruits

• Rancho Agosto MS plate to shoebox

• Read on in Description

Key Topics:

- Cased or uncased? (Next video is going to be even more in-depth on this topic)

- Keeping lids closed vs. flipping

- Evaporation rate and ambient air circulation

- What are ‘good surface conditions’?

- What does F1 mean? Why is it significant?

- Blobbing, cause for concern?

- Do mutants actually take longer in colonization and/or fruiting?

And more in description

- Differences in alkaloid concentration between grains and fruits, using beta-carbolines as an example in coir lovers

- 2 secret projects (1 not-so-secret anymore XD)

- First shoebox run of the new cross

- New Exotic Fruiting Chamber TEK collaboration, dialing it in

- Myceliated Grains

- Will misting poo lovers cause them to abort?

- How are the Fridge-TEK’d jars doing after being neglected for 1 month?

- Rusty Whites, “Appollensis”, and Semp shoeboxes!

- Does a casing layer ACTUALLY help reduce overlay on nats? (No)

- How much does nat overlay reduce yield?

- Talking about species that are stronger against contamination

- Yeast on overlay

- Nats pushing the lid up

- Morphological similarity of nats and pseudoaztecorum

- Lots of rosecomb mutations

- Epic mexicana bowl grow (only remaining footage, flush 10 or so)