fragging mushrooms by cutting the foot

[HandOfGod]

They can be sliced up like a pizza, or "pedal laceration" by slicing a bit of the foot itself instead.

Pedal Laceration if how they most often spread if left to their own devices. As they slowly crawl, a little bit of the foot gets caught on something and left behind to form a new polyp.

Slicing just speeds up the process. As long as foot cutting gets light and isn't overshadowed, they should be fine.

Much less stressful on the mother polyp, but the new frag is much smaller.
Having the frag already attached to rock is the tipping point for me. I hate waiting for softie frags to attach and trying to keep them in place long enough to do so.

Mine move around a lot for some reason and new ones are always popping up where, what I know know, pieces of foot are left behind. I try to keep mine isolated to one specific chunk of rock so they don't take over everything else!

 

[USNreefer]

Mine don't move around that much at all. My yuma is the only one that has moved and it only moved maybe a quarter of an inch in the last 3 weeks. Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

 

[dez_2121]

I tried this tonight on my red mushroom and on a green ric for a little experiment. Will let you know how the ric turns out if anyone is interested.

how did it turn out

 

[USNreefer]

how did it turn out

I have a baby red shroom and the foot of the yuma grew back. So a 50% success rate lol. I will try the yuma again when I can see the foot. It's been staying open lately.

 

[organism]

I had something really weird happen when I cut the foot of a different mushroom. The original one is still the same golden color, and the new one is just neon red. Funny thing is I'd kept wondering how the heck these little red mushrooms kept appearing on that rock when the original moved, turns out red is the initial color for a few months until they get into some high light.

 

[collegeman]

Yeah, My golden ones are red at first. I also wondered why I had baby red mushroom on my golden mushroom rock.

 

[mzkrista]

Awesome informative post! Going to try pedal laceration on my St Thomas

 

[taricha]

Inspired by this thread, I cut the foot of my yuma(?) with a scalpel on 7/21.
Weirdly I think it may have healed at the cut, but then split in a slightly different spot. Wonder if
1) the cut encouraged the split or
2) if it was already going to split and the cut was just an annoyance or
3) if it's just coincidence
Here's pics.
These two are 7/22 clearly showing the original split.

On 7/26

On 7/31

And 8/01 ten days after the cut

 

[organism]

Very nice, looked like it walked away from the cut a bit then separated, nicely done

 

[mzkrista]

Great photos btw, I've tried this with a StThomas mushroom. The only way to propagate one is cutting the foot. I tried it by cutting it down the mouth by only one 1/2 of it survived the other 1/2 died

 

[organism]

Good to know, I have a St Thomas with a pigment infection that I've been meaning to frag and have been thinking of the safest way to do so.

 

[taricha]

Inspired by this thread, I cut the foot of my yuma(?) with a scalpel on 7/21.
Weirdly I think it may have healed at the cut, but then split in a slightly different spot. Wonder if
1) the cut encouraged the split or
2) if it was already going to split and the cut was just an annoyance or
3) if it's just coincidence
Here's pics.
These two are 7/22 clearly showing the original split.

On 7/26

On 7/31

And 8/01 ten days after the cut

Thought I'd add a final couple of fully developed frag pics to complete the sequence.
8/12

8/20

8/31

 

[Stevenahammer]

I like this method a lot better than slicing through the mouth. Never lost one this way, but lost a few by slicing the mouth. Baby is looking solid!

 

[Forced 2 Farm]

Wow all of you guys have some amazing looking mushroom! I am a little confused tho on where to cut at on the foot. The foot is what attaches it to the rock correct? if I cut it there how do I reattach the head? sorry to disrupt this thread with a dumb question..

 

[lanxang]

You don't cut the whole thing. Just a small portion of it.

 

[Arkayne Reefer]

Seems like shooms can handle being cut fairly well as long as its not too small. Could always trypulsing a few in a blender and dumping it in the tank. Wouldnt try that one really nice shrooms tho