Anybody growing mushrooms willing to talk???

Johiem said:

It may have been me but my cakes didn't yield much at all, so I'm looking at monotub/ shoebox.

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Me too, just need some help getting the right knowledge.

Dreaming1 said:

Yeah...RIU really dropped the ball on this one. A sleeper thread? Under the radar? We just didn't show up for this one team. Probably scared everyone away with the "narc like" title.
Good luck.

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Forums called hallucinatory substances

There is a lady on you tube that explains it wonderfully start to finish. I don't remember her name, it's about a half hour watch

The whole cultivation forum is good. If you see conflicting or varying advice just look for somebody who has a “trusted cultivator” badge under their name.

7L!fTeD24 said:

Thanks I was thinking that same exact thing about the tinfoil. I just made it like that because I saw someone do it online with the lids from the jars. I also don't trip. I tried a few times times probably a decade ago and it really wasn't my thing I don't know if it was the environment but I didn't have many good experiences on it honestly. So if I was to even try psilocybin again it would be in extreme moderation.

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I'm grown to greatly enjoy microdosing.

7L!fTeD24 said:

Forums called hallucinatory substances

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You did fine. RIU can be a bit troll heavy too. That's what I was referring to. Really surprised it stayed on track. Take a look around here and you'll see what I mean.

A.k.a said:

Making shoeboxes - Mushroom Cultivation - Shroomery Message Board

I was bored. made a shoebox write up. couldnt find too many. made it simple. Experience shoeboxes Small spawn trays by Ziran Stoopid simple way to fruit your shoebox GET YOUR FIELD CAPACITY DOWN

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SFF Shoebox Assembly TEK - Mushroom Cultivation - Shroomery Message Board

My aim for this is not to re-create the wheel here, and there are many shoebox teks that are great. The people who I looked to the most in developing my style would be mushboy and bodhisatta. So

www.shroomery.org

The whole cultivation forum is good. If you see conflicting or varying advice just look for somebody who has a “trusted cultivator” badge under their name.

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Thanks man. I'm going to follow these next. Should have never took the easy way don't learn much or get much that way. Not much to say. Sucks, I hate failure. Disappointed. Never Really liked em much until I ate a very small barely noticeable amount and noticed the benefits.

Dreaming1 said:

Yeah...RIU really dropped the ball on this one. A sleeper thread? Under the radar? We just didn't show up for this one team. Probably scared everyone away with the "narc like" title.
Good luck.

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if you have such a problem with riu leave?

7L!fTeD24 said:

Thanks man. I'm going to follow these next. Should have never took the easy way don't learn much or get much that way. Not much to say. Sucks, I hate failure. Disappointed. Never Really liked em much until I ate a very small barely noticeable amount and noticed the benefits.

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youre more than welcome to continue to use the hallucinatory substances area weve been around since 2006 and this area has some really lovely people who are really helpful

Kami Samurai said:

No idea what you’re talking about officer.
Nah I’m just kidding. I used to work on a mushroom farm and to promote pinning you should raise the temp to around 83F to cause you’re substrate to being evaporating. This should cause pinning. Also make sure you have a fan in the room not pointing at your SGFC just to help with air exchange. After pinning drop temp this will raise your humidity naturally inside the chamber.

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Aahh.. I never said what type of mushrooms they are Thousands of species are legal. I love lion's mane and turkey tail as a supplement. Have family in northern Michigan and have lived there from time to time and white morels would cover our entire property. On everything one season I got a whole garbage bag full of white morels, I'm looking for A pic now to show u guys but can't find one without people in the pics.but u get the idea. People used to come from all over the country to pick them. I've always been fascinated with them. Oh and thanks a lot for the advice

sunni said:

if you have such a problem with riu leave?

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I have no problems with RIU. The trolls are part of the fun here. Just an observation based on extensive reading. If anyone on the site is too much, the ignore function has been thoughtfully provided.
hope you have a good one, @sunni. Not sure why my words have been taken as hostile or adversarial here. I offered actual advice and a light hearted commentary.

7L!fTeD24 said:

Man I finally found something that truly helps me. Growing and smoking weed has been therapeutic and has got me off almost all of my meds. I love it and I love the hobby. So I didn't eat mushrooms for like 10 years. I struggle with anxiety depression PTSD the whole nine yards. I got an eighth of mushrooms a couple months ago and I slowly ate it microdosing throughout a week. I don't know how or why but it helped me immensely. I really can't even put it in words. So I bought a couple syringes immediately without doing much research just followed the p.f. Tek instructions. I'm going to definitely continue with it and get into other teks but I need these things to work out. I definitely believe in these things now as a medicine and truly have magical healing powers LOL I believe these can help heal me permanently. That's why I've been so persistent bugging everybody everywhere trying to talk to me about this stuff and the shroomery is really hard to navigate and some of the conversations I've had on there have just been counterproductive and it's very hard to get along with highly intelligent trolls LOL I thought I had good s*** to say and they hit me with riddles that I have no comeback for LOL you guys are pretty much the only ones talking to me and helping me with this so any advice any input any conversation is much appreciated. I'm very sorry for this book I just wrote I just smoked a 2 gram cone of heatlocker

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Two grams? I think I smoke that much in a weekend. Anyhow, I've been trying to grow shrooms for about half a year. I have had so many failures. I picked up some spores from some Canadian site that advertised here. I did everything the instructions online said to do and I had good grow. I thought the bag was too confining and I made my next grow in a gallon tub. I got more so I figured that I could do this well. I ordered more spores and tried to get the spores to grow on agar petri dishes. This is about the time the weather turned cold and growth slowed and I got quite a few mutants. They had blue, but I tried nine grams and it didn't do anything. Six grams of the stuff I grew in the summer took me to CGI animation world.
Since then, I've converted my SAB into a flow hood with a blower and a 98% filter. I use the uncle ben's tek and it is quite the time saver. I take some mycelium from my colonized bag and sprinkle it on top of the next bag, seal it with paper tape. I still haven't had great success with agar in the petri dishes. I bought some already prepped plates on amazon, but they had too much moisture in them and nothing grew. I made my own plates and mixed the agar w/ half the water that was reccomended, two of them already had contam before I even put any spores or mycelium in it. I cannot understand why the other eight didn't contaminate. I have to figure out how to get the condensation out of the dishes and I have to be more clean. I tried to keep them upside down, when the agar was congealed. When I turned them upright, the condensation shows up again.
I want to make my own brown rice flour cakes. My high school buddy does this and he doesn't worry too much about contamination. Not very large yields. I just wanna try the tek and see if dunking and rolling could improve output.
The reason I got into this, is because my girlfriend was on meds for bipolar, anxiety, and PTSD. She tried microdosing for over half a year and was doing quite well. I figured that I could grow this stuff for half the price of what she could find. Anyhow, after several panic attacks, she is back on pharma meds and doing not quite as well as before the microdosing. I think it works for some, but others, not so much.
Now I have this hobby for no good reason. I do like tripping every couple of weeks, if I want, but unless you have a bunch of friends that like that too, the stockpile accumulates. My favorite is rolling w/ five grams and skiing or walking around the canyon by my house. I also like tripping and observing people at the store. I recommend to have a baby sitter watch over you, when you do that. One thing I do not recommend is surfing on shrooms. Some people can do it. I won't try that again.
Right now I have some blue meanies in a bag with some substrate, I started a jasmine rice bag with the mycelium two weeks ago. I have some cambodia in a brown rice bowl i got at the asian market and some in some substrate. The blue meanie is a performer. The bag is already three quarters done and the jasmine rice bag is going to be put in some substrate tonight. I'm going to try to get some golden teacher spores, my buddy gave me, on some agar plates. I think I'll just slam the lids to knock off the condensation.
Have fun.

Johiem said:

There is a lady on you tube that explains it wonderfully start to finish. I don't remember her name, it's about a half hour watch

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Ashley Shroomer?

This is my first and last pf tek grow. What to with the other 6 jars colonizing right now

In the first several pages of my grow journal in my signature line is the process I used to start doing bulk mushroom growing back in the day. It worked great for being low tech, low cost.

@warble

you’re getting contam with a flowhood? Unless you’re doing something like palming open plates Id say the hood isn’t working.

flowhoods are like magic, I’m not particularly careful and have made thousands of plates with no contam. In a SAB I was having like 15% failure rate or more.

Ovoids growing in a tub outside, from a small tub of mycelium I was gifted a few months back.

Gonna transfer to a garden bed at some point.I was supposed to months ago, but got lazy and forgot it all winter. Well..

I didn’t know they fruit in the spring, and are easily grown indoors too.. The holy grail of shrooms?

Hoping they really start munching on the alder chips/shredded cardboard 7-11 slurpee holders/soil mix I planted it in.

I wanna collect all the local wood loving psilocybes now, for my future outdoor bed!

Noticed it started pinning a few weeks back. There coming in every where from all around, and I just transferred it to the bigger tote a few days ago to make room.

I’m not even sure what to expect, or why its going so smooth, lol..I feel super lucky though..

Today's day 14 in the sgfc. I took a couple pictures to post to see if you guys can see something that I don't because I really don't know what I'm looking for. I've heard two weeks is about time to take some type of action either throw them away or re dunk them. I'd hate to have to throw them away. What do you guys think?

Kami Samurai said:

Make sure to leave your cakes in jars a while longer if it’s taking 2 weeks to pin they weren’t fully colonized. Mycelium will continue to grow until it is ready to fruit in or out of the jar. When I used to run PF I’d wait until a jar started to pin in vitro (not run invitro, tried that once ended up breaking the jar trying to harvest) then I’d roll in verm. Side note I always boil my vermiculite and allow to cool before applying to cakes. And I apply the vermiculite wet so I can apply an even layer to ensure good surface are.

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I left the cakes in the jars for about three weeks until I saw them pulling away from the jar inside and some moisture. I really didn't see any contams it was white when I put it in the fruiting chamber I didn't have enough Pearl Light in it at first and I think they dried out that's why they started to turn blue I don't know we'll see