Is MagicMushroomkit.ca legit?

canndo said:
To be fair, contamination is not customarily the fault if the vendor.

Further, unless the contamination has begun to bear spores it is exceedingly difficult to distinguish contamination from legitimate mycelium.
Now unless there is a common vector such as a contaminated instruments poorly washed containment (probably not an issue given your post) or free flowing highly contaminated air (or water I suppose) then I posit that your syringes were originally contaminated.

I always test syringes using agar. I am not suggesting you do this but I only state it as explanation. I have had on multiple occasions, contaminated spore syringes.

Now at what point did you initiate fruiting? Did you do so before your substrate was fully ccolonized? If you did not then infection is a certainty.
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Thank you for the info. This is actually a non-syringe kit it comes in a pre-inoculated substrate and is supposedly ready to go. The company also supplies all the buckets and bins. In retrospect I may have been better off controlling the environment from ground zero using my own substrate and inoculant. So much for taking the "easy" route ;-) I do agree that it is possible that airborne contaminant was the issue - but all four bins seems unlikely. I probably would have been less annoyed had they been helpful rather than sending a form letter with a 60% off coupon - almost like this happens all the time. In this case the company has every financial incentive for the first batch to fail so buyers must purchase a second batch.
 
bentley29 said:
Thank you for the info. This is actually a non-syringe kit it comes in a pre-inoculated substrate and is supposedly ready to go. The company also supplies all the buckets and bins. In retrospect I may have been better off controlling the environment from ground zero using my own substrate and inoculant. So much for taking the "easy" route ;-) I do agree that it is possible that airborne contaminant was the issue - but all four bins seems unlikely. I probably would have been less annoyed had they been helpful rather than sending a form letter with a 60% off coupon - almost like this happens all the time. In this case the company has every financial incentive for the first batch to fail so buyers must purchase a second batch.
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Ah.


In that case you were screwed.


Go back to some old school method.

Try, perhaps, my method. You will find it among the stickies above.
 
Danile said:
Was contacted by http://magicmushroomkit.ca/ over the long weekend, they offered to send me a replacement kit. I thought about it for a while, due to the investment in time and work, and I accepted their offer. They haven't sent it yet, but I am sharing the information to be up-front and honest. If they they don't follow through, I'll be sure to update my post. Let's hope it works out this time around.
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There kits are legit. I started with one of these and grew mushrooms for two years off the spores
 
An update: In companies defense they were apparently having server problems and did not receive my email complaints. A replacement kit was sent at no cost which was just received.
 
Anybody remember the shroom kit from homestead in the back of high times? My friend had one in the 90s lots of fun times tripping balls walking down the halls in my old high school lol!
 
big bud man 413 said:
Anybody remember the shroom kit from homestead in the back of high times? My friend had one in the 90s lots of fun times tripping balls walking down the halls in my old high school lol!
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A friend of mine got his kit from a high times add. The kit included a thai elephant dung spore swab. He kept it going with spore prints and swabs.

Eventually his prints got old and no longer were productive.
 
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