Psilocyben Mushroom Cultivation

[PsilocybeSamura]

Greetings fellow outlaw medicine cultivators. I am posting this in regards to Issack's Shrooms A-Z post made some time back. He has explained to me that a large number of people have been asking to have it completed, and I don't blame them. Since all the information and pics in that post were mine, I feel responsible to complete it. So, I'm going to take the presser off of Issack, and do the next best thing.

Since all of u here are familiar with growing Ganja, raising mushrooms is not that much different, (I think it's essayer my self)
The pictures depicting the equipment http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=13055 are a good idea of what to expect. Basically, you need a sterile clean working environment, tools and media for spore germination, an incubator, mason jars for mycelium production, a big nice presser cooker, and clear plastic totes for mushroom fruit body production. Of course thats being very simplistic, and vague. Like pot, Equipment and technique very greatly from grower to grower, And I can't possibly list them all. What I'm going to do is highly recommend that you visit...http://www.shroomery.org/ "thats were I hang out." It's the ICmag of mushroom growing with over 40,000 members, it's a mountain of information and the people are very helpful. And you could go to your local Borders book store and pick up The Mushroom Cultivator by Paul Stamets and J.S. Chilton, (great book!).
If you would like to join me at the shroomery, my name there is "PsilocyeSamurai" like it's supposed to be here,...(there wasn't enough spaces for the "i")

The art and science of mushroom cultivation, here are some of my recent successful projects...

 

[CarharttKidd]

Nicely done. I was on shroomery for a long time. What variety of cubensis is that? My favorite was Texas. Obviously, what you are doing is working very well, but my expierence has tought me one thing that you might be able to improve. If you went with a light proof container and put a light source at the top of the fruiting chamber(I ended up using a 2x7w nightlight in my typical 50 gal rubbermaid which held 2 kitty litter pans sitting on top of perlite or hydroton with a bubbler goin on underneath ala Poor mans pod.), you might be surprised at how much easier it is to pick your crop when they all grow in the same direction.

What kind of grain are you using? Good old WBS? What is your bulk? If I ever give it another go, I'll probably end up with some combination of horse dung, vermiculite, and chopped straw. I had very good sucess with chopped straw cased with coco coir. It was easy to get, easy to process, and produced good flushes consistantly.

 

[Frend]

That is most definitely Penis envy and it is a isolated strain. I am pretty damn sure. The guy in the picture looks exactly like someone I grew up with. You should ask him if "the fuckin rules don't apply to him"

 

[frater_indo]

Nice job man! Are those actually penis envy? They appear to be, but I thought the fruit size on PE is usually much fatter. Anyway, I'll know in a month and a half. Just innoculated 3 WBS pint jars a couple days ago: 1 Penis Envy, 1 B+, and 1 Ecuardor.

Mushrooms are easier to grow than weed. It takes less time from spore-> mushrooms than seed/clone-> plant. As long as sterility is maintained throughout the procedure and the substrates are prepared with proper moisture/nutrient content, then basically all you have to have is patience and a little common sense.

 

[Hydro-4-Sho]

i think it's time to start growin zoomies again...thanks man good inspiration

 

[PsilocybeSamura]

Yes, it is penis envy (my favorite strain)
That batch was started on malt agar, the spawn run was on rye grain, and the casing layer was a 50/50 mix of vermiculite and chicken manure. VERY POTENT, 3 grams of dried makes you wad up into a ball on the floor while witnessing indescribable beauty

 

[Texassativa]

Yes, it is penis envy (my favorite strain)
That batch was started on malt agar, the spawn run was on rye grain, and the casing layer was a 50/50 mix of vermiculite and chicken manure. VERY POTENT, 3 grams of dried makes you wad up into a ball on the floor while witnessing indescribable beauty

I'am dropping some cambodians tonight. See you on the "other" side. Good job on the mushies!!!!!

 

[Frend]

Was it isolated on agar or just multispore.

and frater_indo, Mushrooms are by no means easier to grow, tell me one strain that if you breath on it before it buds, it is guaranteed to die. I have a feeling that you have done all sorts of reading and picture browsing but have yet to deal w/ the fragile nature of mycelium.

 

[PsilocybeSamura]

Was it isolated on agar or just multispore.

and frater_indo, Mushrooms are by no means easier to grow, tell me one strain that if you breath on it before it buds, it is guaranteed to die. I have a feeling that you have done all sorts of reading and picture browsing but have yet to deal w/ the fragile nature of mycelium.

Oh really, so I don't know what I'm doing huh? I'm just some pathological lier that grabs random pics, and information of the net and posts them as my own? LOL! LOL!

Oh please! Look my friend, Ive been growing mushrooms for years. I have enough experience to say yes, it is simplistic, just as when you do anything for a long time it becomes EASY. Yes, those are MY pics of MY mushrooms because, *gasp!* is it possible that I know what I'm doing!?!? Naaaaah! why don't you post some pics of your harvests and tell me oh master, teach me about the fragile nature of mycelium that I am so ignorant about!....LOL!

Sit down, I'm trying to give people positive info on the subject, not have arguments about my credibility.

BTW, yes it was a multi-spore inoculation from a syringe.

Peace.

 

[Frend]

that was directed at frater_indo, not you, it's clear by the pics that you know how to grow boomers

 

[BagseedSamurai]

Ive done the whole raising mushrooms thing. I find it too..haphazard.

 

[Frend]

Also, wouldn't you say that if it took you years to call this "easy" that perhaps you need to sit down. all though I don't consider easy for the beginner it certainly didn't take years for me to have better pinsets than yours with no contams.
peace

 

[inflorescence]

If you could name one thing that is imperative for success and one thing that will surely bring demise please post it.
Stamets book taught me a lot but I'm always willing to learn from successful growers.

 

[PsilocybeSamura]

I see. Frend, I apologise. I was careless when reading your reply, and assumed it was for me. To often I have people come at me with posts like that, and have to defend my work.
again I apologise.

 

[frater_indo]

Hey Frend, anybody who has cooked a meal, placed it in a container, and refridgerated it has done most of the first steps to growing mushrooms.

Here is how I grow: prepare grain substrate by soaking in water/ simmering and rinse it thoroughly. Add grain to canning jar with filter-lid. Cover jar lid with tin foil and pressure cook for 1 hr at 15psi.

Allow the jars to cool to room temp, shake/pound them to break grain cernels up, and inject spore/mycelium solution.

I let this jar fully colonize, then cook up however many jars I may have use for, and do a grain-to-grain transfer to all of these from the colonized jar. After those jars have colonized they are ready to be mixed with a 50/50 straw/dung mix that is pasteurized in a pillow case submerged in a large vat of water.

Once the straw/dung has colonized the medium is exposed to light and a temp drop. Pins form and with regular misting mushrooms abound!

You are right Frend I have done a lot of reading and a lot of picture browsing but I also have a lot of experience from applying the knowledge I have gained.

And mycelium is not so delicate as you are saying. Contamination from breath, airborne spores, molds, etc. usually have a small window of a few days to contaminate a substrate before the mycelium takes hold. After the mycelium has established itself it does a pretty good job of maintaining sterility and fighting off any competitor molds.

Editing in process.

 

[Frend]

I think we probably have the same view of how "easy" it is to grow them, it's juts I think if you took two completely oblivious people and had one try to grow booms and the other pot, the pot grower would be more successful.

 

[GReen dreAM]

Hello guys !!

I see that we have some very experienced shroom`s growers in here. I know a lot of about growing weed but nothing about shrooms <except the taste...hehe>

Could sb compare both of these "things", and write sth about: The easiest way to grow Mushrooms !

I will be very grateful cos I was thinking about that and next month I will be in Amsterdam buy some stuff to start it..

any sugestions about easy growing strain will be welcomed !

 

[Neuronaut]

Lets stop the bickering fellas. Samurai was nice enough to come and enlighten those of us who don't know how to cultivate mushrooms... please don't ruin that with your petty arguing. I'm all ears Samurai!!!!!!!!!! Lets get this show on the road. A couple questions... what strains do you recommend for beginners? Ease...contam resistant... yield being of top concerns. Thanks again for doing this. It is greatly appreciated!!!

 

[Guest]

Very nice samurai. Looking to be growing my first boomers this summer as well. Gonna try them outside then get some going inside as well. Anyone here ever cultivated them outside? I've heard its actaully less at risk for contams and such. I know I still have to colonize the cakes though which its easy to contam them though. I guess I'll see how I do.

Personally I think if someone were gonna grow a cash crop of something it should be shrooms. If you had a large yeild I doubt you'd even want to keep at your shrooms to eat (I'd only trip like once a month if that). Not to mention less smell, less time from start to harvest, ect. Not to mention they are always people that want them (around here at least). Just saying whats on my mind though, I'd just grow my own personal stash of everything and have some fun in the following months .

 

[frater_indo]

Love, love, love

Love, love, love

The B+ strain is supposed to be a good beginner strain. I'd say it is moderately potent, and can produce some big fruits. It is also pretty contam-resistant. One can get great yields if using straw/dung as a substrate.

If one desires to grow a large amount of mushrooms, then they should try a bulk grow. If you want to just try it out and get a few grams for yourself and some close friends, the PF tek might be more up your alley

The PF tek uses half pint or pint jars filled with brown rice flour and vermiculite. These are innoculated usually with a spore syringe, and after colonizing the brown rice flour cake, the mushrooms are cased or put as is into a fruiting chamber. This is a low yield method.

Bulk teks make use of grain for the first mycelium expansions, which is used to seed a larger substrate of straw or dung or compost, or a combination of the three.

Bulk teks yield much more than the PF, the reason being, the only food source you give the mycelium in the PF tek is brown rice flour, which gets used up rather quickly. In a bulk tek, the mycelium has grain as its food source, and once it has colonized this it is expanded to an even richer food source (the straw/dung/compost).

The first time I tried a bulk grow (using B+ spore wouldn't you know!) I harvested a half pound (over multiple flushes). The tek I followed is called the "Bulk Neglect Report" and can be found in the cultivation section of the shroomery.

YMMV