My first attempt I used an ‘all-in-one’ grow bag and was pretty happy with the results but have had pretty crappy results since my first grow. As I said in reply to BSBP’s post, Golden Teacher liquid culture worked well for me. Penis Envy liquid culture was more difficult as BSBP said. GT mushrooms are not as strong but were plenty good for me but I only microdose. I can send you links in a private message if you want info on where I got what I had success with.
Hey there jokerman, I am doing well, feel not too bad considering I was awake half the night. Just washed my last batch of parsley and will nuke it dry soon for freezing. Speaking of freezing had our first frost last night.
I used the SOAB word once and the MF word twice that I remember for sure, but there could have been more.
The buds look better when they are dry too
I sure will. Right now I’m just reading. Need to get the grow finished before I add anything else to my to do list.Hi Yarddog, Feel free to ask away. I;m not an expert, but have been cultivating mushrooms for a while now on and off.
I'd recommend starting with something called PFTek.
Jam jars/small wide mouth masons (for you USA folks) with brown rice flour, vermiculite and water mix, then squirt some spore syringe in there and pop them on a shelf at room temp.
So easy to do.
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Do you get jam jars over there?
Anyway, get a feel for how they grow, how clean you can be etc with the small cakes in jars and then you can go to grain and bulk tubs with literally no contamination = less wasted time n money.
These were done in ziplock baggies after grain jars...
So easy if you are clean in your methods.
I missed that….Happy Anniversary DimeHappy Anniversary Dime
I am on shroomery as well but haven’t been there in a while. I actually had a couple of good flushes off of my AIO bag outside a couple years ago once I thought the cake was spent. I just tossed the cake in the woods and put some pine hay over it. They were bigger than the ones I got in the bag. I have a big ‘shoe box’ that doubles as my inoculation chamber. I just tape up the arm holes with micropore tape. Plenty of fresh air exchange. I put a couple inches of perlite in the bottom of it(after sterilizing it in boiling water) and put the cakes on tin foil on top of that. It is a fun hobby with a pretty righteous reward at the end.My fave strain is the white ones in the pic up there ^^^ called Rusty Whytes. A dude on the Shroomery forum got those going. That place is a wealth of knowledge.
For fruiting cakes, I use a clear shoebox type tub, I like to take the cake from the jar (that goes off for an overnight dunk in water in the fridge, then rolled in moist coco coir... reptile coir not the coir for plants with trichoderma in), flip the jar upside down in the tub, pop an inch or two of water in the bottom of the tub, then the cake goes on the top (the base) of the jar and I either flip another tub unside down on top, or if it's a tall tub, the lid is fine.
That jar up there I popped a ziplock baggie over the top of it, no real need for a tub either with this PF method.
Such a fun hobby, I popped back into the shroomery earlier today and someone asked me about bits on another forum too a short while ago... it must be that time of year!
Mushroom season.
Sent you a PM. Lemme know if you have any questions.
This is my nicest bud from the bowl trimmer
Hey old man. I would wait a day on the laundry with particles in the water tomorrow. Hope you get some better sleep tonight
That looks really nice. Yall did a good job this year. You and your neighbor lady
not dead yet... 78
