how to grow mushrooms the easy way
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Yeah man. Mad spores. Even Canndo would say its not too healthy to have too many spores floating around your environment.
Mrjacob274
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What are they then?
Mrjacob274
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Hmm cause ive eaten a bunch and have felt nothing
Mrjacob274
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Mrjacob274
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Mrjacob274
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We ate all of that and nothing felt except heat stroke from the weather haha
How did you dry them?
Mrjacob274
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I have tried them fresh, fan dried and dehumidifier dry
Then these were a dud. Or your substrate was lacking in the nutrient department. Try to grow another round with popcorn.
canndo
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They switched on you. Cyanescens grows on wood. Did you use a lignin substrate? They fruit in the fifties and sixties Temps.
They are radically different, smaller and slower growing. People would die for cyanescens that grows like cubes.
nicemarmot
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Practice makes perfect.
I've had minimal success with this technique until I learned how to use the pressure cooker properly. Only adding enough water so that the PC is almost dry when the 1 hour time is up. Previously, I was adding too much water to the PC because I didn't want it to run dry. Too much water inside the PC was adding water to the INSIDE of the jars. I could see the liquid at the bottom of the jar after the PC which wasn't there before PC.
Poured out wet popcorn, dried on towel overnight, re-PC and again too much water — did this 3 times, WTF I'm thinking...
Did some searching around a bit and found a posting by someone's Grandma about keeping her canned cherries as dry as possible. She mentioned making sure that the water is almost gone at the end of PC. Basically at 1 hour time the steam will begin to slow - that's when it's getting dry inside and time to stop. It does take some trial and error for your specific PC and number of jars inside
Anyway, jars come out dry, I inoculate and in 1 week I have fully colonized jars. Mycelium growth fucking EXPLODED!!
Now I know I'm doing g it right... Finally!
I've had minimal success with this technique until I learned how to use the pressure cooker properly. Only adding enough water so that the PC is almost dry when the 1 hour time is up. Previously, I was adding too much water to the PC because I didn't want it to run dry. Too much water inside the PC was adding water to the INSIDE of the jars. I could see the liquid at the bottom of the jar after the PC which wasn't there before PC.
Poured out wet popcorn, dried on towel overnight, re-PC and again too much water — did this 3 times, WTF I'm thinking...
Did some searching around a bit and found a posting by someone's Grandma about keeping her canned cherries as dry as possible. She mentioned making sure that the water is almost gone at the end of PC. Basically at 1 hour time the steam will begin to slow - that's when it's getting dry inside and time to stop. It does take some trial and error for your specific PC and number of jars inside
Anyway, jars come out dry, I inoculate and in 1 week I have fully colonized jars. Mycelium growth fucking EXPLODED!!
Now I know I'm doing g it right... Finally!
Ok so I have agar plates started and had some bad ones at first full of bacteria. Now I'm not getting anything so far but I also did a little slant experiment with glass vials and corks. I sterilized them and never opened them at all Used cork for self healing port and worked well. But. My first one I nocced I was sliding the needle back out and noticed at the last moment there was a clump Of SPORES stuck to
Needle tip and it slid off onto interior of cork as I removed needle. Best to leave alone I thought. So today I come home. Clump was visible on cork. No longer is visible but instead have these string like strands coming from the corks down to the agar. With little spore clumps at each end and intersecting strands The clumps I am pretty sure are what germinated and why it is broken up now and all thru the strands. What do think it is. It's nice and white strings but idk Here's a pic
Needle tip and it slid off onto interior of cork as I removed needle. Best to leave alone I thought. So today I come home. Clump was visible on cork. No longer is visible but instead have these string like strands coming from the corks down to the agar. With little spore clumps at each end and intersecting strands The clumps I am pretty sure are what germinated and why it is broken up now and all thru the strands. What do think it is. It's nice and white strings but idk Here's a pic
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canndo
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Easy way lol? Buying a kit from zamnezia is easier there reading all that.
Some people think reading is hard.
Others don't.
People who buy kits usually don't know much more after they work the kit.
The easiest way is to find someone and buy the mushrooms from them. Far easier than a kit. Why not do that?
Yeah, reading is hard.
Well you are right. I don't wanna offend and no way I'm a smart ass cause me and shrooms have nothing in common.