Where can I get a good mushroom growing kit for beginers ???

My advice is don't bother. IMO the kits are a ripoff and waste of money. You can find most if not all the stuff at walmart and lowes/home depot for a third of the price of those kits. (jars,brown rice,perlite,verm,1 6500k 26 watt daylight bulb, and a clear storage tote for a shotgun fruiting chamber).

Easy and convenient is expensive. I've run the homestead kit. The homestead kit works great. It's expensive. There was a time when I needed easy and I had the money to do it.

Where I live now in MO. theres not the ones growing that one wants. As for going to wally world, how do I get the right ones to grow ? I have watched u tube videos & they don't tell me too much.

http://www.shroomery.org/ (sorry if posting a link is against the rules..

Now use their search bar and look up the PF tek. One with a list and step by step guide. It's very easy. I've never used a grow kit, but wouldn't they take the fun out of learning HOW mushrooms work?

or this video is helpful too for beginners.. [video=youtube;ZHJQrsZFQdE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHJQrsZFQdE[/video]

Everything you need is at walmart. Or amazon.. Or pretty much anywhere. Have fun and good luck, keep things sterile!

Thanks Hepheastus420, I watched a few of those popcorn ones on u tube but just didn't know how good they would b. But I guess nothing ventured, nothing gained..

https://www.rollitup.org/hallucinatory-substances/625333-how-grow-mushrooms-easy-way.html

excellent advice here

My old roommate used this kit. Doesn't get any simpler than that!

Yes, more expensive than doing it the regular way but you asked for easiest.

stones/ truffles will be easier than fruits sterilize your jars inoculate them and let it sit everything happens in the jar. It would take longer but you would never need to fruit/ make and maintain an sgfc.

50$ and some patience for 2oz or more of shrooms? Sign me up....doesn't seem to expensive to me..if you're trying to grow pounds..probably be best to get a pressure cooker at that point...

Mr zogs..how did your roommate get them shipped to him? Did he live outside the us?...the site says they don't ship to the states..

One learns little from kits.

I agree canndo..but if one allready knows..go for simplicity.

I know many people who have extensive knowledge on growing cannabis..and the still buy bags of weed for convience

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I know many people who have extensive knowledge on growing cannabis..and the still buy bags of weed for convience

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Fundamentaly different. One can brew beer and still purchase it. One can grow mushrooms and still buy them (though that is very rare), but getting a kit to brew beer wouldn't occur to someone who has made it from scratch. No one would buy a "kit" to grow pot after he has sucessfully grown it, even if he runs out - even if he purchases a bag or two between crops.

I have seen some ingenious kits, one in particular was pretty damn smart, an enclosure with sterile grain in the base of a globe, at the top was a button one pressed to release the spores/liquid solution onto the grain and also open up a tiny filtered breather hole. The kit yielded about half an ounce total.


But my room mate learned nothing from the experience.

I can't see where there's much difference..if you've grown shrooms,know how,and just don't feel like sterelizing,waiting for innoc to take or care about yeild,a kit is a better option..it would suck to buy a pc,grain,tubs,glovebox ect and the only thing you learn is growing mushrooms ain't for you and that you're out $ for a little bit of shrooms..I'm sure the experience would be rewarding in your mindset,I'm thinking in other terms I guess..

If it were me.... Not that I would do such things...

Buy spore syringe and liquid culture. Shoot up. Wait. Order sterile grain bags from ebay. Shoot up with liquid culture. Wait. Gather manure and mix with coco coir. Pasteurize in oven. Wait day until cool. Mix fully colonized grain bag into manure. Wait for full colonziation. Once you have mycelium growing in manure it gets stupid easy.

^^this is a great way. or just pcook some jars of birdseed, inoc with spores or liquid culture, mix with pasteurized coco in a 10 gal rubbermaid tub from wally world. 2 quart jars to one tub will give a few o's for sure. easy and cheap as hell. oh yeah and lots and lots of rubbing alcohol, it will be one of your best friends.

See, it's like this - P. Cubensis is an organism that has found a very important new niche - people. It WANTS to grow for people, you can throw just about anything at it and it will grow, it wants you to eat it so that it can perpetuate itself. Look at it this way (Michael Pollen writes about this), Apples made their way from Iraq or Iran to the new world because they managed to make themselves appealing to the taste - and more importantly, because they were the perfect fruit to ferment - most apples are sour little things. Pot has managed to make it's way into places all over the globe where there isn't even any dirt - in garages, attics, basements and back yards - it has adapted so that it will multiply almost anywhere - with the help of humans, it is a realtively new symbiotic relationship. P. Cubensis has in the last 40 years discovered the fast train to true globalization. It used it's innate ability to affect humans and the internet to spread it's spores to places they never could have spread before.

No other mushroom has been able to manage this, most mushrooms, with the help of wind and animals can spread it's spores maybe a mile or two and it took millions of years to exploit every available microenvironment. Now those spores manage to travel thousands of miles. Now the mushroom grows in boxes in bedrooms all across the globe and it's spores are beginning, in places, to be a part of common dust everywhere in the U.S. at the very least. I have not grown cubensis for a very long time - and still, when I do contamination tests in my house I find a considerable count of them in my local atmosphere. I have seen it sprouting on the cheese in my fridge.

Stamets, when he goes on international foraging expiditions puts spore prints of his finds on his hat, in so doing he spreads those spores all over the globe.


The point of the two threads above mine are this - p. cubensis will grow using just about any tek you can imagine, all you have to do is give it a fighting chance over other molds or fungi and let it live long enough to fruit. In my opinion it is the easiest of all mushrooms to grow.

So have at it.

With the help of grow kits everyone can easily cultivate own shrooms. But you have to make sure that you are buying grow kits from the reliable source like www.magic-spores-shop.com/growing-supplies-tools/sterilised-substrates.html