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 What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms?
#15807177 - 02/14/12 06:32 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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After 18 years or so of successfully growing green for my personal use, I've had to stop. I miss it; it was a great hobby. So, I've started reading, learning, and acquiring supplies to grow some mushrooms.
Any ideas on relative difficulty? I remember starting out with cannabis and having a tough time sexing plants, but I got pretty good at it with practice. My first cloning attempt failed, but soon I was kicking ass.
I have a good science background, and read a lot.
Oh, and Hi everyone.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Mike Reynolds] 1
#15807184 - 02/14/12 06:35 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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really....
mushrooms are the hardest thing to grow, ever.
you need like 5 acres of land, 10 cows and a couple years of waiting time.
dude, with bud... you plant a seed in soil and 3 months later you have some high grade hydro!
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We're gonna have to adapt if we expect to survive.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Poor Boy]
#15807187 - 02/14/12 06:36 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Solids and liquids are differentiated, one from the other, by the way the material responds to stress.If the material deforms and stays deformed, springs back when the stress is removed, it's a solid.
If instead the material flows when stressed, rearranges itself in such a way as to remove the stress, it's a liquid. . . .
We're gonna have to adapt if we expect to survive.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Mike Reynolds]
#15807198 - 02/14/12 06:38 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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You can teach a kid to grow mushrooms 
Seriously, its super easy if you use the right techniques. The hardest thing about growing shrooms is mustering the dedication to shell out the bucks for a pressure cooker, and PF-TEK style you sont even need that.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Wiccan_Seeker]
#15807203 - 02/14/12 06:39 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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or you can go the lazy way and hit up themadseason.com
end off with the damion 50/50 tek!
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We're gonna have to adapt if we expect to survive.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Poor Boy]
#15807252 - 02/14/12 07:00 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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I dunno. I grow both. I've had success, and a substantial amount of failure with either. Got my green stuff in hydro, and the white stuff in bags. Personally, I believe the Cannabis is a much more finicky creature. A lot of little things to consider and implement within its growth parameters. With the fungi, it's more simplistic: more of a yes or no kinda deal. Like being pregnant; or dead. Although, whereas you might have a certain amount of leeway with Cannabis, there is none with the fungi. You either did it all right, and everything is kosher, or you did one thing wrong, and you might as well have never even started.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Mike Reynolds]
#15807257 - 02/14/12 07:02 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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I've never grown pot, but I grew mushrooms successfully when I was 16 after reading a tek on here. Doesn't get much easier...
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Mike Reynolds]
#15807266 - 02/14/12 07:05 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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I grew both and had very good results with both, about the only difference I noticed was
learning how to keep everything super clean of contaminates when growing mushrooms.
I am sure you will probably have no problem, good luck.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: rod]
#15807284 - 02/14/12 07:16 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Why did you stop growing da 'erb?
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: rod]
#15807285 - 02/14/12 07:17 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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technically, they both take about the same time to produce. dank takes a lot of ntes. mushies just grow on dead, dying or prepared mediums. the cost of growing mushi is way less since you dont need indoor lighting.
ive grown both, they each have their pros and cons. a horticulturalist, a mycologist and a botanist are very similar in basic job descriptions
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: migraineur]
#15807382 - 02/14/12 07:57 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Why did you stop growing da 'erb?
Well, very long story shortened. The mortgage on my house (and the best little grow room ever) was paid off. My girlfriend's house was 5 miles away and I was there 90% of the time. She suggested I look into selling my house, and when I put it on the market I got an offer I couldn't refuse (asking price was too high, but a family fell in loved with the house and agreed on my asking price).
So, I sold my house and moved in with my gf. She is not comfortable with an indoor grow for many reasons, so....
Then again, she buys all we can burn. Maybe again one day. I had some beautiful purples...
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Mike Reynolds]
#15807430 - 02/14/12 08:19 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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neither is hard to do. what takes time in both is mastering the details
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: shroom337]
#15807438 - 02/14/12 08:21 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Cannabis. And it's not even close.
Well, let's say growing good cannabis is exponentially more difficult than growing good shrooms.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: The Ecstatic]
#15807452 - 02/14/12 08:27 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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I have a green thumb, but I'm still working on getting my white thumb so maybe I'm not the most qualified to answer. I understand the methods and procedure of both though.
Someone else put it better saying that It's harder to grow good herb. 
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Mike Reynolds]
#15807459 - 02/14/12 08:32 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Mr.PhilCybin]
#15807460 - 02/14/12 08:32 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Depends on both quality and quantity. If you're growing mediocre homegrown, it's easy. Similarly, if you're growing some PF tek cubes it's also easy. Commercial production of azurescens is a different ball game, just as nutrient and environment control of sensitive pot strains is more complicated than, say, guerrilla growing.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: The Ecstatic]
#15807469 - 02/14/12 08:37 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Cannabis. And it's not even close.
Well, let's say growing good cannabis is exponentially more difficult than growing good shrooms.
^This.
Since ive been getting medicinal grade weed from the shops, ive been real critical of weed that isnt grown right. And it seems ALOT of weed is not grown right. Its to the point now that I get irritated when i see low grade weed LOL.
Wheres, you can just sit back and watch fruits grow out of mycelium without having to master nutrients and other paramaters that need to be perfected for perfected weed or just good weed.
Good weed = potency, taste, look, smell, visible crystals, etc
Good mushrooms = mushrooms.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Jessica Swift]
#15807474 - 02/14/12 08:39 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Depends on both quality and quantity. If you're growing mediocre homegrown, it's easy. Similarly, if you're growing some PF tek cubes it's also easy. Commercial production of azurescens is a different ball game, just as nutrient and environment control of sensitive pot strains is more complicated than, say, guerrilla growing.
Who commercially produces azurescens?
Or were you just pointing out that it would be hard with a picky specie?
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Zulu The Most High]
#15807488 - 02/14/12 08:43 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Zulu The Most High said:
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The Ecstatic said:
Cannabis. And it's not even close.
Well, let's say growing good cannabis is exponentially more difficult than growing good shrooms.
^This.
Since ive been getting medicinal grade weed from the shops, ive been real critical of weed that isnt grown right. And it seems ALOT of weed is not grown right. Its to the point now that I get irritated when i see low grade weed LOL.
Wheres, you can just sit back and watch fruits grow out of mycelium without having to master nutrients and other paramaters that need to be perfected for perfected weed or just good weed.
Good weed = potency, taste, look, smell, visible crystals, etc
Good mushrooms = mushrooms.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Zulu The Most High]
#15807490 - 02/14/12 08:44 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Growing the mushrooms is incredibly easy. The start up cost is super cheap and as long. As you follow
The right teks the return is amazing.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: DeadHearts]
#15807629 - 02/14/12 09:32 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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You need 0 skill or equipment to grow weed, its a pretty hardy plant , and you can literally let it grow in a sandbox ( I wouldn't want that bag ) , growing great pot is time consuming very expensive, and a lot harder to grow than ( everything)
Growing personal amounts of mushies is brain dead with a pf tek, smashing 20# a month of mushies is a dif story, takes a bit of knowledge of the life cycles, and planning ahead, making sure oh have clean and viable inoculant , harvesting , constant cleaning every day , preparing and keeping spawn available, its more physical work, less equipment , less on the elec bill, and you don't need a 5000 $ system to keep your neighbors nooses un curious, with 2 g's a lot of reading and 3 months , you can pound out enough mushies to have your entire state trip, 2 grand and 3 months is a drop in the bucket money wise, and after your first three months growing (good) weed, your just starting to settle your mothers, and are another 2 months out if your sog, 3 if out date, sorry for rant
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Mr.PhilCybin]
#15807827 - 02/14/12 10:29 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Who commercially produces azurescens?
Or were you just pointing out that it would be hard with a picky specie?
The Netherlands, among other places, pumped out a few crops. As for the people or company responsible, this is a bit more anonymous. Vice magazine just ran an interview with a commercial sclerotia company that switched to truffles after the new mushroom law.
Azurescens:
From: http://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_images2.shtml#comm
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Jessica Swift]
#15807928 - 02/14/12 10:56 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Jessica Swift said:
Quote:
Mr.PhilCybin said:
Who commercially produces azurescens?
Or were you just pointing out that it would be hard with a picky specie?
The Netherlands, among other places, pumped out a few crops. As for the people or company responsible, this is a bit more anonymous. Vice magazine just ran an interview with a commercial sclerotia company that switched to truffles after the new mushroom law.
Azurescens:
From: http://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_images2.shtml#comm
 it sounds so obvious now. yeah I would imagine the dutch would be the ones to do it.
As for those pictures....
That's a shit load of psilocybin right there.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Montock]
#15807980 - 02/14/12 11:13 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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You need 0 skill or equipment to grow weed, its a pretty hardy plant , and you can literally let it grow in a sandbox ( I wouldn't want that bag ) , growing great pot is time consuming very expensive, and a lot harder to grow than ( everything)
Growing personal amounts of mushies is brain dead with a pf tek, smashing 20# a month of mushies is a dif story, takes a bit of knowledge of the life cycles, and planning ahead, making sure oh have clean and viable inoculant , harvesting , constant cleaning every day , preparing and keeping spawn available, its more physical work, less equipment , less on the elec bill, and you don't need a 5000 $ system to keep your neighbors nooses un curious, with 2 g's a lot of reading and 3 months , you can pound out enough mushies to have your entire state trip, 2 grand and 3 months is a drop in the bucket money wise, and after your first three months growing (good) weed, your just starting to settle your mothers, and are another 2 months out if your sog, 3 if out date, sorry for rant
that hurt to read >< but understand what you're saying...except for the very end "another 2 months out if your sog, 3 if out date" have no idea what you mean with that.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Jessica Swift]
#15807996 - 02/14/12 11:17 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Jessica Swift said:
Quote:
Mr.PhilCybin said:
Who commercially produces azurescens?
Or were you just pointing out that it would be hard with a picky specie?
The Netherlands, among other places, pumped out a few crops. As for the people or company responsible, this is a bit more anonymous. Vice magazine just ran an interview with a commercial sclerotia company that switched to truffles after the new mushroom law.
Azurescens:
From: http://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_images2.shtml#comm
seeing that makes me wanna hug a stetile , I never realized how un efficient growing outside would be.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: poiuytrewa]
#15808019 - 02/14/12 11:23 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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poiuytrewa said:
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Montock said:
You need 0 skill or equipment to grow weed, its a pretty hardy plant , and you can literally let it grow in a sandbox ( I wouldn't want that bag ) , growing great pot is time consuming very expensive, and a lot harder to grow than ( everything)
Growing personal amounts of mushies is brain dead with a pf tek, smashing 20# a month of mushies is a dif story, takes a bit of knowledge of the life cycles, and planning ahead, making sure oh have clean and viable inoculant , harvesting , constant cleaning every day , preparing and keeping spawn available, its more physical work, less equipment , less on the elec bill, and you don't need a 5000 $ system to keep your neighbors nooses un curious, with 2 g's a lot of reading and 3 months , you can pound out enough mushies to have your entire state trip, 2 grand and 3 months is a drop in the bucket money wise, and after your first three months growing (good) weed, your just starting to settle your mothers, and are another 2 months out if your sog, 3 if out date, sorry for rant
that hurt to read >< but understand what you're saying...except for the very end "another 2 months out if your sog, 3 if out date" have no idea what you mean with that.
After your mothers are settled, its a 2 month clone to harvest time if you sog, sog stands for sea of green , its the way to go if your looking for more than personal, it takes 3 months clone to harvest if you grow the old school way. Sorry for poor grammar, at my 9-5 texting on phone
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Montock]
#15808066 - 02/14/12 11:39 AM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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mushrooms are the easiest and cheapest to grow.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: b0red5tiff]
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Theres one big argument against indoor growing of weed vs mushrooms: No need for an energy guzzling, fire starting and above all bust-producing HPS lamp.
If you look at why weed grow ops are busted, its usually because of the grow light and associated perils such as high powered ventilation.
You need none of that with shrooms. You can put grow cakes on a plate in a plastic box with a layer of water in a room in indirect sunlight and it will not just bloom but yield strong shrooms. A bit more complicated a setup will give much better results but you dont need them.
A mushroom basically needs light as a pointer where to grow, you dont have to pump 400 watts of intense light in every ten square feet. If you grow shrooms for yourself and friends there wont be an odor problem. A cake succeeds or fails without drama. With weed if it fails you could have a house full of bugs, or people smelling the weed in the street. Or a fire. Or you could get electrocuted where electricity and moisture meet.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Wiccan_Seeker]
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It is not even a question in my mind. Like you said wiccan you dont
have to worry about energy costs or smells or pretty much any kind of
hazard as long as you are not a complete dumb ass.
Set up is so cheap and once you get everything set up after about a week its
pretty much a set it and forget it. Depending on what method you use.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Mike Reynolds]
#15808171 - 02/14/12 12:20 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Weed is allot harder to grow. Ive done countless shroom grows, and one big epic weed grow just to show myself I could. The weed thing was such a pain in the ass between the mites and these 6 foot tall sweet tooth trees trying to grow threw my floor. Way to wait until them bitches are neck tall to switch to 12/12.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Psychoslut]
#15808300 - 02/14/12 12:54 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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Growing cubes is definitely easier than bud.
As soon as you get a feel for hydrating grains its pretty much off to the races. A lot less planning and time involved as well. Maintaining genetics is as simple as hiding a jar or test tube instead of mucking around with mothers.
Not to mention getting to leave plant counts behind was probably the greatest thing ever. A cop could walk into any of my processes except harvesting and would probably never know what he was watching me do.
Overall I find growing cubes to be much more engaging process, but less rewarding at the end. I'm not pained to see my boomers go, it hurts me to see my bud that I have loved and cared for get wasted on some undeserving fuck.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: OGTubs]
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Id say growing cannabis is harder, but mushrooms are like cannabis in the sense that anybody can start growing and have reasonable success, but to really get good at it you have to put in the time and experience.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Thrill]
#15808678 - 02/14/12 02:28 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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I made you a chart
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: CrossingTheStar]
#15808733 - 02/14/12 02:41 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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but also growing weed can be super-easy, plant a seed wait several months, harvest buds 
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: CrossingTheStar]
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If you want to compare costs at a beginners level, the money you spend on doing a decent sized PF Tek mushroom grow could easily get you started with a CFL cannabis grow. When i first started growing cannabis, i spent around $100 and had enough lights, pots, and soil for 3 female plants which produced around an ounce and a half each of very good bud. Its all in how you start.
Comparing costs of the simple PF style mushroom grow to a very advanced marijuana set is kind of biased. You could do the same with the mushroom side, saying you need an expensive and large pressure cooker, a flowhood, and various other items, you could easily spend a couple grand vs doing a simple CFL marijuana grow that would cost you around $100.
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: CrossingTheStar]
#15809553 - 02/14/12 05:08 PM (3 months, 13 days ago) |
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I made you a chart
Yep. I don't miss buying/carrying bags of soil. As a dirt farmer, that could get old. Grow on!
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Mike Reynolds]
#15809638 - 02/14/12 05:23 PM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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It's been said already in many ways, but shoot I'll say it again.
Growing either is easy; growing either well, (with the inclusion of rarer strains/breeds/genetic types) takes practice and knowledge and patience.
I would say however that I have never noticed one person's shrooms to be better than another's. I think the subtle differences are more obvious with bud, mainly I guess due to the fact it's smoked.
If you just did a blind taste test of mushroom tea, it would be hard to tell the skill of the grower, if you passed me a joint of some uber-dank bud grown by a pro, I think I'd be more likely to recognise it as something special.
Growing mushrooms well is kinda purely growing bulk, growing bud well is combining bulk with sweet phenotypes and is more based on gene to gene breeding, if you see what I mean.
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BlindSophist
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Mike Reynolds]
#15809665 - 02/14/12 05:26 PM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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It depends on your resources.
IMO mushrooms are MUCH easier to grow. If you have good sterile technique there's practically no work or down-payment involved in a massive payoff.
Weed is hard. It takes longer, you have to do all this seasonal crap (or set up a hydroponics lab, yeah that's easy), you have to dry and trim it...
The sterile technique of mushrooms can be tricky, but you mainly just have to be thorough. Give microbes absolutely no chance to sneak in. It can be done. 
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Mike Reynolds]
#15809681 - 02/14/12 05:28 PM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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I made you a chart
Yep. I don't miss buying/carrying bags of soil. As a dirt farmer, that could get old. Grow on!
I didn't say anything about buying and carrying soil? I'm confused, man.
What are you quoting?
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Mike Reynolds]
#15809723 - 02/14/12 05:35 PM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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Mushrooms require more skill and knowledge to be successful when getting started more than growing MJ.. but harder, no way. Doing large MJ grows (I am one of those that happen to live a legal\licensed state for MJ.  ) - I can say the effort to just HARVEST and prepare the product is MUCH more for MJ than mushrooms. My shoulder and back still hurts from from the harvest\trim\manicure job I did this past weekend. 
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Zulu The Most High
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: AbbeyRoad]
#15810208 - 02/14/12 07:02 PM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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AbbeyRoad said: My shoulder and back still hurts from from the harvest\trim\manicure job I did this past weekend.
get some good friends to lend you a hand next time for an exchange of buds!!!!
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Psychoslut]
#15810457 - 02/14/12 07:50 PM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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The weed thing was such a pain in the ass between the mites and these 6 foot tall sweet tooth trees trying to grow threw my floor. Way to wait until them bitches are neck tall to switch to 12/12.
MITES!! Don't say the "M" word! I got good at bending tall stretching plants. Sweet tooth was great!
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Re: What's harder: growing cannabis or growing mushrooms? [Re: Mike Reynolds]
#15813067 - 02/15/12 10:15 AM (3 months, 12 days ago) |
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Zulu The Most High said:
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AbbeyRoad said: My shoulder and back still hurts from from the harvesttrimmanicure job I did this past weekend.
get some good friends to lend you a hand next time for an exchange of buds!!!!
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