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G1assjaw
They all lack taste sometimes
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Best place to order spores???
#10269080 - 05/01/09 01:56 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I ordered from Lil shop before but is there a better place?
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dgls_jms
festival follower
Registered: 03/24/09
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: G1assjaw]
#10269103 - 05/01/09 02:00 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I have good luck with hawks eye, but any shroomery sponser will do you good
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Doc_T
Random Dude
Registered: 03/06/09
Posts: 42,395
Loc: Colorado
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: G1assjaw]
#10269105 - 05/01/09 02:00 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Any of the Shroomery Vendors will treat you right.
Personal fav: SporeWorks.
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oh_you_know
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Registered: 02/08/09
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: Doc_T]
#10269109 - 05/01/09 02:01 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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ralphsters ftw
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Doc_T
Random Dude
Registered: 03/06/09
Posts: 42,395
Loc: Colorado
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: oh_you_know]
#10269120 - 05/01/09 02:04 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ralphster's gets so much love here, I'd like to try him out. But his site doesn't work on my computer- something to do with my browser settings or some such. The text is all weird sizes and colors and nothing lines up. And the order form... sheesh. Maybe I'll just hand write a nice letter and put a money order in it.
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13shrooms
Lightning Shaman
Registered: 01/01/09
Posts: 26,719
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: Doc_T]
#10269150 - 05/01/09 02:10 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Maybe I'll just hand write a nice letter and put a money order in it.
what I do every time. no paper trail.
dont 4get to request the strain of the month(sotm) you get a freebie with every order.
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Cmmaples
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: 13shrooms]
#10269160 - 05/01/09 02:12 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Sporeworks!
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Epilson Lyrae
Armed with hammers
Registered: 04/07/09
Posts: 5,561
Loc: Woody Creek
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: Cmmaples]
#10269249 - 05/01/09 02:27 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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In my limited experience Ralphsters has been by far my favorite. Super fast everything. Drop $50 in the mail to them with a label typed for the return mailing (or print out the order form on the website)and get the ralphsters choice special. 6 varied types plus if you ask for the special of the month you get another one free. That's 7 wonderful things for $50. Shipping was free too but that may have changed. Good luck.
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m08b08
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riosricky
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Registered: 02/07/09
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Loc: Nor Cal ^
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: m08b08]
#10269417 - 05/01/09 03:04 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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SporeLab
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kingjames488
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: riosricky]
#10269434 - 05/01/09 03:08 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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only ordered from ralphsters... VERY good vendor from my experience!!
good selection, good prices, good service...
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bait_
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: riosricky]
#10269440 - 05/01/09 03:09 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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riosricky said: SporeLab
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CUNT
Stranger
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: bait_]
#10269615 - 05/01/09 03:48 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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most of the major suppliers order thier spores from the same few ppl so just order frm anywhere reputable and u will be fine!
magicplants has a good selection of cubes but others i would reccomend sporeworks or 101.
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riosricky
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: bait_]
#10269721 - 05/01/09 04:11 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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bait_ said:
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riosricky said: SporeLab
whats so funny about that?
o shit, lol they have mac dre "Thizz in Peace"
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mushroommaan
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: CUNT]
#10269793 - 05/01/09 04:46 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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CUNT said: most of the major suppliers order thier spores from the same few ppl so just order frm anywhere reputable and u will be fine!
magicplants has a good selection of cubes but others i would reccomend sporeworks or 101.
I have read a lot of post with people having issues with spores 101.
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kip
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: mushroommaan]
#10271060 - 05/01/09 10:32 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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hawks eye
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freespeech
disciple
Registered: 12/12/08
Posts: 1,745
Loc: PNW
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: CUNT]
#10271100 - 05/01/09 10:39 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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CUNT said: most of the major suppliers order thier spores from the same few ppl so just order frm anywhere reputable and u will be fine!
magicplants has a good selection of cubes but others i would reccomend sporeworks or 101.
Forget that. Any of the sponsors are fine. I've worked with Hawk and Ralph
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nicechrisman
Interdimensional space wizard
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: G1assjaw]
#10271117 - 05/01/09 10:41 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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I've only gone with Ralphster, and have found his quality to be excellent. Good service too. My last order, he forgot my strain of the month syringe, but he's gonna make good on it with my next order, so it is all GOOD.
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Itheus
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: G1assjaw]
#10271262 - 05/01/09 11:32 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Although initially I got viable Amazonian spores from sporebank.com, I placed a second order a while later and you would not believe the results. I had ordered a few syringes of good ol' Amazonian and a few of some Phoenix Oysters.
First the package arrived late, I mean way, way late. Two months or so. I had totally forgotten about it. But having faith, I was still enthusiastic.
I noticed several things right off; the spores in the Amazonian syringe were all stuck together, which is quite regular, but no amount of shaking or banging could get them apart. I really tried, but those spores really must have been clumped together, and although I don't really know what that means, it had never happened so much to me before. Eventually, I did get those spores to fruit, but colonization was also very oddly slow, it just took maybe two months to really get moving, and then progressed in the normal fashion; something was funny, to say the least.
The oyster spores were significantly more alarming. I have to mention that this was my first experiment ever with oyster spores, and that a lot of my ignorance to what I now realize was a horrible product from sporebank.com was due to my lack of familiarity with that fungus in particular, and an optimistic faith in sporebank.com. I had ordered 2 oyster syringes and when I looked at them each one confused me in a different way. The first one was empty. I researched and learned that oyster spores were white, and I imagined perhaps that in the solution they could be translucent, but somehow suspected that something was wrong, and even that the syringe was totally empty.
The second oyster syringe was, especially in retrospect, despicable. Upon arrival it had a marble sized, gray growth contained in a syringe, like the other, with no detectable spores whatsoever. It may have even been stupid, but (especially being that I am colorblind as shit) I really wanted to have faith in these spores, and imagined that some oyster spores had germinated in the syringes, that hyphae met up and that a cluster of mycelium had begun to form, presuming that negative conditions could have contributed to the darkness of that mycelium. Needless to say, I was wrong. I inoculated a single half pint jar with that entire marble-sized piece-of-crap-whatever, and even frustratedly watched it rapidly colonize the entire cake with some gray mold or something nasty. So, essentially, they sent me really, really miserably prepared, or even perhaps non-legit spores.
Not to drag out a long rant, but I just have to mention my customer service experience. To make a long story short, when I didn't receive my package for a month or so, I e.mailed them to see what on earth was up. I never got a response, tried again and still no luck. By the time I had forgotten about it I received the package. Now, months later, having more than conclusively proved that what they sent me was garbage, I sent another e.mail, and have still not gotten a response.
Please boycott this totally bullshitty website. That's not okay. I am an amateur mycologist and the fact that it took me so long to prove to myself that I got scammed may have lost me the opportunity to do anything about it, so save yourself the time.
More recently, I ordered from sporelab.com, and had great, fast results, with good e.mail communication and reasonable prices and not to mention spores (tapalpa) that fruited a month before those amazonians from sporebank.com, even though I got them about a month later, and they were in the exact same incubator. Also, I ordered some filter bags on mycosupply.com the day before yesterday and was pumped to find them in my mailbox today. The shipping actually cost more than the ten bags, but I suppose at least if they charge that much they mean business. That nonsense from sporebank.com should not be accepted.
If you are browsing, and didn't want to bother with that obnoxious story, the message is: sporebank.com sold me syringes with healthy colonies of MOLD in them. DON'T BUY FROM THEM.
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YaYoKush
Seeker
Registered: 04/20/09
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Re: Best place to order spores??? [Re: Itheus]
#10271276 - 05/01/09 11:35 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ralphs all day
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