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 MagicBango
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 Hocus Pocus Mushroom Kits 
#1377371 - 03/15/03 02:48 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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Anyone familiar with these kits. 20 petri dishes that you prepare agar. Then you streak 2 of the 20 dishes with the spore sprint. The remaining plates will be used to isolate a pure mushroom culture. Incubate for 10 days to 2 weeks. Then you take the scalpel knife to cut a piece of the stringy mycelium into the remaining dishes incubating again as above till you have isolated a pure strain. Now it says I'm ready to spawn. I've got 2 test tubes to mix water and milo millet, commonly used for birdseed, and after they've cooled mix the mycelium from the petri dish, shake and allow 5 to 10 days for the mycelium to run through the grain and now I'm ready to inoculate the compost( Looks like spaghnum with perlite) . Advice to this newbie is appreciated. Sorry for the long post but, you know, details, the more the better.
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 Prisoner#1
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Re: Hocus Pocus Mushroom Kits [Re: MagicBango]
#1377453 - 03/15/03 04:18 AM (21 years, 1 month ago) |
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Omit the test tubes and use canning jars with some grain (oats, rye, bird seed)
its a standard agar run, as for the compost, it shouldnt contain pearlite or spaghnum moss, that woud be for casing...poo should be the compost material
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navy girl
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Re: Hocus Pocus Mushroom Kits [Re: MagicBango]
#13563794 - 11/30/10 04:59 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hi
I just bought one of thees kits as well as I am a newbe to shrooms and the kit said it was easy, what are the bags of dirt in the kit? If it supposed to be verm it does not look like it, also what is in the tube it looks like brown rice but it's labled insense??
I'm confused
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slapphappypill
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Re: Hocus Pocus Mushroom Kits [Re: navy girl]
#13564094 - 11/30/10 05:53 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
navy girl said:
Hi
I just bought one of thees kits as well as I am a newbe to shrooms and the kit said it was easy, what are the bags of dirt in the kit? If it supposed to be verm it does not look like it, also what is in the tube it looks like brown rice but it's labled insense??
I'm confused
Where did you get the kit from? if you post a link we might be able to help you with what you picked up. Sounds like the incense is for smoking 
The bags of dirt is probably the poo/verm combo or something along those lines.
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I have FINALLY written up a couple teks as to how SHP has done things in the past. DISCLAIMER: This is not for the newbie to mycology, and not going to work for everyone! This is simply what works for one person when other teks and methods have failed miserably!
~~~~~How SHP does their unconventional WBS Prep!! (NO DRY METHOD)~~~~
~~~~~SHP's highly disputed method of doing ALL their work outside of a flow hood or a Still air box!~~~~~
~~~~~Troubles harvesting the side and bottom pins in your mono? Learn how!! Dunking included ;-)~~~~~
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navy girl
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I picked it up at a head shop near the boarder came in a box that says hocus pocus mushroom kit on it.
It has a bunch of petri dishes one has spores in it a envlope with malt agar in it and a tube of insense that says wild berry fresh hand dipped
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LateForTheFuture
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Re: Hocus Pocus Mushroom Kits [Re: navy girl]
#13564297 - 11/30/10 06:33 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
navy girl said:
I picked it up at a head shop near the boarder came in a box that says hocus pocus mushroom kit on it.
It has a bunch of petri dishes one has spores in it a envlope with malt agar in it and a tube of insense that says wild berry fresh hand dipped
A tube of incense in your mushroom "grow kit"? Really does sound like some "hocus pocus" to me.
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Ozzy
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8 year old thread sounds even fishyer_ if thats a word..lol
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navy girl
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Ya I know and agree I did not know what was in the kit untill I got it home it says on the box everything you need to grow shroom.
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navy girl
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Re: Hocus Pocus Mushroom Kits [Re: Ozzy]
#13564529 - 11/30/10 07:09 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sorry you think that, since I am new here and this is a post about what I am dealing with I posted here.
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Doc_T
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Re: Hocus Pocus Mushroom Kits [Re: navy girl]
#13564545 - 11/30/10 07:12 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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No, it's ok. Just a bit weird.
I think the incense is a sample, but post a pic?
Also of the kit?
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Ozzy
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Re: Hocus Pocus Mushroom Kits [Re: navy girl]
#13564558 - 11/30/10 07:14 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
navy girl said:
Sorry you think that, since I am new here and this is a post about what I am dealing with I posted here.
Well if thats the case, welcome to the shroomery. Generaly with a thread this old it turns out to be someone trolling. Good luck with your project.
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slapphappypill
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Re: Hocus Pocus Mushroom Kits [Re: Ozzy]
#13564568 - 11/30/10 07:16 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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lmao, I didn't even notice it was 7 yrs old, haha, but we'll look forward to some pics navy girl :-)
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We think we have freedom, but we're all just mice in a maze....
FYI: I stole all my pix off google! F+ PORN! Here is a shit-ton of porn by yours truly!
I have FINALLY written up a couple teks as to how SHP has done things in the past. DISCLAIMER: This is not for the newbie to mycology, and not going to work for everyone! This is simply what works for one person when other teks and methods have failed miserably!
~~~~~How SHP does their unconventional WBS Prep!! (NO DRY METHOD)~~~~
~~~~~SHP's highly disputed method of doing ALL their work outside of a flow hood or a Still air box!~~~~~
~~~~~Troubles harvesting the side and bottom pins in your mono? Learn how!! Dunking included ;-)~~~~~
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navy girl
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Re: Hocus Pocus Mushroom Kits [Re: Doc_T]
#13564588 - 11/30/10 07:19 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'll have to do that tomorrow as am working right now but will be happy to anything that can help sort this thing out as I don't want to waist good spores.
Kinda frustrating trying to go from plants to fungi for a change thought the kit was a good investment 
Edited by navy girl (11/30/10 07:21 PM)
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EvilMushroom666
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Re: Hocus Pocus Mushroom Kits [Re: Ozzy]
#13564597 - 11/30/10 07:20 PM (13 years, 4 months ago) |
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Iv seen that kit around retailing from $140-200 Canadian dollars. In
theory it gives you everything you need to grow mushrooms yes, but
what it omits to say is the level of sterile procedure you need to
attain results. If I remember correctly it claims you can grow 20lbs
of mushrooms from the kit. Iv seen a few friends buy this kit(YEARS AGO)
and not a single one of them ever reached fruits from it. Read up on
sterile procedure and take pictures of the kit and items so someone here
can lay out proper procedure. You might want to invest in making a
glove box as well.
IMO agar is not a good place for most uber n00bs to start, but I am
not saying it cannot be done. Read up and make sure you understand all
steps and procedures before you start anything.
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navy girl
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Cool thanks for the info I have read a bit and do have a tote to make a glove box and a terrium as well as new jars,not gonna start till I have everything (that was not in the kit) and more info.
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magicmatt420
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Re: Hocus Pocus Mushroom Kits [Re: navy girl]
#15654834 - 01/12/12 11:43 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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i bought one of those hocus pocus kits mounths ago and they work great i have pics of my first flush on my page . i was wondering if some one could tell me the exact strain?? i think there b+ but not sure
ps
i ate 3 dried grams the other night and it was the best mushroom buzz i ever had! i knew the answer to everything it was so fuckin awsome lol my bed was breathing
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slapphappypill
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They are "Cubes", and thats the best answer anyone can give you as all the different veriaties of cubes are just from different genetics, just like humans. the name "B+" is irrelevent.
It's kinda funny how this thread keeps getting revived
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We think we have freedom, but we're all just mice in a maze....
FYI: I stole all my pix off google! F+ PORN! Here is a shit-ton of porn by yours truly!
I have FINALLY written up a couple teks as to how SHP has done things in the past. DISCLAIMER: This is not for the newbie to mycology, and not going to work for everyone! This is simply what works for one person when other teks and methods have failed miserably!
~~~~~How SHP does their unconventional WBS Prep!! (NO DRY METHOD)~~~~
~~~~~SHP's highly disputed method of doing ALL their work outside of a flow hood or a Still air box!~~~~~
~~~~~Troubles harvesting the side and bottom pins in your mono? Learn how!! Dunking included ;-)~~~~~
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CMOS
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magicmatt420
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Re: Hocus Pocus Mushroom Kits [Re: CMOS]
#15767617 - 02/06/12 09:13 AM (12 years, 2 months ago) |
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thanks for the info and your time slapphappypill
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Familiar Gnome
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Re: Hocus Pocus Mushroom Kits [Re: MagicBango]
#16177407 - 05/03/12 04:14 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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That kit is the one marketed by High Times. The contents are to grow from P.Cubensis spores onto agar, then isolate your mycelium to select rhiozomic mycelium which you colonize that tiny test-tube of birdseed with. Once colonized, you are meant to to do a spawn run into the sterilized bigger "bag of dirt"; actually a pro-mix compost, and case with the smaller "bag of dirt"; a mix of ph balanced peat moss.
I bought that very kit about 6 years ago now, and it worked fine for me. My grow methods have changed since, but I have never bought spores since. All subsequent grows are from prints related to that kit. So though pricy, it has paid itself off.
Hope that answers your questions.
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