Auto-SummaryThis forum post debunks common myths about cultivating psychedelic mushrooms, focusing on the importance of light, strain potency, and growing methods. Key points include:
1. Mushrooms require minimal light (1-4 hours) to initiate pinning, making concealed growing options like closets more discreet.
2. Different strains offer varying potency due to multiple active compounds, not just psilocybin and psilocyn.
3. Contamination can be minimized with techniques like pressure cooking and homemade glove boxes, despite the common belief that prevention is impossible.
4. Cakes are more accessible for beginners than casings, but both have their merits based on experience and yield preferences.
5. The PF Tek is recommended for novices due to its simplicity, low maintenance, and reliability, despite lower yields compared to other methods.
9) Shrooms need light . Another one isn't really correct. Shrooms need light in order to initiate pinning (some suggest a few second of light is sufficient). Since shrooms do not require light, this reduces your chances of someone finding your grow. A closed box in the back of your closet is going to draw a lot less attention than a translucent lid with a light shining down on it.
A closed box in the back of your closet, as a previous reader mentioned, will also lead to a crop that doesn't know up from adam. What I think you should focus on is the fact that mushrooms do not need a lot of light, definitely not 12 and absolutely not 24. 1, 2, 3 or 4 hours is plenty to initiate pinning and keep them on track.
8) One cubensis strain is more potent than another .
You clearly don't each much do you? aside from psilocyn and psilocybin, there are numerous other active compounds in the fruitbody. All of which, in varying combinations and ratios lead to a different experience.
Again, I think you're taking the extreme oppposite stance of those zealots in the community that swear the "Puertos totally blow the doors off the Amazonians, braaaaa" by stating that there is no variance between strains.
The middle ground is usually where the truth can be found.
6) You need to collect "poo" from farmers for good grows <- WRONG. There are many options available, including using the "Miracle Grow for Vegetables" (found at Home Depot or Lowes) as a replacement.
I don't even understand what your point is here...is MGforV a soil mix?
If so, I'll concede. Cubensis are adept at adapting to available substrates.
5) Spore prints from huge shrooms will result in growing huge shrooms. Yeah, wrong again. There is significant degradation when one attempts to continue to clone a strain. This can also be witnessed when using agar to continue to improve a strain.
How did you go from spore printing to cloning? Again, your point is unclear.
Are you implying that if I grow, print, grow from print and print again, somehow the 3rd generation print won't be viable?
Incorrect.
PF went from print->multispore innoc->fruit->print over and over and over again until he had a strain that thrived off of BRF and fruited well off of cakes.
Thus the PF Classic was born.
If you continue to print the largest fruit in the bunch, you are collecting spores that contain a portion of the genetic makeup of the parent, a specimen, that by it's very stature, indicates that it's genetics have enabled it to thrive in this particular environment.
4) There is no way to prevent contamination. There are several steps you can take to prevent contams, most importantly using a pressure cooker (obviously). Yet, the one many people forget is the "OVEN-TEK" and simple homemade glove boxes which can be made for $10 bucks. Your chances of contamination drops dramatically.
it's a long, arduous, eternal battle...
3) Cakes are better than Casing UGGGH. Yes, there are many die-hard fruiting people on the shroomery. They will post big pictures and tell you they grew bunches of shrooms using this method. Although they might be right, the AVERAGE person is only going to grow, what? Maximum 4 dried grams per cake. More likely, a lot less. For the same amount of mycelium, you can grow 2x,3x,4x more if using a casing. Don't be scared by an additional step, its worth it!
did anyone ever say that a cake is better than a casing?
I think you're confusing this for #2.
cakes are better than casings for folks with little experience with the process.
which leads me to your next point...
2) THE PFTEK is the best method for newbies. This is the one that aggravates me the most. The pftek was developed several years ago as a way to significantly reduce contamination rates (ie. the verm barrier was developed). Yet, this method provides very little yields....
To refute this makes you look foolish.
The PF Tek is by far the best for newbies because it is largely low maintenance, tried and true.
It doesn't require fancy materials, elaborate setups or odd ingredients.
Inexepensive and easy to understand, it is the tek of the people!
And to say it is not the best due to yields is arguable.
How do you define best?
cheapest? easiest? lowest maintenance? yield? error proof? risk?
there are many things above yield that factor into what makes one tek better than another.
furthermore, you can get great yields off of pf cakes by doing simple things to rehydrate.
tried and true.
1) AND THE NUMBER ONE MYTH THAT DRIVES ME NUTS.....
Bulk methods are for "Advanced" growers. This is total crap! If you have some intelligence, you can follow many of the bulk grow tek's widely available on the internet with little trouble. Follow the steps step by step and post and questions you have on the shroomery. YES, you CAN jump right into a bulk grow (search for the "Huge Shrooms for Newbies Tek" posted in the Cultivation forum)
sure, but odds are...the newbie's going to do something stupid.
make a small mistake or error in judgement that could have been avoided with a little experience and understanding of the intricacies of the mushroom's lifecycle.
Advanced doesn't mean you have to have a college degree in mycology, f8l. I think a better way to look at it would be that Bulk methods are better suited for Experienced growers.
in closing, consider this scenario:
you want to try growing mushrooms for the first time, you need a couple grams for Bonnaroo in 2 months. Failure means no treats for the festival and certain ridicule from your friends.
you have $40 in your pocket .
you don't have a pc you don't have a large closet you don't have access to horse shit you don't have access to whole grains you don't have access to straw
what are you going to do?
hmmmmmmmm......
PFTEK!
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