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 anne halonium
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 Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread  [Re: cronicr]
#19064604 - 10/31/13 04:55 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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ill let it slide.
we all agree , kits are the number one menace to the community.
its alleged im number 2 menace, but kits are far more dangerous...
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Edited by anne halonium (10/31/13 04:58 PM)
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cArcace-x
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: anne halonium]
#19064856 - 10/31/13 05:44 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
i agree it's a waste of money, Educate yourself and do it yourself!
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anne halonium
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: cArcace-x]
#19064965 - 10/31/13 06:01 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
cArcace-x said:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and
and, most of em would sell the catch for a grow kit.
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 Nakor420
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: anne halonium]
#19065449 - 10/31/13 07:22 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Because what can go wrong will go wrong... just like ordering a grow kit....you went wrong. 
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spaceman101
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: Nakor420]
#19065903 - 10/31/13 08:36 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yea yea sorry bro. Do not fall for what seems to be the easy way out it's not worth the waste of time and money. Enjoy!
Edited by spaceman101 (10/31/13 08:58 PM)
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bootster
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: spaceman101]
#19066311 - 10/31/13 09:31 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I bought a grow kit in 1978 where all you had to do was turn a little plastic cup on top of a plastic bin about 12" in dia., shake it up, and wait about 15 days and your fully matured mushrooms were ready for picking.
This was about as easy as pie. I saw houses breathing, walls collapsing, everything!
Then the law changed. We went into the Head Shop to buy another and the owner said that the laws had changed and he couldn't sell them anymore.
We were bummed as bummed could be. High school was not the time to be growing in the 'rents house and we had no idea what exactly we were doing anyway.
That's when my Mom told me that I couldn't have a quadruple beam scale sitting on my dresser.
We just shrugged our shoulders and thought we could grow after leaving the 'rents house. One of our roomies told us that we were all responsible if we got caught so we got shut down again.
I took a good 30 year break, and now is the time to crank it back up.
Kits were good at one time, but those days are long gone.
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MastaBlastar
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: cronicr]
#19079464 - 11/03/13 09:31 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I hate the  out of em because i got ripped off on one for $145 and their "trusted" partner site sold me mold water in dirty aids covered syringes. They probably had aids anyway. anorher reason i hate them is they are full of misinformation and the information they do give was stolen from someone else. bullshit, is pretty much what you are buying. One big slap in the face. they even then tell you to keep the jars at 85f in the sealed blacked out incubator, like anything but mold will grow. literally $40 in equipment for $145.
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: MastaBlastar]
#19079492 - 11/03/13 09:38 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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When I first started I really wanted to try a kit. I was pretty wary of ordering them from a website, so I was wanting one of the local headshops to order me one. Cost would have been $200 (but I thought it might be worth it). Long story short, the burnouts that worked there kept forgetting to order the kit, so I started to do some reading here. After a few months of lurking, I got my first pf grow off the ground and haven't looked back. Bunch of burnout stoners (that's rich coming from me  ) saved me from an expensive mistake 
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spaceman101
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: Pastywhyte]
#19079571 - 11/03/13 10:05 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hey bootster how much did you have to pay for a kit in 78? J/W it sounds way different from anything I've heard before.
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anne halonium
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: spaceman101]
#19080893 - 11/03/13 03:23 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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kits varied in price in 1978.
around 20-30 $
we had a swiped oss and oeric -0$-
a swiped PC -0$-
and spore that cost 19.95 in a print , mail order swiped.
this was 1977 though,
and it was a good cooker, i had my own jars,
he got the book off a girl he knew for free.....
so in 1977-1978 , it was possible to grow for real, on a 50$ bill.
everything else was laying around college dorms, just wear a tube top,
and, send everyone on a scavenger hunt.
there was only a few strains available from a few places also.
it was about spore prints back then, and 1/2 or 1/4 prints.
i have seen kits peeps trotted out for me to see over the yrs.
its always shit wrapped plastic and a hopeful prayer on page basically.
ill offer em 10$ for the spores , tell em to trash the kit,
and, call me more often..........
we need a catch phrase here, like
" friends, dont let friends , buy grow kits"
or " just say No kits"
or " this is your wallet on kits"
the concept, of peeps selling shit bags , and invisible seeds,
in a gift wrapped box 29.95,
smacks of "jack in the bean stalk" anywhere else.....
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Edited by anne halonium (11/03/13 03:28 PM)
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SpitballJedi
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: bootster]
#19085548 - 11/04/13 02:02 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Kits are appealing to people now for the same reason they were in '78. The thought of having everything you need from one purchase can be hard to resist.
But, we did not have the wealth of information in '78 that we do now. Back then, it was harder to get good info.
The sword cuts both ways. The internet has provided a great resource of info, but people are still lazy, confused, not confident, stupid, or just otherwise inpatient. The internet is also an opportunity for the disreputable to prey on these people.
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: SpitballJedi]
#19085660 - 11/04/13 02:23 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Grow kits are for people who aren't serious about mycology .....not willing to put the time in to make there own
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happygolucky
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: Andrew9115]
#19122679 - 11/11/13 07:30 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Andrew9115 said:
Quote:
sytar said:
I bought from midwest because I didn't want to go around town assembling the materials and figured it was a laziness tax. I soon realized that the incubation chamber was completely unnecessary. After I fruited, I realized the terrible chamber they gave me was starving my cakes of FAE because the mycelium was getting fluffy. I wanted an automated FC and had an air pump so I started investigating automated FCs. Soon realized PMPs were oudated, made a SGFC. At that point I realized that the only part of the kit I used were the presterilzed jars of substrate (which colonized agonizingly slow).
Only slightly regret buying the kit. Gave me the confidence to get started and figure out what questions to ask. This place is confusing and badly organized.
Right? not sure if you saw my comment in this thread about my midwest kit but at the end i realized the exact same, the only valuable thing in this kit was the pre steralized jars...
I just ordered my kit a few days ago and haven't received it yet. After doing more research I realize before the kit even gets here that the only thing of worth will be the jars.
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: happygolucky]
#19122698 - 11/11/13 07:33 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ouch. Keep reading though. You may have blundered once, but that doesn't mean that you can't do the right thing with those jars and make the most of them. The most important lesson you already learned and that is research is invaluable.
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: Pastywhyte]
#19122740 - 11/11/13 07:41 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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A it's not a mistake if you learn from it and move forward. It becomes a mistake the second time you do it.
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: Rubestoad]
#19122780 - 11/11/13 07:48 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've noticed when I search "grow kit", this thread pops up a lot.
If everyone says "grow kit" somewhere in their post, this thread will dominate the search results.
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: SpitballJedi]
#19122809 - 11/11/13 07:51 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Just use "grow kit" as if it was a dirty word. That grow kit trich just killed my grow
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: SpitballJedi]
#19122824 - 11/11/13 07:52 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm adding a link to this in my thread right now. Grow kits do suck. Everyone should see this thread because grow kits are garbage. I hate grow kits.
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Stromrider
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: bodhisatta]
#19123806 - 11/11/13 10:22 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah this has been really handy. Every time someone post a question about kits I just provide the link to this thread
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SpitballJedi
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Re: The Official "Grow Kits Suck" Thread [Re: Pastywhyte]
#19125135 - 11/12/13 06:17 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Pastywhyte said:
Just use "grow kit" as if it was a dirty word. That grow kit trich just killed my grow
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