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Avoid: (Outdated/useless teks, common mistakes, and things best saved for seasoned cultivators)

-Glove Boxes (the much preferred 'Still-Air Box' (SAB) is only slightly different)
-Incubators: Only useful for agar, and even then not worth the effort/$$$ IMO.
-Grow kits
-Postal Tyvek
-Hydrogen Peroxide (I can't think of a single use for it in this hobby yet noobs are always oddly keen on using the stuff, does more harm than good)
-Lysol/disinfecting sprays: Excessive use of them anyway, nice for cleaning the air once in a while though.
-Obsessing over optimum lighting: Ambient sunlight from windows or whatever light-bulb you have is fine.
-Spores to Liquid Cultures: Contaminants are hard to identify in liquid cultures, you will have more consistent success if you inoculate them with agar plates instead. Though it can work
-Fear of opening jars: Just be quick and don't let your hand hover over the open jar.
-Poor mans pod
-Improvised Fruiting Chambers: At least master the basics before experimenting.
-Automated Fruiting Chambers: For noobs anyway
-What all the trusted cultivators would have done differently when they were starting out

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Intermediate
(the more practical techniques, only slightly more difficult)


Grains: (I recommend whole oats, found at feed/farm stores, way cheaper/easier than WBS, you have to ask at the counter usually)

• Kramer Cakes (verm and grain cakes)
  
• No-Heat Prep for Any Grain
  
• Rye/WBS:  1)  RR's Grain Prep Video  2)  4 Easy Step Rye Prep  3) WBS Tek by noobieshroomy  4)  Foo Mans WBS Method  5)  How Spitball preps Rye
  
• Whole Oats:  1) Impossibly Simple Whole Oats Prep  2) Eat's Easy Oat Prep
  
• Whole Wheat:  1) Aliens Wheat Prep  2) PinPornProducers Wheat Prep
  
• Other Grains:  1) RR's Rye Grass Seed Prep Video
  
• Millet Prep with some IMPORTANT INSIGHTS for all grains
  
• Grain to Grain Transfers (G2G):  1) Grain to grain in a SAB  2) G2G Video
  
• Inoculation:  1) Tic Tac Toe (Tiger drop 2.0)  2) Inoculating Grains with BRF Cakes: P2G 
  

Grain Jar Lid Design: 

• Pastywhyte's Easy Lid Tek 
• Using synthetic filter discs (SFD's)
  
• Felt: Felt or EZ Felt at craft stores makes a good filter.
  
• Polyfil Tek: Make a dime sized hole in your lid and stuff it tight with a wad of polyfil
  

Bulk Substrate:

• What is Bulk Sub and Why Should I Try it
  
• Pasteurization:  1) Easy Oven Pasteurization    2) Franks Proper Pasteurization Tek   3) Bucket Pasteurization
  
• Coir:  1) Franks Coir Prep       Wood: 1) Lipa's Tek    Manure:  1)Frank's Horse Manure Prep
  
• Straw:  1) Invitro Straw 2) Hamloaf Preps Straw 3) How Azur Does Straw
  
• Bags/Bottles:  1) Spawn Bag Pictorial  2) 13's 13 Easy Steps to Spawn Bag Cultivation  3)Bottle Tek  4) Self Fruiting Bag  6) DIY bag filter 7) Inflating Bags Without Flowhood
  
• Spawning:  1) Franks Bulk Spawning Tek  2) Dunking Colonized grains before spawning to bulk  3) Liner Tek
  
• Eats' EZ Bulk sub/fruiting tek
  
• 1)Additives/Supercake    2)Coffee Grounds  3) Additives and Nutrient Balances
  
• Fruiting  1) Proper Surface Moisture/When to increase FAE
  

Casing:

• Jiffy Mix Casing by Frank
  
• Easy Casing by V
  

Agar:  Agar: All you need to know

• Pour:  1)TC's Pour Agar/ EZ Storage Tek    2)Bodhi's Comprehensive Agar Write-up
  
• No Pour:  Pastywhyte's Easy Agar Tek (pasty plates)  2) 1/2 Pint Agar Jars
  
• Agar Media Recipes: 1)  Frank's Media Journal
  
• Inoculation: 1)How to inoculate agar dishes  2)Inoculation Loop  3) Sterile Swabs as Loops!
  
• Cloning:  Frank's Proper Cloning Tek    Cloning Wild Fruits by Cronicr
  
• Slants/Culture Storage: 1)Master Slant Tek  2)Slants with Frank  3) Long term culture storage in distilled water  4) A thick layer of agar in a wide mouth half-pint jar stores very well in fridge 5) Practical Culture Storage in Liquid
  
• Petri Dish Alternatives: 1) 1/4 Pint Jars for agar work      2) Pasty Plates (glad mini round tupperware)  3) Aluminum Vessels with Glass Lids!
  
• Techniques:  1) Cleaning/Isolating on agar, by Stro  2) Tiger Drop  3) Tic Tac Toe (Tiger Drop 2.0)  4) Condensate Free Petri's
  

Anti-Bacterial Agar/Gelatin:(experimental/unverified but effective in my experience. Cleaned an otherwise un-salvageable culture with weak green tea agar, its now on grains as proof)

• Antibacterial Tea Gelatin by Ferather
  
• Cleaning Dirty Cultures With Tea Agar by mycocolorado
  
• Katbusa's Tea Agar Tests
  
• Germinating spores on spent tea leaf agar
  

Outdoor:

• Easy Woodlover Cultivation Tek
  
• Woodlover Smoothie
  
• Outdoor Bed Fruiting Chamber
  
• Moe's Outdoor Growing Tek
  
• New Guy's Outdoor Tek
  
• Outdoor Sclerotia Producers in Cold Climates
  
• Easy Outdoor Beds by Ghia
  
• Tons of cheap wood chips
  
• Outdoor Mushroom Cultivation Subforum
  
• Liloldme Grows Psi. Cyans
  

Miscellanious Intermediate Level Posts

• A Cultivators Tool Kit
  
• Bulk Grain Strainer (or mesh garbage can)
  

Violets Other Teks:

• Grain petri tek, invitro growing, and sterile spore printing
  
• Growing from bottom watered, cased grains in containers
  

Expert
(Slurries and LC aren't any harder than G2G, but if your culture isn't totally clean contams will have a field day.)


Liquid Cultures: (Don't be intimidated by the "expert" label. My first grow ever started on LC, its just easier to fuck up. )

• Grainwater Liquid Culture (GLC) by Hamloaf
  
• EzLC Tek by Pastywhyte (a new tek that ensures sterility of the LC)
  
• Simple LC by TL
  
• Visual Signs of Contaminated LC's
  
• The Biopsy Method by Josex. (allow me to summarize so you don't have to sort through that long-winded thread. You have a 10ml full of sterile water and poke a colonized agar plate with the needle, then squirt the mycelium that gets stuck in the needle into either another plate or LC. There, simple as that. This tek does serve a secondary purpose as well however, it is a great example of how not to write teks. There is such a thing as being concise and to the point.)
  

Slurries/Liquid Inoculant: 

• Eatyualive's Slurry Write-up 
  
• Spawning to bulk with grain slurry
  
• Tribal Slurry Pouring Container 
  
• Cornmeal Plate Slurry Tek
  
• Muda's LI/Agar Slurry Tek
  
• Grain LI/LC
  

FlowHood Construction and Use:  (Something I didn't realize when I got my first filter, the filter face is made of paper, very fragile, be careful with it)(Simplest fucking thing, make wooden box with filter inside, attach fan to box. Don't over complicate this shit.)

• Bod's Easy AF Flowhood Tek
  
• C10's Cadillac Flowhood Build
  
• Massive Flowhood Build by Mycolorado
  
• Excellent Non-confusing Flowhood Details
  
• Stonesun's Flowhood Build
  
• How to Flowhood
  
• EvilMushroom666's Flowhood Build
  
• Easy Shmuvbox Build (like a flowhood but cheaper/portable)
  

Greenhouses:

• Gr0wers Automated Greenhouse Build
  
• Garage Grow Room Build by Gr0wer
  
• Easy Automation using ultrasonic fogger, by eat
  
• Violet on humidifiers/FC's
  

Bulk Sterilizers/Pasteurizers and Simple Machines:

• Bulk Sterilizer/Steamer Designs
  
• Gr0wer's Bulk Pasteurization Tek
  
• Shroomisays Electric Steamer con PID
  
• Bulk Steam Pasteurizer
  
• Float valve for automatically refilling resevoirs
  
• DIY Bulk Dehydrator
  
• Bulk Dehydrator: A second take
  
• I've seen somebody turn a small room into a dehydrator, they had a tiered cloth mesh shelving deal they hung from the ceiling and simply ran a space heater and fan in the room So simple, dry as much as you want of anything.
  
• Eno's Electric Inoculation Loop
  
• Azur's 143 quart custom diy pressure cooker
  
• 559 Quart DIY Pressure Cooker
  
• Two Other Big PC Builds
  
• 700L Sterilizer w/Bearings
  
• Potential builds for you those of you handy with electronics; diy impulse sealer with magnet (look it up on youtube, is the simplest thing, make it as fancy as the nice retail models and for far less than 50 bucks) and a simplified E-loop.
  

Genetic crossing: RR's rattlesnake venom gene crossing post



Exotics/Other Species: (Not considered part of the 'expert section.' More intermediate difficulty)

• Workman's Posts Detailing Cultivation of Several Exotic Species
• Stonesuns Journal All three pages are filled with detailed grow logs of TONS of exotic  species!
  
• Captains Exotic Grows (oddball species galore!)
  
• Psi. Semperviva/Psi hoogshagenii
  
• Psilocybe Hispanica
  
• Psilocybe Alutacea
  
• The community is growing a wider variety of species than ever before, if its a fungus you can grow it, just go for it. Point being, this list needs updating
  

Sclerotia/Truffle Producers: Some say these are easier than cubes

• Violets Truffle Tek
  
• Stonesun's Comprehensive Sclerotia Cultivation Guide
  
• Outdoor Sclerotia Beds in Cold Climates
  
• "Growing Stones," a quote compilation
  
• Workman notes on mexicana isolation
  
  

Panaeolus/Copelandia  Species (Pan Cyans):

• Comprehensive Panaeolus Cultivation Notes, Teks, and FAQ's
  
• Official Panaeolus/Copelandia Thread
  
• Pan Cyans Without a PC
  
• MacMerdin's Simple Pan-Cakes
  
• Jakewhilesober912's Pan Tek
  
• Blue Helix Compendium
  
• MF's Pan Grows
  

Woodlovers:

• Easy Woodlovers Cultivation Tek
  
• Ovoid Q&A
  
• Check outdoor section for more
  

Gourmet/Edible Species:

• AMU Gourmet Teks
  
• Hamloafs favorite edible teks
  
• The Gourmet Cultivation Subforum
  
• WL Tek:Oddball supplements for woodlovers
  
• How it should and shouldn't look: gourmet/medicinal edition
  
• How to produce high yield, colorful, big and rich fruits
  
  

Recommended Reading/Other Tek Lists:

Bodhi's Link List all you need right here

The Tribal Forum

Franks 12 steps to shrooms

All of RR's Cultivation Notes

Self Healing Injections Ports Vs Opening Lid

Eatyualive's Tek Link List

Official TNF recommended methods

AMU Tek List

Bodhisatta's Agar Link List

Using a microscope to inspect bulk substrate

Ferathers Pocket guide/tek list

Cubensis Pinning Strategy and troubleshooting

Violets Teks and posts

A Few Thoughts on Cultivation by Blinding Leaf

Hashed's Categorized List of Teks

Bodhi's Videos

Damion5050's Favorite Links/teks

Tmethyl's Tips and Tricks

Gr0wers Youtube Channel (Myers Mushrooms)

Myco Pee Tek by Willsolvem

Sterilization Pressure/Temp/Duration Table Can you really cook for only 20 mins if you get 20 psi???

A site where you can get tons of cheap woodchips

Everything you probably don't need to know about mushrooms

Colonizing in FC

Wowimflabbergasteds cultivation guide

Bodhisatta's Library of Fungal Biology

Bodhi's "Endospores in Cereal Grain" thread

Large tek compilation featuring cronicr

Salvaging old spores with a simple rubber band

Salvage Old Spores with Activated Carbon

Upgrading your PC to be silent/achieve higher PSI (read whole thread, some issues, I had no trouble at all though. Very simple, loosen vent pipe, screw new part into place.)

Neat modded PC w/informative discussion

Psychosis, Synchronicities, Shamanism & the Supernatural

Covering Flies with Spores to Spread Them A wacky and unverified idea but maybe you'll find it as stimulating as I did. There's so many potential options beyond flies, like these shiny green beetles that feed exclusively on douglas fir, or woodlouse, slugs, anybody know an entomologist?

Longer consolidation times for potency


Mushroom Recipes:

• Shroom Jello  (yes you read that correctly, mushroom-fucking-jello)
  
• Apple Cider Magic Gummies
  
• Favorite Shroom Recipe Thread
  
• Candy of the Gods
  
• Fermented Mushroom Tea via Water Kefir?
  
• Easy Mushroom Chocolates 
  
• Fancy Mushroom Chocolates
  
• Eat's Halloween Treats
  
• Another Chocolate Recipe (this one suggests that you can get more mushrooms into the mix by adding melted butter or oil. may seem obvious to chefs but I am not one, I wonder if this would have a negative effect on shelf life??)
  
• Deep Fried Mushrooms
  

Amanita Recipes/Extracts:

• Amanita tincture 
  
• Amanita chocolates and others 
  
• Amanita Muscaria, A New Outlook
  

 
Mushroom Hunting:

• Active Mushroom Species by State
  
• Easy Guide to Describing your Mushroom Specimens
  
• Why awesome people take spore prints of their finds and distribute them
  
• Mushroom Cap and Gill Morphology Reference Sheet
  
• Mushroom Stipe Variations and Descriptors
  
• Bacteria Morphology Descriptors
  

Security/Legal:

• Psilocybin Laws State by State (USA)
  
• Law Enforcement can supposedly ID active cultures
  
• Ask an Attorney (Shroomery has a resident attorney )
  
• Shroomery's Privacy Statement
  
• FastFred's Guide to NOT getting pulled over
  
• Protect your online activity (tutorial)
  
• Tor Anonymous web browsing
  
• Free Web Proxy unverified, found in another users sig.
  
• Temporary/disposable email adresses(unverified by me, also in users sig)
  
• VeraCrypt I don't even know what this one does, but posting until I do know
  

Other Drugs:

• Food Safe Mescalin Extraction (although I have since learned that you can simply make cactus tea and then boil it down to a tar, which seems far easier to me)
  
• Cocaine Nasal Spray!
  
• Compiled Ecstasy Testing Data
  
• Adderral Potentiation and MDMA comedown lesseners