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Re: How cost effective is it to grow your own mushrooms vs a prepared growkit? [Re: Inocuole]
    #23703568 - 10/03/16 01:10 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

As you are in the netherlands you can buy fresh sclerotia and clone it. This is usually a lot cheaper than buying spores for those species and it will hopefully be a carefully selected good producing strain. And you get to take a dose of them, as all you need is a tiny amount to clone. Minimal equipment is needed to grow stones. I would imagine you can buy fresh shrooms too which you could also clone. I know its meant to be illegal but I saw dry shrooms openly on sale in amsterdam when they were illegal, and can get dry shrooms in dodgy shops where I live.


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How much of a loss do you take when a growkit shittily prepared arrives already contamed and thus useless.


Though he spoke of azarius, he also spoke of growshops he could go into and buy one off the shelf. Some might possibly give some sort of guarantee. As there is no shipping involved it could be relatively cheap. In the US supplies seem to be got pretty cheap, in other countries it can cost a lot for the items, or having to travel all about to get the stuff. I have seen plenty of threads with decent results from kits, some people seem pissed off that it worked, and many will treat it like it's some oddball fluke.


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Inocuole said:I hate to use this analogy all the time, but you're basically walking into a tattoo parlor asking them what their most recommended peel off temporary tattoos are.


I liken it to going onto a chinese cookery forum and asking if they recommend a "kit" which might have spices, rice, sesame oil etc, enough for a dinner for 2 or something, or even just asking which microwave meal to get. Some people might never have tried shrooms or chinese food before, so they might not want to risk a big investment only to find out they do not like it. Or they might only want shrooms/chinese food once a year. People jump in and say you have to get a PC/wok etc. Some might not have the space for big bags of verm/rice, PC/Wok, perlite/numerous spices etc. And of course some might decide it is worth the investment.


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Re: How cost effective is it to grow your own mushrooms vs a prepared growkit? [Re: blackout]
    #23703773 - 10/03/16 01:59 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Once the initial investment of everything you need, DIY you can produce mushrooms for like 2$ / oz or less. Everything costly is reusable, the stuff that isn't is dirt cheap: grain is like .30 cents a pound, coir can be as cheap as 2$ a brick or hpoo is free, Verm is like 5$ a bag and lasts a few grows. Agar is like 5 cents a plate and with it one drop of spores from a syringe can do countless grows.

Growkits suck, they are poorly designed, terrible instructions full of bad info, often loaded with shit you don't need or want that you pay way too much for and if you get anything at all from them you're lucky.


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Re: How cost effective is it to grow your own mushrooms vs a prepared growkit? [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #23703895 - 10/03/16 02:30 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Didn't cron grow like a massive amount for under $50?

If we're talking about expenses here, DIY will be much cheaper in the long run, and if you're smart itll be cheaper in the first grow too.




Excluding the cost of equipment and pop bottle, I can produce one of these containers for about 25 cents in materials.






Wow what an amazing spin on the bottle tek... Genius!


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Re: How cost effective is it to grow your own mushrooms vs a prepared growkit? [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #23703901 - 10/03/16 02:32 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Didn't cron grow like a massive amount for under $50?

If we're talking about expenses here, DIY will be much cheaper in the long run, and if you're smart itll be cheaper in the first grow too.




Excluding the cost of equipment and pop bottle, I can produce one of these containers for about 25 cents in materials.





That looks fun to do, which tek is it?

EDIT: nvm, bottle tek. Might be hard to get some of the containers in england


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Re: How cost effective is it to grow your own mushrooms vs a prepared growkit? [Re: lovelaughlibs]
    #23703969 - 10/03/16 02:55 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

That is actually my straw tek which only uses straw and whole wheat flour as substrate. It could be done in jars easily, you just might not be able to find a pop bottle for fruiting. In which case you could fruit a bunch of them in a mono or SGFC.

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/22512011


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Re: How cost effective is it to grow your own mushrooms vs a prepared growkit? [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #23704049 - 10/03/16 03:24 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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That is actually my straw tek which only uses straw and whole wheat flour as substrate. It could be done in jars easily, you just might not be able to find a pop bottle for fruiting. In which case you could fruit a bunch of them in a mono or SGFC.

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/22512011



Okay, great, appreciate the link will have a read now!


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Re: How cost effective is it to grow your own mushrooms vs a prepared growkit? [Re: alwaysbenice] * 1
    #28637593 - 01/28/24 03:31 AM (1 day, 22 hours ago)

What a great necro post. 10/10 lad


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