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Kenetic
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: Mycolorado]
#24453096 - 07/02/17 08:19 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Sleep. What an interesting concept. I stayed up all night last night on drugs and I think now I'm going to try it out.
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eatyualive
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: LizardWizard]
#24453132 - 07/02/17 08:36 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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LizardWizard said: a Belgian quad, I'm assuming you're talking beer? What kind?
Staffe hendrik 11 percent. Good stuff. I do like the tripels. A local brewery near me has a 14%. I like golden monkey.
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: eatyualive]
#24453193 - 07/02/17 09:00 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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LizardWizard said: a Belgian quad, I'm assuming you're talking beer? What kind?
Staffe hendrik 11 percent. Good stuff. I do like the tripels. A local brewery near me has a 14%. I like golden monkey.
When I first started discovering craft beer at bars in my 20's I never thought a beer could have such a high alcohol content. A friend bought me a beer on my birthday not knowing I was already lit and planning not to drink anymore after that. I got almost falling down drunk and my friend felt so bad. As did I since I hate getting drunk. Damn you "Pretty Things".
It's so weird that the only thing I'm going to do is scrape a few spores on some dishes and I have to clean and bleach a whole room to do it. Damn I'm tired and sweaty. An hour with the air filter on and the door shut and I'll finally have something proper on Agar. Yay!
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: TheBlackCat]
#24453210 - 07/02/17 09:07 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Mycosin: I spawned a brf cake before 100% colonization, spawned it, and still got fruits.
Noob failure: When I was new to this hobby years ago, I grew trichoderma from brown rice thinking it would produce cubensis and even tried to decay rice cakes/grain to see what would happen.
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tryptkaloids
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: TheBlackCat]
#24453211 - 07/02/17 09:07 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's so weird that the only thing I'm going to do is scrape a few spores on some dishes and I have to clean and bleach a whole room to do it.
no you don't
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: tryptkaloids]
#24453252 - 07/02/17 09:34 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Have you made a Still Air Box blackcat
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: Just_A_Noob]
#24453297 - 07/02/17 09:53 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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tryptkaloids said:
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It's so weird that the only thing I'm going to do is scrape a few spores on some dishes and I have to clean and bleach a whole room to do it.
no you don't
Shhh... I know I don't have to go so crazy but honestly It's my excuse to force myself to clean and makes me feel better. I have developed some much better habits since I started this hobby. If you only saw the way I used to keep things.
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Just_A_Noob said: Have you made a Still Air Box blackcat
Kinda sorta. I covered the shelves in the small closet I work out of with heavy duty foil including the wall and sealed the corners with duct tape so I can clean the surface then stapled a square of thick vinyl shower curtain to it that I could lift up and down and cut arm slits in. Some guy bought all the large bins today so no SAB for me for now. He had them stacked ten high. I was like where did you get those bins because I didn't see anymore. He smiled at me and said sorry I*'m moving and I took them all. Bastard.
It's hit or miss with the lot store when they will get the good clear Sterilite bins in again and I don't want to end up growing in the shitty Bella brand bins cause they got weird corners. Why can't they just make normal rectangular bins like everyone else and not weird recessed rounded corner bins. I don't want to cut holes in the only ones I have.
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: TheBlackCat]
#24453571 - 07/03/17 01:42 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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So here's a confession. I just finished my first real agar plates. Dropped some tiny little Purple Mystic spores down. Thanks again TheMadHatter. Holy shit. I seriously need to to smoke up or something to relax myself before I do agar. That was an incredibly intense experience. I felt like I was defusing a bomb or something. The room was so hot because it's small and I couldn't run air through it. Between the heat and anxiety I was drenched with sweat. And when I say drenched I mean had to take a shower and change my clothes drenched. I looked behind me and I literally went through half a can of alcohol wipes. I also managed to burn the tip off of one of the gloves and had to put on a new one and the moisture made it hard to get it on. They are these stupid non powdered vinyl gloves that just barely fit that my friend gave me several boxes of. I'm also really afraid of scalpels for good reason. When I was younger I lived in kind of a fucked up neighborhood and we had this one kid Jason who was super twisted. He threw a scalpel at this kid Rex's spine in science class for no reason and he got a huge gash and had to get stitches. It was the most horrible things I have ever seen. I can't believe they didn't expel the kid. This kid Jason was pure evil. One time he kept teasing me and whacking me with a wadded up sock and I snapped and grabbed it from him and hit him with it back and he slammed me into a locker and tried to roundhouse me but luckily I put my forearm up. I had a boot print on my forearm for weeks. But it wasn't so bad after the first few jars I stopped imaging I was going to sever my finger off. So I definitely have to figure out a way to cool the room off for next time without introducing contamination so I don't get so anxious and burning hot.
But the one good thing I noticed was all my agar looks super smooth and nice inside with no contamination meaning I sterilized it correctly. Yay! Let's hope it stays that way for the most part and I get decent transfers.
Edited by TheBlackCat (07/03/17 01:51 AM)
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NothingsChanged
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: Mycolorado]
#24453610 - 07/03/17 02:31 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Mycolorado said: Are you sure you're not thinking of benzodiazepines?

not sure if it even works or where that belief got started?
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LizardWizard
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: eatyualive]
#24453622 - 07/03/17 02:52 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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LizardWizard said: a Belgian quad, I'm assuming you're talking beer? What kind?
Staffe hendrik 11 percent. Good stuff. I do like the tripels. A local brewery near me has a 14%. I like golden monkey.
You mean StRaffe Hendrik (loosely translated to Strong Hendrick). Try St. Bernardus Abt 12 if you can get it. Tell the brewery it's actually the same recipe as Westvleteren, and they won't even hesitate to stock it for you. Westvleteren has been nominated best beer o t world more times than any other beer in Belgium, or in the world. You'll love it. Westvleteren won't be available, even out here, if you want it, you have to drive up to the brewery to get it, at the days that they sell it, and no one person can take more than 1 small crate. The lines are ridiculous, really...
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: LizardWizard]
#24453639 - 07/03/17 03:19 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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I always procrastinate so much on new labs or new teks. Ill read it 10 times and have it to a T but just keep... putting it off a few more hours.
meh
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TheBlackCat
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growlingmycelium said: I always procrastinate so much on new labs or new teks. Ill read it 10 times and have it to a T but just keep... putting it off a few more hours.
meh
I do the same thing too. Hard to tell if it's a fear of failure or maybe a fear of succeeding. The brain is a weird thing.
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LizardWizard
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I do that on almost EVERTYHING mush related. It helps to a certain amount when you're figuring things out, but I have real trouble getting the putting it off out, even with things I've gotten used too. Real annoying sometimes. But when I do get to the point of doing it, at least I feel ready. I used to keep putting it off and then start shaking during agar work and shit like that 
Now that only rarely happens.. The putting things off will have to go too eventually. I feel like a dedicated workspace would really help with that. I imagine just walking into the mush room (pun intended) would instantly put me in the right state of being. I've had that with other stuff as well, as long as the place and setting are stable, I feel like just walking in and start doing stuff, until it becomes almost a dance. That's totally impossible if you have to move shit around all the time before being able to get to work.
And sometimes it just feels like one big foreplay thing
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: LizardWizard]
#24453724 - 07/03/17 05:38 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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LizardWizard said: I do that on almost EVERTYHING mush related. It helps to a certain amount when you're figuring things out, but I have real trouble getting the putting it off out, even with things I've gotten used too. Real annoying sometimes. But when I do get to the point of doing it, at least I feel ready. I used to keep putting it off and then start shaking during agar work and shit like that 
Now that only rarely happens.. The putting things off will have to go too eventually. I feel like a dedicated workspace would really help with that. I imagine just walking into the mush room (pun intended) would instantly put me in the right state of being. I've had that with other stuff as well, as long as the place and setting are stable, I feel like just walking in and start doing stuff, until it becomes almost a dance. That's totally impossible if you have to move shit around all the time before being able to get to work.
And sometimes it just feels like one big foreplay thing 
This got me motivated! CVG cookin now 2 more vats to go!
And Blackcat, Its a strange thing indeed.
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Kenetic
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: TheBlackCat]
#24453733 - 07/03/17 05:50 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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growlingmycelium said: I always procrastinate so much on new labs or new teks. Ill read it 10 times and have it to a T but just keep... putting it off a few more hours.
meh
I do the same thing too. Hard to tell if it's a fear of failure or maybe a fear of succeeding. The brain is a weird thing.
Yes, fear of failure. Keep practicing and all of those negative feelings will go away. Easy shit. Growing the actual mushies however is a little hader imo
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TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist</font> [Re: Josex]
#24453744 - 07/03/17 05:59 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Josex said: ß Can def relate. In Spain mush cult is in the dark ages, really really backwards, so no way I'm going to find someone to talk about this IRL. But I alleviate this feeling by teaching one friend of mine via Skype who lives far from me in Spain and the fucker is some smart piece of work and a very avid learner. He's doing a lot of agar right now and it's a pleasure to see him progress so fast when only 2 months ago he knew nothing about this.
woow this is amazing, how did you find him (or he you?) did you get to know him on the internet or is it "just" a regular friend ? If there was a way to teach strangers like this, or at least encourage own research and give some tips I would be very glad to do it I think
A while ago I was visiting a crappy Spanish website (cannabiscafe.net), just for shits and giggles, that specializes on cannabis but has a subforum for mush cult. All peeps there are rank noobs with no hope of getting any better due to the atrocious misinformation perpetuated by the site and its users, so I tried and lent a hand when I could.
Nobody there was interested on agar or just didn't know about it, but one day there was this random guy who made a thread asking to be given info about it, so I started writing up some info on agar and then more users started asking question and got very interested. So I deciced to make a kind of tutorial in "installments", just for fun, one installment every week or so, and a bunch of users got really hookep up on the thread and were looking forward to the next "episode" to learn more...
The problem was that there was this shitty noob mod (owner of this shitty ring), who had been "cultivating" for a long time, shitty grows of course, and he loved to contradict everything I said in any thread whenever I tried to help, giving disgusting info and stone-age advice just to try and prove me wrong. I always proved him wrong and he got pissed, I told him to ban me but that never happened, he just deleted my posts whenever I crossed him 
So one day the fucker enters this agar thread I mentioned above and starts spewing shit all around. He didn't want anybody to know more than him on this forum... The users that were following up the thread even told him to shut the fuck up and be gone. So I wrote up quite a missive in that thread saying that that was the last time I posted on that site, that the whole situation was very annoying... But I felt for the users who were really interested, and were going to miss out on all this info, so in that last post and knowing for certain that the shitty mod would delete the post as soon as he read it, I posted my skype address for all the people who were really interested. The post stayed for 2 hours only before was deleted, so only 6 people contacted me.
Out of the 6 that contacted me on Skype, only one showed some real potential, I just felt it, and I wasn't planning to teach all of them, I just couldn't, so I chose this 18 yrs old guy, a fucking sponge, all ears, great mind and very inquisitive. He wants to try everything I've done so far, all the little tricks and he finds it all fascinating which is very rewarding for me.
He's just a kid, can't beging to imagine how good he'll be in a few years from now.
Hello, I have read your post, I visited cannabiscafe.net and lisergia (currently closed) two years ago, I stopped connecting in these forums for a while, and when I reconnected many users with very good information disappeared like mushurman, months ago I have reconnected and cannabiscafe follow the same users, with their same old methods, when I decided to take an interest in agar, nobody answered my questions because they have no knowledge, in my opinion that site is full of newbies and people who do not want Advance mycology and use methods of prehistory, forgive if you do not understand my English, I will try to improve it, I would love to talk to people in spain to exchange information, greetings.
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eatyualive
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Re: <font><font>Re: Confesiones verdaderas - de un micólogo aficionado</font></font> [Re: turbo] 1
#24454054 - 07/03/17 09:39 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yes lizard wizard. On a phone many typos. I'll check it out. I like me some Manchester star!
I confess. I'm eating dim sum today, egg rolls tomorrow and Korean on Wednesday! Near Asia town right now so might as well take advantage of it. I need to work some Vietnamese into that equation.
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Pastywhyte
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: TheBlackCat] 1
#24454059 - 07/03/17 09:41 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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TheBlackCat said: He smiled at me and said sorry I*'m moving and I took them all. Bastard.
Sounds like he is planning a big grow.
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Re: TRUE CONFESSIONS - of an amateur mycologist [Re: Pastywhyte]
#24454170 - 07/03/17 10:26 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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I confess: I suck at growing. I tried to flip my sub over after 4 flushes and it all fell apart...but it's still putting out more shrooms then my other shoebox that literally aborted every pin

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@pasty...I confess, idk if people call them pasty plates because you created the idea
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