This tek is part of bod's cultivation is easy as fuck link listBod's Easy AF Search Engine TEK
Avoid being the noob who said they searched for two hours and couldn't find anything relevantIf after you have read this TEK and still cannot find something through searching you may post in this thread for help. 
This is the search engine
Located here:
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/search.phpGet familiar and comfortable with the options available to you
On the top left
Forum(s) to search narrowing your search results to
"Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics" will include only threads contained in that section and it's subfourms. Including Mushroom Cultivation, Advanced Cultivation, Getting Started, etc..
Narrowing your search results to
"Mushroom Cultivation" will narrow down your results to only include threads in the main psychedelic cultivation forum on this website.
if you click show user created forums you will be able to include searches in those forums as well such as
The AMU user created forum and
The Noob Forumhere's a search for "oyster" in all forumsand here's the same search limited to the marketplaceThat's it for the left side of the page.
On the right ride of the page from top to bottom.
Words:This is the trickiest one for people. I'll include specific examples below. You want to search for terms that are "vague" in the sense that a lot of posts you're looking for will contain that word. Don't use the words field to try to narrow your results down to a few threads. Use the words field to find lots of threads and then we will use the other tools to narrow down the results that contain the words we might want.
Posted by:This is one I don't use very often. It does the obvious. You can search for posts by Bodhisatta or anyone else.
Here's an example. You can also go to people's profiles and look at their threads and main threads that way.
Trusted Cultivators This is a option box that can be either not checked, or checked.
if you check the box only posts by TCs will show up.
For instance "lighting requirements" Trusted IdentifiersThis is a option box that can be either not checked, or checked.
if you check the box only posts by TCs will show up.
Obviously you will likely want to go back to the left side and search only in the hunting and identification forums if you're checking this box in most circumstances.
here's an example of some posts only by TIs in Mushroom Hunting and Identification. In reply to:This is an interesting box. I would use it in conjunction with the
posted by box. For example we can leave the words field totally blank and search for posts by RogerRabbit in reply to someone else of our choosing.
Like in this exampleLook For:This is where the search engine gets powerful from this point and all the options below
the first thing you'll see is a drop down box with 4 options
all words
any words
Exact phrase
booleanif you select boolean
visit this link for more infoI almost always use all words. The other options do what they say.
Subject or Subject and Bodythis is the second drop down box. If you're looking for a TEK you could look in just the subject. Obviously if someone writes a TEK the subject line will have the keywords you're looking for so you can skip searching the body of posts to narrow it down. Say you want to look for a Coir TEK. I would type Coir Substrate into the search engine and tick the TC box search only in mushroom cultivation and only in the subject line
and get these resultsAll posts or main poststhis one almost goes hand in hand with the last box. If you search for main posts you'll limit the results to only find the very first post in a thread the one wrote by the OP. Since most of the time you would use this option you're looking for a TEK I use it in conjunction with the search in subject box as well.
say we're looking for a harvesting TEK
I'll search on the left side in mushroom cultivation
then for words "harvesting" just that
tick the TC box if you want
all words in SUBJECT of MAIN POSTSand here's what you getnewer than: and older than: in most cases you'll only ever use the newer than and the year field in the drop down box.
I strongly suggest searching for posts newer than 3-5 years. Many noobs say they only find decades old info. well Duh limit the age of the posts you are searching for...
with at least: X words and at most: X wordsThis one is very useful for finding TEKs since most of those threads will easily have over 200 words I will put 200 in the more than box.
for example
searching in Mushroom Cultivation, Words: TEK, TC box checked, all words in SUBJECT of MAIN POSTS, newer than 5 years, at least 200 words
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/dosearch.php?where=subject&tosearch=main&how=all&words=TEK&newerval=5&newertype=y&minwords=200&limit=25&forum=f2&expert=1&sort=r&way=dContaining: Images Flash Links Polls Attachments I will usually search for posts with images or attachments on occasion and never much use any of the other buttons
here's the same search from above but with images included
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/dosearch.php?where=subject&tosearch=main&how=all&words=TEK&newerval=5&newertype=y&minwords=200&limit=25&forum=f2&expert=1&image=1&sort=r&way=dslightly different results since it cuts out the AMU tek list and a few other things.
Only show one result per threadthere's some sorting options before this check box.
this is one of the most powerful tools in the search engine arsenal. This will cut down your results dramatically and is a huge search aid. Try it out on your searches with and without using this box and see what you get.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/dosearch.php?where=body&tosearch=both&how=all&words=ovoideocystidiata&limit=25&forum=f30&showmain=1&image=1&sort=r&way=dExamples in following post.
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