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bodhisatta said:
It will set mycelium back giving contamination opportunity to grow. Peroxide is useless. If you have cobweb mold in the first place your growing conditions are abysmal and need fixing. Peroxide is absolutely useless for first aid as well. It doesn't belong in the home. It penetrates teeth and can harm the cells inside. Etc... It's not worth owning a bottle

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xnirvanax said:
Do you still believe in this statement:

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bodhisatta said:
It will set mycelium back giving contamination opportunity to grow. Peroxide is useless. If you have cobweb mold in the first place your growing conditions are abysmal and need fixing. Peroxide is absolutely useless for first aid as well. It doesn't belong in the home. It penetrates teeth and can harm the cells inside. Etc... It's not worth owning a bottle

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bodhisatta said:
Growing Psilocybe Cubensis
where to get started if you're just starting


This is meant to serve as a way to get anyone accustomed to using the Shroomery as a research and diagnostic tool. If you are able to use the Shroomery in a effective way you will benefit both the community and yourself. In addition this thread will serve as a useful resource to get any person getting started with cultivation by providing the most up to date, user friendly, crowed sourced, time tested, and repeatedly proven TEKs possible.



First things First, read the forum rules so you don't end up looking funny
they're located at the top of every forum. You should also read the sticky posts

The first thing a user in this forum should know is how to post a picture and how to  resize a picture .

Please post all wild ID ?'s in the Mushroom Hunting forum.

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No flaming will be tolerated in cultivation forums. We consider name calling a flame and will take appropriate action to resolve any users who practice flaming. The reason we will not tolerate flaming is that there is no need for it and it is destructive to learning. Please post with respect.

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Getting Started

Your best tool: The Search Engine


You can find anything to confirm your bias here so practice good researching skills.

Follow TEKs(Technical Educational Knowledge) to the T. This way the community can help diagnose any problems.
If you already know what to do why did you come here?
Follow the directions perfectly. Make your own changes when you're the experienced one. Failure to do so likely will lead to you having to re-experience history by replicating the trial and error failures of the past. Everything you thought of has most likely already been done.
The included methods are the ones that have stood out as working well time and time again.

You will need spores
list of shroomery sponsors
these vendors sell spore syringes for microscopy.

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3.  Spores are sold for microscopy use only so mycologists can ID mushrooms. If you're going to misuse them to grow a controlled substance, keep it to yourself.  Any post which mentions 'such and such' vendor, will be deleted and you'll receive an official warning.  Do not plug non sponsors.

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When you grow from spores any two spores that successfully mate create a strain

A strain is not the same as a variety

When you grow from spores you have 100s if not 1000s of strains working together as a single organism.
You may choose any variety of psilocybe cubensis. Some strains will be weak some strong. When you grow from spores you get a mixed bag. If you have a B+ or GT syringe you could do 10 different grows and each would have different results.

If you want to get uniform results with consistent potency you need to keep good strains around by cloning or isolating and using agar. Spores will give you basically random results regardless of the variety you choose.
Strains Varieties and Species

Don't worry too much about which variety of psilocybe cubensis to pick. Chose one with a name you like and go with it. You'll be able to trade spores later. Mushrooms make their own spores so you never really need to buy more. Making a spore print is easier than it seems. Most noobs avoid making spore prints for whatever reason, you will need to learn this skill. The best way to learn is to start somewhere and make mistakes. Don't put all your eggs in one basket so that a mistake becomes horribly detrimental.

Now to choose your methods and directions. These methods are commonly known as TEKs


In order to grow psilocybe cubensis mushrooms indoors you will need to sterilize a substrate

A substrate is where the mushrooms will grow from.
Whether or not you have a pressure cooker determines what methods are available to you to start growing mushrooms.


Do you have a Pressure Cooker/Sterilizer?
Yes / No


Are you thinking about buying a grow kit?
Read this first

Other Important Information

This post has some links for how to use the shroomery, Posting pictures, making threads. etc...

How to turn the search engine into a powerful cultivation tool. Getting results that don't suck ass from the search

My TEK list

Tips for Good posts and to get the best help

The OMC (Online Mushroom Community) Glossary and Lexicon

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