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Tiny space - first time grower
#26471069 - 02/05/20 08:34 PM (4 years, 11 days ago) |
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Hi all!
I currently live in extreme proximity to Times Square, New York. I’ve been looking to grow my own mushrooms, golden teacher. The issue I’ve come to realize after reading many teks is that I need a very sterile space and enough space.
The first one is hard to do given that the location I am makes things very difficult in regards to cleanliness. Air pollution is terrible in the zone and I’m afraid anything I’d try to grow would lead to contamination. The second issue is the lack of space given that I don’t have a closet and live in a tiny room of 8x8 and with my roommates who would probably not look too kindly to me growing mushrooms in the living room.
I’m desperate and I’m looking for any feedback of advice on how I can possibly grow my own supply even if small, I welcome any feedback on possible teks or guides to follow and thank you for your time.
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Re: Tiny space - first time grower [Re: Matehongo] 1
#26471091 - 02/05/20 08:52 PM (4 years, 11 days ago) |
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Look into growing sclerotia.
Growing with roommates is usually a dicey game. You're best holding off for better circumstances.
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Matehongo
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Thanks for answering. Any particular guides you recommend on sclerotia? Holding off for better living situation is tough, planning to stay in Manhattan for the future to come.
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Re: Tiny space - first time grower [Re: Matehongo]
#26471142 - 02/05/20 09:33 PM (4 years, 11 days ago) |
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Re: Tiny space - first time grower [Re: Matehongo]
#26471237 - 02/05/20 10:54 PM (4 years, 11 days ago) |
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Matehongo said: Thanks for answering. Any particular guides you recommend on sclerotia? Holding off for better living situation is tough, planning to stay in Manhattan for the future to come.
Don't let these nay-sayers tell you that you need the perfect circumstances and to do it only their suggested ways. You want to do it man, you go get it! Just remember, its a mushroom...some of them literally grow on feces, how hard can it be.
I actually found a pretty good video on youtube the other day about a young man who was obviously in a dorm of some sort explaining the different methods and why he chose to go with a specific one. His YouTube name is The Quentin Experiment.
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Re: Tiny space - first time grower [Re: TipsyWisdom] 1
#26471289 - 02/05/20 11:47 PM (4 years, 11 days ago) |
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Lol. This fucking guy^.
Recommending the dumb shit on YouTube over the extensive info here.
Choose wisely...
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Re: Tiny space - first time grower [Re: TipsyWisdom]
#26471330 - 02/06/20 12:25 AM (4 years, 11 days ago) |
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TipsyWisdom said:
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Matehongo said: Thanks for answering. Any particular guides you recommend on sclerotia? Holding off for better living situation is tough, planning to stay in Manhattan for the future to come.
Don't let these nay-sayers tell you that you need the perfect circumstances and to do it only their suggested ways. You want to do it man, you go get it! Just remember, its a mushroom...some of them literally grow on feces, how hard can it be.
I actually found a pretty good video on youtube the other day about a young man who was obviously in a dorm of some sort explaining the different methods and why he chose to go with a specific one. His YouTube name is The Quentin Experiment.
Not a good idea to recommend growing to someone who’d have to be shady about it with roommates in close quarters. Don’t want to jeopardize anyone’s living situation.
And these “nay-sayers” are trusted cultivators with years of knowledge, experience, and successful grows under their belts. Of course there are many ways to grow, but as you might want to learn, there are lots of different mushrooms, each requiring unique methods of care, research, and patience.
Show some respect for the Shroomery community and what it stands for, please.
Edited by Maylink (02/06/20 12:35 AM)
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Re: Tiny space - first time grower [Re: Maylink]
#26471334 - 02/06/20 12:31 AM (4 years, 11 days ago) |
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If you can’t grow comfortably around your housemates you can’t grow, rule number 1.
Secondly, a sab only requires a desk, in which you can do very small scale agar work, and expand that to two tubs maximum. Can be done on a very low scale to grow only a personal stash of mushrooms. If you have a desk and a small shelf to put tubs on you will be fine, just have to make sure your space remains at least 70 degrees.
With a still air box you don’t have to worry as long as you don’t have mold growing right next to your desk. A personal amount of mushrooms can absolutely be grown without a Sealed off (mostly) clean room.
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if you build a good sab i donQuote:
wildernessjunkie said:
Growing with roommates is usually a dicey game. You're best holding off for better circumstances.

if you're going to try growing anyway i always recommend first timers to try the PF tek
it's very easy, pretty rewarding and you can pull it off without a sab
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This is not an official tek, but may I suggest the Not Living In A Cupboard In A Wretchedly Overcrowded City Tek?
You could probably grow some PF cakes in your small space. An SAB and a flame torch is all you need to keep things clean, and a medium sized plastic tub that can sit in a shelf will do as a fruiting/humidity chamber.
Which you should consider only if your roommates are not opposed to growing shrooms (understandably they may not want them visible in communal space and they may be at risk if you are ever caught). If housemates are not very good friends or family, your own security and liberty is at risk if they ever find out.
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Re: Tiny space - first time grower [Re: Tattersail]
#26472006 - 02/06/20 12:53 PM (4 years, 10 days ago) |
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I’d try making a couple quarts of wbs or whatever and then a shoebox. Minimal room, almost zero maintenance, and you could easily get an ounce or two.
Ime this is much easier than pf tek and for sure yields much better.
I know a lot people are going to say syringe to grain won’t work, but it will. Spawn might not be perfect but for somebody just trying to get a personal supply once in a while it’s fine.
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Re: Tiny space - first time grower [Re: A.k.a]
#26472948 - 02/06/20 09:48 PM (4 years, 10 days ago) |
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Sorry, I’m still very new to the acronyms and so far I’m a bit lost. What is wbs?
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Re: Tiny space - first time grower [Re: Matehongo]
#26472961 - 02/06/20 09:56 PM (4 years, 10 days ago) |
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I’m more concerned with what you’re going to do with a tub of mushrooms, living in an 8x8 room in Manhattan for the rest of eternity?
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Re: Tiny space - first time grower [Re: SynKyd]
#26472977 - 02/06/20 10:03 PM (4 years, 10 days ago) |
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Wild bird seed
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Re: Tiny space - first time grower [Re: A.k.a]
#26473114 - 02/07/20 12:45 AM (4 years, 10 days ago) |
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It sounds like you need to do the method that takes up the least space and is discrete. The PF Tek or the syringe to grain to shoebox idea proposed by AKA sounds like it. The SAB needed for agar work is a big tub with holes in it (not very practical and conspicuous). Unless you have a storage idea for it. A syringe to a jar is simple and the jars are easy to store. A shoebox is also small and you can probably find a place for it. It needs light and fresh air, so under the bed will require some modifications. The PF Tek requires a shotgun chamber, right? You can probably rig a small one, someone else will have to fill in the details there... the ethics and the security risk of growing with your roommates is up to you.
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Re: Tiny space - first time grower [Re: Raccoon]
#26473144 - 02/07/20 01:11 AM (4 years, 10 days ago) |
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You need a plain-jane looking locking cabinet that you can use as a tv stand to hide light/electric where you can house your shoebox, jars, agar, etc. A nice. tidy little cabinet. TV on top. Can't see if anything else is plugged in behind it. Probably can get something cheap on Amazon, screw that bitch together, and lightproof it easily/quietly on the cheap. I'd want a locking cabinet if I had 3-4 roommates anyway... I would add a +1 to the common caution on here: growing with roommates is dicey. How square are these folks? Just got a mixed bag going on there? I'd want to kill myself living that close to Times Square. but I bet it's dynamic AF out there...
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Re: Tiny space - first time grower [Re: Matehongo]
#26473153 - 02/07/20 01:17 AM (4 years, 10 days ago) |
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maybe even this tek can help you :
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/1410557
I tried an it work well, of course you have to learn how to inoculate the grain first.
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