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1976 homestead book company kit
    #27757329 - 04/30/22 08:26 AM (2 years, 8 months ago)

I was recently given a complete homestead book company mushroom grow kit from 1976. It was ordered from high times and in its original packaging. I started 3 cultures on agar using poor boi tech and after 8 weeks have a clean culture on agar. I’m gonna wait until the culture takes the plate over and start a liquid culture. I’m curious if anyone has any information on the strain of mushroom from the 1976 homestead kit?  So far I know that it’s basically a plug and play kit to Psilocybin: magic mushroom grower guide by O.T. OSS & O.N. Oeric. Are these the oldest mushrooms cultured?

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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: FunkyFish420]
    #27757341 - 04/30/22 08:41 AM (2 years, 8 months ago)

I'm curious about what came in the kit. I got one in like '93 and I think it was powdered media, Petri dishes and spores. Plus instructions.
Edit, my spores were just labeled p.cubensis so no idea about variety.

Edited by MrBlueshrooms (04/30/22 08:53 AM)

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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: MrBlueshrooms]
    #27757367 - 04/30/22 09:16 AM (2 years, 8 months ago)

I was privy to this dream. The kit contained several test tubes with what appears to be birdseed,agar powder,petri dishes,coco choir ,compost,an alcohol lamp, basic tools, and instructions. A small slice of parchment paper spore print was stapled to the instructions.

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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: O.T_the_most]
    #27757372 - 04/30/22 09:20 AM (2 years, 8 months ago)

Oh yes, a scalpel too. Mine did not have the coir,compost or bird seed though.
In Canada the spores shipped separately from the main kit.

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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: MrBlueshrooms]
    #27757421 - 04/30/22 10:23 AM (2 years, 8 months ago)

A friend dug a spore print out of the freezer he said he has had since the 90s ordered from a high times magazine, probably same thing.  I could not get any action from it a maybe 5 years ago.  I can try and find it, I probably kept it.  Print was on paper, maybe a note card, and I had a hard time even getting the spores off.


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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: MrBlueshrooms]
    #27757422 - 04/30/22 10:23 AM (2 years, 8 months ago)

Yeah, it was scalpel-esq, this one was basically a wire flattened and sharpened... I'm curious as to the oldest known spores to be germinated? I've perused the internet and found someone claiming 12years, these would be 3 times that old!
Also could these be children of the very same stropharia the McKenna brothers returned with? Their book was published the same year the kit was ordered.

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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: O.T_the_most]
    #27757432 - 04/30/22 10:32 AM (2 years, 8 months ago)



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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: Ps.NoName] * 1
    #27757444 - 04/30/22 10:41 AM (2 years, 8 months ago)

It’s very unlikely spores from the 70’s are still viable. Freezing spores from tropical species also will kill them. I would be curious to see what the cultures were obtained from those samples looked like.

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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #27757601 - 04/30/22 01:24 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

So you actually got them going? How cool, please do share updates if you can! Maybe take some prints if you get it to fruiting? "76" variety :p

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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: iceNock]
    #27757604 - 04/30/22 01:29 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

Lets see this growth please!


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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: sandman420]
    #27757624 - 04/30/22 01:43 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)


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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: O.T_the_most]
    #27757637 - 04/30/22 01:55 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

My kit has everything including the orange bag of compost. Used the original alcohol lamp and scalpel. This culture was in the shape of a mushroom and is the only one that was clean.

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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: O.T_the_most]
    #27757641 - 04/30/22 01:57 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

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I don't understand, are you and OP friends? Or do you both have 76 kits?


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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: Bobbins]
    #27757656 - 04/30/22 02:07 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

Yeah, I've dipped my toes in some mycology before. And OP enlisted a bit of my assistance.

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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: O.T_the_most]
    #27757663 - 04/30/22 02:14 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

It looks about right for spore germ I think but hard to say. Could certainly be contam too many look just like that.

I'd transfer now and see what that grows like, personally.


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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: sandman420]
    #27757670 - 04/30/22 02:18 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

This is fascinating, thanks for posting about it. Interesting to see where this goes.


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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: sandman420]
    #27757680 - 04/30/22 02:29 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

Certainly possible, I'm no expert. But 5 of our plates had various well defined contaminations,  that I promptly ejected. However this looks like the spore growth I've seen before... I was as skeptical as the next guy, couched my help with several caveats. "It's never gonna work,  never been done, we'll see lol" ect...

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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: Bobbins]
    #27757696 - 04/30/22 02:42 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

It was too impressive not to share, we appreciate the interest.

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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: O.T_the_most]
    #27757877 - 04/30/22 04:57 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

Any advice or recipe recommendations for liquid culture for something like this?

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Re: 1976 homestead book company kit [Re: FunkyFish420]
    #27758019 - 04/30/22 07:24 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

Really think you should work on several transfers before taking to LC but 0.5% LME in distilled water does me good.


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