aShogunNamedMarcus said:

Haole and the smallest GTs I've grown.

No casing on the Haole but it looks like it's doing the thing.

Edit: sorry, picture was more clear on my phone.

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Breadly710 said:

I have not tried Haole in bags, but it has done fine for me without casing. It seems to do better with a pseudo casing, it just blobs when I don’t add the pseudo casing. It is some of the more potent cubes I have.

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tholos said:

Breadly710 said:

I have not tried Haole in bags, but it has done fine for me without casing. It seems to do better with a pseudo casing, it just blobs when I don’t add the pseudo casing. It is some of the more potent cubes I have.

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I've heard recently that Haole is potent, how do they compare to Ghost, for example?

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stagger said:

some jars, culture was labeled as Ps Aucklandiae....I feel, ok how they look.  Have another shoebox cased a week ago, so far looking not green

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Huskies said:

I had a Sketchy bisporus jar, so I spawned on straight from the bag composted manure



All of the sketch jars I tried seem quite happy. The Yeti at the bottom



It will be very fun if this works, because that bag is like 5 bucks for 25l.

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I'd love a piece of that... yummm

catnip40 said:

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That's actually not the original Homestead kit. It was Rich Gee's method and actual instructions under a company called Mycotech. He merged with Homestead later and they adopted the method. There's a lot more old man ramble to that story, but Homestead's original kit had agar, spores, tools, compost.. pretty much everything but a pc, glove box (which there were instructions in Bob Harris's book) and a grow chamber.

BeefSupremeJr said:

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the_chosen_one said:

That's actually not the original Homestead kit. It was Rich Gee's method and actual instructions under a company called Mycotech. He merged with Homestead later and they adopted the method. There's a lot more old man ramble to that story, but Homestead's original kit had agar, spores, tools, compost.. pretty much everything but a pc, glove box (which there were instructions in Bob Harris's book) and a grow chamber.

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fossilshark said:

I am excited to share this find with you all! My friend found this original Homestead grow kit he bought at a head shop in Connecticut somewhere between 1998 and 2000. He never used it and had it stored in a climate controlled storage locker since then. In my opinion this is a part of mushroom cultivation history and I will be doing my best to preserve everything.

It's also an extremely interesting look at how far we have progressed in the last 2 decades.



This kit includes: x1 Cool box, x1 bag of compost/perlite substrate, x1 bag of peat moss casing mix, x2 glass test tubes with WBS, x1 bag of MEA (clearly expired), x1 scalpel, x1 inoculation loop, x1 stack of rubbing alcohol swabs, x1 sleeve of 20 petri dishes, and last but definitely not least, x2 spore prints (one of them was bought alongside the kit separately). **Not shown is x2 Gerber baby food jars with an expiration date of September 2003 that were empty and I gave them to my roommates for weed storage**





Inside the blue bag of "substrate"


I scanned the kit instructions/order form as well as the card that came with the spore print.






Now for the real interesting part. When this kit was purchased an extra spore print was also purchased. I would assume that these are OG Homestead penis envy genetics but since they are not labeled I'll just have to grow them and find out. If I am able to get these to come back to life I will do a giveaway spores from that grow.





I will keep this thread updated with results on reviving these spores.

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like that one?

catnip40 said:

the_chosen_one said:

That's actually not the original Homestead kit. It was Rich Gee's method and actual instructions under a company called Mycotech. He merged with Homestead later and they adopted the method. There's a lot more old man ramble to that story, but Homestead's original kit had agar, spores, tools, compost.. pretty much everything but a pc, glove box (which there were instructions in Bob Harris's book) and a grow chamber.

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fossilshark said:

I am excited to share this find with you all! My friend found this original Homestead grow kit he bought at a head shop in Connecticut somewhere between 1998 and 2000. He never used it and had it stored in a climate controlled storage locker since then. In my opinion this is a part of mushroom cultivation history and I will be doing my best to preserve everything.

It's also an extremely interesting look at how far we have progressed in the last 2 decades.



This kit includes: x1 Cool box, x1 bag of compost/perlite substrate, x1 bag of peat moss casing mix, x2 glass test tubes with WBS, x1 bag of MEA (clearly expired), x1 scalpel, x1 inoculation loop, x1 stack of rubbing alcohol swabs, x1 sleeve of 20 petri dishes, and last but definitely not least, x2 spore prints (one of them was bought alongside the kit separately). **Not shown is x2 Gerber baby food jars with an expiration date of September 2003 that were empty and I gave them to my roommates for weed storage**





Inside the blue bag of "substrate"


I scanned the kit instructions/order form as well as the card that came with the spore print.






Now for the real interesting part. When this kit was purchased an extra spore print was also purchased. I would assume that these are OG Homestead penis envy genetics but since they are not labeled I'll just have to grow them and find out. If I am able to get these to come back to life I will do a giveaway spores from that grow.





I will keep this thread updated with results on reviving these spores.

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like that one?

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