Splittinghairs said:

As long as a dingo doesn’t steal your baby mate, it’s all good!

And welcome aboard!!

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republicus said:

Hello all. I made a post the other day but it was kind of impulsive and sporadic.












I am new to cultivating mushrooms, I have been super interested in it since High School. I remember sitting and looking at this exact website terrified my mom was going to see the blue mushrooms in the background on the family computer haha. Shroomery and Erowid were my two favorite site to visit, and for some reason I had convinced myself that growing mushrooms was impossibly hard and I'd never figure it out. Well, last year I ended up moving to a house in the middle of nowhere, quite literally surrounded by cow fields. I hadn't until a couple months ago considered growing, idk why. I had a few cannabis harvests with my grow tent and didn't want to start a new grow as I already had a bunch of dried bud and was getting bored with it. I decided to actually finally look into growing these guys and I was surprised at how easy it seemed. Now, I'm a certified arborist and have done tree work for 15 years so I think that has helped a lot of this come naturally, and having an insane case of untreated ADHD helps as well with the hyperfocus. I ordered an amazon spawn bag and a GT spore syringe on accident when I meant to order LC, so I went to amazon and got the 3 pack of vials "LC starter" thing to shoot the rest of the spores into that I hadn't used on my spawn bag and divided the last 5ml or so into the 3 small jars. When I ordered the LC starter vials I also went ahead and ordered an APE3 LC syringe because I figured "why not?". Why not try both ends of the spectrum for the first grow?  Before I ever harvested my first flush I had 4 or 5 tubs going, 12ish agar plates, three 500ml LC jars, two GT and one APE3. I now have 8 tubs, the blue "Hefty" one is GT and has had one flush, currently underway on the 2nd. I have tried a few different methods like "STFC" and some unmodified. I have a bag of cow shit I have sous-vide'd in my air fryer thing that I'm going to throw in my next substrate mix as another expiriment. I have had exactly 0 contamination somehow, probably just jynx'd myself but whwtaver. I am insanely over-the-top when it comes to sanitization and safe practices I'm sure that helps. I have gone in head-first and have acquired so many things lol. Pressure cooker, magnetic stirrer, SAB, jars, impulse sealer, scalpels, filters, etc. I love it so much. I recently moved al my tubs into my grow tent for organization purposes and I just like how it looks. I got some "blue-rich" lights to aid in their formation and the second flush of GT's definitely seems better than the first was. I also have been taking the little bit of myc left stuck to the bottom of my jars when I S2B and scraping it off with a butter knife, and mixing it with dried/powdered manure I gather by hopping my fence and shoveling it into buckets. In turn I give the cows saltines. It's a whole system.  But the other day I finally got a few to pop up!



Hopefully they continue to pop. Cloning is what I want to tackle next! Also this post has as well turned impulsive and sporadic lol. Oh well.

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