MushroomsKnow said:

So about two months ago, 65 days to be exact. I set up a STEALTH poo straw bed in the back corner of garden. Please see my other post for details all

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/29589686

Ive heard it a thousand times on here follow the tek don’t make substitutions and your success rate is higher than if you cut corners and rush into things something I’m finally learning through experience.

I thought  I had a pretty novel attempt at an outdoor grow  used Moe’s technique as an Outline


Straw was locally harvested by desert valley. Dung was in small pellet form collected from a species of antelope native to Jerusalem. Could have got cow dung from the store but why not experiment and save money 💰

certain corners were cut in terms of pasteurization of straw / dung.
They were soaked for a couple hours in boiling water. We used the substrate almost immediately as soon as it was cooled off drained it probably less then nessecary.


Now I chose the species Equador (I know a cube is cube) because it’s known to be a hardy strain and fast colonizer allegedly.

I ordered a spore print which got flagged and held. The back  and forth I had with go through with Israelis customs to get this spore print in was extremely stressful.

When I finally got the package it had Been opened and it clearly read psilocybin’s cubensis Ecuador spore print of course for research purposes.

It was a beautiful print sandwiched between two square glass slides, some one from customs even cut the  the little ziplock the print was in..

Turns out the reason they held it was not because it was suspicious but because they had no proof that duty was paid. So emailed them the invoice which also said Equador print and they released it immediately.

Mushrooms=jailtime here for possession let alone cultivation. So the fact that print got through is quite funny

Spores straight to jar with scalpel in still air box using hunny lc tek with great results knocked up like ten popcorn jars wit it

Jars colonized fully most did  the rest about 80 percent not a single contam in any jar which to me was very surprising

but i got  impatient and was like let’s get this going cause I decided I would not trip again until it was on shrooms I grew myself.


So I followed Moes technique mostly with the depth of the bed the layers of dung and straw and the colonized popcorn jars( probably to little colonized substrate for this size of bed.)

Which is the back corner of the garden behind my landlord s Rose bush. At least six inch deep. In the shape of a triangle 2 feet on each side of the wall into the corner and about 3.5 feet in line behind the rose bush.

I was working in a tight space with rose thorns but out of respect for the landlord no tree roots were severed.

So no action yet other than small rhizomorphic threads I saw near the surface about a month ago. I saw slug trails there too and they are massive here.

Patch gets shade mostly and some sun during the day.

The patch ( I mean rose bush) gets watered almost every night and has been kept permanently damp since the start.

Landlord makes us water all his trees and plants lol if only he knew, almost glad nothings flushed yet because then how do you go and stealthily harvest oh well I’ll cross that bridge when/if I get there

My roomie is convinced it’s a humidity issue and the fruiting conditions will not be right until mid September when the rainy season starts which is also when it starts to get colder and Israel is not like la there is fairly cold winter just rains and rarely snows.

When we first moved in I was weeding the garden and there were these very thick growths of very thin long tangly weeds. Anyways while I was tearing them out lo and behold a small flush of some unidentified mushroom growing within.

I wouldn’t be surprised if those weeds were providing the required humidity to those mushrooms. Who knows may there just mushrooms designed to grow in this climate.

But for now until I actually dig into the patch  we assume we are dealing with humidity issues

I wanted to put a thick peace of clear acrylic tarp to form a tent to attempt to lock in some humidity.
But my landlord notices things like that  So we opted not to draw heat..

Any more suggestions should I try and plant tall grass over the patch although my landlord will complain it’s not esthetic.

Also would planting some on top in the shade be feasible especially if theirs is mycelium just beneath the surface like would like piling another layer of soil over it.

Maybe I can find an attractive plant that would serve the trick I dunno…

I barely go and look at the patch anymore because I’ve kind of given up on it.

Very curious to know if anything is happening below the surface but I’m afraid of poking around and effing things up more.

Would digging an inch or two see if there’s any mycelium compromise a huge flush that might just be around the corner. ???? This I really want too know I’m so tempted but also afraid there’s nothing there.


Also you be asking why would you go straight to outdoors my roomies been having tremendous success with mono tubs.

My room Shares a wall with the shower and there’s this huge moldy spot on my wall which the landlord is (looking into)



That being said no issues with Contams ironically all the ones that went outside!

I pressure cooked six new popcorn jars but I used no sterile technique whatsoever after that. I literally with my bare hands pulled clumps of liquid culture into jars.

Lost three jars didn’t even consider putting them outside



Bluing or mold? Keep in mind I shook these a week ago


Also there seems to be a woody growth in the big jar not sure what that is but perhaps someone knows

So if the gods are on my side I will be attempting what started out as a fuck it project into a successful mono tub if the we jars make it there’s a third one too then there’s still hope. He’s a slow mfer
I def filled the jar too high

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MushroomsKnow said:

Ive heard it a thousand times on here follow the tek don’t make substitutions and your success rate is higher than if you cut corners and rush into things something I’m finally learning through experience.

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MushroomsKnow said:

Could have got cow dung from the store but why not experiment and save money 💰

certain corners were cut in terms of pasteurization of straw / dung.

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MushroomsKnow said:

If you read the whole post your question is answered😉

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MushroomsKnow said:

I pressure cooked six new popcorn jars but I used no sterile technique whatsoever after that. I literally with my bare hands pulled clumps of liquid culture into jars.

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