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Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread * 6
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This is a slightly delayed but in progress journey from community sourced bluey vuitton spores (thank you AzureCultivator!) all the way to mushrooms. I like to think of this as this post as both a shroomery glaze fest and also a cool point in my growing journey where I can hopefully complete the whole growth cycle of mushrooms using knowledge from the community as well as shared spores.

8/10:
Filled a tube with water and a drop of tween-20, cut Azure's swab, vortexed, spun down, grabbed supernatant and did a 1:10 3 times for total 4 tubes. Dropped 5ul of each tube into various water agar cups and used a spreader to evenly distribute. I did this because I had water agar I made for another clean-up, and I figured it can't hurt for swab clean-up.



8/14:
We have wispy growth in the neat and 1:10 cups! Cut small wedges and transferred to LME agar to see if they grow. Hoping they're relatively clean since they went to water agar and grabbed em relatively early.




8/21:
More and more transfers means I had to go a lil crazy on plates, just kept cutting from growth I liked the took of at the leading edge.



9/13:
At the third transfer and have two current BV plates that I'm hoping to throw to grain in the near future. Going to do brown rice and quinoa because I bought them to eat forever ago but ended up not loving them, so why not let the mycelium consoom? Tried a prep that seems to be working decent for another grow, but shout to Awfullotofshrooms for some further guidance on how he preps his brown rice.


Edited by Zef (09/13/26 02:00 PM)

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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Zef]
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Your agar collection is impressive:rockon:


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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: langten69]
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langten69 said:
Your agar collection is impressive:rockon:


I just like to play the numbers game to have way more backups than I'd ever need :crazy2:

9/21:
Rinsed my rice and quinoa and managed to finish the quinoa bag! My pantry is a little more happy with me, I just hope the mushrooms are too. Had decent results with it before, but I hate how small the grains are they fall through most strainers and require cheese cloth :tongue:

Rinsed the grains and then covered in boiling water, tomorrow they'll be drained, dried, and thrown into jars for the agar puppies to start growing. Excited and hopeful, but if it all goes tiddy up that's chill too.


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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Zef]
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That's alot of agar :rockon:
Gonna be cool to see your results!


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I wish you bountiful fruits and godspeed :heart:

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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Mashedpotatoes]
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"Spun down".

Why are you centrifuging, what would be in the pellet that you want to avoid?

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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Podenco]
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Podenco said:
"Spun down".

Why are you centrifuging, what would be in the pellet that you want to avoid?


Yeah that wasn't the best way of saying it, I just spun down the tubes to remove any fluid from the cap after vortex, and grabbed fluid from the top of the tube. It was just a table top spin, and not intentionally centrifuging to pellet anything.

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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Zef] * 1
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Thanks Zef,

Where I come from we do a lot of spinning to remove insolubles/particles and it might have been that there was something in/on a swab that needed removal. There as nothing I could think of, the spores themselves go into the pellet, why remove cotton fragments, so I had to ask.

I am new to agar work with mushrooms and want to germinate spores on agar. I read around, seeing scraping of spores and first making spore syringes that then go to agar. I don't like either of them much, too tedious, so I wondered why not scrape into a vial and give plates a few drops, without the syringe making. You do that and it works, so I am going to copy your procedure.

P


Edited by Podenco (09/23/26 06:19 AM)

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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Podenco] * 1
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Dude thank you, I'm a bit of a dumbass, but there's elements of logic mixed in at times.

I think someone who was one of the up and comers when I first joined. Idk if it was ras or someone else, but they made a point about how spores are a numbers game between slow germinating spores and fast growing bacteria. They essentially made the point that you should dilute them and put a small amount on the plate. The thinking is why not have far less growth of everything all together, and then grab your germinating spore growth early and transfer it to a new plate.

It's not fool proof, but when everything is further apart and more separated - my delusional brain says that's easier to isolate.

9/25:
Jars have been prepped, we will have liftoff sometime this weekend. I'm too annoyed to do it today, but hey at least I pressured cooked these things.


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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Zef] * 1
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9/26:
The weed has been lit :bongload:

Definitely going to be a bit of a time gap before any additional updates, but unless I run into an issue with contamination hopefully have an update in a couple weeks.



9/30:



Edited by Zef (09/30/26 08:08 PM)

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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Zef] * 1
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10/9

The jars are really getting along, can't believe it's going to be two weeks on Saturday night. Hopefully will be sending them to bulk sometime in the next week or so. I'm getting excited, I don't want to get ahead of myself before anything fruits but it might be finally getting through my thick skull that agar to grain you prepped yourself may just work a hell of a lot better than purchased LC/Grain.

Can't believe all of these experts that taught me everything I know, through guides, and posts on the forums were right about this too :crazy2:

Finger's crossed


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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Zef]
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Fuck yeah! Lookin good :rockon:


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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: fontinalis666]
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10/18
Sent two jars to coir today from the faster growing agar, the other two are close to fully colonized. Just a little more to go and will be going to coir soon.

Not sure if it was because they're mostly brown rice and quinoa but my god were these bricks hard to break up in the jar. Regular break and shake at 20/70% did not feel anywhere near as hard to break lmao.

I'm getting real excited, hope to see this through soon!


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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Zef] * 1
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10/29

We back 11 days later and I may have got my first pin, finger's crossed. I'm stoked, second tub was sent a few days ago as well.

Might finally see this spore to a fruit, got me out here feeling like a proud dad


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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Zef]
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Hell yeah dude:mushroom2: thanks for sharing:camping:

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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Agar Wedge]
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Agar Wedge said:
Hell yeah dude:mushroom2: thanks for sharing:camping:


Thank you brudda, have to say it's starting to look quite nice. Just waiting on the second tub to come on in. Hopefully I can harvest and try some of these in the near future :awesomenod:

11/4


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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Zef] * 2
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11/10:
Final update for this post, overall I'm super happy with how everything has gone in this grow. It just feels special to have spores gifted from the marketplace make it from swab to agar to grain to coir. This was the fastest grain colonization I've had so far, the fastest sub colonization, and the most dense growth in my tubs. So not only has it been one of my best grows for a variety of reasons, but it also ended up being the easiest in terms of steps I needed to take. Yes, there is extra work in pouring agar, cleaning up swabs, and prepping your own grain.

However, it's incredibly clear to me now why it's stressed so hard in the hitchhiker's guide and by all of the experienced growers on these forums.

Unless you do it yourself you have no clue how thoroughly or properly everything was prepared. You have a million variables where you are unable to narrow down where you went wrong, or how you can improve. Following the process in it's entirety is more work on the front end, but it's ultimately far less work, time, and money than trusting somebody to do it for you.

It took following this process to fully understand that and it's nice to come to that realization.

I found the strain interesting to grow as well, everything started so incredibly white and pale - but within the last day or two bruising and blue started to become visible on almost all of them. They look like stubby little white mushrooms with a dope fringed hat. First tub yielded a solid 700 grams wet or so, second tub is just getting it's first pins coming through now.

Punished tub 1 and sending it for a second journey. Thank you all for this incredibly community, and AzureShaman for sending these swabs through. It's greatly appreciated.



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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Zef]
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:popcorn:


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When my pies have nine lives?"
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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: langten69]
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Looks great! I started cleaning up a swab from a forum member here in August, I delayed due to other circumstances in the house for a bit.
  Pouring more plates now, so the project is back on track for me!

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Re: Shroomery BV Spores To Mushroom Grow Thread [Re: Zef]
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Excellent work my guy! Yep, nothing beats DIY. Those are some beautiful mushrooms, the fringed caps are awesome looking :rockon::mushroom2:

Thanks for the great thread :hatsoff:

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