Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery

Kratom Eye
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Sporeworks.EU Spores for European Microscopy   MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck   Myyco.com Golden Teacher Liquid Culture For Sale   North Spore Bulk Substrate   Mushroom-Hut Liquid Cultures   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
Practice, Practice, Practice (1st timers plz. read)
    #2967032 -

This is not a post so much as it is a personal observation. If it is your first time growing, I don't think things like: how many grams of mushrooms will I get from each cake/casing, or how to set up a fully automated grow chamber should be on your mind. Growing mushrooms moreso than other hobbies requires a lot of personal/hands-on experience. I went through the standard PF formula 3 times through before I felt ready to take on casings, outside patches, etc. Its helpful because using the old "birthday cake" method familiarizes you with the mushrooms life cycles, needs, and precautions you need to take. Everyone has different conditions to work with, some need to be more careful w/ contams. some less, for some pins seem to pop up no prob. others can't get pins at all. Basically what I think I am trying to say is that you should not worry about the end result until you have familiarized yourself with the process that works for you. Luckily mushies are not expensive to grow and trial and error is not a big deal. Have patience and be inspired by the methods that you read about on shroomery and all the other great sites out there. It may take time, but real success will be had once you have a tek all your own. Good luck and happy shrooming!


--------------------
"There is no greater power in heaven and earth than the thought of the son of man. Though unseen by the eyes of the body,yet each thought has mighty strength, even such strength can shake the heavens." -Gospel of the Essenes

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Practice, Practice, Practice (1st timers plz. read) *DELETED* [Re: dmtrypr]
    #2967063 -

Post deleted by woodzmun

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Practice, Practice, Practice (1st timers plz. read) [Re: woodzmun]
    #2967793 -

bump

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Practice, Practice, Practice (1st timers plz. read) [Re: dmtrypr]
    #2967830 -

lol....uuuuh yea

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Practice, Practice, Practice (1st timers plz. read) [Re: woodzmun]
    #2967837 -

woodzmun said:
Yes, it's like worrying about getting furniture before you have a house. First things first, and patience is a virtue.


Hell Yes :captain:


--------------------
Child of the 60's, Tripping ever since.


:sun:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Practice, Practice, Practice (1st timers plz. read) [Re: KaptKid]
    #2968399 -

last bump

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Practice, Practice, Practice (1st timers plz. read) [Re: dmtrypr]
    #2968493 -

Quote:
Have patience and be inspired by the methods that you read about on shroomery and all the other great sites out there.


I would like to add, Don't be afraid to try stuff. But do the cakes first!

I am still a newbie and I started my first grow with 12 1/2 pint cakes, 24 WBS Jars, and 3 Karo teks. The second grow I am trying to use agar to isolate a strain.

Read everything and start with the beginner stuff. But do not be afraid to do beginner, and intermediate at the same time. It is a good way to judge what level will be a challenge for you.

NOTE: I had 3 contaminated jars from my first run of 36 jars. I felt that I was pretty good with the beginner and intermediate so I tried the advanced (agar). The first try with 6 agar plates got me 5 contaminated plates and 1 good one. The second try reversed it with 5 good and 1 contaminated.

It is all about what YOU feel comfortable with. Don't worry about quantity per cake. If you do 6 cakes you can easily get enough for a couple of people to use, But you gain valuable knowledge.

Heck I still do PF jars to make sure I get a good spore print. Nothing beats it!


--------------------
Shop SMART, Shop S-MART!
--------
How to build a Martha
Self Healing Injection point lids
WBS myco-bag Tek
Growing mushrooms in a CD-Spendle
How to build a bulk steam pasteurizing unit
Answers to the 10 most common questions I have see about drying mushrooms.
Cybers Liquid Culture Tek

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Practice, Practice, Practice (1st timers plz. read) [Re: Cyber]
    #2969038 -

i agree with cyber...
i've been wanting to grow for a LONG while now!
but only now i get the chance... since i knew i was going to grow i've been reading like crazy to be totally ready for when my print finelly comes (luckly i've got a three week trip in the middle so i wont have to sit and wait too much...) and i already know i'm gonna be doing at least 8 jars of PF and also a jar of honey so i wont have to wait for the grown mushrooms...
after that i can innoculate whatever i want whenever i want... and i can't see how i can mess that up even if i am a first timer!


--------------------
:mushdance::sanpedro::peyote::mushroom2: :heart: Shr:supershroom::supershroom:mery :heart: :mushroom2::peyote::sanpedro::mushdance:
      Visit & Support Free Spore Ring Earth
      :sun: Please help spread live Salvia Divinorum :sun:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Practice, Practice, Practice (1st timers plz. read) [Re: dmtrypr]
    #2975017 -

I dont know, I think some people can pick up things faster and dont need to go through such a tedious process. I started right off with grain and am doing great with it. I did almost a year of research first but its only been 3 weeks and I've got tons of quarts of substrate to case, I've got some quarts cased (small casings using 1/4 of a quart up to larger casings using 7 quarts) of different strains, done grain to grain transfers by the dozen, I've done agar work which was simple, gotten fully colonized plates (10 of 10), I'm currently making progress on issolating a bad syringe I got, just did the 3rd generation transfer last night which should be clean. And a few days ago I started work on Tampanensis ("magic truffles") in rye berries and rye grass in both jars and bags. Showing signs of growth yesterday and no signs of contams. I've had no contams on agar or grain or grass in jars, plates or bags yet except for my GT syringe which produced nothing but green and very little white and I know wasnt me and have had excellent results as of yet.

I think you need to start at your capacity but I think some need to jump in a little deeper then others. I very well could get contamination to ruin my crop or have horrible fruiting conditions and such but I have looked into what I will get for yields because I'm curious..I cant go a day without taking out every jar and inspecting everything. And either way Ill be learning. I dont see how you gain any more knowledge from a PF cake going green or a grain of jar going green. All that time spent practicing cakes then practicing casing then finally really doing it "for real" could have been spent trying it out "for real" just jumping to grains and casing them. Even if you fail a couple times before succeding you still could be ahead of where youd be going though baby steps.

Not saying that some shouldnt start there, if thats where your comfortable but you shouldnt discourage people who feel comfortable jumping into grains from doing it just because you werent. I've managed so far and this will segue into bulk straw and poo in a few weeks. This is where I felt the beginning for me was and if others feel the same I think they should do the same. Say I'm in over my head and will realize soon if you want but IMHO, ambition shouldnt be discouraged.


--------------------
"life is like a drop of rain getting closer and closer to falling into a lake, and then when you hit the lake there is no more rain drop, only the lake."

Growing with bags, start to finish (including my new grain and substrate prep)
Anyone looking to start bulk tubs/mono tubs/shotgun hybrids? Good tubs to use..
How I do grain (old still good tips)
Turn your closet into a fruiting chamber
Casing layer colonization and overlay

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Sporeworks.EU Spores for European Microscopy   MagicBag.co All-In-One Bags That Don't Suck   Myyco.com Golden Teacher Liquid Culture For Sale   North Spore Bulk Substrate   Mushroom-Hut Liquid Cultures   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds

Mushrooms, Mycology and Psychedelics > Mushroom Cultivation
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* 1st timer- sterilization techniques? Alice_In_Chains 2,372 6 06/22/02 08:41 AM
by whackedout
* 1st timer wanting to grow own shrooms
( 1 2 all )		 Jason7785 3,626 32 09/12/03 09:08 PM
by username
* best strain for 1st timer?
( 1 2 all )		 philistine4life 6,020 26 10/07/01 04:26 AM
by Zen Peddler
* 1st timers success rate? hairs 3,162 19 12/21/01 07:05 PM
by hairs
* Good progress for a 1st timer? (pics) WakeboardrB 973 4 06/27/03 12:11 AM
by angryshroom
* First timer, does this sound like it will work?
( 1 2 all )		 Magash 4,612 31 06/30/04 12:08 PM
by hugo
* 1st time casing, how was your success? MickyFinn 2,229 17 09/06/03 12:54 PM
by hellfreak
* Recommendations for 1st Casing FreakShow 1,828 14 12/02/01 02:59 PM
by puscle

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Shroomism, george castanza, RogerRabbit, veggie, mushboy, fahtster, the_chosen_one, LogicaL Chaos, 13shrooms, hamloaf, cronicr, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
1,440 topic views. 16 members, 1,630 guests and 131 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.031 seconds spending 0.012 seconds on 16 queries.