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LordPeter
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Registered: 10/04/01
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Smart Botanics
#476884 - 12/02/01 05:35 AM (23 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hi
Does anyone have any dealings with Smart Botanics? I don't want to slag them off, but I ordered a spore from them (which took over a month to arrive) and I have been completely unsuccessful with trying to get shrooms to grow.
I have been very, very careful in preparing the jars with Brown Flour Rice / Verm. / sterylising and innoculating the jars, but every time nothing appears in the jars
Looking inside the syringe, I can see small bits of print, but literally only a few bits - the water is otherwise clear.
I feel like I have wasted my money - am I entitled to ask for another one, or would they think I was taking the piss?
Yours, Sadly :(
peter
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BJ
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Re: Smart Botanics [Re: LordPeter]
#477714 - 12/02/01 09:38 PM (23 years, 4 months ago) |
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I ordered an Azure print from them over two years ago and still haven't received it. Try a local vendor.......
-------------------- I may be going to Hell in a bucket, but at least I'm enjoying the ride.
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Anno
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Registered: 06/17/99
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Re: Smart Botanics [Re: LordPeter]
#477925 - 12/03/01 02:00 AM (23 years, 4 months ago) |
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I ordered some syringes from them in 1997 and they were like you described from the look.
But they worked ok.
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EvilGir
Im the on coming storm

Registered: 11/26/01
Posts: 1,301
Loc: Planet Irk
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Re: Smart Botanics [Re: Anno]
#478003 - 12/03/01 05:05 AM (23 years, 4 months ago) |
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II have ordered from them recently and they only took two weeks to arrive. Still wating for the shrooms to grow though.
But in the past i have ordered from them and sometimes the spore did not work but that could of just be me.
-------------------- Fighting the man the best way I can.
Edited by jezu (12/04/01 05:22 AM)
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stonErollEr1
The Psilocybinsolution
Registered: 05/23/01
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Re: Smart Botanics [Re: EvilGir]
#479037 - 12/04/01 02:01 AM (23 years, 4 months ago) |
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They are known to have, not exactly "top notch" stuff..Go with www.mushmush.nl instead..they are the vendor to go with in Europe.
peace
//stonErollEr
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NDK
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Registered: 07/13/01
Posts: 186
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They used to be good but no now they've been taken over by Amazing Nature. I ordered from them earlier this year - after a series of unanswered emails I eventually got my syringe. I ordered again - no syringe, no replies nothing.
Definately would not recommend them.
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EvilGir
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Registered: 11/26/01
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www.mushmush.nl looks like a realy good site will defiantly try them in the future. I noticed they have a greater choice of spores than smart botanicsand prices seem good too.
-------------------- Fighting the man the best way I can.
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LordPeter
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Registered: 10/04/01
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Re: Smart Botanics [Re: LordPeter]
#480711 - 12/05/01 01:04 PM (23 years, 4 months ago) |
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Cheers people :) I think im gonna go with Mushmush, if only for the cute name ;)
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VorticistsSuite
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Registered: 10/05/01
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Re: Smart Botanics [Re: LordPeter]
#480944 - 12/05/01 04:30 PM (23 years, 4 months ago) |
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i have been waiting for my order from them for about 4 months now...... My recommendation:bomb the fuckers cause i think they ripped me off........
-------------------- There is no god. There is no heaven and hell. There is no meaning to life. All we are is dust in the wind...
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Stormdamage
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Registered: 08/15/00
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I ordered from them last year - the syringe took 3 weeks to arrive, and I don't think it was completely sterile, since the mycelium grew with pink contaminant. I chucked all the cakes in the end and gave up.
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trade omlet
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Registered: 04/05/00
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VorticistsSuite and StormDamage, I do hope you are talking about Smart Botanics and not MushMush.
MushMush got nothing BUT *QUALITY* products. They are a vendor to be compared with quality to SporeWorks or RycheHawk. They specialize in mushrooms and they are not a smart shop like Smart Botanics. If you are in europe, I suggest you buy your spores from MushMush.nl (Or BiO if you want cultures)
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Thor
Anti-Theist OVERLORD


Registered: 08/12/98
Posts: 10,017
Loc: Iceland
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Re: Smart Botanics [Re: LordPeter]
#485346 - 12/09/01 07:17 PM (23 years, 4 months ago) |
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I don't like Smart Botanics, my order a few years back when I was living in Iceland took a lengthy amount of time... I know spore syringes are usually pretty clear, but these ones just looked like water I had less than spectacular results with germination.....
If you live in Europe, you should definately avoid Smart Botanics and go with a excellent vendor like www.mushmush.nl ... Smart botanics doesn't come close to the quality and service of mushmush.nl....
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KOPELANDIAA
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Registered: 11/17/01
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Re: Smart Botanics [Re: Thor]
#493612 - 12/17/01 07:18 AM (23 years, 4 months ago) |
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I ordered a syringe from them ... one month after i received a fsyringe full of the weakest mycelium i ever saw ...
Don't order from them.
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