all I can say is wow, people are stupid. Sometimes I start laughing to myself reading these responses Mycotek service gets. It's like people who grow mushrooms don't live in the real world or something; I don't know where they've gotten this utopian idea "businesses should give away shit for nothing". You see it everywhere on this forum, and while I don't give a rat's ass where they got it from (because it is obviously wrong); it does bother me that they constantly feel the need to express it. Any decently educated person should realize that rarely anything is free in life. And anyone who graduated high school and is not semi-retarded should know that without Mycotek sevice selling pods; there would be no pods. You would have no plans for anything. Some of you mushroom people think that the world owes you something, but it doesn't. And Mycotek service doesn't either. So fine if you can build your own pod and source the right materials for that dome and top tray, go right ahead. Spend 20 hours or so getting the right shit together, drilled out, glued; adjust the water volume, fresh air exchange rate......by the time you are done you will have wasted more time than the $180.00 is worth. To me, time is money, and money is time. Even if I could build a pod in 3 or 4 hours that somehow worked just as good as his (say I get extraordinarily lucky, no say I get help from god, a miracle); it still wouldn't be worth my time. My spare time is valuable, just like money. Oppurtunity costs? This is what an innovative yet tiny company like Hydrapod struggles with every day. This is his job man (and not his only one); and it rightfully should be. I for one would be very pissed (a hundred other pod and multi-pod owners I'm sure would agree) if people like you stole all of his ideas, eventually running him out of business and truly back to doing this only as a hobby. You don't realize it but this is what it seems like you all want. Why are you people trying to drive out a great new talent? If you people start getting all of his products for free then he will soon close his business I imagine (especially if there are teks n shit, but that will soon be illegal); and then we'd get none of the benefit of his research and technology, because you know he's getting the patents for both the pod and the revolutionary new coconut strate he's developed. Me, and whole lot of other people with the money to buy the best (by far, there really is no quality competitor), most compact grower would be very, very pissed. I mean, have you seen the fruits that FIRST TIME growers are getting out of the pods? You all should be kissing his ass every chance you get, if you knew what was good for you. Casings? cmon, that's for hillbillies or commercial growers. Personally? I think its ridiculous to have trays of cased myc sitting around the house stinking up the place. Shit I'd rather buy shrooms any day, not worth the trouble. Nice soggy perlite or vermiculite over cakes sitting for a couple of weeks? Spray it twice a day? If you're a commercial grower or growing strains that don't grow on cakes then fine, but otherwise that's for suckers. I don't have the time, like I said before, my time is worth money. I just wish there were more people like me on this forum, people who maybe work hard for a living, but like to play and party hard too!! People who want the best, because that is what the pod is right now; until something better comes along. I've been so impressed with my 1st pod that I've bought 1 more, and will eventully have 4 in a matter of a few weeks. I mean it's crazy, you could probably fit 4 or 5 of these things in the bottom of a reasonably sized closet, and it's totally automated. You don't have to do anything except set it up and pick mushrooms. I think more of you people would go out and get one if you realized how good these things work, especially beginners who would otherwise probably get weak fruits out of a homemade terr, especially their first few tries. And that right there is enough to say forget it for most people, I'm sure. Especially with all that work involved in building your cardboard box and spraying twice a day. I challenge people to buy one, hell ask him for a deal on one if you somehow don't think it's quite worth it. I'm sure he'd love to get some into the hands of the skeptics, because that really is the only obstacle. This thing works extremely well, it is at the very least the future of low scale mushroom growing; but I wouldn't be suprised if you see it used very well for some small to medium growers too eventually, ones that focus on quality of fruits rather than yield. Connoisseur growers, just like with bud. Anyways, I'm a bit high and rambling, all I can say is get a Hydrapod if you want to get into shrooms but don't have a whole lot of time, you will get great shrooms with little to no effort past prepping the jars. Hell get the presterilized bags of substrate too and you're set, hardly any work at all !!!! Sure it takes money now, but in soon enough time you'll be getting a very nice payback!!!! It's well worth it, I can testify to that!!!!
p.s. If you do get a pod check out the materials and parts, they are actually a very large chunk of the retail price if you look them all up........ and he offers a lifetime warranty over and above all the manufacturers warranties (1-3 years I think?) on the whole thing, bumper to bumper for life? Can you beat that with a stick? I don't think so!!!!
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