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 demoknite
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Registered: 05/11/02
Posts: 16
Loc: in front of my computer
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 Re: what do you wish you knew from the start?  [Re: Mystical_Craven]
#731464 - 07/08/02 11:51 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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I wish I would have known about this site before I bought a stupid ass kit. Dookie is is the shit, epescially horse crap with some straw already in it. Shroom Wizards grow guide sucks. I tweaked a little bit and it ended up being like all the good teks on this site. Whoevers in charge should get that shit off of here. None of its as hard as it sounds and the rewards come quicker than anything in the plant family. Be patient!
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Roadkill
Retired Shroomery Mod
 
Registered: 12/11/01
Posts: 22,674
Loc: Montana
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 Re: what do you wish you knew from the start? [Re: TheDnB_One]
#732761 - 07/09/02 12:44 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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nope.....can't think of anything.
I spent months here reading all the posts I could read.....learning all I could learn.
hours and hours on end.....10 to 14 hours a day reading posts.
I didn't ask a question til i saw something someone had built and wanted to know how to make the same thing.....4 or 5 months after being here.
So luvdemshrooms really likes me....lolzzzz
Cause I used the search and I didn't ask stupid questions.....hahaaaa
I think I had great success cause I can follow directions.
I started experimenting.....but I always did a proven tek too at the time.
Ok......I'll bite......I wish I had started working with horse poo sooner!!!!!
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Who the hell you callin crazy?
You wouldn't know what crazy was if Charles Manson was eating froot loops on your front porch!
Brainiac said:
PM the names with on there names, that means they have mushrooms for sale.
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 Hammerloaf
addict
Registered: 11/26/01
Posts: 439
Loc: Canada
Last seen: 20 years, 3 months
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Re: what do you wish you knew from the start? [Re: TheDnB_One]
#732848 - 07/09/02 03:35 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Above all else, one thing that is hard to do without actual experience is to know when to birth a casing... or at least I found it so... and how to prepare the best possible casing layer is another biggie.
Oh, and straw is god! 
Hammy.
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TheDnB_One
newbie
Registered: 05/11/02
Posts: 43
Loc: just beyond the shadows, ...
Last seen: 21 years, 4 months
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Re: what do you wish you knew from the start? [Re: Hammerloaf]
#732934 - 07/09/02 04:58 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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hammerloaf- share some info with us please, what did you learn about casings?
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MadDhAdDeR420
enthusiast
Registered: 07/02/02
Posts: 240
Loc: Arizona
Last seen: 21 years, 1 month
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Re: what do you wish you knew from the start? [Re: TheDnB_One]
#732949 - 07/09/02 05:13 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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i ried using birseed the first time going iff the shroom wizard. No success but manange to get a cake of eq from a friend so now i need to go get some horseshit-staw it looks like it works the best. 
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definingsound
lurker
Registered: 05/14/02
Posts: 8
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 Re: what do you wish you knew from the start? [Re: TheDnB_One]
#733081 - 07/09/02 06:55 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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I wish I had known how important your sense of smell can be when growing. My nose can easily detect or even identify contaminants that my eyes cannot. Of course, you only learn through personal experience. But here are some guidelines:
If I sniff a PF-tek jar, these smells are good:
sugar or caramel
mushroom (smell a bag of fresh white button mushrooms)
and these smells are bad:
feet
ass
cheese
sour milk
yeast
anything that makes you want to vomit
I am amazed at what I can grow. Some of these contaminants create scents that I have never smelled in my life, but that I instantly know it spells "bad news".
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ZEPH
member
Registered: 03/01/02
Posts: 1,609
Loc: Up
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Re: what do you wish you knew from the start? [Re: definingsound]
#733230 - 07/09/02 07:51 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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I wish i knew about the cool community here at the shroomery....theres a lot of cool people here that love to help out .....id be lost without all of you thanks agin
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SwondPooping
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Registered: 10/31/01
Posts: 238
Loc: third drawer from the top...
Last seen: 12 years, 4 months
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 Re: what do you wish you knew from the start? [Re: TheDnB_One]
#733852 - 07/09/02 11:49 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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I am a newbie and made a bonehead move right after innoculation, but luckily I have recovered nicely.
Anyway, I wish I had known to get opaque casing boxes, I have pins going every which way but up it seems. Even with duck tape on the sides they are going haywire.
Thanks
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The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
Edited by SwondPooping (07/10/02 03:39 AM)
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Anno
Experimenter
Registered: 06/17/99
Posts: 24,166
Loc: my room
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Re: what do you wish you knew from the start? [Re: SwondPooping]
#733911 - 07/09/02 12:10 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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I looked at your pictures, the fact that the mushrooms only emerge from the sides indicates that the humidity in your setup is not high enough.
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FanaTEK
Slave to theShroom
Registered: 09/19/01
Posts: 447
Loc: Midwest, US
Last seen: 16 years, 8 months
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Re: what do you wish you knew from the start? [Re: TheDnB_One]
#734009 - 07/09/02 12:57 PM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well, my cat was one of the fortunate ones who found their way to Ryche Hawk's site first, then from there discovered the Shroomery. Most of his early mistakes involved impatience and laziness (didn't fan or mist enough).
Filter discs. Filter discs are proof that god loves us and wants us to grow mushrooms (and be happy).
My cat wishes he lived in a more rural area so he could discreetly farm the countryside.
He also wishes that he'd skipped cakes altogether and went straight for casing with rye berries. So much more worth the effort!
Finally, he wishes that he'd never mentioned that he knew how to grow these things to anyone. He was pretty good and didn't blab it everywhere, but after the fact he thinks it might have been wiser to keep it a complete secret.
FanaTEK
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Hammerloaf
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Registered: 11/26/01
Posts: 439
Loc: Canada
Last seen: 20 years, 3 months
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Re: what do you wish you knew from the start? [Re: TheDnB_One]
#735768 - 07/10/02 06:00 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well, casing's are best, regardless of what anyone says, to get the best yeild it is for certain that you must case at some point during the life cycle of the mycelial network.
The casing layer is very important, patience and dilligence in the preperation is key.. make sure the materials are prepared correctly, correct h20 saturation, and that the layer is layed out very even, but airy and rough at the same time.
Knowing when to birth is harder to explain, it kinda depends on how things are going at the time, how the surface looks, how quickly it is being colonized... etc..
Hope that helps at least a little.
Hammy.
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imjustagirl
journeyman
Registered: 06/29/02
Posts: 78
Last seen: 20 years, 9 months
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Re: what do you wish you knew from the start? [Re: Hammerloaf]
#735840 - 07/10/02 06:42 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm glad a few people mentioned Shroom Wizrds grow guide doesn't work. I'm new to this, with one succesful cake growing behind me, I was going to try it next. Thanks for the advice!!
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I'm just collecting info for a novel... Everything I say is fictional.
"We're just spinning on some granite that we like to call a planet..."
--Blues Traveler
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SixTango
Mycota
Registered: 01/21/02
Posts: 1,996
Loc: A little North of Paradis...
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Re: what do you wish you knew from the start? [Re: imjustagirl]
#735871 - 07/10/02 07:01 AM (21 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hepa Filters, jar filters, 3M medical grade face masks, shower cap over your hair when working with agar & Grain to grain transfers. One fully colonized quart will get you 30 - 40 more & quick  . SixTango
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