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If you follow the teks to a T without substituting, it is pretty hard to fail. A pressure cooker isn't a must if you're using PF Tek. DO NOT order any "pre-sterilized jars" off Ebay. Make your own jars.

Some fast colonizing strains are South American (SA), Brazilian and Cambodian. If you're just starting out, B+ is a good strain, as is Ecuadorian (EQ) but EQ colonizes very slow (but it makes up for it by fruiting fast). It doesn't really matter. Any Cubensis strain is good though.

Here is a run down of how it's done.


PF Tek style:
Fill jar with brown rice flour (grind up brown rice), water and vermiculite (any gardening store).

Sterilize the jar and then inject it with spores.

Wait until it turns all white (becomes fully colonized) and then take the "cake" out of the jar and put it somewhere humid (100% humidity) and it will fruit.

That's a VERY basic idea. There are lots of things you can do in between to increase yield/potency/etc.


Casing grain:
Get jars, fill them up half-way with "Wild Bird Seed" (bird food from any pet store) that you soaked for 24 hours in water beforehand.

Sterilize the jars in a pressure cooker and then inject them with spores.

Wait till it's fully colonized (all the grain turns white) and then get a tray, mix the grain w/ horse shit on it (or with coco coir, or cow shit with straw) and when everything in the tray turns white, cover that with a layer of peat moss and vermiculite (again, both at any gardening store) and you will get a tray full of shrooms in about 1-2 weeks.

If you use rye berries (available at health food stores) instead of WBS (wild bird seed), you don't need horse shit. You can just drop the colonized rye onto a tray and put peat moss and vermiculite (or just vermiculite, or nothing at all) over it.

That's the basic idea. There's a few other steps involved but nothing is too complex.

For example, you have to spray Oust or Lysol where ever you do work so nothing gets contaminated.

You have to have holes in the lids of the jars so you can inject them.

You need to keep the temperatures constant etc.