**Welcome to the Shroom Lab**

[palmer]

nice grow but I have a few questions. Why did you keep your cakes dunked for 12 hrs? i have always heard you should dunk them and take them right back out. And why did you roll them in dry vermiculite? I have never heard of doing that either.

[flex40]

12 hour dunk (in spring water - refrigerated) has been found to be the ideal length of time to submerge the cake. The cakes can be dunked as long as 24hrs without damage to the Mycelium but the benefits are negligable after 12 hrs. I dunk my cakes individually in white beer cups that have been sprayed and wiped with lysol and then filled 2/3 full with spring water. Dry rolling in vermiculite after helps to absorb the water (droplettes can wick contamination) and it also encourages pinning all around the sides of the cake.

[mx_playa]

Hey what is the cheapest way grow shrooms? I've seen lots of kits b4 but idk if i want to pay that much. Just want to try as an experiment and hope for the best

[flex40]

hey, I didnt use a kit, and a lot of my materials where..*cough* stolen so my cost was really low.. the only thing i bought were the tubs, the jars, the vermiculite, the perlite and the spores...

FLEX

*edit: oh and the pressure cooker i bought too..bought with Gift Certs... so with other peoples money *

[mx_playa]

Ok so can you list what materials I am going to need? Planning on buying spore suringes also from that site above.

[flex40]

check the first page, there is one there. In addition to that list, you need Brown Rice Flour (availble in the Organic Food Section of your local Grocery Store), Canning Jars (difficult to find out of season, try online, or here in canada, Canadian Tire sells them year round), Vermiculite (Garden Section) and Perlite (Garden Section).

FLEX

[mx_playa]

what kinda $ am I looking at overall?

[flex40]

too buy everything? less then 100 dollars i would imagine. Thats using the perlite method of maintaining 100% humidity.

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[flex40]

Picked all the mushrooms off the 3 fruiting cakes. Viels became transparent and begain to tear so all the mushrooms where removed. Total collected wet weight off the 5 fruited cambodian cakes for Flush #1: 72.1 grams
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[flex40]

picked 1 more cake 2 days ago, harvested wet weight 16.3 grams. Me and my room mate popped 4.3g each and begain chewing them. The taste was tolerable and i certainly believe fresh tastes MUCH better then dried..although, i love mushrooms! Edible or Psychoactive, i love them all . Anyways, it took about 30 mins for the high to kick in, and it started with little euphoric waves of anticipation and excitment. The waves intensified over the next 2 hours, and became interchangable with my friend's high. it was weird, he'd go up as i'd come down from a wave...interesting! We then doesed another 2 grams each that were now almost dry from my drying chamber (remaining 8g wet - 4g 75% dried) and this kicked the shrooms into overload for my buddy who started tripping. I never got to the point of visual, but i usually need 5.5g (dried) or so to trip anyways. It was fun though cause I had an very pleasent 5 hour body buzz. Cambodian shrooms are sweet!

Picked another cake this morning. Really big capped mushrooms on it, 17.3g wet and it is now dryin in the "tornado" forced air drying chamber i created that works incredible for dryin the mushrooms for storage. It prepares fully dried mushrooms in less then 3 hours (on a lower setting) and 45 mins!!! on a higher setting). It preserves all psyclobin and prepares a BEAUTIFUL looking mushroom with all original colors still intact (no darkening from the desicants). It also uses no chemicals, so my mushrooms are superbly clean and exceptionally potent.

Also, the remaining 27 0.5 pint Jars are colinizing really well. The 12 Golden Teacher strains will probably start being selectively birthed in about a week or so. I will construct a second fruiting chamber then as I have all the hardware i need (except the rubbermaid tubs).

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[flex40]

Picture Updates, Growth is great and the mushroom quality is exceptional.

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[tughillnut1]

awesome grow! +rep I want to try this. I havent done shrooms and wont, but i know a lot of people who would buy them from me!

[flex40]

hehe thats why i do it

FLEX

[SuicidalSoldier]

how easy would it be to just grow shrooms without the kits? we get liberty caps (oh, and for the person from b.c who gets liberties, i get that 'poisoned' kinda 'dark' feelin when im on shrooms. but it alters my perception and is still an amazing trip give it 150-200 liberties.) so basically could i just give the right conditions? i seen a pic of bird seed + horse shit..someone pleas explain? would i NEED a spore syringe and kit etc etc?

[flex40]

Wow, long time no update.. got a ton of pictures for y'all. Cambodian grow went well, got about 58g dry total off the cambo cakes.. not bad for 1/4 pints cakes.

I have the Golden teachers up and running. here are some pictures, the cakes are twice as large, and the growth is phenominal. Today is harvest day for flush #1 and im all smiles with what ive got so far.. Enjoy the pics.

FLEX