Growing shrooms is easy.. check this out (pics + video links):

[eleven357]

Great fucking thread, I wish I found it sooner.

[hpi]

Originally Posted by eleven357

Great fucking thread, I wish I found it sooner.

If you have any questions at all and wanna know everything just go join on the shroomery and you can find out any answers you need to know and I mean ALL.

[eleven357]

Originally Posted by hpi

If you have any questions at all and wanna know everything just go join on the shroomery and you can find out any answers you need to know and I mean ALL.

Well not all. It seems that every thread that was started over there on how to get spores in California, gets locked. Which really fucking sucks because I live in California and for some stupid reason we are one of the 3 states who don't allow shipping of the spores.

So I have thought about mail forwarding from Massachusetts. If I ordered it to a MA and it was then forwarded by USPS to my California addy. Does this sound like it would work? Any ideas?

[hpi]

Originally Posted by eleven357

Well not all. It seems that every thread that was started over there on how to get spores in California, gets locked. Which really fucking sucks because I live in California and for some stupid reason we are one of the 3 states who don't allow shipping of the spores.

So I have thought about mail forwarding from Massachusetts. If I ordered it to a MA and it was then forwarded by USPS to my California addy. Does this sound like it would work? Any ideas?

Your not allowed to ask for stuff like that on there and no vendor sources or anything of that sort.

A syringe can be sent to Cali you just gotta know how to smuggle stuff there.

Example : Have the person ur getting it off buy a candle and drill out the middle of it and put the syringe inside and then just tape the bottom of the candle back on and stuff like that.

it's real easy you just gotta know how.

[eleven357]

hear anything bad about sporelab.com?

[SirBobbo]

Dude. That shroom vid looked like weird trippy penises. All coming for me. LOL. ^^^^^ Pun

[theVirtuoso]

Yep, people think boomers are hard to grow, but really the only important thing is sterility. If you got that, you're good to go.

[stoned budda]

Originally Posted by inhale

Warning: ONLY order spores from a Shroomery vendor! spores101 is one of them, SporeWorks is another, Ralphsters is another and is the best.

Never ever order from sporesd101, myself and two others have been ripped off. Ralphsters is the shit!

[adeiladwyd]

Damn, nobody ships to CA..

[Dilman]

Seriously? Damn, there goes my dream. Whatever, I'll wait until the next time I'm going out of state.

[PJV575]

I have decided to grow mushrooms after spending the past 3 hours reading about it. THANK YOU! +rep

[SuicidalSpaz]

Originally Posted by inhale

Warning: ONLY order spores from a Shroomery vendor! spores101 is one of them, SporeWorks is another, Ralphsters is another and is the best, but it is in Canada so your shit will go through customs. It's almost never a problem and Ralph hooks you up with lots of shit, so it's worth it. Go to Shroomery.org and go to sponsors or vendors and order from them. You won't get ripped off if you do! and you can communicate directly with representatives from each vendor on the forum.

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.

Agreed. Ralph does good shit.


just remember people. Keeping things at the right temp, Humidity, and sterile are the keys to growing successfully.

On a side note, my 50 gallon mono-tub is 3-5 days away from harvest. Looking forward to it.

[berghutte]

Good to see other GC members are growing.
I'm just organizing all the details, and will most likely start after a vacation in November.
A lot of solid resources in the forum. The long video, shoomery, and some of the posts have tons of details. I would recommend Ralphs for spores. I did a test run with a blank syringe to test shipping and customer service, and was impressed with that.

Once I start, I'll keep everyone posted. I'm thinking either Golden Teacher or Hawaiian to start. Any one have thoughts/comments/experience with either of these?

[PennLaxPlayer]

Any strains in particular where contaminations are easy to spot? And maybe a little less potent then some of the others?

[iReefeR]

Originally Posted by Romain

Im also thinking about growing shrooms as well. How long does it take from start to finish to grow them?

Thinking about keeping some and flipping 95% of it for $$$$

I am gonna be a poor college kid, and growing shrooms instead of weed for quick cash just seems like a REALLY good idea...

+rep OP, this is good shit