yooo wut up

i have decided to grow shrooms...but i have never before. i am short on cash and i was wondering if any of u can help me out with a home made set up to harvest around a pound at a time. i dont have alot of money so any inexpensive ideas are very welcome. thanx to all

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Go to shroomery.com and do some good research. To get a pound per harvest you will need to do a bulk substrate grow. Since your a newbie i'd recommend doing a PF tek method for growing them just to get you started on the general idea. You won't get a pound but it'll be a stepping stone for larger scale grows. Look up WBS tek, liquid cultures, monotubs, and general bulk grow guides and you will be well on your way to becoming a profficient mycologist

I recently compiled some info of how to do a cheap grow that should yield a lot and uploaded it to a server. If you'd like to download it the link is:

http://rapidshare.com/files/274118200/Mushroom.rar

If you have any questions about it, feel free to ask.

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"Baby, I'm a star. Shit, I'm above a star. And now I done got so high I did forgotten who you are."

I have been growing mushrooms for a few years now, my advice would be to start with the PF tek ( use 1/2 pint and 1 pint size mason jars). Mycotopia is a good place to do research, the online community over there is really helpful. Checkout the "monotub" method. Personally, I like to use a mix that contains aged/ shredded cow manure as part of the mix.

here is the mix I like to use

5 cups vermiculite
3 cups pasteurized cow manure
8 tablespoons brown rice flour
1.5 cups of pure or distilled water

mix these ingredients and load them into mason jars, then Pressure cook for one hour. When the jars have cooled (several hours later) innoculate (inject) them with spore solution or mycelium soultion (if you are cloning).

there are many different methods, but to get the feel I also advise to start out with the PF tek, although personally I never use the old school mix of simply brown rice flour vermiculite and water. Its just too slow. Use manure, the mycelium loves it[/IMG] trying to add an image here

A couple more things to bear in mind, there are many different varieties of P. Cubensis , the Amazonian type can grow to be one of the biggest (if not the biggest). I really like the Penis Envy 6 and the Ban Lipa Yai (Koh Samuii) the picture above is of the Ban Lipa Yai

also, when ordering spores I highly recomend Ralphsters

Wow that's cool

You clearly know a lot more about this then me so I was wondering if you could tell me where to get manure.

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"Baby, I'm a star. Shit, I'm above a star. And now I done got so high I did forgotten who you are."

The best place to find cow manure is of course a cow pasture, you want to use manure that comes from cows that graze on wild grasses and plants, not grain fed cattle. Just try to be inconspicous, look out for the Ranchers... hee hee hee

Thanks for the help.

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"Baby, I'm a star. Shit, I'm above a star. And now I done got so high I did forgotten who you are."

Horse manure, Donkey Manure, Buffalo manure, and Cow manure are all good. I think most large herbivorous mammals produce manure that cubensis will grow in. I have always wanted to try using Elephant Dung or maybe some other large African mammal dung, like maybe Rhino or ?...? I have heard of some zoos that give away or sell there manure, the one zookeeper I asked said they could not give away their manure because it is potentially a health risk

hope this is helpful information to y'all