Growing and trying shrooms for the first time.

If you want a good strain stick with cambodians. they are forgiving! they are a great strain to learn mushroom cultivation with... like its been said many times sterility is the key! but if you want a powerhouse strain that is ultra potent and is a fairly high yielder (i think anyways) go with Penis Envy. Not sure how easy they are and they dont drop spores... so you have to get some live mycelium to innoculate your substrate. i think anways... penis envy is one of my favorite strains.. a gram is all it takes!

edit: that video is awesome, lot of good info... but they show a lot of over matured mushrooms which you dont want, same thing as over maturing your pot. just harvest before they caps open.

Originally Posted by Kush Push

What is a 4 spore basidia? Also is psilocybe cubensis b+ a good strain or is a+ better

never herd of a 4 spore basidia is a basidiomycota is the phylum fungi which includes mushrooms and other fruiting bodies that produce spores called basidiospores

Get a PRESSURE COOKER, research PF TEK (beginners best friend), build a GLOVE BOX and a FRUITING CHAMBER. These are the things you need to research YOURSELF with the above mentioned resources provided by helpful members. If you can't do that, don't worry about which spores to order. If you can do that you will have a good idea by then which ones are interesting to you and what questions you really need to ask. Cubes are cubes but they aren't!

Originally Posted by canndo

They do not all grow the same way, some are more agressive, some are less, some have a penchant for pins, some do not. I have several times posted the easiest way to grow them on this site.

I suppose you and I will never agree on shrooms...simply because you know it all and the rest of us are fools...

Originally Posted by mojoganjaman

I suppose you and I will never agree on shrooms...simply because you know it all and the rest of us are fools...

I have no idea if we will agree ever, I know that there are hundreds of "right" ways to grow them, that is because they are so forgiving, especially compared to other varieties. I know furthermore, that myths start all the time about these things and I try my best to correct them. I don't know it all but I do know that the very first time I grew them was in 1976.

Originally Posted by canndo

I don't know it all but I do know that the very first time I grew them was in 1976.

That is a long time ago. Props to the pioneers! Do you still take them now? Just curious. I spent a long time not taking shrooms and when I did, I felt so ripped off. Not from the shrooms but for all the years I could have been enjoying them instead of trying a heap of other junk. I'm not young but not that old and from my now educated perspective I see myself enjoying the fruit of the gods for years to come!

Once in a while I do yes.