how to grow mushrooms the easy way

How much does each jar produce?

You can have.several flushes of around 1/2 O. Then slowly decline. Or slowly build up and then decline.

DaSprout said:

You can have.several flushes of around 1/2 O. Then slowly decline. Or slowly build up and then decline.

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If I understand correctly, each jar grows up to 1/2 an ounce?

DankTankerous said:

If I understand correctly, each jar grows up to 1/2 an ounce?

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Actually alot more. I put my corn into those little black tv dinner little bowls. Recycled banquets. And fruited in an sgfc. Only cuz of my growing environment and prior growing experience. I was getting over 1/2 O per flush from a 16oz cased sub. Then the weight diminished per flush. But. The older.the.sub. The better the results.

Read @Gmz results.on this thread though.

probably already covered but I had great success with the following:

1. malt agar plates with P. cubensis spores grown at 27C inverted
2. PP jars autoclaved half filled with dry wheatberries submerged in 10% yeast extract
3. excise mycelium centers from plates and place agar square in center of cooled wheatberries, grow covered at 27C
4. when wheatberry surface full of mycelium, overlay with autoclaved (sterile) potting soil, incubate uncovered with high humidity at 21C until jar fills
5. harvest and desiccate by lyophilization, store in freezer.

I added 1% l-tryptophan to one batch and they seemed incredibly strong, but I never got numbers with Ehrlich reagent

I've got this at the bottom of the jar:

Mycelium growing higher up but VERY slowly. I'm thinking the medium is too wet to see this batch through...

What's the concensus?

It might be. You can start to lay the jar on different sides. Add dry vermiculite and shake it. Or it just might fully contam soon.

That is a contamination. It is a bacteria. Of you should smell it it will smell of roten apples or some say burnt bacon.

That jar is done.

canndo said:

That is a contamination. It is a bacteria. Of you should smell it it will smell of roten apples or some say burnt bacon.

That jar is done.

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Cool, thanks. And I most certainly WON'T be smelling it.

canndo said:

That is a contamination. It is a bacteria. Of you should smell it it will smell of roten apples or some say burnt bacon.

That jar is done.

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Rest old comrade, old friend. I am sorry you could never be born.

May you be at peace, in the last that is Garbage.

RIP

It is the most common contamination in grain.


Now you know what it looks like. Many times it is late to the party. Your inoculation looks fine. Then you shake it and it never recovers. People believe they shook the jar too long and killed it.

They didn't. Mushrooms grow at arithmetic multiples, bacteria at geometric.

After rereading the procedure I realize that I skipped the "rinse after boiling" step. I assume this was the culprit and caused all 12 jars to stall and eventually contaminate.

It is exactly as stated above: shook, stalled, contamination. Took about 6 weeks to get to that point.

Round 3 starting next weekend...

nicemarmot said:

After rereading the procedure I realize that I skipped the "rinse after boiling" step. I assume this was the culprit and caused all 12 jars to stall and eventually contaminate.

It is exactly as stated above: shook, stalled, contamination. Took about 6 weeks to get to that point.

Round 3 starting next weekend...

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Possible. Too much left over (compounded) starch.

Need some help here mushrooms are turni ng black amd ive pulled a few at all different sizes ate them and nothing. They're supposed to be psilocybe cyanescens.

Mrjacob274 said:

Need some help here mushrooms are turni ng black amd ive pulled a few at all different sizes ate them and nothing. They're supposed to be psilocybe cyanescens.

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That isn't black it's blue, they are not cyanesescens.

The "black" is spores sprinkling the top.

You should pick them earlier.


How many did you eat? They should work.

What kind are they? and roughly 4 grams id say.

These are what i ordered.

https://www.mushrooms.com/mushroom-spores-cultures/magic-mushrooms/spore-syringe/psilocybe-cyanescens

Definitely spore splooge man. Nothing to fear. Just a sploooged on chamber. Pick em sooner next time. That's all.
Eat those shits kid.

Pick those other big ones now before they splooge more spores.
Lazy.