| I don't need any more spores, but here are a few things I wish someone had told me when I got started:
1. Buy a canning funnel. This makes cleaning your PF jar rims a snap before adding dry verm, and cuts chances of contams. They are like 2 or 3 bucks.
2. Liquid measuring cups and dry measuring cups are not the same. The wrong one will throw a curve in a tek.
3. Don't buy a damned aquarium. They are a pain in the ass in almost every respect. I know a lot of the teks have an aquarium in 'em, but plastic is cheap and light and will do the same job as your terrarium, with less bull.
4. You cannot take over the world with 10 cakes. You aren't going to make any money- sorry! Don't quit your day job and become a mad scientist thinking your ship has come in. You'll see how much work commercial production would be for one guy and then go ask for your job back...
5. They take forever. Chill out and never plan on 'em to go by your schedule. Until I learned to chill, it was a frustrating hobby. They apparently hate to be stared at, and only grow behind your back.
6. Buy the big pressure cooker. You will always hate that small one and wish that you weren't such a cheapskate.
7. You don't need a humidifier. Perlite is fine for anything small scale. That money is better spent on a hepa filter.
8. It's easy. I put off trying to grow shrooms for a long time because I was intimidated. The PF Tek is as close as a guy can get to dumb-ass proof if you actually follow the instructions.
9. Brown Rice = BRF. That organic stuff is megabucks compared to a bag of Mahatma's and a garage sale coffee grinder.
10. Mycellial water is worth it's weight in gold. One cc of spores is 1-2 jars of innoculated substrate, or one jar of mycellial water which easily gives you 10 ready syringes full or 100-200 jars of innoculated substrate. (grain to grain transfer is also in this category)
-subterra |