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DjLiquid · 07-10-08, 07:36

First off I just wanna say Hi! Ive been interested in mycology for a while but never tried growing mushrooms or ever even tried any psychotropic ones so this will hopefully be my first. With my background of migraines/headaches I now have an excuse to be a human guinea pig =).

After reading threads for the last few weeks, watching loads of vids on youtube and getting some nice grow ebooks I figured it was time to order some spores and give it a shot. I got some "golden teacher" (psilocybe cubensis) in a 10ml syringe and did everything I was supposed to do and took extra precautionary measures by steaming the jars for 100 minutes. After the inoculation, I covered the holes again with medical tape and wiped off the jars with alcohol to ensure there would be no contamination. Now this is where my questions come in since none of the guides shed light on this issue. Am I supposed to covered the holes I made with the syringe, and also when I store the jars, can they be completely away from light? When being birthed I will store them in a tote box with water soaked perelite, will dunking be necessary. Later, once the veils break I can take a mushroom and take a spore print, put the spores into a syringe with diluted water and reinoculate more jars to make more cakes instead of buying more spore syringes online, correct?

Sorry for the birrage of questions but I couldn't clarify all of this stuff in any of my previous reading.

Thanks!

07-10-08, 07:36	#1 (permalink)
DjLiquid Mycophiliac Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 67	First mushroom grow - questions First off I just wanna say Hi! Ive been interested in mycology for a while but never tried growing mushrooms or ever even tried any psychotropic ones so this will hopefully be my first. With my background of migraines/headaches I now have an excuse to be a human guinea pig =). After reading threads for the last few weeks, watching loads of vids on youtube and getting some nice grow ebooks I figured it was time to order some spores and give it a shot. I got some "golden teacher" (psilocybe cubensis) in a 10ml syringe and did everything I was supposed to do and took extra precautionary measures by steaming the jars for 100 minutes. After the inoculation, I covered the holes again with medical tape and wiped off the jars with alcohol to ensure there would be no contamination. Now this is where my questions come in since none of the guides shed light on this issue. Am I supposed to covered the holes I made with the syringe, and also when I store the jars, can they be completely away from light? When being birthed I will store them in a tote box with water soaked perelite, will dunking be necessary. Later, once the veils break I can take a mushroom and take a spore print, put the spores into a syringe with diluted water and reinoculate more jars to make more cakes instead of buying more spore syringes online, correct? Sorry for the birrage of questions but I couldn't clarify all of this stuff in any of my previous reading. Thanks!