This is from the first grow I did, PF tek style but with a few updates. I did a couple monotub grows a year later that went great but I can't for the life of me find any pics.
The white pebbles are perlite and the cake is mostly rice bran meal and fine vermiculite, with a little coffee and gypsum.
Nice! I took some time during quarantine to try my first grow as well. Ended up with about a zip after second flush. Then I got lazy and got some contams. Really fun hobby though. I'm gonna try gourmet for a while.
That's sweet! Did you do cakes or a monotub?
I did cakes in a fruiting chamber. Looks like we followed the same tutorial video!
Nice! Yeah that vid is a classic. The guy with the beard posts regularly on Shroomery as RogerRabbit. He has a really rad gourmet mushroom operation that involves a partially buried 40ft humidified shipping container "mushroom cave."
The tek in the video is based on the PF tek, by this dude named PsilocybeFanaticus. In the early 90's PF posted an add selling spores in the back of issues of High Times along with a URL that led to a site with directions for a novel method of growing mushrooms without the need of an autoclave/pressure cooker and with materials any college kid could cobble together. Was really successful, and in typical fasion the DEA busted down his door, raided his house and arrested him at gunpoint, all because he linked to the directions. Super lame, but he avoided prison anway.
Oh nice! I was on shroomery constantly during my grow. I'm sure I saw some of his posts at some point.
Yeah it's interesting how you can sell spores in the US but you have to be very careful to state they aren't for cultivation. It's nice to see shrooms becoming the next wave of legalization efforts. I kind of wonder how far they'll get though. I don't think people will be as open to it as they have been for weed.
"Intended for microscopy only" lol
Michigan decriminalized psychedelics in general like a month ago so that's something. I agree it seems like it might be a harder road than for weed, but at least there's a periodic stream of research from Johns Hopkins and such to sensationalize them in a positive light
Yeah the Michigan thing surprised me. It does seem like there's some investment going into medicinal mushrooms so that's promising.