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.
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Shroomery has good tutorials for different growing methods.
Tripping as a depressed person can be rough at times, but these difficult trips can be productive. If you're on any SSRI, psychedelics will not have much of an effect, though.
SSRI tip is top notch, I feel so bad when I read about people finally acquiring mushrooms or L and then being like "was this bunk?!"
Damn really? So I'd have to stop taking my medicine if I wanted to try? That sucks.
It's something to read about. I don't have personal experience with combining them, but I think it depends on dosage and your specific physiology.
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I just skimmed that video and this guy is a boss. Those are definitely psilocybe cubensis he's growing but he doesn't actually say it haha. The way he said "supplement" at the start had me wondering but you can clearly see when he harvests.
This is pretty much exactly what I did on later grows. I used rye berries instead of millet and I didn't use agar. Just spores directly to the jars of hydrated grain. Agar is awesome but it's also an extra step for contamination especially without a flowhood and i was just using a still air box. It also seemed like a real pain doing agar work with the limited mobility and visibility of working in a still air box.
That video is great, I'd check out all the steps on shroomery to make sure you understand everything super thouroughly, and having expert feedback when some weird color shows up or something doesn't go as planned can give you some great peace of mind.
Lol grow the "albino penis envy" cubensis variety, it looks cool as hell and allegedly is denser than other cube varieties which is kind of interesting.
Cubensis is a saprophytic fungi. It decays things with cellulose in a parasitic way so if it has a food supply it will grow with varying degrees of efficiency. Pretty much all saprophytes work like that apart from some doing well on certain substrates and wood types. What you learn for oysters and lion's mane mostly works for cubensis (minus sawdust blocks which probably still do), what you learn for cubensis directly translates to being able to grow most culinary species. Even your monotubs will hold three sawdust colonies so I just grow culinary mushrooms in them.
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