Has anybody ever used a dried mushroom to make liquid culture while skipping the whole agar process. Would a powdered mushrooms colonize in liquid culture water or would it just contaminate

I’ve heard when it come to PE or APE that there should be or they do well with a casing layer. I think I understand the concept of a pseudo casing layer. What exactly is a casing layer? Is that after the mycelium colonizes the substrate and then you add another layer? Am I understanding this correctly?

Just wondering when I need to harvest them do I need to pluck the bigger ones or should I give it a day or two the gills are curling up already

hi, a month ago i took 15 g of magic truffles and had a very nice trip.

this time i ate 30 g harvested fresh cubensis and the trip was very mid.

i chopped the shrooms with fingers and put them in water with lemon. and drink it. my purpose wasn't to tea but to just swallow it without feeling the taste.

after like 2 hours i was feeling very nice, and i had some enchanted senses but it wasn't very intense as with truffles.

with truffles my mind was really weird and had very strong feelings going on in the head. also they kicked in way earlier. after 15-20 mins i almost was feeling how i was feeling after 2 hours with the cubensis.

so how so? my shrooms are weak? what can be the reason? suggestions to how to improve?

also i noticed that some shrooms were white inside and other blue, is this related to potency?

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I made a few agar plates from spore syringes this past weekend, and I am thrilled that already there are dozens of mycelial colonies appearing on each plate and no visible contamination.

However, I think I may be suffering from success. I think next time I start from spore syringes I will have to choose a smaller needle, as I definitely put more liquid on the plates than I meant to. With so many different colonies appearing, does anyone have advice for selecting the best colonies to transfer to new plates?

I suppose I will most likely just pick some of the strongest colonies and make a bunch of additional plates to observe and experiment, but I would also be interested in hearing feedback from others who may have some more experience.

I've done a grow starting from spore syringes to agar before, but I don't remember seeing quite this many colonies on that plate - I guess these syringes were absolutely jam packed with viable spores. I even forgot to shake the syringe before making the first plate and if anything that one has even more colonies forming.

I’ve got 9 shoeboxes going right now. All are tidal waves. They were all started at the same time. The boxes are all the same. Everything is equal between them. Seven pinned almost immediately and I got a decent first flush. I rehydrated them all and set them out again. The same 7 are starting to pin again, but two haven’t done anything. They are all fully colonized and they all get the same FAE & misting regime. There are no signs of contamination in any of them. What could cause 2 to not pin? I’ve never had this happen before.

Sorry I don’t have pictures. I just thought to ask while in the office. Just imagine 9 shoeboxes fully colonized and 7 of them gearing up for their 2nd flush and you’ll see it.

And if so, what is it???

Mixed some spent cakes and contaminated uncle Ben's tek and a month later these guys show up

Blue spots showed up on stipe today only a few hours after I checked them last just a little confused it’s only on this cluster all of the others don’t have them

So three of my 4 shoe box grows stalled so I broke them up and moved them to a larger tall 20 qt tub to see what happens will they recolonize and finally fruit? Who knows I know people have done similar experiments with spent cakes so I’m hopeful either way if I don’t get fruits I’m not complaining I’m already moving on to more strains at the moment so I’m not really worried about these too much but it was just a dumb idea brought on by boredom and impatience who knows maybe it will prove worthwhile or maybe it will prove that I’m as stupid as I thought either way we lit 🔥

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Has anybody ever made their own potatoes dextrose agar good bad???

I took a very small microdose because I’m solo today but I want to take a little bit more. Bad idea? It’s only been like 45 mins.

Good morning! I have read the relevant posts in this group from about two years ago. Can we come up with an updated list of trustworthy sellers of spores? Things are always changing, and I don't want to get burned. Thank you.