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hey guys,

i haven't tried my shrooms yet, but i just love growing them!
this time i have discovered a funny albino shroom among my mexican b+ flush so i wanted to share it with you
happy new year and cheers,
dave

Okay, that makes sense...
Well I'll keep exchanging the water every 3rd day and cleaning the box and hope that no contaminants will find their way.

It's really amazing, how fast they grow. Nice watching them!

ps.: appreciating the posts of you all very much!

I don't really understand your concern. Is it because I have chosen white rice flour instead of the brown one?
Or is ist that I have chosen saw dust instead of verm as casing?
I mean there is many ways how to proceed after birthing the cake, right?
You can just leave it without a casing, you can use verm as casing, you can chop it apart and cover it with soil...
Or what makes you feel unconfortable?
They are really bright white, no cow-webs at all, no green mold, nothing. And they smell very nice of mushrooms...

Well you pay one Euro and they have to buy the postage for 77 cent. So they earn 23 cent for opening the envelope, reading your order, making the print, putting it into the other envelope and sending it away.

Regarding all this effort, if you ask me, one Euro = for free!

And when you compare it to the prizes of other shops...

I know that there are many ways to cantamination, I have spent two weeks reading everything I could find about mushroom cultivation and watching all pf-tek videos on ...tube.
Nevermind, only wanted to say that it is also okay to use white rice flour. At least for my b+ cubensis it worked better.
(So in my case it was 1 cup of water, 1 cup of white rice flour and 2 cups of verm.)
Also that sawdust works very well as casing.

ps: I have exactly followed fungifun's pf-tek description. Only that I have used white rice flour...

hey malabar,

don't worry, my cake is very healthy. After birthing it, I have covered it with sawdust instead of vermiculite. That's why it looks like sauerkraut

It's all only cubensis (b+) mycelium and sawdust. Here is a picture of the cake today.



I have used "bio"-rice, so the shell was removed but I hope that the nutrients have remained. If not, the mushrooms would't be growing, right? Or is it possible, that they contain less psilocybin?

thanks!

The best source for spores is the free spore ring (fsre.nl)! I got my B+ spores there. You send them 1 Euro (or more as a donation) and you will get one spore print. When your mushrooms have grown, you send a few prints back.
A great idea! Should be supported! Free spores for everyone!

Hey guys,

I have tried a few substrates and alternatives and I had to find out, that if you have a temperature of around 70-80F, a 200ml jar sould be fully colonized after 14 days.
If it's not, the contamination has had too much time to get into your jar and you most likely will have to throw it out

One thing is strange: in my case the white rice flour has worked better then the brown (natural) rice flour! Did anyone make the same experience?

Also I have made a comparison between keeping the mycelium longer in the jar and in my case it was better to birth the cake after 14 days. Doing so, I have had the first pins comming out after exactly 21 days after injecting the syringe.



The picture has been taken today (23 days after injecting the spores).

I don't even know whether I am going to try one of the mushrooms, but I definitely know that growing them is a lot of fun!!!