I just got my spore in and i can't wait to start!! =) They are the golden teacher strain and i bought them from sporestore.com They are very good with shiping ordered on monday and got them friday...btw i live on the other side of the country so that's saying something. Very good shipping I'll post if they take or not and how good they are later.(4-5weeks i'm guessing)
Only a visible ammount of spores is needed per jar, respectively. This means you could probably do about 30, like the other guy said. I wouldn't want to be monitering 30 jars for moulds and foriegn sticky things, but some people can handle that! Good luck!
I never grew shrooms, but I know this. Attention To Detail is VERY important. Good luck and cograts on your new hobby.
Thanks for the encouragement =D I have started sterlizing the jars and substraight....will be time to inject the spores soon. I'm going to do 7 jars at first then go from there...not gowing for the naboorhood lol
i'd say do six jars for your first run, and use straight spores for the background. the PF jars should have four holes in the lid at even intervals, as close to the edge as possible. insert the point in the hole, and angle it so its able to be seen through the glass. inject JUST enough so you can see a drop of water form on the inside of the glass. do this in each hole. it should take about 1cc per jar, possibly a little less or a little more. dont go overboard, its unnecessary and not too helpful in this case! the best advice i can give you apart from being meticulously clean, is to not get frustrated waiting for signs of growth. it may be a week or even a few days more, even under good conditions, before you see visible mycelium. in the meantime its common to strain your eyes to try and find some tiny sign of life, and many people (myself included!) mistake little lighter than normal clumps of BRF for fungal growth. now while you're undertaking your first grow, theres some information available on the shroomery which will help stretch your spore solution, and even provide faster grows next time. some of it is suitable for the novice cultivator. i'd suggest looking up information about making liquid mycelium cultures. these are liquids with enough nutrition for the spores to get going and start growing. the spores germinate and mycellium forms in the liquid. take an empty -STERILE!- syringe (most spore sites will sell these) and fill it with the liquid with the mycelium. a single drop of spore solution can produce enough of this liquid solution to fill a whole syringe and in turn innoculate many jars with it. those jars will colonize faster, since you're innoculating with mycellium instead of spores. theres no wating around for the spores to germinate. this stuff has a shelf life and this technique is slightly more advanced and may take extra materials you do not immediately have on hand, but it would be wise to pursue this in the future, and definitely start reading up on it now. it will exponentially increase the number of jars you can innoculate with a single syringe (and the most wonderful part of all - you can start new mycelium cultures with the remnants of the last that you never used to grow with!)
Sounds great i'm going to have to look that up....I just finished innoculating 9 jars and plan on check them in a week or so for bacteria and colonization....What do you say if your mom ask what you are doing and your not sure she is okay with mushroom growing?
can't give any advice on that. hide them well, or grow at someone elses place. its hard to check for bacterial contamination unless you notice a strong bad smell. but dont open them to try to smell them. fungal contams are easy to spot, though.
Thanks alot for the liquid mycelium culture advise. I'm glad you told me about that, defently going to try that out soon =)
Liquid culture is so much faster than multispore innoculation that it is insane. You're never going to want to innoculate your substrate with spores again if you can manage to make lc effectively.
im actually waiting on my spore syringes to come in at the moment, and have been so since last wednesday. if you live with your parents, how were you able to get the syringes? Did you just have them shipped directly to your house or what? i actually am having them sent to a local UPS store and picking them up there so that I need not worry about any interference from my parents
Thanks =) If you buy from sporestore.com they will come in a small white box in your mail box and all you have to do is check the mail everyday. If you have to, get a friend to drive to down to copy the mail key and just don't tell your parents when you check the mail or that you have a spare key. They won't care unless you make a big deal about it Now boiling a pot for and hour that will take some planing to keep there supisions down, unless your the "science" type that always does "expermints" at home. If you can keep all that quite then you can easily hide the jars and by time they are ready (unless you told all your friends...bad idea) no one will rememer anything about what you were doing and you can fruit them in your room cause they don't need much light. Defently don't tell your friends you are growing....at most say you have a great hook up and you can make them pay a bit to help cover the cost of growing, around $10 1/8th is fair imo sorry for the long post, and fyi i'm not an expert at all so do your own research for your own safety.
My spore jars are colinizing fast, been a week and a half in less than perfect contitions and they are nearly done some of them, Exellent spores from sporestore as far as i can tell.
