What maybe $20 to make a simple Potato Dextrose or Oatmeal, if that much.
The most costly thing would be a PC.
Iām disabled and on a severely fixed income and I was able to get everything (Except the PC.) without having to save.
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Like I said if you want to do it the lazy way & not put the work in, then it is what it is.
Culture (Agar)is easy to make just takes a little time (My first Culture control is still contam free and itās been a few months.) to make the longest part is waiting for the PC to cool down.
Nothing a day of studying canāt solve donāt let it discourage you itās not as hard as it seems.
And once youāve did a batch the next one gets easier.
Youāll be glad that youāve equipped yourself with that knowledge in the long run.
Especially, with Tissue Culture (Which is an Agar)craze that is starting to hit the Cannabis industry.
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Take cap after veil breaks, place on aluminum foil, cover. Wait overnight, remove cover, pull cap off and you have made a spore print to back up genetics
Also, buy premade agar plates. Plenty of places to purchase from and plenty of types available (pda, lme, carbon, plates with antibiotics). Tipofthecapmushrooms is a good place to start. Very knowledgeable regarding agar. Have used him to make agar plates for other hobbies and have not had any issues
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Iāve seen them before and had though of using them. Glad to hear youāve had good success with them. Their Liquid culture is a good price also!
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Is ralphsters spores and the shroomery still around?
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The shroomery yes, not sure about ralphsters thoughā¦ Havenāt used them in a few years and Iām not current on shroomery like I used to be
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Have a buddy using his carbon plates. APE and BMR are throwing ropes like I havenāt seen before. Not to be THAT person, but why not make your own lc? Time Iād presume?
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I was talking about the varieties like pink oysters and cordyceps, I usually see them for $15. I just made my first LC of karo and water. I still need to test it out on some grains. I started a lot of jars with agar so Iām trying to G2G all of them first before they pin in the jars.
Whatās the BMR?
Have you had the APEās? Are they noticeably more potent. Iām growing Golden Teachers.
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The apes i have bought on the black market were noticeably more potent then other variety i have bought.
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I may have get some of those to grow.
The nice thing about growing your own is you just eat more! Iāve gotten up to 5g. My buddy ate 10g as we played disc golf Sunday. I couldnāt stop laughing and he seemed normal.
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Thats crazy. 10 grams? Holy shit. Lol
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Yāall are giving me the itch for a blast off. Been waaayyyy too long
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Im getten down this saturday.
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Do it! It does the body good!
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Blue magnolia Rust= BMR
I have taken APE, and yes, a bit more intense. Iām currently working a PE swab from DocsDankSeeds. Have been cleaning up agar plates for a bit now. (I take 100% responsibility for the need for so many transfers). I currently have 2 shoeboxes of GT colonizing atm.
Do you have any oyster cultures at the moment?
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So many acronyms!
I donāt have any oysters, just the cubes.
Mine have gone weird on me. They donāt seem to drop spores and weird tops and gills.
Ive been trying to get some more spore prints to pass out but they did this.
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I finished reading this thread and some of the sub-threads and growing Mycelium looks like fun. Unfortunately I happen to live in one of the three states that it āillegalā to ship psilocybin into. That is after looking at reddit and various internet spores sites. Takes all the potential fun out of it! 
A great refresher though, maybe one day.
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I have some APE currently growing in jars from a LC I bought from Ebay. Really hope they turn out legit when I fruit them
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@Grohio
Iāve had very good luck with spores from SporeWorks (B+ was my best, but regular Golden Teacher also good)
BRF cakes (PFTek?) are the only think Iāve ever done. Cheap. Easy. Reliable. Follow the instructions, and you canāt go wrong for small grows.
Shroomery is where I got all my info for getting started (spores, PFTek, shotgun fruiting chambers, etc)
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I actually ended up ordering GT and B+ from magicmushroommycology666 under recommendation from another member. They were about half the price of sporeworks. Supose to be arriving today. I plan on doing BRF jars.
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