It's very doable, but you have to pay it attention... if you decide at some point that you can't be bothered to do the procedure properly and finish it halfass then contamination will probably be your biggest problem. Working in a sterile manner requires focus and the motivation to do it the way you're supposed to.
That plus the investments, which become less and less as time goes by is pretty much all. You can have less than perfect results at start, but chances are if you continue you get better at it. Well it's not all: preparing the substrates is often something I expect to finish off in like an hour, but I end up spending multiple hours making everything.
I think it's very rewarding. Keeping a standard roomplant alive is one thing but being the reason mushrooms pop out of the ground is pretty magical to me. Then again, I'm the type of guy to get absorbed by his interests...
If you want fast results without effort, try a kit. But forget about only adding A to B to get shrooms. Only having the product in mind is also really not ideal at all. For instance: I also grow edible non-psychedelic mushrooms and have pretty much the same fun with that.
I highly recommend it as a hobby! But it may not be for everyone, it takes a creative type of person who likes the sort of activities, even if there are standard procedures.
You also will need a pressure cooker by the way, and either filter bags or a growing chamber made from a big plastic rubbermaid box. Building a glovebox is also virtually a must.
Once you have them you can keep re-using them so thats nice, but it will be very disappointing if you try to grow mushrooms without a 'growing chamber' in which air and humidity are regulated well, and injecting spores without a glovebox (or an expensive/advanced flowhood) will result in molds getting in there as well and ruining everything you made before you ever see a mushroom.
Consider it well, its very nice to do but it requires more than a random spare hour as well.
Like the investments time investment also decreases, if they start growing they can keep on going for quite some time without any effort (besides misting with water)
edit:
merged in old thread (01-2002 to 03-2004) but do not want bump.
That plus the investments, which become less and less as time goes by is pretty much all. You can have less than perfect results at start, but chances are if you continue you get better at it. Well it's not all: preparing the substrates is often something I expect to finish off in like an hour, but I end up spending multiple hours making everything.
I think it's very rewarding. Keeping a standard roomplant alive is one thing but being the reason mushrooms pop out of the ground is pretty magical to me. Then again, I'm the type of guy to get absorbed by his interests...
If you want fast results without effort, try a kit. But forget about only adding A to B to get shrooms. Only having the product in mind is also really not ideal at all. For instance: I also grow edible non-psychedelic mushrooms and have pretty much the same fun with that.
I highly recommend it as a hobby! But it may not be for everyone, it takes a creative type of person who likes the sort of activities, even if there are standard procedures.
You also will need a pressure cooker by the way, and either filter bags or a growing chamber made from a big plastic rubbermaid box. Building a glovebox is also virtually a must.
Once you have them you can keep re-using them so thats nice, but it will be very disappointing if you try to grow mushrooms without a 'growing chamber' in which air and humidity are regulated well, and injecting spores without a glovebox (or an expensive/advanced flowhood) will result in molds getting in there as well and ruining everything you made before you ever see a mushroom.
Consider it well, its very nice to do but it requires more than a random spare hour as well.
Like the investments time investment also decreases, if they start growing they can keep on going for quite some time without any effort (besides misting with water)
edit:
merged in old thread (01-2002 to 03-2004) but do not want bump.
Last edited:
