Saturday 15 September 2012

how to grow magic mushrooms in jars with brown rice flower and verm



I've always wanted to grow weed, but I don't want to baby sit anything. I also don't want to refill water levels, check ph levels every day and all that shit. I started looking into growing magic mushrooms. Turns out it's pretty easy and works well. Here's how to start. This is the default newbie way to grow magic mushrooms. Full credit go's to Rodge Rabbit at the shroomery. This one man got me started.



So this is the basics, but the fruiting chamber is pretty lame. I don't want to fan, mist or anything like that. I want to put my pucks in something and have it down automatically. Her is an auto fruiting chamber that I made with instructions I found on the internet.

  This works so well because the bubbles push air out of the tubs at all times. No misting no fanning - Just put your pucks in and get mushrooms.

Friday 1 June 2012

Lighting Requirements of Mushrooms

Lighting Requirements of Mushrooms Some mushrooms, such as the Agaricus species commonly found in grocery stores require no light at all. However, those commonly grown by hobbyists, such as Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster Mushrooms), Lentinus enodes (Shiitake), Psilocybe cubensis, a hallucinogenic mushroom, and Hericium erinaceus (Lion's Mane) all require light to produce abundant, normal sized fruits. Experience has taught us that the light best suited for primordia formation and the development of fruitbodies is bright light with a color temperature of 5,000 Kelvin to 7,000 Kelvin. Fortunately, this type of light is easily obtainable at your local home improvement center in the form of fluorescent fixtures. For a small terrarium as described in this chapter, a single CFL (compact fluorescent) that screws into a standard light bulb socket will work very well. These can often be found in grocery and drug stores in every neighborhood. 15 watt CFLs will do the job well, but the package will probably have a large 60 stamped on it, indicating they produce light "equivalent" to a 60 watt incandescent light bulb. They're referring to lumens of output, not the frequency. Incandescent light bulbs are the worst possible choice for growing mushrooms, since they emit a 'red' light in the 3,000 Kelvin color temperature range. The higher the color temperature, expressed in Kelvin, the closer to the 'blue' end of the spectrum the emitted light is. The lower the color temperature the 'redder' the light is. If you have a choice of fluorescent lamps, purchase those labeled 'daylight' since these have a somewhat higher color temperature than cool white. Daylight, sometimes called 'natural daylight' fluorescent tubes generally emit light in the 6,500 Kelvin range, while cool white fluorescent emits light at around 5,000 Kelvin. If you have several terrariums stacked or otherwise near each other, you can use larger 2 to 4 tube fluorescent fixtures. These come in 48" and 96" lengths. Place the fluorescent lamps as close as you can get them to your terrariums without causing excessive heating. Species such as Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms prefer to fruit at temperatures in the upper 50's to mid 60's Fahrenheit (15C to 20C), while Psilocybe cubensis prefers to fruit at a temperature in the mid 70s to about 80 Fahrenheit (23C to 27C) Most mushroom species don't mind a slightly warmer temperature during daytime than at night, so if your grow room is a bit colder than the temperature ranges given above, a little warming from your lights during the daytime won't hurt at all, provided you don't let the air in your terrarium get too dry. For cakes, try to keep the humidity above 95%. Cased substrates are a bit more forgiving, but still try to keep your humidity above 90%. 12 hours on, 12 hours off has proved to be a great combination over a wide range of species. Of course, if you have a bright window near your terrarium, that will suffice, but direct sunlight for more than a few minutes per day should be avoided.

The following information was taken from - Mushroom Videos.com - Terrarium-Tek Lighting
This information was copied simply to make it easier to find for the users of Legion of Shroom

Tuesday 29 May 2012

Let's Grow Muchrooms - Videos

Finding these mushroom videos has always been a bitch, you watch one then have to hunt for another, then another. Here is all 4 parts in one place. Let's Grow Muchrooms is a pretty awesome video series for growing mushrooms. 

Monday 28 May 2012

Psilocybe cubensis "Golden Teacher" - Magic Mushrooms


I have always loved magic mushrooms and smoking dope. I love the trip, I love how it makes me feel.  I’m a big fan of 420. I don’t ever want to try acid, crack, coke or any of the other huge drugs out there that will steal your life away. Mushrooms and Marijuana are all natural and don’t have anything crazy in them. The problem with growing weed is the light and power it takes to grow them. Mushrooms on the other hand can grow in little to no light. They also don’t need tons of heat. This seems like a simple choice for me.

Wikipedia has this to say about Psilocybe cubensis “Magic Mushrooms”

“Psilocybe cubensis is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose principal active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin. Commonly called Boomers, Cubes or Gold Caps, it belongs to the Strophariaceae family of fungi and was previously known as Stropharia cubensis.

The species was first described in 1906 as Stropharia cubensis by Franklin Sumner Earle in Cuba.[1] In 1907 it was identified as Naematoloma caerulescens in Tonkin by Narcisse Théophile Patouillard,[2] while in 1941 it was called Stropharia cyanescens by William Alphonso Murrill in Florida.[3] These synonyms were later assigned to the species Psilocybe cubensis.[4][5]

The name Psilocybe is derived from the Greek roots psilos (ψιλος) and kubê (κυβη),[6] and translates as "bald head". Cubensis means "coming from Cuba", and refers to Cuba, the type locality published by Earle.”



The reason for trying to grow these little babies is they have the highest traing on the spore website. I also find that on all the mushroom sites these little guys are the first grow of everything. The third I’ve found is that these little guys are strong little growers and do well for a first grow – and they are cheap – I’ve found them on some websites for $16.00 per syringe of spores. This could work.