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I wish you luck trying to grow liberty caps - from what I know its nigh on near impossible to grow liberties from spore prints etc.
 
Definitely go hunting for some Liberty Caps if possible during the season, i love growing Cubensis but my favorite to experience are Semilanceata by a mile, it's also fun to go through the experience of seeking them, finding them, and then of course taking them, it makes it extra special i believe, aesthetically they are really beautiful mushrooms too 🍄

My favorite Cubensis to grow are Golden Teachers and B+, healthy shrooms, good yeild and always potent :)
 
Update on pics, and end result. I wasn't able to get more than one flush due to a cob web mold contamination. It really seemed to accelerate after the spores started to drop. I did still make out with 6oz of dried fungi and got prints like I wanted.
Enjoy the pics...😁
 

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Good, you're taking prints!

I think it's a really good idea to cultivate the same strain, make it yours
That way, you're not reliant on vendors and the uncertainty of mail-ordering and you develop a relationship with your mushies. You know them and they know you, it's intimate, and you can make it your heirloom, pass it off to your grandkids 😁
 
nemesauce said:
:shock: that's a bang up job!!😁

It's like a Forest without the trees, lol
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:lol: That's exactly what I thought too. The fungi forest.

Spore prints were a must, I want to start working with agar and strain isolation. Multi spore syringe just got me started.
Should have pic soon of next one's that are going. I thought I had Pan. Cyans, when in fact looking at syringe label again it says P. Cambodginiensis, definitely want prints of these.

Thanks Grateful One, it definitely is a wonderful sight seeing these. Even better when it works out on your first attempt!
 
Isolating with agar is pretty easy--after you do it once you'll have the hang of it. The cool part is, after you get the strongest culture isolated, it grows like crazy when you put it in substrate! Not cleaning it really slows it down, like it's fighting itself. Get them all going in the same direction and they take off like a race car!
 
EternalPeace said:
Isolating with agar is pretty easy--after you do it once you'll have the hang of it. The cool part is, after you get the strongest culture isolated, it grows like crazy when you put it in substrate! Not cleaning it really slows it down, like it's fighting itself. Get them all going in the same direction and they take off like a race car!
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Thanks for the wisdom, and encouragement EP :d
I'm definitely looking forward to working with agar and isolation in the near future. Trying to get all my prints in line before my syringes go bad. Then I can get into the thick of it a little more.
 
if you want real potency, my experience has been that ditching the bulk subs and fruiting jars of whole brown rice(no verm no rice powder just whole brown cooked rice) produces fruits of superior potency. Bulks like straw and esp always produced very weak mushrooms for me. Whole brown rice cake fruits blow my mind.
 
jamie said:
if you want real potency, my experience has been that ditching the bulk subs and fruiting jars of whole brown rice(no verm no rice powder just whole brown cooked rice) produces fruits of superior potency. Bulks like straw and esp always produced very weak mushrooms for me. Whole brown rice cake fruits blow my mind.
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Jamie, you don't mention if this is for all varieties. Straw does look like a pain to work with but I was going to gear that more towards regular edibles. Same goes for working with wood lovers, I have a patch of azurescens going outside that I will maintain but have no interest to bring them into controlled conditions.
While I like the sound and easiness of your method and would like to try it out, is there anything out there proving that they are truly more potent with this method, and if so please point me in the right direction :)

As I mentioned though I'm trying to learn a lot of this so I can grow all types of mushrooms and not just the magical kind, so I'm probably going to be working with bulk subs for some time. Plus I live in horse country and have access to all the poo I can handle.

Is there anything you do differently to the rice throughout the process? Thanks for your input Jamie!
 
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