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Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Usually when you grow mushrooms you do it in two steps. First you grow out the mycelium on a growth medium such as grains, then you spread out the mycelium and cover it with some casing material, say peat moss, and fruit it under different environmental conditions. A typical mushroom lab has two areas built out (say with plastic sheets) to maintain the conditions for these two phases.

Looks like their machine creates conditions to fruit mycelium blocks that they send to you in the mail.

It's a big plus that it works with mycelium blocks you make yourself.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Usually when you grow mushrooms you do it in two steps. First you grow out the mycelium on a growth medium such as grains, then you spread out the mycelium and cover it with some casing material, say peat moss, and fruit it under different environmental conditions. A typical mushroom lab has two areas built out (say with plastic sheets) to maintain the conditions for these two phases. Looks like their machine creates…

Seems so. From step 1 on the website: "Choose from our precolonized mushroom blocks and press start"

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Usually when you grow mushrooms you do it in two steps. First you grow out the mycelium on a growth medium such as grains, then you spread out the mycelium and cover it with some casing material, say peat moss, and fruit it under different environmental conditions. A typical mushroom lab has two areas built out (say with plastic sheets) to maintain the conditions for these two phases. Looks like their machine creates…

I had been considering setting up my own small lab to grow and do experiments for ... reasons. I think that this is a great way to get started and should greatly simplify the process.

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For the section on growing your own "special" mushrooms, they have a young guy in a baja hoodie watching the "magic" happen and winking at the camera. Pretty sure they're targeting a very specific audience here. Solid marketing.

It is certainly working.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Clever device. I was wondering how they’d sterilize between harvests, but with the presence of a UV light I assume they run a sterilization cycle of some kind.

While I don’t partake, a quick and clean path growing magic mushrooms would be nice for the community. The existing teks out there still have plenty of room for contamination.

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