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Smart mushroom growing device for beginners
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Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners
#32I never tried to grow my own mushrooms, but the hardest part seems to be the actual growing of the mycelium with all the involved cleanliness, usage of needles, autoclaves and so on, right? The actual "container", which keeps the right amount of light and humidity and air circulation, can be build and maintained fairly easily. At least that's why i got from reading a little bit about this.
Yeah, it sounds like you order "blocks" to place in the box, and then you harvest the mushrooms once they grow - much like other commercial mushroom kits, it sounds like large parts of it are single-use.
Which is fine, I guess, but I thought this was going to be something that would let me order one thing, and continually and easily grow-and-harvest mushrooms in perpetuity.
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#33For 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.
> Pretty sure they're targeting a very specific audience here. Probably accurate. Growing edible mushrooms on such a small scale doesn't make any sense given that they are 90% water, and so shrink ~90% when you cook them. This would be like buying an AeroGarden that can grow only a single leaf of parsley. E.g. it takes at least 10 lbs of lions mane to make crab cakes for two people, whereas I doubt this thing is goin…
That would be dried mushrooms. No thanks!
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#34as a home mushroom cultivator I can tell you that this device is pretty much the Juicero of the mushroom world. from what i'm reading this device accomplishes nothing that one can't do with a homemade monotub composed of a 32 quart storage tote, a spray bottle and some polyfill. if you are interested in growing edible gourmet mushrooms look up a local mushroom farm in your area, most of them sell blocks that you can…
Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners
#35I never tried to grow my own mushrooms, but the hardest part seems to be the actual growing of the mycelium with all the involved cleanliness, usage of needles, autoclaves and so on, right? The actual "container", which keeps the right amount of light and humidity and air circulation, can be build and maintained fairly easily. At least that's why i got from reading a little bit about this.
Yeah, 1000%. I've grown almost half the species they list. The hard (and fun) part is agar work to clean up the culture, sterilizing the grain, and keeping it sterile as you inoculate it, knowing when a bag has gone bad, etc. Fruiting it is easy in comparison. Like, cut some slits in the bag and mist it, with a trash bag over it if you want to be fancy. Mushroom stand at former local farmers market sold said blocks d…
There are even mail order services which will send you a pretty box with a pre inoculated block in it. Open the packaging, keep it under your table and check it so often, and you get tons of mushrooms. It's really fun.
The utility of this device is extremely questionable, but I can't deny that it's really pretty and a good conversation starter.
Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners
#36as a home mushroom cultivator I can tell you that this device is pretty much the Juicero of the mushroom world. from what i'm reading this device accomplishes nothing that one can't do with a homemade monotub composed of a 32 quart storage tote, a spray bottle and some polyfill. if you are interested in growing edible gourmet mushrooms look up a local mushroom farm in your area, most of them sell blocks that you can…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
i think you are giving this device far too much credit to backhandedly imply that it is as groundbreaking as the introduction of cloud storage.
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#37$282 + $12/pod to grow fungus. Assuming you're going to use it legally, you won't have a positive ROI.
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#38Clever 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.
Contamination mostly happening in the inoculation phase and this is just a fruiting chamber, does not help with that. You can also do the whole fruiting phase in a plastic bag with the help of a water spray.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You've just demystified a large potential demand source for this thing to me.
Pleasure to help.
With this device, all one needs is some grains (I have an uncle who has a relevant subreddit), and spores, which are legally obtainable!
Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners
#40as a home mushroom cultivator I can tell you that this device is pretty much the Juicero of the mushroom world. from what i'm reading this device accomplishes nothing that one can't do with a homemade monotub composed of a 32 quart storage tote, a spray bottle and some polyfill. if you are interested in growing edible gourmet mushrooms look up a local mushroom farm in your area, most of them sell blocks that you can…
I don't think these smart boxes are for mushroom growers (agriculture) but for magic mushroom growers (recreational drug use). Where a "Click&Grow" equivalent is needed. With a hydrometer and water sprayer instead of a timed light.