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Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by imiric »

pline wrote: post #47
s_dev wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

i fear coming off as a hostile know it all, but i think this company is simply parting a fool from their money (see Juicero). i don't think that a click and grow equivalent is needed in the cubensis cultivation space. with the advent of uncle bens tek around 2019 and pf tek years before that the flood gates for at home cultivation psilocybe cubensis have already been opened.

Yet there's still no begginer-friendly way of doing any of that without diving head-first into the DIY home growing literature. Your comments are coming off as gatekeeping for no other reason than speculation and the fact you're already familiar with the space.

This product seems to simplify the entire process of home growing, which is a bit more involved than squeezing juice out of fruit. As long as it's priced and marketed appropriately, I don't see a reason why it shouldn't exist. Whether there's a market for it is another question, though.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by unicornporn »

pline wrote: post #25

as 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…

This thing looks extremely rough when examining pictures and video at highest resolution available. Take a look at the left edge of the display cut out, as an example:

https://i.imgur.com/ttZZhwa.png

This hobbyist level of machining does not go very well with the slick design and marketing.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by HyprMusic »

chasebank wrote: post #56
devwastaken wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's still illigal at a federal level.

So is weed. Nobody cares.

The banks do. Payment providers do. Advertisers do. There's plenty of reasons for a business to be low-key about providing accessories to break Federal laws.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by bemmu »

pline wrote: post #25

as 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…

You got me curious about the growing process (didn't even know it's something you can do at home), and came across this fascinating tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1FgFFzQd4

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by chasebank »

eterpstra wrote: post #5

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.

Indeed it is.

As someone who’s been encapsulating magic mushrooms for 10+ years, what I’d really love to see is an easy way to extract psilocybin for a more accurate measurement of the compound. Encapsulated mushrooms work ok but sometimes it can be orders of magnitude different in potency. Like you think you’re drinking a beer and accidentally drank 3 margaritas. I’ve read that people are working on deriving psilocybin from yeast but haven’t heard much as of late.

Fwiw, I think mushrooms at low quantities might be the best drug of all time, even better than caffeine. Happy pills, I tell ya!

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

citruscomputing wrote: post #26
DrinkWater wrote: post #16

I 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…

Growing Gourmet and Medicinal by PS is an amazing resource and it’s stunning to me that such a valuable book is only $40 or so. Even if you aren’t growing at the moment, if you’re interested in mushrooms it’s such a great buy.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by xeddit »

DrinkWater wrote: post #16

I 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.

If you think of mushrooms as a cycle, you can "buy in" right before they produce the mushroom bodies from pre-colonised blocks of grain. You're correct, at this point all the hard work has been done and the purpose of the 'container' is to build up humidity and co2, it can even be as simple as a plastic bin bag. This is the quick, easy and expensive way in my understanding, you make it cheap and time consuming by creating, sterilizing and inoculating those containers of grain yourself. It's worth doing if you plan on growing more, but if you just want to get started then buy the pre-sterilised or pre-colonised grain.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by chasebank »

HyprMusic wrote: post #63
chasebank wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So is weed. Nobody cares.

The banks do. Payment providers do. Advertisers do. There's plenty of reasons for a business to be low-key about providing accessories to break Federal laws.

No they don’t. They just want plausible deniability. They’re a bank, they want to make money. Every dispensary has CC processing and a bank account. If they cared about federal law, they would stop obvious money laundering.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by upupandup »

labrador wrote: post #51
upupandup wrote: post #46

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There are psilocybin mushroom sold in marijuana dispensaries online and offline. To be honest I don't like the come up. I no longer like being "scolded" by it.

I get people selling psilocybin mushrooms following me on Twitter all the time since I follow MAPS and other research groups. I've been afraid to order because I have to give a real address to mail to and it's still illegal at the federal level

oh im talking about canada btw but yeah not sure how US works

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by s_dev »

kodah wrote: post #48
s_dev wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Considering they're trying to sell pods that go with this device rather than selling some general purpose device, I don't think you're correct.

And the guy in Baja hoodie winking every time he says Mushroom? The other guy going on about "Uncle Ben tek" for growing mushrooms? You gotta read between the lines -- obviously this product will not be explicitly marketed for drug use.

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=32056302&goto=item%3Fi...

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