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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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Post by Closi »

unicornporn wrote: post #62
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.

It's a prototype, so not necessarily indicative of the final finish. That looks like it's been cut by a craft knife, which is unlikely to be the final manufacturing process.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by nibbleshifter »

PartiallyTyped wrote: post #7
PaulHoule wrote: post #2

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.

Plastic storage tubs from IKEA or similar works out cheaper, and higher volume.

Its pretty hard to fuck up as well.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by alphalima »

weego wrote: post #30
buzzwords wrote: post #27

Ok, I know nothing about mushrooms and how they grow. But this looks like another Juicero situation.

$12 a block? The pod thing is only capable of what appears to be a portion, so yeah: It's a fungus juicero.

Typically, a block (made by the methods outlined elsewhere ITT) will give you 3-4 flushes before it's spent. I can only assume these blocks are similar.

Not defence of the product, definitely not for me, removes the fun part of mushroom growing.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

chasebank wrote: post #68
HyprMusic wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Every dispensary has CC processing and a bank account.

I've never been to a dispensary in the US that takes credit cards, and MC and Visa specifically don't allow cannabis businesses.

https://www.cato.org/blog/cannabis-banking-clash-between-fed...

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by NERD_ALERT »

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…

There’s actually a mushroom enthusiast who sells an inflatable monotub so you don’t need to make it yourself.

https://boomershroomer.com/monotub/

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by throwawaymaths »

itslennysfault wrote: post #55
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…

Yeah, this was my initial reaction as well. Growing mushrooms is not difficult. This feels like a solution looking for a problem.

It does look nice enough to use it as a conversation piece when you throw parties, so there's that, over juicero. I think that must appeal to a certain type of person.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by bluedino »

Alex3917 wrote: post #19
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.

> 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…

Good thing it only takes about 1/8th of an ounce (dried) to trip balls.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

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.

As the top comment says, this seems like the Juicero of mushroom growing. There are already much simpler, cheaper, and more straightforward ways to grow your own mushrooms:

https://magicbag.co/

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by imiric »

0_____0 wrote: post #78
imiric wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

In terms of complexity, IMO basic home cultivation is somewhere between baking a simple loaf of bread and assembling an IKEA shelf unit and installing it on the wall. It takes basic web search skills to find info on front-to-back DIY technique, and one can find colonized media online or at the farmers market. That being said, every level of simplification grants a hobby a new audience. I think the objection here is t…

> basic home cultivation is somewhere between baking a simple loaf of bread and assembling an IKEA shelf unit

It's a bit more involved than that, no? I'm not familiar myself, but don't you need to take into account things like temperature and humidity as well? If their mushroom blocks can tell the box the ideal conditions for each particular strain, and those can be maintained to produce a better end product, that already seems like a win over doing all of that manually.

> the machine is $299

Yeah, that's a bit much. They have to factor in mobile app development somewhere, right? :)

Again, I'm not saying that this particular product will succeed. But I think there might be a segment of the market that wants to get into home growing, but doesn't want to mess around with the DIY aspects of it.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by belval »

bsedlm wrote: post #59

the fact that the frontpage animation is a cartoon (computer graphics rendering) of what they intend to do, and not a well produced timelapse makes me doubt their entire project.

As with all indiegogo/kickstarters, a healthy amount of skepticism is warranted. However, the video does showcase what seems to be a working devices growing various mushrooms.
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