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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 bergenty »

uoaei wrote: post #170
bergenty wrote: post #166

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There is a lot of effort in those simple words though. Based on my experience— 1) Sterilize the substrate/polyfill. This is not trivial. I personally use a bag set in a hot water bath with a sous vide heater. 2) Use food grade buckets and make evenly spaced holes in them. Sterilize those buckets. 3) Prepare the buckets by layering substrate and then a layer of the inoculated material. This is not easy, everything nee…

A tip: sous vide is guaranteed not to get hot enough to kill eg Botulinum nor many kinds of spores, because the heat conductor is liquid water. Pressure cooker (modern teks use Instant Pot) will achieve the necessary thermal properties because they produce superheated steam.

Yes but I was using straw and if the temperature is too high it cooks the straw and then it’s useless. I guess it’s a crap shoot hoping there wasn't anaerobic conditions to grow botulism in the straw bale. For all other spores, the mycelium grows fast enough to make sure nothing else can gain a foothold.

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Post by bocuma64 »

agency wrote: post #44
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.

Apropos of nothing you can easily buy Psilocybe cubensis spores by mail as they do not contain any psilocybin. Of course they’re only intended for you to look at under a microscope ;) https://sporeworks.com/

"There is an exception to magic mushroom spores being legal though, and it’s in California, Georgia, and Idaho. In these states, magic mushroom spores are illegal as the legislators are trying to prevent the purposeful cultivation of magic mushrooms."

From https://healingmaps.com/mushroom-spores-psilocybin-legality/

Just FYI.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by kemayo »

s_dev wrote: post #70
kodah wrote: post #48

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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...

I thought you might be exaggerating, then I actually watched the video and noticed that the big wink was timed to the phrase "see the magic happen". XD

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Post by BurningFrog »

devwastaken wrote: post #53
labrador wrote: post #21

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> For the section on growing your own "special" mushrooms The county where I'm from in California has decriminalized growing psilocybin mushrooms for personal use so I can just come right out and say that I plan on growing hallucinogenic mushrooms

It's still illigal at a federal level.

Also at the state level.

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Post by honkdaddy »

bergenty wrote: post #166
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 is a lot of effort in those simple words though. Based on my experience— 1) Sterilize the substrate/polyfill. This is not trivial. I personally use a bag set in a hot water bath with a sous vide heater. 2) Use food grade buckets and make evenly spaced holes in them. Sterilize those buckets. 3) Prepare the buckets by layering substrate and then a layer of the inoculated material. This is not easy, everything nee…

I was about to make the rsync/Dropbox comparison. As someone who has little real interest in mushroom cultivation but a love for charming desk objects, if someone bought me this as a gift I’d love it.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by herdymerzbow »

Seems that the value this device provides is creating a clearing house for more experienced mushroomers to share info with interested noobs on how to bypas it and do it in a cardboard box. Perhaps it's not what the founders of the company intended, but it's a value add nonetheless.

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by jachee »

system2 wrote: post #163
idiotsecant wrote: post #143

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>This is a fruiting chamber, not a mushroom growing device. Fruiting is by far the most trivial part of mushroom growing. You've hit on exactly the value being provided here - they are handling the culture, inoculation, spawning, and colonization stages and selling you an expensive box to put the result in. Sometimes people just want a quick fun activity and they don't want to research it beforehand. This product fil…

$300 fancy plastic box for humidity and heat control. And shrooms sold separately. Some rich family will get it for their kids to use it once.

A humidor is also a box that controls humidity and heat. How much do people pay for those (and cigars sold separately)?

If there’s a market for that, why not this?

Re: Smart mushroom growing device for beginners

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Post by jachee »

chasebank wrote: post #95
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #84

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> 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...

I've only been to our dispensaries here in Santa Barbara and they all take cards. https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cannabis/21/12/24405152/its... EDIT: Just read the company is issuing and processing their own 'credit cards'. I'm positive I've only used cards when buying from our dispensaries. Come to think of it, it's just debit cards but it's a card and it will buy weed if you want it to.

Yeah, you’ve probably used debit cards. That’s functionally just cash.

Credit cards are no-go. No airline miles from picking up psychoactives.

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