Look-alikes that can be poisonous. Deadly to newbies and seasoned veterans all the same.

I might actually look up that mushroom horticulture (mycoculture?) stuff since I'm sick of getting substandard bruised ass mushies from the supermarket.

And yeah re: danger I was thinking in the realm of look-alike poisonous ones. If you picked a dud and cultured a heap of them I imagine there'd be some chance of killing yourself and all your participating friends; but as I said, I'm sure you're much more in the know about these sorts of things.


@Foa: Coding, drawing, uni, girlfriend, work trips... All sorts of stuff. Decided I missed DRLFF so might be swinging by the lounge and whatnot in coming weeks.

Oh if you're going to be cultivating the shits you can tell them apart fairly easily. The real problem is with grabbing a shroom, eyeballing it without due diligence and declaring it to be something edible. If you're spore printing and are willing to spend time on it, it's actually decently hard to ♥♥♥♥ up. Many have gone before you in this and like I always say there's a lot of knowledge to be had on the internet if you look for it. You also don't have to bother with all that and just order some spores off the internet. There is quite a library of mycological samples available from various sources googleable. Spend ten or twenty bucks on some spores, buy some substrate, the most expensive item is going to be a pressure cooker to sterilize (sometimes literally) ♥♥♥♥. From there it's just inoculate and wait, essentially. It's super exciting to watch them grow. I'm kind of ambivalent towards keeping a garden but I might do it just to grow a little mushroom forest. I currently have mycelium growing from psilocybe cubensis but I'd like to grow some edibles and neat rare stuff, just to say I did.

Well of course, but aren't you doing your own controlled grow?

I haven't had much of any sleep the past week.

A mycologist I've been talking to thinks I may have found a mutant strain:

Whoa. That thing's huge. Just curious, but could the mushroom farming you're doing the same as growing cooking mushrooms? Like Geti, I keep getting shitty mushrooms from the shops.

You can definitely grow food mushrooms. Where do you think the store gets them?

Other countries or enormous and very complex farms.

They're only that complicated because it's a commercial operation. You could probably get oysters growing with just woodchips water and spores, the biggest investment you would realistically make is a pressure cooker.

I'm gonna be honest, I really like acid.

Psychedelics are cool, welcome to the club.

drugs are bad mmmmmkay.

There are probably like 20 posts in this thread that say just that, people think it's funny for some reason. I wish South Park would stop airing just so people would stop quoting it.