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    how to grow mushrooms the easy way

    Why are you posting on this thread if you are not using the teck?
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    Storing Spores in Freezer, good or bad?

    Probably not. Spores have a tiny amount of water in them. Of course you aren't freezing syringes, right. Best keep them dry, out of light and in the fridge.
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    Anybody growing mushrooms willing to talk???

    One can allow the mycelium colonized grain to dry, grind it up and extract the actives with alcohol. The yield is pretty surprising actually. There is definitely a lot of the good stuff I'm mature mycelium.
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    Anybody growing mushrooms willing to talk???

    Exactly right! As the mycelium grows older and acidifies its substrate and casing, the pH becomes more and more inviting for trich. Even sterilized casing will resist contamination If it doesn't get too wet and there is any sort of air flow (trich loves stagnant air)
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    this poppy recipe looks good

    Ok, it's a pain in the ass, and the bigger they get the more painful. I transplanted 20 big ones once and I had tiny stickers in my hands for a week.
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    this poppy recipe looks good

    There isn't much return. However, I wouldn't put those all together like that. They grow about a foot a year.
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    this poppy recipe looks good

    Most enforcement is either unaware or unwilling to enforce the law here. Grandma Ann puts a few dozen poppies in the front yard every year, they sell papaver somnuferum seeds in every Lowes and home depot, there are wild fields here and there. If you plant a quarter acre of them it might...
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    this poppy recipe looks good

    Poppy straw is the dried stems, leaves and pods. The pharma industry has found a way to simply harvest the entire plant, extract all the alkaloids, separate them and then convert them. However, thebaine is the most useful and most poppies grown for this market are bred for high production of...
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    this poppy recipe looks good

    Your dad is wrong, it is illegal to posess poppy straw. However, unless there are large fields of it or obvious score marks no one is going to bother you.
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    Anybody growing mushrooms willing to talk???

    The mushroom looks like no other which is good for foragers. The high is variable from nausea to hypnotic visions, commonly of tiny creatures in the periphery of one's perceptions. Some report euphoria, others a profound darkness and even evil. I found them to be calming and dizzying...
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    Anybody growing mushrooms willing to talk???

    They are saying "go back to the basics, don't rely on a bunch of pre made things". What did you pay for the bag?
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    Anybody growing mushrooms willing to talk???

    As I've said, I just don't see the point of those bags. They seem to have all the worst bits. You can't shake the bag, you can't level the casing and you are stuck with what ever casing depth you wind up with.
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    Anybody growing mushrooms willing to talk???

    I imagine that you could hear even moist pieces. You could inject 20 cc or so of sterile water
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    Anybody growing mushrooms willing to talk???

    Essentially true but it still depends. If I have contamination I "race" the mycelium. This involves germinating a few spores and then placing another "slab" of agar on top sandwitching the grow between the agar. This limits the growth to two dimensions. If the contamination is bacterial...
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