Can't you give me any more than that? What type of casing material do you use? Verm/Coco coir? Verm/peat moss?

What type of nutritional mix do you give them? popcorn, rye, birdseed?

Ack, Those are the prettiest flushes I have ever seen!

On my pictures you see the different Phenotypes - this results on the one hand from dirfferent strains , on the other hand from different substrate Mixes.

The posted casings contain all of it. Birdseed - Rye -Popcorn- some Straw - some Peanut Shells.
The Casing layer is , as you have correctly guessed,Vermi CocoCoir.

After some tries - one gets a feeling for the composition and preparation of Substrates.
The Casing environment is less difficult .... I have smaller Boxes and a big Plastic Foil Home-Greenhous .


Any Qustions? Do you have any specific Problems ? Pics ?


Regards

Associativum, what does your terrarium look like when assembled and how do you manage to keep the humidity up with just a sprayer?

I dont have a picture of it ready . Ill make one when its assembled.
In my foilhouse i have trays with perlite stuff like that.
until the Casings start pinning theyre covered , sometimes sprayed.

Ps. Cubensis are forgiving mushrooms , you dont need hight tek to make the humidity suitable.







The Big One was eaten at the Boom Fest. Dancefloor this Summer ( )

lol pretty. I've tried growing in a casing b4 but it didn't work out. I didn't give it the right conditions at all but some of the mycelium got on the walls of the pot i was using, i've since put cactus soil in that pot and now i have white mycelium taking over my soil I'm going to let it grow and see what happens .

Have you ever done any other type of grows besides casings?

SWIM's first casings were in trays that were a bit too shallow, so after the first small flush, SWIM cut them in half and stacked them in a narrower and deeper tray. He lost two of them to trich, but one survived. The trich appeared during the pinning, and SWIM had pretty much beaten it, but it was re-awoken with a vengeance during the second.

SWIM's had some great success with simply casing in the substrate jar. SWIM's first PF cake only gave one fruit of decent size. SWIM is still due for a second flush on that and the jar, and a first flush after changing trays on the surviving casing.

SWIM lost maybe a 5th of his first flush to rhizo while attempting to dry in a chamber with dry magnesium sulfate and has now opted to use a food dehydrator. The magnesium sulfate doesn't work at all, SWIM could get them drier from simply putting them on top of kitchen cabinets.

SWIM's had some hassles with cultivation, but certainly loves the satisfaction of tripping off of something he's grown.

Nice!

No real problems, just small flushes.

I am only using verm as my casing layer and popcorn as my nutrition source. My wife is highly allergic to coconut so I can't use coco coir. I may have to mix in some birdseed and rye into my jars next time I decide to grow. It's been a while.

How long do you let your casings stay in the growth stage before moving them to your fruiting chamber? I usually move them after I start seeing some white poking through. Should I wait until they are pretty much overlaid with mycelium?

If you get it going well, you can easily grow several hundred in that small area.

SWIM used to grow mushrooms when he lived up north (it's too dry where he is now). In as little as 2 months in 1 square foot worth of space he could grow about 250 psilocybe cubensis mushrooms. The trick is to use lots of humidity and good quality rye grain that's supplemented with oat bran and a little alder saw dust. The bran and saw dust help the mushrooms grow much larger and with less imperfections. His fruitings were jam packed with very little space between the mushrooms. In just a few months several years’ worth can easily be grown. Also put perlite below the grain and use well made casing soil above it. The perlite helps absorb any loose water that collects at the bottom.

WOW!!!!!!! Those are huge! Swim's only used PF's TEK, and done really well? or so I thought!!! NICE need a humidity tent right? Would be nice to have room!!! All SWIM's got are two fish tanks. No HUMONGOIDS like those however. Good growing BROTHER!!!

Wow I think these are definitely among the coolest flushes I've seen! And I've seen pics of quite a lot.
I have only grown mushrooms once by my self. The grow wild an abundance around where I live in sept. okt. I grew them in kind of difficult conditions but next time I'm doing it properly

Hey associativum!
Don't you use any brown rice flour in your mix? So many people are using that and in the original PF tek I think they only use BRF.
So what do you think of it?

Im sold..those pics have inspired me to get some spores and try again!..didnt go so well the first time