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If you have the process and technique down you might end up just sticking with what you're using. My understanding is the benefit of uncle ben is its reliabilit

If you have the process and technique down you might end up just sticking with what you're using. My understanding is the benefit of uncle ben is its reliability for beginners, not so much yield or quality. I think there are also newer & better variants of it anyway? But yeah look around. So yeah, fungus. Funny enough I pretty much only grow koji and some other food molds. I like to talk shop with mushroom growers though. The techniques are really different but we share a lot of experiences and... mindset. People end up with an almost spiritual admiration for the mold. Which is self-evident for psilocybes of course, but koji growers seem to develop it too.

quchen 3y ago
> My understanding is the benefit of uncle ben is its reliability for beginners, not so much yield or quality. This. - You get sterilized substrate, which requires special equipment to produce on your own (large enough pressure cooker, mainly). - Sterilizing rye is a bit of an art. Not too mushy, not too hard, properly sterilized, get the moisture right. Might take a couple of attempts. - Financial investment is negligible either way. - You’re hedging your contamination bets with 200g packs, because creating lab conditions at home isn’t that easy. (Plenty of tutorials claim it is, and then show you their special mushroom tent, which you won’t recognize as a beginner, and then you wonder why you’ve got orange fluff a month later.)