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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: Some anonymous posts
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.063026.18489@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Dec26.213444.4631@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 06:30:26 GMT
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- mjharris@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Harris) writes:
- :
- : >Check the instructions again. There may be some temperature or humidity
- : >requirements that you are not fulfilling.
- :
- : >Bill
- :
- : Also I think you could say that this whole process sounds much simpler
- : than it really is. I've heard nothing about growing shooms more than the
- : comments about how hard it is to get decent results - or even results at
- : all. When I read that faq I kind of was skeptical. He makes it sound so
- : easy. Must have a white thumb about these things. Me - I can't even grow
- : weeds too good. I'm curious. How many others have had sucess with the rice
- : cake method or for that matter any other method?
-
- I have use rice cakes for growing non-psychadelic mushrooms. It was fairly
- easy. The hard part is keeping a pure culture. I have no idea how hard it
- is to grow psilocybes - it may be very hard to get the mycelium to fruit.
-
- There are somewhere around 50 different molds, viruses and bacterium that
- can destroy your culture.
-
- Bill
-