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They won't be on top. High humidity will cause the lower stem to get fuzzy. You will know if your fruit is infected with mold. The fruit itself will be brown or black pitted and sunken and the mold will quickly sporulate.

Not really. Syringes may contain spores which, according to general understanding and various state laws contain zero psychoactive. Tissue culture is, effectively, liquid culture. It has actually mycelium in it. Mycelium contains active alkalosis, at times significant amounts. Technically...

Have I gotten them wrong? Yes, I have, the dangerous one is a. Bisporigera. As was posted, the death angel.

I have seen them in many places on many occasions.

Those are deliquiessing mushrooms, I forgot the name. You will see the caps turning to a black jelly. If you decide to eat them for what ever reason make sure you have not had any ethyl alcohol and don't drink during or the day after. You will get sick.

Bad. Use substrates less prone to contamination. Take a look at my tek.

I believe (strangely) that you can get liquid culture in california. I don't understand it because mycelium contains the active compound but I think you can probably get it. This is to your great advantage. It means you have a monoculture (probably) and your grow is quicker.

Coarse is the best. Ot affords the mycelium the tiny nooks where primordial are most likely to form.

Thanks. I believe table sugar caramelized too readily. Keep concentrations at or below 4 percent and it will work just fine, no exotic mixtures needed. But you can add yeast extract, peptones (not meat based) activated charcoal, straw or corn steep and extract of your intended substrate.

The actives are muscimol and ibotenic acid. They are not proper hallucinogenic but some other sort of psychoactive. In refreshing my knowlege of this mushroom I discovered that though poisoning (always a relative term) are relatively frequent, death from overdose is quite rare. It is said...

Some are very very tasty. And of course there are some that are unmistakable like shaggy manes and puff balls. (Save for the fact that a young death cap can look like a puff ball. Of course all you have to do is cut it in half lengthwise. If there is an outline of a traditional mushroom in...

I see no contam there but we can't alway identify early contamination from a few pics. Colonization looks damn good. Though i am a big proponent of casing. And you may have some overlay.

Buy yourself a regional key and follow it closely. Even after you believe you have positively identified your species, try to get confirmation from a local forager. Failing that, leave a sample mushroom on your kitchen table before you taste one. And I mean TASTE. Few mushrooms are...

What ever lc you purchase will not be nearly enough to drench various areas. Learn to amplify your culture into a number of quarts or gallons.

Some have had success with "slurries" of spores from morels drenching different environments at the proper time of year. I once got a crop of cubensis from drenching my back yard with dense liquid culture in early spring. There is no reason muscaria...which can be quite prolific, might not...

While it may well be possible to domesticate this species, I do not recommend this as your starter mushroom. Try a well established cubensis like golden teacher or an Amazon type. Or you could try an oyster mushroom. They will grow in spite of your errors and they taste quite good! You can...

Recall I said you cannot filter your way out of contamination. Neither can you scrub your way out. You have even changed your personal and home biomes. Have you checked spore levels with dishes? Until you do you have no idea of the problem.

Depends on what the substrate is.

I have been thinking. Remember that the rice bag must remain sterile until it is completely colonized. Tape or hot glue the hole you made IMMEDIATELY. Let the bag sit in a warm place sans direct sun light. A little light is ok and maybe preferable. I figure you don't want to shake the...

Uncle Ben rice comes in pre cooked bags. Inject spores into the bag, let it colonized, dump it into a jar, case and fruit.