I used to grow a lot of shrooms. I was active on the shroomery and did a lot of trading for exotic spores and cultures. I haven’t quit for good and I still have all my gear on slants for long term storage, plus a huge gallon ziploc of prints. To put it in perspective, I got the 600w HPS I’m growing weed with as a gift from a big time shroom grower out of Oklahoma who came to visit. If it’s inappropriate to ask this here I apologize in advance but I’m down to trade some of my stuff for beans. I’ve got several different very unique penis envy clones, a super potent non-leucistic A+, a Texas yellow cap that can put out a qp per flush, the list goes on.
I stopped growing mushrooms because I don’t have the space to properly set up a cleanroom for spawn production, and I was losing too many tubs to trichoderma during the summer. If a single spore of that shit gets into your spawn jar/bag, everything will seem great until your tub turns green instead of pinning.
That being said, sporeworks is IMO the only truly good spore vendor. Their shit is clean and workman has a schedule 1 permit to produce everything in house. Most other spore vendors like ralphster and ryche hawk get their prints mailed to them from growers and make syringes and re-sell them. That means your prints are only as good as the random people that made them, and the syringes could be dirty too.