What is this about the nutrient soup? Here.... Look.... A loong looong time ago there was no internet, there was only a book publishing house called Loompanics, and it sold books on how to get lost, how to make bombs, how to pick locks and lots and lots of things about drugs, I think that Opium for the Masses was first published there but I'm not sure. Anyway, there was a little book with about 10 pages in it, probably cost me 5 bucks that had the formula and it had a big list of chemicals in there. I managed to snag the chemicals from a local college - none of them were watched, and I really don't recall where I got the filters. I probably made half an ounce total and my friends were all amazed.
There was another book that came out of loompanics and that was Oss and oerik's pivotal book - folks, those guys (Pen names) were the ones who cranked it all up - this was long before Stamets although his fledgling company would never have made it if the Oss and Orrik book hadn't been a sucess - and the methods worked by the way. Stamets and I had a short mail corresponance, I wish I had saved the letters - AND, AND damn it, I just remembered, he still owes me a dozen half gallon canning jars. Anyway, After I started actually fruiting mushrooms I never did the nutrient soup again.
