Advanced Cultivation Techniques
Tips, Tricks and Advanced techniques. Once you've mastered basic growing, these documents can take you further.

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Sections:
Casing
Casing is a process of applying a non-nutritious layer over the colonized substrate so that the mycelium has access to more moisture, thereby increasing the size and number of flushes.

Advanced Grow Guides
If you want to step up from cakes, these guides are for you.

Agar and Mycelium Culture Techniques
Mycelium culture techniques allow experienced cultivators to grow out mushroom mycelium on a variety of medium. The mycelium can then be used to colonize spawn much more quickly than with spores.

Bulk and Grain substrates
If you want to grow somewhat larger amounts of tasty mushrooms ;), this is the right stuff for you.

Growing Other Species
Experienced mycologists may want to try their hand at cultivating other species of psychoactive mushrooms. Here are some teks to get you started.

Humidification Techniques
Mushrooms require a high level of humidity to grow. These documents will explain how to achieve the necessary humidity level in your terrarium.

Incubators and Fruiting Chambers
Some ideas on how to make your own incubator and fruiting chamber.

Spore printing and spore syringe preparation
Learn how to take a spore print and how to prepare a viable spore syringe.

Sterile Culture Techniques
Tips and teks to help improve your sterile culture technique.

Questionable Techniques
Documents that describe techniques that either donīt work(reliably or at all) or are risky to perform. They are here for historical reasons mainly, use your head before using the directions contained within the following documents.

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Abbreviations for Psilocybe cubensis Strains
This section is a list of many various Psilocybe cubensis strains.

A Successful Dream: Increasing the Potency of P. Cubensis
A method using Demanthus Illinoesis root bark to increase the alkaloid content of shrooms.

Water Substitutes
If you're using the MMGG technique, this document contains recipes for water substitutes which may be used when/if you decide to add more water to your rice cakes through injection.

Eliminate Fat-Asses Forever!
Are your mushrooms short and stumpy and growing in all directions? This tip will help you out!

Tryptamine Cubensis
A way of drastically increasing the potency of cubensis mushrooms using tryptamines.

Strainsaver Technique
Method which claims to greatly reduce contamination ratios.


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