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And growing mushrooms, I fucking love mushrooms. I used to grow them in my closet in highschool.
Do you have a favorite bluelight post from back in the day?
Haha, bluelight was before my time but I am fimilar with the forum. I mostly grew mushrooms for eating. I made sure the special mushrooms were well hidden and mostly got my grow advice from 90 second mycology on youtube
What kind of records do you put on for your fungi?
60s ska, rocksteady, and skinhead reggae.
Peak performance
If you're growing those oysters in the open air like that, it'd be worthwhile to get a 5 tier metal shelf and a zip cover for it. The spores of Pleurotus species are pretty toxic and will cause an allergic reaction to them.
Gotta link?
I use this style of shelf: https://www.amazon.com/Sakugi-Storage-Shelves-Organizer-Shelving/dp/B0D5CKB5CT/
Then you just match the dimensions to a cover like this: https://www.amazon.com/Formosa-Covers-Premium-Clear-Front/dp/B07RXP6CDQ
They help to maintain the 80-85% relative humidity that fungi like, keep out air contaminants, and you can minimise the spore movement. Mushroom worker's lung is a shitty illness: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9841544/
Welp you convinced me to move the operation to the spare bathroom. I'll have to get the shelves/canopy next pay day.
Even just growing them away from a living area and handling them with dedicated clothing and a mask would be enough to avoid it. I've never had that problem with other fungi like Psilocybe or Boletus, but something about oysters is almost on par with puffball toxicity.
Not gonna lie: just watched a video on YouTube and said to myself, I can do that.
It's a great hobby to take up. Fungiculture taught me a lot and you'll get such a surplus from the 6-12 colonies you can fit in a shelf like that.
Amazing. Thanks for the reminder.
Thanks to this post I just spent an hour looking at grow kits, because growing shrooms at home is one project I've been meaning to get into for years. Thinking I'll try growing some on the balcony this year.
Brewing also still waiting in the special interest pipeline. I've made kombucha, kefir, kvass, simple home beer and mead, but the real brewing process seems complicated and hard to do in an apartment building. But I would love to make some apple cider or something one day.
I think you'd be surprised how many all in one brewing units are small enough to fit in a closet and take up little space when not in use. Vevor makes a cheap but serviceable 120v system that I believe is around 200USD and is the size of a pony keg or so when not in use. Then you would need stackable buckets for fermentation.
For serving I prefer kegging over bottling. Admittedly both take up space but there are ways to dual purpose the space used for a kegerator.
I'm helping a younger coworker figure out his apartment space and budget needs so I'll keep you (or any one interested) in the loop, if you like.
Thanks so much for the tips. Will definitely follow along if you post about this more. 
It's definitely what's up
The dwarf life, I see
Mushrooms + Alcohol is where Toads come from
If creating toads is wrong, I don't want to be right.
Looks like shimeji, is it shimeji mushrooms?
Blue Oyster. Nothing too fancy.
Oh got it wrong, never used those. But they look good.
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