Growing & Cultivation
Everything you need to grow magic mushrooms at home. From beginner-friendly grow kits to advanced cultivation techniques like PF Tek and agar work. Learn about sterilization, harvesting, and how to get the best yields from every flush.
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Sterilising grain jars is the single most important step in home cultivation. Moreover, it is the step new growers most often get wrong. Get it right, and your jars colonise into clean, snow-white mycelium within two to…
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A DIY IKEA monotub is the cheapest reliable cultivation chamber you can build in Europe. One trip to IKEA, one small box of filters, one hole-saw, and you have a working tub for under € 40. This guide breaks the build…
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Liquid culture magic mushrooms cultivation is currently the most discussed technique on r/unclebens and the Shroomery — and for good reason. A liquid culture (LC) is simply live mycelium suspended in a nutrient…
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In this guide: Everything you need to know about the laminar flow hood — how it works, when to use it over a still air box, a step-by-step usage guide, and best practices to keep contamination out of your cultivation…
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A spore swab is a sterile cotton swab pre-loaded with magic mushroom spores from a single strain. Each pack contains two individually sealed swabs — open one, and it is ready to use immediately. A spore swab is the most…
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You want big, healthy mushrooms. A thermo heating mat can help you get them — especially in winter. But if you use the mat the wrong way, it can destroy your grow kit instead of helping it. This guide shows you exactly…
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Light for Mushroom Grow Kits: The Complete Guide
March 23, 2026The right light for a mushroom grow kit is one of the most common questions we get from new growers. Do you need a special lamp, or does a bright spot in your living room do the job? Fortunately, the answer is simpler…
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Ate your home-grown magic mushrooms but felt no effect? You're not alone. This is called a "dud flush" — a harvest that looks perfect but turns out weak or inactive. Below we explain why magic mushrooms sometimes have…
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What to do if your magic mushroom kit won’t grow?
March 23, 2026We’ve all been there: you set up your grow box in the grow bag with water, follow all the steps, and after 10, 11, 12 days you start wondering if anything is ever going to happen. Don’t panic. Magic mushroom grow kits…
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