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[BirdGame87]

Hi, everybody,


Where can I buy spore syringes online without fear of rip offs?

 

[JustinNed]

Spore prints and spore syringes are sold for microsscopy purposes only (examining them under microscope), except for places in the world where magic mushrooms are legal (NL etc).
www.azarius.com sells spore prints and syringes, but will only send spores out of EU.

 

[BirdGame87]

Thanks for info. Can I have spores shipped from them to the U.S. for microscopy purposes? I know the spores are not yet illegal in the U.S., so I assume I would not break any laws by simply purchasing the spores for research (assuming I were asked my reason for purchase).

 

[BirdGame87]

Sorry, I should've looked on the site before asking a question with an obvious answer - it says they can't ship to the U.S. I've seen sites that appear to be in the U.S. and ship to the U.S., but they don't look credible. Does anybody have any suggestions on legit sites to buy spores for microscopy?

 

[user_1919]

www.spores101.ca and www.mushbox.com ; those two sites is all you need. I can see you live in Canada; they have locations in Canada and USA to avoid conflict with the borders. I have ordered twice via credit card, and it is 100% secure, you should have no problems. Also don't order presterilized jars off ebay, you never know what you will get, order off mushbox.com, they are reliable. Good Luck!

PEACE & LOVE

 

[st.bot.32]

As far as I know buying spores and syringes in Canada is perfectly legal. You can buy spores and syringes at headshops all over the place here.. although the complete grow box method is prolly waaaay easier!

 

[JustinNed]

Growbox's can cost anywhere from $75-$300 USD, quite pricey especially if the spores aren't included. Than if anything happens to it during shipping, you are usually fucked.
PF TEK is WAY easy!

 

[GOD]

Maybe you should be very carefull with spores that are sold for microscopic identification purposes . Many of the ones that were available a few years ago had been killed with gamma rays so they werent viable . You should never buy anything with credit cards , use your own adress or buy from ebay . You definately cant trust things from ebay . You do have the posibility to sterilise . You just need the right containers and a big sauce pan . You do not need a preasure cooker , but its better . Auntys , grannys and neighbours have preasure cookers or big jam cookers ( that look like a big tea boiler and are cheap ) that they would lend you if you said that you wanted to try making some jam . Doing it all yourself is much cheeper , you have much more chance of sucess and much less chance of getting caught . Grow boxes either have spores with them or are already inoculated . Have you tryed looking for mushrooms ? Its dead easy , gets you out in nature and it is fun . Sterilisation , real sterilisation is nearly imposible . You would either sterilise them with gamma rays and they would not grow or you would need an N or S 5 laboratry . Sterilisation is always a relative thing . We used to have a realy high preasure home made steriliser wich made preasures up to 2 times as much as a normal preasure cooker . We could get more than 100 1 liter masson glasses in it and do 4 runs a day . From those 400 glasses we were throwing at least 20% away because of contamination and / or broken / cracked glasses , or because the myceleum grew to slow . So its best to use as small containers as possible so that you have much more chance of getting some clean glasses . The sterility is only to give the mushrooms a better chance to grow , to give them a head start on contaminants . The myceleum has defences and if it has a head start it can often either out grow the contamination , or kill it . Grow boxes are good to start with , to give you an idea of what you are doing and why , but as Justin said "PF TEK is WAY easy!" . So first a grow box and then PF Tek .

 

[BirdGame87]

God,

I never really considered hunting for mushrooms because I always feared picking the wrong ones. I'm becoming much more familiar with the correct mushrooms than I used to be, but I'd still hate to get the wrong ones!
I am going to take your advice and maybe look around for some. I'll do some research to see what grows around here. I doubt my area is ideal for mushroom growth, but surely I could be wrong! Let's hope I am.

As for now, I'm just going to try to keep my grades up at my university and try to learn as much as I can about these interesting organisms in my free time.

 

[GOD]

I dont know where you are but Psilocybe mushrooms grow nearly everywhere on the planet . Once you have learned to identify the ones that you want its very easy , and there are no realy dangerous mushrooms that look like Psilocybe Semilanceata or Psilocybe Cyanescens . Naturaly fertilised uncultivated fields , especialy in areas with lots of little hills and valeys are ideal . Golf cources and stately homes with parks around them are usualy good candidates . Picking only seems dificult for you because you know that you do not know what you dont know , if you understand what i mean , as soon as you do its very easy . So easy that you will laugh about it . Colour , size , location , colour of the gills , colour of the spores and then the blueing reaction is everything that you need to learn .

In the UK there are people who do field surveys for universitys showing what grows in every field . If you have things like that where you are it might be usefull to take a look as the English ones often show wich mushrooms grow where .