![]() ![]() Even spores of psilocybin species contain no psilocybin.A lot of people actually don’t use spores to start their grows-they use them to make liquid cultures. Starting a grow with spores is hit or miss. In fact, your grow will almost certainly involve more than one genetic individual in the same substrate, so you could end up with some variety in your mushrooms. It can still belong to a strain in the same way that a puppy can belong to a breed, but it won’t be exactly like its parents, and that means its mushroom production won’t be entirely predictable. Remember that a fungus grown from spores is a new genetic individual. The syringe solution is made with sterile water, and all the other elements for starting a grow-the substrate, containers, and so forth, are sterilized, so avoid adding extra contamination, but it’s likely the mushroom spores had some bacteria or mold spores clinging to them when the solution was made. ![]() Most seriously, there is no way to sterilize spores-any sterilization method you tried would kill the spores also. Using a spore syringe to start a grow has several serious disadvantages. You can buy spore syringes, or you can make your own from a spore print. Water with spores in it can look the same as water without. If they don’t clump, you won’t be able to see them. Sometimes the spores in the water will form clumps you can see floating around. The spores are mixed with water because that is a convenient way to store them, and because squirting liquid into a growth medium is easier than trying to transfer fine, dry powder that sticks to everything. What Is a Spore Syringe?Ī spore syringe is a syringe filled with clean, sterilized water and spores. That distinction will be important later. What all this means for growers is that you couldn’t start a grow with just one spore, even if you could isolate just one (which you couldn’t, they are too small)-and when you grow from spores, you get new, unique, genetic individuals. Then a new, genetically whole individual grows out from that point of merger, creating a network of fungal threads (the mycelium) and, eventually, mushrooms producing spores of their own. It has to mate with another half-fungus-the two grow towards each other and merge. For another, what starts growing when a spore germinates is, genetically speaking, only half a fungus. But fungi aren’t plants, and they don’t have seeds. Many people say that a spore is something like a seed. ![]()
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