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How to Grow Mushrooms in a Dry Climate

If you live somewhere dry, like Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada or New Mexico, you've probably read grow guides written for a damp basement in Ohio. They don't translate. Here's the...

How to Grow Mushrooms in a Dry Climate

If you live somewhere dry, like Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada or New Mexico, you've probably read grow guides written for a damp basement in Ohio. They don't translate. Here's the...

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Where to Buy Mushroom Grow Kits in Arizona (and...

We're Spore Sorcery, a mycology supply company based in Scottsdale. Arizona is a tough place to grow mushrooms. It's not impossible, but the advice written for Oregon or Ohio doesn't...

Where to Buy Mushroom Grow Kits in Arizona (and...

We're Spore Sorcery, a mycology supply company based in Scottsdale. Arizona is a tough place to grow mushrooms. It's not impossible, but the advice written for Oregon or Ohio doesn't...

Fully colonized agar plate of healthy white mushroom mycelium showing dense rhizomorphic growth

Is Your Liquid Culture Contaminated? How to Tes...

By Edward Grand, PhD, mycologist and fungal geneticist If you're wondering whether your liquid culture is contaminated, looking at the syringe usually won't give you a reliable answer. Healthy mycelium...

Is Your Liquid Culture Contaminated? How to Tes...

By Edward Grand, PhD, mycologist and fungal geneticist If you're wondering whether your liquid culture is contaminated, looking at the syringe usually won't give you a reliable answer. Healthy mycelium...

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How to Use a Spore Swab for Mushroom Cultivatio...

Are spore swabs replacing spore syringes? Spore swabs have become an essential way to preserve, share and grow new mushroom genetics. People who have been in the hobby for a...

How to Use a Spore Swab for Mushroom Cultivatio...

Are spore swabs replacing spore syringes? Spore swabs have become an essential way to preserve, share and grow new mushroom genetics. People who have been in the hobby for a...

Mature Amanita muscaria with a red white-flecked cap and a white ring on its stem, on a mossy forest floor

Did the Amanita Muscaria Mushroom Influence the...

Most people picture Santa Claus the same way. A cheerful figure in a red suit trimmed with white, crossing snowy country behind a team of reindeer, delivering gifts in the...

Did the Amanita Muscaria Mushroom Influence the...

Most people picture Santa Claus the same way. A cheerful figure in a red suit trimmed with white, crossing snowy country behind a team of reindeer, delivering gifts in the...

Sterile stainless steel work surface in a mushroom clean room with agar plates and a filtered air hood

Mushroom Clean Room: What 70% Alcohol and Bleac...

Most contamination advice for mushroom growing stops at "keep it clean" and "wipe things down with 70% alcohol." That advice is incomplete in a way that costs people grows, because...

Mushroom Clean Room: What 70% Alcohol and Bleac...

Most contamination advice for mushroom growing stops at "keep it clean" and "wipe things down with 70% alcohol." That advice is incomplete in a way that costs people grows, because...