[cabbageears]

Sweet. I spent a few years cultivating mushrooms and found the hobby to be very rewarding. One can grow (legal) medicinal and gourmet mushrooms on a small scale with very little money. I recommend people interested give it a go because it's fun and offers a lot to learn. :)

[steve_adams_86]

Mushrooms are what gave me the confidence to try tissue culturing! I’d grown mycelium from spores, made liquid cultures, and generally figured out the sterile workflows and understood the gist of things. I figured it shouldn’t be too different or difficult.

Plants have been slightly more challenging, but not as much as I expected. If you aren’t optimizing for profits to keep a facility open, mediocre results are still awesome and you’ve got plenty of time to keep experimenting. I guess it’s much the same with mushrooms. If you don’t get 5 pounds on your first flush, it’s still great fun. The beauty of mycelium is that turn around times are an order of magnitude shorter. Tissue cultures are very, very slow.

[huytersd]

Did you collect the spores yourself? Because that’s where most people leave.