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Welcome to the Beneschtech Myco Wiki, a free mushroom-cultivation knowledge base hosted by Benesch Tech. It collects the techniques, recipes, and hard-won lessons of growers along the Front Range, written for people cultivating at altitude in dry Colorado air. It began as the wiki of the Pikes Peak Myco League.

Everything here is free to use and share (CC0). If you have a recipe, a tek, or a photo of something going right or wrong, add it.

Ready to grow? Get your supplies from vendors we trust: spores and liquid culture, grain, substrate, grow bags, and complete kits. See where to buy for details.

Denver Spore Company (Denver): grow bags in abundance, plus kits that come with spores or liquid culture. denversporecompany.com
PsilocybinMyco (Seattle): clean, isolated genetics in liquid culture, spores, and agar. psilocybinmyco.org

New to growing? Start here

Read these in order. Together they take you from an empty kitchen to a first harvest.

Sterile technique — why most grows fail, and how to keep yours clean
Pressure cooking at altitude — the one thing sea-level guides get wrong for us
Grain spawn — preparing and colonizing grain jars
Coir and CVG substrate — the bulk material your mushrooms fruit from
Monotub fruiting — spawning to bulk, conditions, harvest
Contamination ID — what's growing in your tub, and what to do about it

Culture work

Spores

Spore prints and syringes — collecting spores and making syringes

Agar

Making agar plates — recipes, pouring, storage
The three-transfer method — isolating a clean, fast genetic
Cloning from tissue — keeping a great mushroom's genetics
Storing cultures — slants, water storage, and backups

Genetics

Smash tek — crossing two strains to make a new one

Liquid culture

Making and using liquid culture
Recipes:
- Philly Golden Teacher LC
- ClemGrows LC

Spawn and substrate

Fruiting and troubleshooting

After the harvest

Drying and storage

Reference

Glossary — FAE, G2G, field capacity, and the rest of the jargon
Pressure cooking at altitude
Equipment by stage and where to buy

Computers

Linux/macOS shell command reference

Contributing

Anyone can edit. A few house conventions keep things tidy:

Put tutorials under Tutorials/ and recipes or lookup tables under Reference/.
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-== Our Founder ==
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-[[Staff/Chris Vinci|Chris Vinci]]
+Welcome to the '''Beneschtech Myco Wiki''', a free mushroom-cultivation knowledge base hosted by [https://beneschtech.com Benesch Tech]. It collects the techniques, recipes, and hard-won lessons of growers along the Front Range, written for people cultivating at altitude in dry Colorado air. It began as the wiki of the Pikes Peak Myco League.
-== Tutorials ==
+Everything here is free to use and share (CC0). If you have a recipe, a tek, or a photo of something going right or wrong, add it.
+<div class="mainpage-featured">
+'''Ready to grow? Get your supplies from vendors we trust''': spores and liquid culture, grain, substrate, grow bags, and complete kits. See [[Resources/Equipment#Where to buy|where to buy]] for details.
+* '''[[Resources/Equipment#Denver Spore Company|Denver Spore Company]]''' (Denver): grow bags in abundance, plus kits that come with spores or liquid culture. [https://www.denversporecompany.com denversporecompany.com]
+* '''[[Resources/Equipment#PsilocybinMyco|PsilocybinMyco]]''' (Seattle): clean, isolated genetics in liquid culture, spores, and agar. [https://psilocybinmyco.org psilocybinmyco.org]
+</div>
+== New to growing? Start here ==
+Read these in order. Together they take you from an empty kitchen to a first harvest.
+# [[Tutorials/Basics/Sterile Technique|Sterile technique]] — why most grows fail, and how to keep yours clean
+# [[Reference/Pressure Cooking at Altitude|Pressure cooking at altitude]] — the one thing sea-level guides get wrong for us
+# [[Tutorials/Spawn/Grain Spawn|Grain spawn]] — preparing and colonizing grain jars
+# [[Tutorials/Substrate/Coir and CVG|Coir and CVG substrate]] — the bulk material your mushrooms fruit from
+# [[Tutorials/Fruiting/Monotub|Monotub fruiting]] — spawning to bulk, conditions, harvest
+# [[Reference/Contamination|Contamination ID]] — what's growing in your tub, and what to do about it
+== Culture work ==
+=== Spores ===
+* [[Tutorials/Spores/Prints and Syringes|Spore prints and syringes]] — collecting spores and making syringes
 === Agar ===
-[[Tutorials/Agar/Three-Transfers|Three Transfer Procedure]]
+* [[Tutorials/Agar/Making Plates|Making agar plates]] — recipes, pouring, storage
+* [[Tutorials/Agar/Three-Transfers|The three-transfer method]] — isolating a clean, fast genetic
+* [[Tutorials/Agar/Cloning from Tissue|Cloning from tissue]] — keeping a great mushroom's genetics
+* [[Tutorials/Agar/Storing Cultures|Storing cultures]] — slants, water storage, and backups
+=== Genetics ===
+* [[Tutorials/Genetics/Smash Tek|Smash tek]] — crossing two strains to make a new one
+=== Liquid culture ===
+* [[Tutorials/LiquidCulture/Making and Using LC|Making and using liquid culture]]
+* Recipes:
+** [[Reference/LiquidCulture/Recipes/PGT|Philly Golden Teacher LC]]
+** [[Reference/LiquidCulture/Recipes/ClemGrows|ClemGrows LC]]
+== Spawn and substrate ==
+* [[Tutorials/Spawn/Grain Spawn|Grain spawn]]
+* [[Tutorials/Substrate/Coir and CVG|Coir and CVG]] (includes the bucket tek)
+* [[Tutorials/Substrate/Manure-Based Substrates|Manure-based substrates]]
+== Fruiting and troubleshooting ==
+* [[Tutorials/Fruiting/Monotub|Monotub fruiting]]
+* [[Reference/Contamination|Contamination ID]]
+== After the harvest ==
+* [[Tutorials/Harvest/Drying and Storage|Drying and storage]]
-=== Computers ===
+== Reference ==
-==== Linux/MacOS ====
+* [[Reference/Glossary|Glossary]] — FAE, G2G, field capacity, and the rest of the jargon
-[[Tips-And-Tricks/Computer/Linux/Shell-Commands|Shell Command Reference]]
+* [[Reference/Pressure Cooking at Altitude|Pressure cooking at altitude]]
+* [[Resources/Equipment|Equipment by stage]] and [[Resources/Equipment#Where to buy|where to buy]]
+== Computers ==
+* [[Tips-And-Tricks/Computer/Linux/Shell-Commands|Linux/macOS shell command reference]]
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