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>>30066387
Yo, American here, so I couldn't buy any growkits, but I started with Uncle Ben's, and even though it's an easy intro to mycology, it was a fucking bitch to get things going. You only have visibility through the bottom of the bag, so more than half the bags I thought were completely colonized turned out to have trich when I opened them (glad I did it all outside). Eventually I was successful, though.
Now I'm able to cut time down by at least a couple weeks by doing grain transfers/cloning on agar, and then mixing the agar into brown rice-filled mason jars after steam sterilizing them.
There's a learning curve but give it enough time and failure, and you'll get the hang of it. I'm just now trying my first clone of a king oyster mushroom I scored at an asian market, so hopefully as I get better with these things over time I can get into growing gourmet mushrooms to sell to local high-end restaurants.