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Welcome to the Pikes Peak Myco Wiki, the knowledge base of the Pikes Peak Myco League, founded by Chris Vinci. 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.

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.

Get supplies and hands-on help locally: Colonizing Colorado, 2314 E. Platte Ave., Colorado Springs. The league's home base for cultivation supplies, classes, and in-person questions. colonizingcolorado.com

New to growing? Start here

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

1. Sterile technique — why most grows fail, and how to keep yours clean
2. Pressure cooking at altitude — the one thing sea-level guides get wrong for us
3. Grain spawn — preparing and colonizing grain jars
4. Coir and CVG substrate — the bulk material your mushrooms fruit from
5. Monotub fruiting — spawning to bulk, conditions, harvest
6. 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

• Grain spawn
• Coir and CVG (includes the bucket tek)
• Manure-based substrates

Fruiting and troubleshooting

• Monotub fruiting
• Contamination ID

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 local suppliers

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/.
• Write in your own words. If you learned something from a video or another site, cite it with <ref>…</ref> after the sentence it supports, and put <references /> under a References heading at the bottom.
• Add {{Cultivation}} to the bottom of cultivation pages so readers can find their way around.