I got a spore syringe with shrooms of my choice and some uncle bens rice bags a while ago. One guy I watch shows off a super easy method of injecting into the bags and fruiting directly from there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cZe1Og2tro
But then I go on the unclebens reddit and read through shroomscouts guide with dubtubs and putting space heaters with thermostats in a closet and coconut coir mixing with spawn and it starts to make me feel anxious like maybe this isn’t for me. I just want some mushrooms man why does this have to be a 20 step process from innoculation to fruiting. And then everyone hypes up contamination like unless you make an air controlled still box its gaurenteed to get contamination, and how the uncle bens ready rice I got is too watery compared to alternatives, and how fruiting from bag is so much less yield than the tub spawning method, and on and on and on. Am I reading too deep into it and should just shove the syringe in and tape over and see what happens? Is it okay if I just go with the first guys method and not worry about the tubs and maintaining water droplets and all that?
Whether or not to just go for it would depend on your investment and goal. Did you spend what you consider to be a lot on your spores? If you decide not to experiment with cultivation, can you return them or resell them? Basically, are you going to be wasting your investment if you don’t try, or if you try and fail? Then, what’s your goal? Learning because it seems like a fun hobby, or just getting these specific mushrooms right the first time?
Personally, I’d just go ahead and try as best as you can. Use the advice you got, but don’t stress about it if it’s not perfect. The most likely failure is nothing will grow and you’ll have wasted whatever you spent on materials and a little time. Absolutely worst case scenario is that contamination in your substrate somehow introduces a different kind of mushroom that you weren’t expecting and - again worst case scenario - you don’t realize it’s the wrong kind of mushroom and eat it and die. That seems wildly unlikely, though.