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?
Lots of methods work, but they each have their own pros and cons. Different yields, different risks, different costs, etc. There is no method that is perfect, IMHO.
That said, shroomscout’s guide is good, though personally I found 90sm’s videos to be similar content but easier to digest. ( He also had a video on fruiting from the bag but I’ve never tried it)
I don’t know your situation but I know a lot of people on this path are doing it to try to deal with shit they haven’t otherwise been able to deal with.
If that describes you, then my advice is to inoculate a few bags using whatever method you feel like you can handle right now.
If you have a normal size syringe, you can do several bags of UB and still have a lot left over to try again.
Then, while you’re waiting for growth, keep learning. If it doesn’t work out, figure out what went wrong, fix it, and try again.