Not to Shabby!

While it has taken a lot longer than I thought it would to get started, I now have pulled in something around 50 dollars profit. That isn't much, especially since (and surprisingly!) I have spent 600+ dollars already.

I have sold water jet vacuum pumps (aka laboratory aspirators), elm oyster mushroom culture slants, Datura Stramonium var Tatula Seeds, and Nicotiana Rustica.

Anyways now I have about 1000 spawn mycobags coming in the mail, an 20" impulse sealer, 50lbs of rye grain, will soon have ~10+ mushroom cultures, have tons of surplus, and on and on.
I'll be able to make a lot of different products and probably make pretty good profit in the next month or so.. hopefully!

Except for it isn't really going to be profit, it will mostly pay off the investment, and than generate some more money to reinvest into the company. I'll probably buy a lot of aspirators, more containers, and maybe some laboratory glassware.

Its going to be pretty gradual for now - but this is only because I have to go to university and mess around with all that stupid homework. The moment summer hits buying, reselling, and manufacturing is going to go nuts! It will especially go nuts because I will not only have more time, but also because I will have already a web presence, and most of the kinks and set backs will be worked out.

One of the set backs was the cost of shipping tobacco and datura seeds. Its tricky - I wanted to say free shipping and pick up the assumed 44 cents for a stamp - but it costs about 1.22 to ship the seeds. So I had to up the price OR include shipping.
Either way the seeds are pretty cheap, and I am making small profit (a dollar or two?) on each sale.

The seed sales are pretty slow. I think its only slow because it is still winter. When spring and summer hit - I'll get way more sales. Hopefully.

24 Culture Slants Inoculated

I just finished inoculating 24 culture slants of malt extract agar with four different cultures, so that is six culture tubes of each of the following mushrooms;  Nemko, Enoki, Elm Oyster, and Shiitake -75.
That is pretty good, it didn't take long but didn't go as smooth as I wanted it too - I am not used to inoculating that many culture tubes, however hopefully I get used to doing that many, and more.
Today I also came up with a fantastic way to ship these mushroom cultures for very cheap. Its possibly the best method available for CSR Science and its customers. I will probably ship these cultures for free, and perhaps adjust the price I was intending on selling them by a little bit. I think that would sell better.

Culture Tubes On The Way!

Just recently ordered 500 culture tubes with polypropylene caps for making master cultures and agar slants of our edible mushroom cultures for resale.
They culture tubes are about 18 mm x 150 mm in size! We will probably also sell these in small quantities, and probably also sell some good poured and sterile agar slants.
Hopefully everything comes together!

We already have shiitake, nemko, enoki, and elm oyster ready for sales - but we will hopefully get tons more of different edible and bioluminescent/glow in the dark mushroom cultures...

Maybe we can get 15 or 20 different cultures and sell the lot for 99 dollars or something? 
I think that would be a good price, and pretty fair.

These should also be good for plant tissue culturing as well. Hopefully 500 tubes won't last us very long, and than we can start ordering 10,000 or more from the bigger suppliers for even better prices!