Fun week , decided to end the flush , got some shrooms, tried to harvest spores, failed. accidently added way to much smart proteins to these, now the mycelium is stained brown, looks really angry/healthy but it's like beige-ish now.... the cake smells rank, probably i forgot the base of one or two shrooms or something now they smell... still though i thought i fucked it up but i'm seeing loads of hyphal knots coming already so i'm guessing i'll be seeing pins soon. Changed up a few things : got a heat mat from zamnesia for 12 bucks, i was gonna go chinese for 6.50 but a buddy on here told me he almost set his house on fire with one of the chinese ones lol. I shouldve got that mat ages ago, plus you can use it for your seedlings and etc... why i didnt start with this i cannot tell you. keeping the temperature nice and constant is really helping as far as i can tell. As it is i'm spraying as often as i can usually 4 times a day. Finally put the liquid culture in the fridge , it's absolutely ready even seeing a few black pin heads in it great seeing how you can take one drop from the sporemate and triple your culture basically effortlessly... one of the LC vials didnt work , still so i did get a refund i'm used for a pill machine, again it was randomly cheaper on zamnesia than amazon go figure.... I'll be finally getting around to making the microscope slides for this, i'm really looking forward to seeing the hyphal knots especially... advice on how to do this is very welcome ! I also made some pf cakes and innoculated them with the mundo mcKennaii strain, the point is trying to figure out how the smart protein works with this but also to compare spores and see if these strains are identical or not ๐
Hehe @CRiSPrGrow I used to do that. Ordered from wholecelium.com the strongest alien one. It will be nice and then you can repeat more times 2 or 3 times. Good Luck mate! And when you eat dont forget 1g dried equal 10g wet. If you take less you will laugh but if you take a lot you will meet with Jesus. ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐ Enjoy mate!
@Ferenc, hahahaha i hope you follow it man, because it think it's the same ones ... i wanted to make spore prints but the caps dont really open up fully so...... it's gonna be tough to make slides for the microscope...
@CRiSPrGrow, 100% agreed! The shroom, ginger, lemon, honey combo I swear by. I put all my friends on it after I was tripping w a buddy and it was his first time and he insisted on eating them instead and he threw up half an hour in and didnโt trip at all. What a waste.
@YoungSmoke, call me crazy but vomiting all over the place just isnt my idea of how a trip should start ๐ the aya crew is big on "the purge", not me though, i'll take my psychedelics without violent bouts of queasiness please๐
Is that trippy mushrooms? In Scotland they grow in the wild, I get them in my garden every year! My dad was a hippie so I used to go out as a child looking for them ๐ I took them once and vomited everywhere for hours and started thinking the bathroom walls were coming in on me haha talk about bad trip, never again ๐ Iโll stick to weed ๐
@GanjagrowingGal, lol that does sound awful, if i'm eating them , i'll have them fresh, never more than 10gs at a time (1g dry equivalent) , any more than that is too much for my comfort lol folks will have four or five times that and meet jesus in person , come back all shook lmfao
Is there some kind of odour when you're growing these? If so what exactly does it smell like? I did shrooms a couple times and tons of acid about 25 to 30 years ago so I'm familiar with the effects :P I'd probably have a heart attack or some other health problem if I did them now!
@Jwjoh, never quickly enough though : what i learned is that mushrooms need RH 99 and fresh air to grow so be ready to spray and fan multiple times daily ... actually you dont need light at all beyond "a trigger" ... so growth rate is a function of how humid you can keep it before the mushrooms start , then you got to keep it 80-90 RH otherwise the mushrooms dont grow right.
@CRiSPrGrow,as well as the rest of the marija .... for all my life I paid for a product that made with your own hands ... and a whole other fucking bro story.
I regret having started only now, I hope to become good at rendering techniques like you, I am doing some culture but at the moment I am very clumsy
@PEAKYPLANTERS, ha, yeah man in europe it's free to access for sure, you can even get fresh ones delivered. i almost got a 2.5 kg "family pack" delivered once ๐ like just for the jokes and experience of it... check out the @zami_official zamnesia.com website... you can even get cactus there , ayahuasca , absinthe , all the wierd ethnobotany stuff, it's actually pretty impressive and for sure one of the things i'll miss about europe . this is the kind of thing once you do it yourself you never buy it ever again
It's been several years since I've grown them but after inoculation my cakes I left her in the dark until the entire substrate was colonized and started to pin it took a few weeks then put them in indirect light. Just my 2-cents.
@CRiSPrGrow, I did the PF Tek with vermiculite and organic brown rice flour. I just bought some organic brown rice and ran it through a coffee grinder until it was like dust. Then I use Kerr short wide jars they are kind of tapered so the cakes came out easy. I just used a clear sweater box with a couple of inches of perlite saturated with distilled water and a small amount of hydrogen peroxide then sat my cakes on shallow yogurt tops sprinkled with a bit of damp vermiculite on top of the perlite. Then used a rubber weather seal on the top edge I only needed to mist them a couple of time a day. I got around three flushes of shrooms it works out pretty good. I've seen some guy using rye berries or even f-in birdseed to grow them. I'm down in Florida so most people just go out in the cow pastures a couple of days after it rains then pick fresh not really a market for them down here.
@Philindicus, actually just a pre made kit from @zami_official and a $50 microscope ... i got discount lab stuff lol : stains for the slides and a basic scalple and petri dishes for the agat ... havent even bothered doing my pf tek yet doing it tomorrow
@CRiSPrGrow, It looks like you have some professional scientific grade products your using. When I did it I was sent syringes preloaded with spore print material in sterilized distilled water. All I had to do was sterilize the needle tip then inject my cakes. It was very low tech.
@MaryJaneUSA, oui ce sont des psylocibe cubensis McKenaii qu'il fait pousser en PF-tek. C'est a dire qu'il constitue un substrat dans lequel il a inoculรฉ dans les conditions les plus stรฉrile possible, des spores de psylocibe cubensis de la variรฉtรฉ Mc Kenaii et qu'il a ensuite laisser incuber jusqu'ร l'apparition du mycรฉlium (mousse blanche donnant naissance aux champignons) que l'ont fait fructifier une fois mis sous cloche dans l'atmosphรจre idรฉale.
never tried to grow these before.
But we used to grind up about a gram, mix with melted choc
and put into little molds. Took a trip without leaving the farm(so to speak)
Masked the taste pretty well.
Getting to old for those anyways, I will stick to some good herb๐
Later Grow Big!!
@northernMike, hey hey hey, never say too old, you'd be surprised how much more you enjoy them now that you have that experiential vantage point from all those years ! enjoy !
Hahaha holy shit! 0 to 100 real quick ๐
Not sure how to comment on this positively without my mind going into the gutter haha
Never dabbled in this side of growing, but that looks like a few good times popping up ๐