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sublimehypocrisy said:
Example: One person eats 2 grams of shrooms that were picked after a few days, another eats 2 grams that were picked before vales were torn, and a third eats 2 grams that were picked long after spores fell.

Who would have the most of the psilocybin?

Are the pins concentrated and therefore stronger?

Does the psilocybin get produced in the same amount per square mm as it grows, or does the pin start with a set amount, and that amount become reduced as it grows?

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Whatever opinions may be presented here, the vast majority are based on personal experience, or discussing experiences with other users, and experience is mostly subjective. Furthermore, phenological variations from one consumer to the next will respond with greater or lesser intensity depending on their personal chemistry. You would need to use gas chromatography to look at the chemical content and most of us simply don't have access to this tool.

Lastly, from pg 39 PMotW:
"Readers should note that, within any one species, there can be a tenfold or more range in psilocybin and psilocin production from one collection to the next!"

If you want potency, use agar to clone for it, eat more mushrooms, or add lemon juice.

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Jonow said:
I was actually discussing this with a friend today. Do bigger mushrooms really spread out the same amount of psilocybin it had when it first pins, or does the mushroom, as it grows, create more psilocybin?

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i thought this was the understanding

maybe much has changed, but im not searching

thru text, and testing, ive found closed veil mushrooms being more potent, than cubensis post sporulation

its obvious if you have 3grams of aborts, youre going for a ride, while 3grams of ok MS fully mature mushrooms, might sometimes not take you anywhere. it could be the difference btwn 50 mushrooms, or maybe just one

keep in mind in MS, the potency will fluctuate greatly btwn each mushroom even. so 3 mushrooms weighing 3gm dry...one might be lacking in potency, so 1/3 of your dose is already just tissue. etc etc.

the "happy medium", i think someone said earlier

the difference in dried weight tho, is exponential

a tub harvested at full maturity could way twice as much dry as a tub harvested of closed capped mushrooms.

if youre going solely for potency, id say harvest everything closed capped,

and get a dependable isolate or clone culture, then you know your potency will be great up to and thru maturity, so you can go weight and potency

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Jonow said:
I was actually discussing this with a friend today. Do bigger mushrooms really spread out the same amount of psilocybin it had when it first pins, or does the mushroom, as it grows, create more psilocybin?

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Again, it's be swell if RR said something. =P

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