15 year old spore print, viable?

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jdm

Registered: 01/16/03
Posts: 18

15 year old spore print, viable?

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#1225041 - 01/16/03 11:30 PM (23 years, 6 months ago)

These are 2 posts I made in another forum, I don't feel like going through and editing it:

I was putting finch food and some bird seed into jars for later when I make my spore/clone syringes and went into the attic to get the third case of jars. Unlike the other cases this one was tapped shut and didn't feel quite as heavy as the others. I rip the thing open and find 4 out of the 12 jars remaining and thought to myself that I hoped that I could finish off the rest of the bag of bird seed with these jars when I noticed some other things in the boxes. I found Dextrose made by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, Yeast, two small bags of "Agar Agar", and an envelope. I thought maybe this was some stuff for preserving fruit/veggies until I opened the padded envelope and saw a shroom on the front. Above the shroom says "Lux Natura". Inside of the blue folded piece of paper is a plastic bag taped to the inside with a spore print in it. The print was taken on the type of plastic that is used on overhead projectors and is broken up. Inside of the paper in stamped letters it says "AMAZONIAN STRAIN". Theres another piece of paper with it which is basically an advertisement for a book made by Terrence and Dennis Mckenna.

Postmark on the stamp on the outside of the envelope is 1980, 1986, or 1988. I can't make out the last number but the bottom part of it is rounded. The last number was stamped on a dark part of the postage stamp so its very hard to make out.

The address for Lux Natura is:

Lux Natura
SUITE 1196
2000 CENTER ST.
BERKELEY, CA 94704

The cases of mason jars were owned by my father (hes dead, 7-8 years ago). Can anyone tell me anything about this stuff? I will scan the pieces of paper in a few hours. Most important of all, is the spore print viable? I thought I would share this little story since I thought many of you would find it interesting. I wondered why the hell we had 4-5 cases of mason jars. Ah well, since he only made use of about one case looks like I'll make use of the others. One more question, there are two cases of jars, some jars are missing from the cases, but inside of the jars looks like mounds of vasilene (thats the best way I can describe it). Any idea what that is?

From IRC:

[05:59:52] looks like a publishing company..
[05:59:55] now defunct
[06:00:06] lux natura fall catalog
[06:01:14] the word means "natural light"
[06:01:20] or light of nature
[06:02:53] it looks like they mostly sold and published terrance mckenna's works
[06:03:55] in fact, the only other book i can find besides mckenna books is the oss and oeric's psyilocibin magic mushroom grower's guide... which.. now that i think about it, is mckenna too.. oss and oeric were pseudonyms :P
[06:04:00] he probably owned the company
[06:05:27] yeah, the company was owned by him

It looks like its from 1988:

link is here

"First, the LUX NATURA Fall 1988 Catalog. Lux Natura, 2140 Shattuck
Avenue, Box 2196, Berkeley, CA 94704. Mostly listing many tapes by
McKenna, but also a new expanded edition of _Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom
Grower's Guide_ ($12.95), and a mushroom spore advertisement:

HIGHEST QUALITY MUSHROOM SPORES collected from Amazonian strains
of STROPHARIA CUBENSIS (also known as Psilocybe Cubensis) are now
available from: Syzygy. You will receive several million spores
on a glass coverside sealed in a plastic envelope for just $10.00
per sporeprint, plus $1.00 for shipping per order (Add 4% sales
tax in Hawaii.) Send your order to: SYZYGY, P.O. Box 619,
Honaunau, HI 96726. Offer void where prohibited."

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