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#13477272 - 11/13/10 07:46 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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==================================================== WHAT WAS DONE:
Species: Psilocybe cyanescens (Wavy Caps) Activity: High (dried 12-25mg/gr) Dimensions: 3 x 2 foot, 10 inches thick (approx 150 ltr) Substrate: Course Beech Woodchips (pet bedding) Purpose: Outdoor Spawn Reservoir Status: mature bed, second flush Location: Holland, early november
THE BED

Here's the bed. It was allowed to become mossy to see whether the patch moisture level would be positively affected and whether the moss would allow the patch to not just fruit on the sides (it's an uncased beech wood chip patch, which tend to only fruit peripherally), and with this second flush, the most abundant ever seen on this patch, a month after the first, this appears to be the case.
Wavy Caps poking right through the moss

Cream of the crop, what not to like about this picture? All aspects of the habitat show beautifully

Mycelium showing, note the wavy margins

Various growth stages, overgrowth as can be seen were stingy nettles

Tight cluster near the wall at the patch's edge

Note the prominent umbo's on the caps!

Harvesting just the biggest ones of the patch yielded 80 grams fresh; ~4gr fresh on average. Note the blueing already on the stems and the spore-bearing lamellae.

Given the number of shrooms still on the patch, this one flush will definitely yield about a dried ounce if it can ripen before the frost. The first flush, in early october, yielded about 8 dried grams.
Now, a bit later, the 1 dried ounce barrier was broken.
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HOW TO DO IT:
--You go to the webshops of some Shroomery Sponsors and buy a Psilocybe cyanescens spore syringe, some vermiculite and some brown rice flour. If they are out of Psilocybe cyanescens syringes you can opt for Psilocybe azurescens, Psilocybe subaeruginosa, Psilocybe bohemica, Psilocybe arcana, Psilocybe serbica or Psilocybe moravica for similar results.
--You get a bunch of 1/2 pint jars (like ~250ml veggie jars from the supermarket) and with a nail you punch a hole in the center of the lids.
--of every 4 jars, you fill 2 with vermiculite, 1 with brown rice flour and 1 with water, then mix this to a loose "dough" and you loosely fill the jars with it, leaving about an inch free at the tops of the jars. Clean the inner rims, then cover with half an inch of straight, dry vermiculite and lay on the lids, don't screw them on. Cover the lids with a layer of tin foil.
--take a cooking pot, put a dishwashing cloth in and pour in 2 inches of water, then put the jars on top of that, on the stove and cover with a lid. Bring to a boil, then boil for 1 hour. Turn off the gas and let it cool down to room temperature overnight, leaving the lid of the pot on.
--the next day, take the jars out of the cooking pot and put them on the table. Shake the spore syringe well, then de-cap it, heat the needle with a disposable lighter till it sputters and drive it though the tin foil, through the hole, through the covering layer of vermiculite in your substrate. Wait 15 seconds then inject a bit of spore solution. Pull the needle out slowly and cover the tin foil with another layer of fresh tin foil. Repeat with all the jars. A syringe is generally 10cc. You should in theory be able to do 5 x 4 jars with it, but in practice 3x4 jars is more than ample. Put the jars in a closet at room temperature. You want to avoid drafts and excessive light. Do not handle the jars at all, if you can.
--After about 3-9 weeks, the jars will be completely covered in white mycelium, which basically looks as if they are stuffed with pure white cotton. Discard all jars that show strange colors immediately, by throwing them away whole and unopened. Now a joyous time begins: You have finished Sterile Technique and won't EVER have to work that carefully again.
--go to a petstore and get hardwood woodchips used for animal bedding. Do not use the ubiquitous yellowish compressed blocks of wood fiber, these are almost invariably softwoods (like pine) which are too resinous to support growth. What you want is the big loose bags of untreated wood chips. Good kinds are beech, oak, birch, chestnut, alder, maple, cottonwood, willow, aspen, poplar, elm , sweet gum and sycamore wood chips. Chips used in smoking (fish or meat) are usually perfect.
--How many jars have made it? Multiply this number by 10-20 and scoop that many jars of dry chips into a large container, and cover it with water, and leave it to soak up water for 24 hours, then let the water leach out for at least 1 hour. Lets for simplicity's sake say 1 jar made it, and that you are preparing 10 jars of wood chips (2.5 liters) for it.
--open the jar(s) with mycelium and scratch the contents out with a fork in a bowl. Use the fork to crumble the mycelial mass as finely as you can. Then, add it to the 10fold excess of leached wood chips and mix it really well. Put it into a plastic storage box to a depth of about 4-10 inches and cover it with a trashbag, which you secure in place with a few clothespins so that iot is covered but the mycelium can breathe. Keep this at room temperature for several weeks to months, until it has grown shut. If its needed, but chances are it won't, mist the mycelium occasionally with a plant mister. When the chips are colonized a joyous time begins, because at this point it becomes very hard to screw the grow up anymore!
--If you don't have a garden and don't want to guerilla farm, you can put these boxes outside in autumn when temperatures range to 50'F to a little above freezing, the fully colonized chips covered with half an inch of potting soil. At these temperatures the mushrooms will fruit directly on top of the substrate, even if you don't use the soil layer.
--Outdoor cultivation of the wood lovers is possible in the plant hardiness zones 6, 7 and 8. The range can likely be extended also to zone 5, but the beds will need to be protected by applying a layer of fresh wood chips or a thicker layer of straw to survive the low temperatures in winter. You can check what USDA Hardiness zone you live in. If you grow in boxes and only take them outdoors during a few months of temperatures from 50'F to a little above freezing, colder zones are possible.
--If you do have a garden or want to take it to the forest, prepare wood chips by soaking and leaching as described before. Again, you use 10-20 times the volume. One jar led to 10 jars in the plastic box and thus will need 100 jars (25 liters = 6.5 gallons) of wood chips.
--In the ground, dig small tenches or holes about 4-10 inches deep. If you want to maximize your initial harvests, make trenches 4 inches deep and wide and as long as you want, side by side, spaced 4 inches apart. If you want maximum spawn per surface area, make it a few big shallow holes 10 inches deep. Use the moistest parts of your garden or forest, and especially under bushes etc where theres little wind and light. You guessed it: the very parts of your garden useless for gardening!
--break up the spawn, the fully grown woodchips from the box, as finely as possible and mix them very well with the excess of leached wood chips, then dump it into the trenches or holes. The chips level should be about even with the ground. At this point you can use your bare hands or a spade to do the mixing and handling. Alternatively you can simply cover the ground under the bushes with a 4 inch thick layer of chips and be rid of it. Its good to make several locations where you dump the spawn to always have a backup in case weed mushrooms take over a grow. This can be in the same garden, but I urge you to go evangelical and offer to mulch the gardens of tripping friends, make patches into the wild etc.
--if you did all this in spring, in late autumn you might already see your first harvest. If it does or doesnt, next season there will be a harvest. Water the patchers if really needed in summer, but dont overwater them. Shrooms are akin to the creature from the horror movie "The Thing": every single part of the organism, no matter how tiny, can be introduced to fresh wood chips and grow out to replicate the whole organism. The patch can dry out a bit, and revitalize after rain. It can take frosts of -25'C/0'F if it has to. At this point a really joyous time begins because not only will you be harvesting one of the worlds strongest mushrooms each year with minimal effort, but your grow has become virtually indestructible.
--in the years to come, after the patches showed their first or a few seasons of mushrooms, you can break up the patches and use them as spawn to make more patches. One mushroom patch can be expanded to ten mushroom patches. Ten to 100. You end up mulching gardens of nontripping family members because they see the benefits to their garden and see the mushrooms as a really cute addition to their garden in late fall. You can go to the forest with bags of spawn and mix it with decaying wood, here, there, everywhere!
==================================================== IS IT WORTH IT?

You be the judge. What I described, if taken step by step, is REALLY easy to do. It doesnt require expensive equipment or unobtainable supplies. It has a high success rate.
Wavy caps like in the picture have a potency of 12-25mg psiloc(yb)in per dried gram, making them 2-4x more potent than the common cubie thats being sold. They are easily identified and turn blue on bruising like nobodies business. The high, compared to cubies, seems to be clearer, higher energy, and more euphoric than that of cubies. If you dry them and store them in a jar in a dark closet they are still strong a year later. In the freezer, they stay potent for a decade or more.
Once the ball is rolling your growing of one of the strongest shrooms in the world becomes as sophisticated as the most basic gardening, and you in essence invest big bags of woodchips to get big bags of powerful shrooms. You will no longer be dependent on what a shady dealer might offer, but instead you have 100% organic shrooms in abundance, more than you can eat, and with your spawn you have the possibility to make your tripping friends independent too.
So you tell me, is it worth it?
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: Asante]
#13477288 - 11/13/10 07:52 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is awesome. Think it could be done in summertime Atlantic northeast? Probably not eh...
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: Caine]
#13477311 - 11/13/10 08:05 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nicely done!
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: Caine]
#13477315 - 11/13/10 08:07 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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If you are in the right hardiness zone, you can start the grow at any time in the year. At worst, you won't harvest this year but have to wait a year more before they show themselves.
Are you between 5-8 on these maps?

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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: Asante]
#13477317 - 11/13/10 08:08 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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takes up to 3
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: DoSedLiving]
#13477357 - 11/13/10 08:20 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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If at any time you have temperatures between 50'F to about freezing, you can grow the majority of the time indoors and take it outdoors at those times.
I'm putting this here to entice people to take up the hobby 
Our Mushroom Cultivation forum can be intimidating at times, but its really not that hard to grow shrooms in this era of spore syringes.
If you want a similar tek as a pictorial, our admin Anno has a site where he offers a very accessible technique to grow all sorts of mushrooms.
Fungifun.org
The sterile phase
Wood chip psilo gardening
Many people are put off by mushroom cultivation because they think its terribly complex. Don't be! It used to be complex but nowadays and especially for shroomerites its easy.
If you want a hobby other than tripping balls, how about growing unlimited amounts of mushrooms that will make you trip balls? 
At first my cat and I frowned at what needed to be done. Then we just let it rest for some years and did nothing. Then finally we went to work, step by step and now every time the summer dies and cold and rain descend on the land we go as the shrooms come up.
Once you are past the jars phase, your psilo garden won't take any more work than the rest of your garden, in fact if you grow veggies its even less labor intensive!
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Edited by Asante (11/13/10 08:28 AM)
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: Asante] 4
#13477363 - 11/13/10 08:22 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wiccan you are an evil genius
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: DoSedLiving]
#13477370 - 11/13/10 08:24 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Is all pricelesss IMO
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: Asante] 1
#13477424 - 11/13/10 08:40 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Oh if y'all have access to woodlovers growing in the wild, its even far easier than that:
THE WOODLOVER SMOOTHIE TEK
Last year I had an idea for a cultivation of woodlovers that absolutely begged to be put to the test. I have put it to the test, and I succeeded.
There was NO sterile technique. There was NO agar. There was NO grain. There was NO Pressure Cooking. There was NO oven heating.
And yet I succeeded. I am now the proud owner of a storage box with 15 liters bright white, strongly rhizomorphic Psilocybe cyanescens mycelium, with that special mycelial odor I have come to love so much. What did I do?
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WOODLOVER SMOOTHIE TEK
1..soak the right kinds of dried woodchips in desinfecting water for three hours.
You can prepare this solution easily by adding 100ml household bleach (5% sodium hypochlorite without additives) to 10 liters of water. Don't worry, it's what they use in swimming pools and in commercial edible mushroom cultivation.
2..leach the woodchips for several hours to get rid of excess moisture.
3..take fresh woodlover mushrooms, add ten parts of water and blenderize it to a "woodlover smoothie". Your goal is to create a suspension of very fine mycelium bits and spores in the water, so blenderize for a full minute, even when the job seems done in 15 seconds. You are creating a very heavy mycelial inoculant in a liquid that has as much spores as spore syringe fluid. I used 30gr fresh Psilocybe cyanescens mushrooms in 300ml water to inoculate 15 liters of soaked woodchips.
4..spread out the woodchips and sprinkle the mycelial solution over it, turning it regularly with very clean hands or gloves. Your goal is to get a dab of the mycelium/spore inoculant on every bit of wood. When you are done, keep mixing up the woodchips because the inoculated chips will rub off mycelium onto the untreated chips.
5..put the woodchips into a plastic storage box and cover it with a sheet of plastic which you fasten with clothespins. It should breathe, but not let dust fall in. Store this in the dark at room temperature. The woodchips will colonize in the usual time of a spawn inoculation.
There you have it! With woodlover mushrooms you collect in the wild you can very easily create loads upon loads of mycelium. Once the mycelium has colonized the woodchips, you can use one part of this spawn to inoculate five parts of moistened woodchips.
A couple of small woodlover mushrooms inoculate a storage box, a storage box inoculates a thrashcan and a thrashcan full of spawn can be used to inoculate several gardens and wild patches.
This TEK can be used on any scale. You can inoculate a few jars with one tiny mushroom you found, or load up a supersoaker water gun and guerilla-inoculate a whole mulched park 
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Low-tech woodlover cultivation: The Woodlover Smoothie TEK
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: Asante] 1
#13477475 - 11/13/10 08:54 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Awesome simpleness. I'm starting a patch this fall. I'll have me some azures in about a week when I go to the coast.
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: nicechrisman]
#13477483 - 11/13/10 08:55 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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better share nigkuh
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: Asante] 1
#13477507 - 11/13/10 09:05 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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very nice wiccan! I should check my Azure bed, although a few days ago there was still nothing..
I love the vibe of the woodlovers
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: stefan]
#13477526 - 11/13/10 09:14 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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What do yall think about the crazy side effects some say woodlovers can give. Weird muscle cramping and stuff? I've never experienced that myself.
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: nicechrisman] 1
#13477737 - 11/13/10 10:15 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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this is my next project
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: Dunno]
#13477741 - 11/13/10 10:16 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wiccan, if you can get those beasties to grow in the Sierras, I'll worship you.
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: Maverick] 1
#13477752 - 11/13/10 10:18 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L. write-up
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: nicechrisman]
#13477754 - 11/13/10 10:18 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
nicechrisman said: What do yall think about the crazy side effects some say woodlovers can give. Weird muscle cramping and stuff? I've never experienced that myself.
From maggots/bugs being inside the cap maybe?
I recall hearing something about it not being a good idea to eat liberty caps fresh as it's possible to pick up some intestinal parasite or something. Never stopped me though I always get a bad stomach after mushies. Rough come up until I'm actually tripping.
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: LobsterSauce]
#13477777 - 11/13/10 10:24 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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damn, i just realized that this grow prob cant happen in a texas climate
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: Dunno]
#13477892 - 11/13/10 10:47 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Now I just need to find some cyans. How is Cali the most liberal state yet one of the few that doesn't allow spore syringes? Smh.
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Re: Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it! [Re: Asante] 1
#13477980 - 11/13/10 11:07 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nice, definitely bookmarking this. Hopefully I can start a patch next year after we move out of town. For right now I have to start getting out there and finding my first P. cyanescens. Maybe tomorrow, besides I have to have an excuse to break in my new book that just came in the mail. Mushrooms Demystified, xmas was early!
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