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unrealkasper
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Check up on cubensis McKennaii
#15728332 - 01/28/12 06:58 AM (12 years, 21 days ago) |
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Greetings!
I recently grew those McKennaii from a kit.
Here is a image of the fresh:

And the dried:

I have a few questions which keeps annoying me (I have never tried shrooms before).
1) Do they look okay to you?
2) Is it okay to wash them before ingestion or do they lose potency by doing that?
3) I got 55 grams fresh and it takes about 8 mixed shrooms to get 1.0g (recommended dose for first time) - is that okay to ingest 8 of these? They are about 4cm in length.
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Re: Check up on cubensis McKennaii [Re: unrealkasper]
#15728388 - 01/28/12 07:39 AM (12 years, 21 days ago) |
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1. They look fine to me. I've never heard of mckenni but those are definitely cubensis. They look pretty damn tasty.
2. a quick rinse is not necessary but won't hurt them either. just rinse them off, don't soak them. The good stuff will dissolve in water but you won't lose a noticeable amount just rinsing the crap off.
3. Weigh them when they're dry. Don't count the number of shrooms and try to estimate. Just use a scale.
1g of dry cubensis is generally considered a very light dose, even for a first time.
4. Welcome to the Shroomery. Spend a week reading and you'll never waste money on a kit again.
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Re: Check up on cubensis McKennaii [Re: Beefy1]
#15728423 - 01/28/12 08:01 AM (12 years, 21 days ago) |
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Thanks.. I'll try them out - it's cubensis.
2) What about all the small "corns" from the cake - are they okay to ingest or should I cut the bottom of the shrooms? It seems others are just eating them whole.
4) Heh! I thought about the PF-Tek way, but it seemed quite complicated with quite a lot of tools (e.g. the pressure cooker).
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Re: Check up on cubensis McKennaii [Re: unrealkasper]
#15728452 - 01/28/12 08:17 AM (12 years, 21 days ago) |
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it probably wouldn't kill you to eat the 'corns' (never heard of that term but I guess you mean the soil/ vermiculite at the bottom) just clean it up and you'll be fine!
plus if you're weighing them, try and make sure they're 'cracker dry' by which I mean, if you bend them, they snap and crumble when crushed.
to do this people usually dry under a fan for up to 48 hours, then transfer to a sealed container with some sort of desiccant (damp-rid, silicon gel etc.) but don't worry about this, if they're not fully dry, you'll just get less mushrooms/ active ingredients per gram 
and definitely feel free to start with 1 gram, but I wouldn't have thought you'd feel much. but like everything like this, start with what you feel comfortable, and then go do a HEROIC DOSE!!!  (read trips reports on here so you know what to expect too )
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Re: Check up on cubensis McKennaii [Re: keeno]
#15728511 - 01/28/12 08:46 AM (12 years, 21 days ago) |
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McKennaii is from the FSRE, head shops started selling it so they added it to their list.
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Re: Check up on cubensis McKennaii [Re: keeno]
#15728524 - 01/28/12 08:51 AM (12 years, 21 days ago) |
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I would make tea for your first time if you have never tripped before.
10 - 20g fresh in tea will give you an excellent first trip. And you will also avoid the stomach problems most people get from eating them whole like that.
Look up mushroom tea recipe on Erowid, or Here. I know primal soup has a good simple recipe for tea.
I can detail mine to you if you'd like to PM me.
IMO tea with fresh mushrooms is best, as you don't lose psilocybin/psilocin that would dissipate during drying.
Tea will bring you up faster and not last as long (4 hours vs 6 -8) which is nice if your like me and you start to get to the end like damn I hope this is over soon cause I am mentally exhausted...
Great job on your first grow and welcome to the shroomery.
P.s. No granuales on your stem butts wont hurt you but cut them off anyway so you don't have shiny speckles of vermiculite in your poop
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Re: Check up on cubensis McKennaii [Re: Brain Fart]
#15728555 - 01/28/12 09:00 AM (12 years, 21 days ago) |
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Re: Check up on cubensis McKennaii [Re: keeno]
#15728584 - 01/28/12 09:12 AM (12 years, 21 days ago) |
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Re: Check up on cubensis McKennaii [Re: Brain Fart]
#15728662 - 01/28/12 09:49 AM (12 years, 21 days ago) |
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I love the McKs. I grew a kit llast year and been tripping on them exclusively since the first harvest. I've got some Mazatapec going right now, but starting some new McKs is definitely on the must-do list.
I like their light body-load (usually i barely feel them coming, until visual symptoms tell me i'm there eheh...), good potency (1gr is enough for quite a good flight, been up to 4gr so far) and very good visuals even on low doss such as one gram.
During most, if not all, of the journeys, I have experienced some dissociative effect as well, kinda odd out-of-body state, where your being is "reduced" to your very own thought. I like it.
Many times also I found myself propulsed to other epoch both in past or future, and far out destinations in this or other dimensions. Once I even took part to some space-ship battle, flying my own space jet. I was speeding at ful throttle towards some destination in order to deliver some important information or date, or whatever, while in the same time doing my best to avoid ennemy's missiles and rays. Then I heard in my ear-phone some dude from my flotilla shouting "MIND BOMB ! WATCH OUT !". But the thing blew up on me and suddenly all the information I was supposed to deliver was erased from my mind, all forgotten and me to be back in our space-time continuum.
Something I like also with these McKs is that they make me "hear" voices, but now in my language ! english, german, spanish, russian, portuguese, greek and quite a few others as well. It's only bribes of conversations, like I'm randomly capting/receiving what other peopllle think or say much far away from me. USuallly it ends up with me thinking in the dominant foreign language. go figure...
Last journey was at 3.5gr and was good. Good head-digging and thinking, with good insights & managing to crack open what had to be so. No such effect with lower doses actually.
All in all, i can only and strongly recommend these little dudes. They are as friendly as they are potent and they're suppa'friendly !
Irie !
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Re: Check up on cubensis McKennaii [Re: Ozymandihash] 1
#15732436 - 01/29/12 04:41 AM (12 years, 20 days ago) |
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Thanks for the replies! I'll try out with 1g the first time and maybe 2-3 if first times succeeds!
Ozymandihash, sounds very nice and thanks for the almost-trip-report on McKennaii's, I can't wait!
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