koraks said:

Differences in alkalo?d content between strains of Ps. Cubensis are tiny if not absent. The variation in alkaloid content is mostly affected by your growing techniques. The better the circumstances, the more potent the fruits. It all comes down on you, dude!  

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koraks said:The variation in alkaloid content is mostly affected by your growing techniques. The better the circumstances, the more potent the fruits. It all comes down on you, dude!  

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I must be an exellent grower than!

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of Course a mushroom strain that produces a bigger shroom contains more psilocin than a smaller specimen

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This is entirely untrue. There are some strains that produce very little, almost puny mushrooms that are excellent. And there are also strains that produce large mushrooms that are good. With the opposite also being true (weak strains can come in big and large packages too). Basically, mushroom size has no direct relation to potency, only maturity when harvested effects potency. Sometimes size and maturity can be confused, immature mushrooms are smaller and have more alkaloids than a large overmature fruit of the same strain. A mushroom strain that is bigger will have more alkaloids because it obviously contains more total mass. But, the concentration of psilocybin per that mass does not have anything to do with size of the mushroom strain. It is determined by environmental conditions and genetics. When talking potency you must consider the concentration of active chemicals compared to the mass of the mushroom body.

This has been covered a million times already, but I find it is easier for me to type in the answer, than to search for a person and post the links... Try the search function though, it works well and you can dig up more info that you can digest. Especially on the great potency discussions that have been discussed over and over in the past. There is good info out there on the subject