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Hindsight said:
Left town for a 4 day weekend, with Peace River clones just starting to fruit, and came back to this. Oops! The cracked caps are because the power went out while I was away and the only thing that doesn't re-start automatically is the room humidifier. Tent still fogs but the ambient air is like 35% RH with the room humidifier off, vs 50% with it on. Makes a big difference.

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Beautiful mate!

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Zigzagzin said:
Its my first time working with pans and wanted to see what you guys thought of these plates and to see if yall would recommend some sections for transfers. Top row is Panaeolus cambodginiesis Jamaica, bottem is Panaeolus cyanscens Peave River.

Thanks!

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Jakeoncid419 said:
PHV & bisporus

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Another cross

Cool stuff Jake. Always nice to see your new projects!

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Hindsight said:
Another bispo harvest. These were pretty tall - several of the big ones were almost 5g.

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I have not taken them yet myself. My good friend has taken them three, four, maybe five times now in the last couple of months, and another friend has taken them once. The first friend said ALL his trips on them were basically the same with some minor variations. Not only that but my other friend who did them by himself described to me the exact same kind of trip as the other friend. This is all very noteworthy because I feel like with cubes and even pan cyans, the trips can be VERY different from one to the next, even with the same batch of mushrooms sometimes.

The common points were:
1. The most incredible OEVs they have ever seen. They could see and touch things that didn't exist. A tiny red power stats LED on a smoke detector would manifest as a glowing red orb in their hand that they could touch and move etc.
2. Much less existential feelings, anxiety, and dread than cubes/pancyans, however, they did experience nausea and come-up anxiety at high doses (2g and above), but no puking. My friend did 2.5g last weekend. He said the come-up was much harder than lower doses but it only lasted 20-40 mins and said the rest of the trip was absolute heaven. In the 15+ years I have known him, I have never once seen him this excited about any specific mushroom. In those 15 years I've known him, he kept referencing a Penis Envy trip he had like 20+ years ago and has kept trying to chase that dragon without ever catching it. Until these bispos. He said they beat that PE trip and these are all he ever wants to do anymore.

I really need to try them but I haven't tripped in two or three months due to just being too busy to carve out the time.

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Hindsight said:
Ok this is interesting.

My pasteurization method for many months now has been to follow what JOC does which is to load your sub at field capacity in 2.5gal zip-lock bags, zip the seal up, put in an instapot, fill with water, weight down to ensure submersion, then set on keep warm for 12 hours. I find temps are around 150-160 in the core. Then age the bags on the shelf, still sealed, for 3-5 days. I have never seen any mold or mycelium growing on the pasteurized substrate when I finally open the bag to use them.

I got the idea that maybe it would be beneficial for the micro-organisms in the pasteurized substrate to get some air exchange, so in my last batch, I loaded the sub into a mycobag with a patch filter and impulse sealed it shut, then followed my normal pasteurization procedure. Then set it on the shelf to age 5 or so days and came back to this when I opened it:




Some mold or mycelium growing in there. I'm not inclined to think that this was caused by improper pasteurization since it hasn't happened before. It could have been due to my using different manure (can't recall which box of manure I pulled this from), but aside from that, my only other variable was the mycobag. So for now, it seems that it is best to keep an anaerobic environment in the bag after pasteurization. Not enough tests to say that for sure, but it makes me want to avoid trying the mycobags again.

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