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Shroomhunter711

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My First Grow.... and trip
#25571474 - 10/27/18 12:52 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Just wanted to post so I can just share this experience with someone. Refraining from telling anyone that knows me is crucial in my situation. I’m gonna add pictures of my grow. Right now I’m 10 days in on transferring wbs to 2 66 qt tubs and I also have some brf cakes in a fruiting chamber (also ten days in). If anyone would like to give me advice or leave a comment please feel free to do so. Thank you guys for the wealth of information. If it weren’t for the internet this would not have been possible for me. THIS IS MY FIRST GROW AND MY FIRST TIME EATING SHROOMS....
Edited by Shroomhunter711 (10/27/18 01:20 PM)
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elasticaltiger
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What variety? If it's penis envy or albino penis envy don't go over 1 gram. Any other cubensis variety go with 2.0 to 3.5 grams for a first dose.
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Shroomhunter711

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Ok thanks. It’s Huautla and Chitwan.
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elasticaltiger
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3.5 will give you the full experience. But if youre tripping alone better to err on the side of caution and go with 2.
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The Shmuvbox. - The Old TC's Like it
Afraid to Start Growing From Your Own Prints? Drop it Like a Tiger! No Pouring. No Syringes. No Cutting. No flaming. No Contamination. No Bullshit.
"The best thing to do while your waiting is to start more stuff. I usually got so much happening that I have tossed projects simply because I didn't have time for them. -Pastywhite QFT
Pastywhite's Easy Agar Tek (PastyPlates)
Tiger Drop Video Demos By munchauzen
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.―Bill Watterson
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VroomerMcZoomers
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Marijuana goes very well with mushrooms.
I dont even like doing them without it.
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Tubs look a little wet, and are colonizing a bit slow for 10 days IMO... Spawn ratio? Are you in "fruiting conditions "? Also, how are you getting air to the cakes? Looks like they need more to me , and the grain looks clean, but really wet too... I prefer (and believe it best) to err on the dryer side with grain prep and bulk spawn; reduces risk of bacteria taking over... you can always hydrate a sub with a bottom water after full colonization and it starts to shrink... IME, this late hydration may be beneficial to pinset, perhaps due to the sudden increased ability to evaporate? Total speculation, but have seen better results starting out "too dry" as opposed to "too wet": which tends to stall IME... so long as it's growing, I'd get some FAE going to attempt to dry things a little bit... once fully colonized, surface moisture will develope naturally, just maintain surface moisture with light, superficial mistings, allowing evaporation to occur between mistings to stimulate pinning... looks clean, I see fruit in your near future.
As far as dose, there's no way of knowing how sensitive you are to psilocybin and psilocin, and better to be underehelmed, or redose 2 hours in (safe time to judge intensity IMO) than to be overwhelmed and have an incomprehensible experience that's difficult to get anything from... better to ease your way in... I think if you are looking for a test to see if you even like it, 3.5g dry would give you a better idea of what higher doses are like... and I can't speak for others, but my gf and I both find effective doses much lower (like 2g) to be uncomfortable and anxiety ridden; not well representative of the full on experience... there's always anxiety with the come up IME, but IMO, the higher the dose, the faster it's over with, and the quicker I get to a comfortable frequency... though it can be quite intense, you'd have to eat nearly 9 pounds of mushrooms to overdose... just breathe your way through it, and trust that the mushroom has got you... remember that with great sacrifice comes great reward... don't fight with it, if you feel like "something's not right" just breathe... surrender to the "death "and experience pre/post human experience lol...
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Also
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VroomerMcZoomers said: Marijuana goes very well with mushrooms.
I dont even like doing them without it.

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Shroomhunter711

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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: Caps McGee]
#25572314 - 10/27/18 07:23 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ok so I started with 7 grain jars just in case a couple of them went bad but none did. After that I combined 5 jars with 650 grams of coconut coir and 2 quarts of Verm and 4 quartz water in one tub. I Cased it immediately after with some of the coir and Verm. The second tub I was like you know what screw it im not just gonna toss em. My wife already had the clear 66 qt tub so I combined 2 jars with 670 grams coconut coir 2 quartz Verm and 4 quartz water. No casing. I read bods unbodified tek and I’m using it due to it being easy af! Lol. As of now the lids have been left on but not snapped down. The tub on the right is the 2 jar tub and the tub on the left is the 5 jar with casing. I haven’t misted either tub once. I actually noticed where the 5 jar tub developed those tiny water droplets on its own right on the surface of the mycelium. My brf cakes are a crap shoot I feel like. I don’t want to go the shotgun fruiting chamber route so as of now I’m just scooting the lid back about an inch and leave the ceiling fan running on the lowest setting while I’m home. Misting when i don’t see anymore tiny water droplets on the cakes.
Edited by Shroomhunter711 (10/27/18 07:44 PM)
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elasticaltiger
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I personally don't like mixing weed and psychedelics. Makes my heart beat really fast.
-------------------- First time growing cakes? DON'T make a Shotgun Fruiting Chamber
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Afraid to Start Growing From Your Own Prints? Drop it Like a Tiger! No Pouring. No Syringes. No Cutting. No flaming. No Contamination. No Bullshit.
"The best thing to do while your waiting is to start more stuff. I usually got so much happening that I have tossed projects simply because I didn't have time for them. -Pastywhite QFT
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CzM8
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I like them fresh. Try about 10g fresh with some herb and maybe a couple drinks. That's a pretty chill happy place for me. After that, you might do a full dose.
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: CzM8] 2
#25572645 - 10/27/18 09:31 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fuck it. I say do 5g. It's almost 2020. Live in the future man.
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: mushboy]
#25572679 - 10/27/18 09:56 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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You should go with 2 or 2.5 if you really want the experience of it without doing too much.
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: mushboy]
#25572703 - 10/27/18 10:07 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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I agree with mush, 3.5 is the absolute min I'd take. I think its better to take enough to get something out of it rather than take a small dose and not have your expectations met. I tried a 3g dose when I first took them and was kinda let down.
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: MH5109] 1
#25572711 - 10/27/18 10:10 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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OP has the nards to grew em without having tried them. His adventours spirits needs a reward.
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CzM8
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elasticaltiger said: I personally don't like mixing weed and psychedelics. Makes my heart beat really fast.
Really!? Weed often gives me anxiety unless I’m doing other harder stuff, then it really mellows me out.
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: BrickPlay]
#25572742 - 10/27/18 10:22 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Since it's your 1st dose and you're doing it alone start small and see how they affect you, you can always take more after they kick in if you're feeling good. You'll have plenty of time to fool around with bigger doses later, take a test run first. I'd probably try 1/2 gram to one gram to make sure I didn't have an unpleasant reaction. You can eat more after you get off it you want to bump it up a notch.
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elasticaltiger
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: CzM8]
#25573149 - 10/28/18 02:56 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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CzM8 said:
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elasticaltiger said: I personally don't like mixing weed and psychedelics. Makes my heart beat really fast.
Really!? Weed often gives me anxiety unless I’m doing other harder stuff, then it really mellows me out.
Yeah really. Definitely can lead me to an uncomfortable place. With psychedelics the only thing ill mix with it is alcohol after the peak.
-------------------- First time growing cakes? DON'T make a Shotgun Fruiting Chamber
The Shmuvbox. - The Old TC's Like it
Afraid to Start Growing From Your Own Prints? Drop it Like a Tiger! No Pouring. No Syringes. No Cutting. No flaming. No Contamination. No Bullshit.
"The best thing to do while your waiting is to start more stuff. I usually got so much happening that I have tossed projects simply because I didn't have time for them. -Pastywhite QFT
Pastywhite's Easy Agar Tek (PastyPlates)
Tiger Drop Video Demos By munchauzen
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.―Bill Watterson
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For your first time I’d probably sit around the 2g - 2.5g mark
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CzM8
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: Gdgs1970]
#25573222 - 10/28/18 05:13 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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No one else would recommend fresh? I like them fresh quite a bit more.
ALSO, if you go the dried route, make sure you mix them with something or make a tea. When I was younger we would just eat them straight and that’s fucking nasty. I still can’t stand the smell of dried mushrooms.
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: CzM8]
#25573288 - 10/28/18 06:48 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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I’d take 1.5 chop up with scissors into shot glass. Soak with lemonade until rehydrated and chug like cheap liquor. Refill glass until you get all the bits.
Shower immediately after dosing then lay down, smoke a bowl, and listen to Pink Floyd “Meddle” beginning with Echos.
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Congrats for making it this far bro!!!
I would say 1.5-2.5g made into a tea, it will kick in quickly and if you want to drink half of the tea and see how it feels before taking a proper dose.
Good luck bro
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: CzM8]
#25573381 - 10/28/18 07:36 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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CzM8 said: No one else would recommend fresh? I like them fresh quite a bit more.
ALSO, if you go the dried route, make sure you mix them with something or make a tea. When I was younger we would just eat them straight and that’s fucking nasty. I still can’t stand the smell of dried mushrooms.
I'm the other way round, can eat them dried, but gag eating them fresh
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Shroomhunter711


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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: Gdgs1970]
#25573892 - 10/28/18 12:29 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thanks for the replies. Taking them wet isn’t out of the question. I know it’ll be hard to wait for them to dry so eating them fresh sounds awesome. Question. Should I re dunk my brf cakes? Goin on day 12 in the fruiting chamber.
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: Gdgs1970]
#25573908 - 10/28/18 12:38 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Gdgs1970 said:
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CzM8 said: No one else would recommend fresh? I like them fresh quite a bit more.
ALSO, if you go the dried route, make sure you mix them with something or make a tea. When I was younger we would just eat them straight and that’s fucking nasty. I still can’t stand the smell of dried mushrooms.
I'm the other way round, can eat them dried, but gag eating them fresh
They actually taste/smell like fresh button mushrooms to me. Raw button mushrooms aren't the best, but I could see eating cubes on a spinach salad with honey mustard, bacon, onions.
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: CzM8]
#25576419 - 10/29/18 01:23 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Is it time to put this one in the fruiting chamber? It has one small pin in it.
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elasticaltiger
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Yes. If it's pinning it's time.
-------------------- First time growing cakes? DON'T make a Shotgun Fruiting Chamber
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Afraid to Start Growing From Your Own Prints? Drop it Like a Tiger! No Pouring. No Syringes. No Cutting. No flaming. No Contamination. No Bullshit.
"The best thing to do while your waiting is to start more stuff. I usually got so much happening that I have tossed projects simply because I didn't have time for them. -Pastywhite QFT
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Tiger Drop Video Demos By munchauzen
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The safe approach is to start small and work your way up. Become familiar with some of the feelings and shift in mindset you will experience. Maybe 1.5g or so.
The approach I might take is to jump right in to a 3.5g dose with a sitter or experienced tripper(not going to send you to another planet, but def the full experience) I am 100% sure that doing this my first time changed my life for the better.
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: Gardennub]
#25578081 - 10/30/18 07:25 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Has anyone else ever laid in the floor and peaked through the top crack in your tub while holding your cell phone light just right to witness your mushrooms grow like weeds before your very eyes!? Yeah me neither. Update: just redunked the brf cakes and rolled in Verm. Today is day 14 and still no pins in them or in my tubs. I started with FAE on my tubs on day ten.
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Shroomhunter711


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HELP! Ok so I have good news and maybe bad news. Bad news first- in the tub with 2 qtz wbs and no casing layer there is a slight yellow-green color developing in one corner of the tub.(pictured below). It has been placed in a seperate room of the house for now to monitor the situation. Good news- the tub with 5 qtz wbs and a casing layer has developed its first pins!! (Also pictured below). This is day 15 in tubs.
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: Gardennub]
#25581337 - 10/31/18 10:26 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Gardennub said: The safe approach is to start small and work your way up. Become familiar with some of the feelings and shift in mindset you will experience. Maybe 1.5g or so.
The approach I might take is to jump right in to a 3.5g dose with a sitter or experienced tripper(not going to send you to another planet, but def the full experience) I am 100% sure that doing this my first time changed my life for the better.
I have a harder time with 1.5g than with 7... personally
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: Caps McGee]
#25581641 - 10/31/18 12:27 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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My level of experience was pretty similar. Other than one go 25 years ago in college I have no experience with psychedelics. In that trip I didn't take much and only got an uncomfortable come up with very few enjoyable effects.
Fast forward to present, I read about the benefits that mushrooms can have and decided to grow my own. I enjoy the growing process and had a decent yield for my first grow.
I took 13g fresh and had a similar, but less stressful trip as the first. The worst part was wondering if the weird discomfort was going to accelerate and only get worse. From what I've read I didn't take enough (again) to break through the uncomfortable onset.
Next I'm gong to try 2.5 dry and see how that goes. I would encourage you to do something similar to avoid the discomfort that I went through.
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Shroomhunter711


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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: goslugsgo]
#25583757 - 11/01/18 09:53 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Y’all check out my tub! It’s crazy seeing the first pins. I almost can’t beleive that you can get to this point with just one small 10cc syringe with spores in it. Incredible.
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hobbyguy
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Make a nice tea with 3g, binge watch Manswers, enjoy
[url=Much Boob Is More Than A Handful[/url]
Edited by hobbyguy (11/01/18 12:58 PM)
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Acuriousmycologist
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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: hobbyguy]
#25584274 - 11/01/18 12:58 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've got no advice but just wanted to hug you a bit and say good work getting this far.
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Shroomhunter711


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Acuriousmycologist said: I've got no advice but just wanted to hug you a bit and say good work getting this far.
Thank you! I must say I do feel accomplished after seeing how much can go wrong.
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Shroomhunter711


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Re: My First Grow.... and trip [Re: hobbyguy]
#25584592 - 11/01/18 02:56 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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hobbyguy said: Make a nice tea with 3g, binge watch Manswers, enjoy
[url=Much Boob Is More Than A Handful[/url]
Haha! Nice
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Shroomhunter711


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Welp here is my first harvest..... I ate a mushroom wet and it tasted horrible! A 6g mushroom. I wanted to eat another one but I kinda pussed out to tell the truth.
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I personally don’t eat anything under 10g dried but maybe start off at 3.5 in a safe dark place no sound. I don’t believe in trio sitters but to each their own.
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