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Babylon
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: mushboy]
#26595774 - 04/12/20 01:15 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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mushboy said: suspend your disbelief mang. i dry mushrooms 24hrs at 180+
were you worried about shrooms and sex drive? mushrooms can send me into sexual frenzies.
They make it so I can't cum, although I don't particularly mind, just means the sex goes on and on and on.
Different folks are affected differently I suppose.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: Babylon]
#26596214 - 04/12/20 05:12 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hey, guys, just a quick question about the drying. I’m about 25 hours into drying, and everything seems very dry, I think the term you use his cracker dry, right? Anyway the only thing is I know you’re supposed to press down even lightly and everything fragments or gets powdery, and with the caps that’s happening. But with some of the stems, they are still hard they seem extremely dry but hard, and they don’t break so easily. I have to actually put a little pressure on them. should I leave the shrooms in there for a little while longer?
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose]
#26596349 - 04/12/20 06:23 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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LSA...am I missing something ? You said you had 20+grams in a day and that's a "light" dose ?
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LSA Woodrose
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: DezGWest7]
#26596372 - 04/12/20 06:31 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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20 grams fresh, not dried.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose]
#26596383 - 04/12/20 06:36 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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oh got it
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: DezGWest7]
#26596402 - 04/12/20 06:44 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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experimenting with first grow myself. inoculated GT 3 jars wbs tek, only 1 is showing signs of activity..and i'm not even sure if its "good" activity. posted in contam forum to get feedback thread by kizzle
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: DezGWest7]
#26596436 - 04/12/20 07:02 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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DezGWest7 said: experimenting with first grow myself. inoculated GT 3 jars wbs tek, only 1 is showing signs of activity..and i'm not even sure if its "good" activity. posted in contam forum to get feedback thread by kizzle
Best of luck, my friend! I hope it works out and it’s not contaminated.
OK, I let it go for 26 1/2 hours in total and I just took those shrooms out and tossed them into a big Ziploc bag. The stems are still a little bit hard but they’re definitely brittle. I’m assuming that that was enough time? But I’m still not sure. But either way they’ll keep till tomorrow if they’re not really ready I guess. In the meantime, I also put the rest of the batch that I picked, which is about 165 g of fresh, into the dehydrator.
Can someone answer my question about whether or not the stems are supposed to be a little bit on the hard side? They didn’t break up anywhere near as easily as the caps.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose]
#26596472 - 04/12/20 07:17 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Another total noob here, can someone kindly point me in the direction of up to date tek for making syringes from prints?
Thank you very much in advance.
(and yes I have been using search function but most of the data seems to be 18+ years old)
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: Mycovirgin]
#26597126 - 04/13/20 02:28 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Mycovirgin said: Another total noob here, can someone kindly point me in the direction of up to date tek for making syringes from prints?
Thank you very much in advance.
(and yes I have been using search function but most of the data seems to be 18+ years old)
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=26011681&page=0&vc=1#26011681
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: Babylon]
#26597501 - 04/13/20 09:09 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Okay, so another harvest this morning. This is a pretty nice haul for 3 cakes, and I still left a bunch of smaller, less developed shrooms in two of the cakes.
Oh, and I know I'm being a pain in the ass, but I couldn't find any active "drying" threads, only ones very old when I searched.
For my first drying session, I let it go for 26 1/2 hours in total and I just took those shrooms out and tossed them into a big Ziploc bag. The stems are still a little bit hard but they’re definitely brittle. I’m assuming that that was enough time? But I’m still not sure. But either way they’ll keep till tomorrow if they’re not really ready I guess. In the meantime, I also put the rest of the batch that I picked, which is about 165 g of fresh, into the dehydrator.
Can someone answer my question about whether or not the stems are supposed to be a little bit on the hard side? They didn’t break up anywhere near as easily as the caps.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose]
#26597769 - 04/13/20 11:22 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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I did some search on this forum myself about drying.
These links and quotes might help:
This simple TEK is good IMO: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/23782274#23782274
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You want to use the heat. A fan without heat will not remove all the moisture. If you're worried about the actives degrading, don't be. The temperature setting will mainly affect the drying time and the way they taste. Kizzle
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/25034945#25034945
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They'll degrade some, but all you have to do is eat more.  I used to cook mine on the BBQ grill at over 1000F with 'some' loss in potency, but certainly not enough to fail to enjoy myself long before I got full. RR
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/13267444#13267444
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Also people including me brew them in tea all the time caps and all. At 220F (boiling point for water) I find no loss in potency. Fuck I tripped balls last night on a nice mug of tea  Pastywhyte
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/17855256#17855256
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There was a time that there was about a half ounce of dry mushrooms left on the bottom rack of the dehydrator for two weeks with the dehydrator running everyday with temps up to 165F.
The resulting shrooms were then given to different individuals to try at the gram level. No one reported tripping any less than usual. The most important thing about drying your mushrooms is that you get them all the way dry, and if your storing them make sure they stay that way. george castanza
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/13267472#13267472
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The actives in mushrooms don't break down until FAR past 300F.
Psilocybin & Psilocin Chemistry
Use Heat! PussyFart
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/17856082#17856082
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BTW I had a look through this thread and let me congratulate you on your 1st grow success!
I am also halfway my first grow and although I did not had much luck with genetics and/or I screwed my growing conditions, I managed to make 2 harvests of 4 cakes that managed to fruit out of 12. So I was happy to see mushrooms grow.
Here's my thread/journal: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/26469982#26469982
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: goatchild]
#26597818 - 04/13/20 11:38 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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goatchild said: I did some search on this forum myself about drying.
Oops! I actually just asked the same questions in a thread I found while doing a search. The thread is a little old, but it was relevant to the question than my thread, so I asked it there.
I will check out your links, though, THANKS!!
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose]
#26607651 - 04/17/20 09:40 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Okay, I figured I would bump this because this question is specific to this grow. Take a look at these pics. In the first place, all my Costa Rico cakes (12 of a total of 24 cakes with GT) have completed fruiting their first flush. Many of my Costa Rico cakes are really coming along nicely for their second flush. Well, one is completing first flush today, but it was inoculated like a full week after all the other jars, so its expected. This one, however, is the cake that was bluish-green from bruising a couple of weeks back. I am not impatient, and I don't mind waiting, but it seems to me that this cake never really got off the ground. This is the extend of fruiting, which looks unhealthy to my untrained eye. The first pic is an overview of the anemic cake. Also, look at the white all over the place in pics 2 and 3.
Not sure if that's mycelium, aborts, or some kind of white contaminant.
Seriously, I am considering just cutting my losses with this cake, at least its first flush. If you guys say that the white is probably not contaminant, then maybe I will dunk and start all over with that cake, hoping for it to get off the ground in a second flush?


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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose] 1
#26607690 - 04/17/20 09:50 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'd definitely not give those fruits out to friends or anyone else for that matter. But I might just boil the shit out of them (20min) and drink the brew myself  I can't tell for sure what's going on with those fruits but I would personally just pick off the worst looking/rotting ones and keep the healthy looking for myself and give only the best healthiest looking to my friends
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: Mateja] 1
#26607750 - 04/17/20 10:10 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah they are aborts. That cake is done with flush 1. Pick em and do what Meteah said. It's just Mycelium taking back the mushrooms.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: Mateja]
#26607762 - 04/17/20 10:17 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thanks, Mateah and Sockadin, incredibly helpful as always!
You are both seeming to disagree about the white stuff, though. Should I discard it and only pick/eat the very healthy looking shrooms as Mateas is saying, or should I use and consume all of it, including white fuzz?
If its the latter, then maybe I should dry them in the dehydrator, added to a batch of other Costa Rico. So when dry, I can powder it all up, and put it into capsules. Hopefully, I will get some uniform consistency across the board, when it all gets mixed in.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose] 1
#26607775 - 04/17/20 10:24 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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There is no should and shouldn't, and we're not disagreeing on anything  There's just different ways of doing things. Like Sockadin says it doesn't look like mold or anything, pick and keep whatever you feel like keeping  But like I said, I personally wouldn't give nasty looking fruits to friends, I'd eats those myself
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose]
#26607803 - 04/17/20 10:32 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Good points, Mateah. Well lol it seemed like you two were disagreeing. Maybe to be on the safe side, I shouldn't "give" them to anyone directly, me included. If I just toss them into the dehydrator with a crapload of other Costa Rico from the same flush or even 2nd flush samples, then if they are either a little contaminated or just crazy-potent, then whatever they are, it will all be spread out into about 30 grams of other shroom-powder once I toss it all into my coffee grinder and then use my capsule machine to make a boatload of 00 caps.
Question: So I assume that I should dunk that cake and stick it back into my SGFC? I am going to do some harvesting later today. I have a couple of Golden Teacher cakes that have a boatload of shrooms on them. And one or two Costa Rico cakes ready to give up the goods.
Also, on a side note, some of my second flush cakes are really starting to fruit!
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose] 1
#26607816 - 04/17/20 10:36 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Mushrooms are food. If you went to the grocery store to buy mushrooms to cook, and you saw sad withered pitiful fruits like that, would you buy them? Not saying its contaminated, but from a food perspective, those look a good bit past prime or 'spoiled.' Probably fine to eat, esp after drying em, but not something you would want to share.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose] 1
#26607826 - 04/17/20 10:38 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah Meteah and I are in agreement. Boiling them in a tea is the safest. But I don't really think it's mold. If you put them in the dehydrator your won't be able to tell which ones were which because that mycelium will dehydrate and you won't even notice they had a bit of mycelium. You probably have more mushrooms than you will need for a year so just toss them if your not sure.
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