I've been growing my own mushrooms for the past few years and have had numerous trips, all but one on mushrooms that I've grown myself. I've also introduced a number of my close friends to tripping, and generally consider myself at least fairly well versed with the psychedelic experience, although by no means an expert. Had something happen while introducing a few friends yesterday that I'd never seen before, and was hoping you guys might have some insight!
I cut doses of 3.75g dried for myself and my three first-timer friends, all of us around the same bodily build (if anything, I'm the smallest). After two hours of waiting, I'd only seen extremely minor effects that I wouldn't have even noticed if I didn't know what to look for, two of my friends felt nothing, and the third friend was happily peaking on what seemed to be about a low level-2 trip. Now as the provider of the trips I always worry a tiny bit that they aren't going to work, but a) I've never not felt anything on a dose that large, and b) I've never seen such wild variation in what people felt on the same dose of the same batch of mushrooms.
For background, I always finely chop the mushrooms and mix them together before dosing for a group, to make sure everyone gets the same composition. They wanted to eat lunch beforehand, so we did, but we then wanted an hour and a half before taking the shrooms. The mushrooms are getting old—probably 7 months or so since being dried, stored in a cool dark place in a sealed bag with moisture and oxygen absorbing packets since being dried—but I tripped on the same batch with the same dose a 6 weeks ago and it went spectacularly.
My friends are all game to try again, but I'm not sure what the best approach is after such a weird experience! My first impulse would be to assume they've lost potency, and so to wait a week for our tolerances to reset and then up the dose to 4.25g with no lunch beforehand. That said, I'm concerned by the fact that my other friend still tripped... I'm always tentative about potentially giving people too intense of an experience for their first trip and if what happened before was a freak occurrence then 4.25g could be quite a ride for them!
Anyhow, I'm in uncharted territory here. Any advice on how to proceed would be great!
Edit: Grammar
Edited by PoliteFish117 (05/18/20 07:08 PM)
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It does sound like they were stored correctly, and you homogenised the doses by mixing first. Did you mix your entire stash, or just the mushrooms for that night? I ask because it sounds like your entire flush, or what is left of it, is weak. If all that is true, then I’d suggest waiting two weeks, then you all take mushrooms again, but go for a higher dose; I’d recommend 1.5x your original dose....if they’re from the same batch.
Good luck DJ Ed
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