Home | Community | Message Board

Magic-Mushrooms-Shop.com
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Bridgetown Botanicals CBD Concentrates   Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   PhytoExtractum Buy Bali Kratom Powder   Original Sensible Seeds Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds   Mushroom-Hut Liquid Cultures   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom   North Spore Bulk Substrate

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | Next >  [ show all ]
InvisibleAsante
Mage
Male User Gallery

Registered: 02/06/02
Posts: 86,958
The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! * 4
    #27024721 - 11/06/20 09:55 AM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Asante said 10 years ago:

Guys I'm going to show you what was done, and then tell you how to do it!

====================================================
WHAT WAS DONE:


Species: Psilocybe cyanescens (Wavy Caps)
Activity: High (dried 12-25mg/gr)
Dimensions: 3 x 2 foot, 10 inches thick (approx 150 ltr)
Substrate: Course Beech Woodchips (pet bedding)
Purpose: Outdoor Spawn Reservoir
Status: mature bed, second flush
Location: Holland, early november



THE BED



Here's the bed. It was allowed to become mossy to see whether the patch moisture level would be positively affected and whether the moss would allow the patch to not just fruit on the sides (it's an uncased beech wood chip patch, which tend to only fruit peripherally), and with this second flush, the most abundant ever seen on this patch, a month after the first, this appears to be the case.



Wavy Caps poking right through the moss





Cream of the crop, what not to like about this picture? All aspects of the habitat show beautifully





Mycelium showing, note the wavy margins





Various growth stages, overgrowth as can be seen were stingy nettles




Tight cluster near the wall at the patch's edge





Note the prominent umbo's on the caps!





Harvesting just the biggest ones of the patch yielded 80 grams fresh; ~4gr fresh on average. Note the blueing already on the stems and the spore-bearing lamellae.




Given the number of shrooms still on the patch, this one flush will definitely yield about a dried ounce if it can ripen before the frost. The first flush, in early october, yielded about 8 dried grams.

Now, a bit later, the 1 dried ounce barrier was broken.

=================================================

HOW TO DO IT:

--You go to the webshops of some Shroomery Sponsors and buy a Psilocybe cyanescens spore syringe, some vermiculite and some brown rice flour. If they are out of Psilocybe cyanescens syringes you can opt for Psilocybe azurescens, Psilocybe subaeruginosa, Psilocybe bohemica, Psilocybe arcana, Psilocybe serbica or Psilocybe moravica for similar results.

--You get a bunch of 1/2 pint jars (like ~250ml veggie jars from the supermarket) and with a nail you punch a hole in the center of the lids.

--of every 4 jars, you fill 2 with vermiculite, 1 with brown rice flour and 1 with water, then mix this to a loose "dough" and you loosely fill the jars with it, leaving about an inch free at the tops of the jars. Clean the inner rims, then cover with half an inch of straight, dry vermiculite and lay on the lids, don't screw them on. Cover the lids with a layer of tin foil.

--take a cooking pot, put a dishwashing cloth in and pour in 2 inches of water, then put the jars on top of that, on the stove and cover with a lid. Bring to a boil, then boil for 1 hour. Turn off the gas and let it cool down to room temperature overnight, leaving the lid of the pot on.

--the next day, take the jars out of the cooking pot and put them on the table. Shake the spore syringe well, then de-cap it, heat the needle with a disposable lighter till it sputters and drive it though the tin foil, through the hole, through the covering layer of vermiculite in your substrate. Wait 15 seconds then inject a bit of spore solution. Pull the needle out slowly and cover the tin foil with another layer of fresh tin foil. Repeat with all the jars. A syringe is generally 10cc. You should in theory be able to do 5 x 4 jars with it, but in practice 3x4 jars is more than ample. Put the jars in a closet at room temperature. You want to avoid drafts and excessive light. Do not handle the jars at all, if you can.

--After about 3-9 weeks, the jars will be completely covered in white mycelium, which basically looks as if they are stuffed with pure white cotton. Discard all jars that show strange colors immediately, by throwing them away whole and unopened. Now a joyous time begins: You have finished Sterile Technique and won't EVER have to work that carefully again.

--go to a petstore and get hardwood woodchips used for animal bedding. Do not use the ubiquitous yellowish compressed blocks of wood fiber, these are almost invariably softwoods (like pine) which are too resinous to support growth. What you want is the big loose bags of untreated wood chips. Good kinds are beech, oak, birch, chestnut, alder, maple, cottonwood, willow, aspen, poplar, elm , sweet gum and sycamore wood chips. Chips used in smoking (fish or meat) are usually perfect.

--How many jars have made it?  Multiply this number by 10-20 and scoop that many jars of dry chips into a large container, and cover it with water, and leave it to soak up water for 24 hours, then let the water leach out for at least 1 hour.
Lets for simplicity's sake say 1 jar made it, and that you are preparing 10 jars of wood chips (2.5 liters) for it.

--open the jar(s) with mycelium and scratch the contents out with a fork in a bowl. Use the fork to crumble the mycelial mass as finely as you can. Then, add it to the 10fold excess of leached wood chips and mix it really well. Put it into a plastic storage box to a depth of about 4-10 inches and cover it with a trashbag, which you secure in place with a few clothespins so that iot is covered but the mycelium can breathe. Keep this at room temperature for several weeks to months, until it has grown shut. If its needed, but chances are it won't, mist the mycelium occasionally with a plant mister. When the chips are colonized a joyous time begins, because at this point it becomes very hard to screw the grow up anymore!

--If you don't have a garden and don't want to guerilla farm, you can put these boxes outside in autumn when temperatures range to 50'F to a little above freezing, the fully colonized chips covered with half an inch of potting soil. At these temperatures the mushrooms will fruit directly on top of the substrate, even if you don't use the soil layer.

--Outdoor cultivation of the wood lovers is possible in the plant hardiness zones 6, 7 and 8.
The range can likely be extended also to zone 5, but the beds will need to be protected by applying a layer of fresh wood chips or a thicker layer of straw to survive the low temperatures in winter. You can check what USDA Hardiness zone you live in. If you grow in boxes and only take them outdoors during a few months of temperatures from 50'F to a little above freezing, colder zones are possible.

--If you do have a garden or want to take it to the forest, prepare wood chips by soaking and leaching as described before. Again, you use 10-20 times the volume. One jar led to 10 jars in the plastic box and thus will need 100 jars (25 liters = 6.5 gallons) of wood chips.

--In the ground, dig small tenches or holes about 4-10 inches deep. If you want to maximize your initial harvests, make trenches 4 inches deep and wide and as long as you want, side by side, spaced 4 inches apart. If you want maximum spawn per surface area, make it a few big shallow holes 10 inches deep. Use the moistest parts of your garden or forest, and especially under bushes etc where theres little wind and light. You guessed it: the very parts of your garden useless for gardening!

--break up the spawn, the fully grown woodchips from the box, as finely as possible and mix them very well with the excess of leached wood chips, then dump it into the trenches or holes. The chips level should be about even with the ground. At this point you can use your bare hands or a spade to do the mixing and handling. Alternatively you can simply cover the ground under the bushes with a 4 inch thick layer of chips and be rid of it. Its good to make several locations where you dump the spawn to always have a backup in case weed mushrooms take over a grow. This can be in the same garden, but I urge you to go evangelical and offer to mulch the gardens of tripping friends, make patches into the wild etc.

--if you did all this in spring, in late autumn you might already see your first harvest. If it does or doesnt, next season there will be a harvest. Water the patchers if really needed in summer, but dont overwater them. Shrooms are akin to the creature from the horror movie "The Thing": every single part of the organism, no matter how tiny, can be introduced to fresh wood chips and grow out to replicate the whole organism. The patch can dry out a bit, and revitalize after rain. It can take frosts of -25'C/0'F if it has to. At this point a really joyous time begins because not only will you be harvesting one of the worlds strongest mushrooms each year with minimal effort, but your grow has become virtually indestructible.

--in the years to come, after the patches showed their first or a few seasons of mushrooms, you can break up the patches and use them as spawn to make more patches. One mushroom patch can be expanded to ten mushroom patches. Ten to 100. You end up mulching gardens of nontripping family members because they see the benefits to their garden and see the mushrooms as a really cute addition to their garden in late fall. You can go to the forest with bags of spawn and mix it with decaying wood, here, there, everywhere!


====================================================
IS IT WORTH IT?



You be the judge. What I described, if taken step by step, is REALLY easy to do. It doesnt require expensive equipment or unobtainable supplies. It has a high success rate.

Wavy caps like in the picture have a potency of 12-25mg psiloc(yb)in per dried gram, making them 2-4x more potent than the common cubie thats being sold. They are easily identified and turn blue on bruising like nobodies business. The high, compared to cubies, seems to be clearer, higher energy, and more euphoric than that of cubies. If you dry them and store them in a jar in a dark closet they are still strong a year later. In the freezer, they stay potent for a decade or more.

Once the ball is rolling your growing of one of the strongest shrooms in the world becomes as sophisticated as the most basic gardening, and you in essence invest big bags of woodchips to get big bags of powerful shrooms. You will no longer be dependent on what a shady dealer might offer, but instead you have 100% organic shrooms in abundance, more than you can eat, and with your spawn you have the possibility to make your tripping friends independent too.

So you tell me, is it worth it?





Now, ten years after that post, I have been adding beech wood chips every 2-3 years, simply topping it off, and the Wavy Caps became endemic to the small bed.

I planted a small Sakura Tree in the middle of the bed.

This was the right move, it turned out, it resulted in the biggest crop ever.

In 2020, 10 years after the former post was made, and just having topped up the bed with more woodchips, a whopping 680 wet grams, 1.5lbs wet wavy caps, were harvested off the patch.

I was afraid that the Sakura would suck the patch dry but no, none of that at all, the mushrooms love the tree and the tree thrives.

This is what you get if you get into woodlovers: you do the sterile work once and then you mulch, and you mulch, and you mulch, and your woodlovers will keep on growing and yielding if you have a good strong species like Psilocybe cyanescens.

These are 2-3x as strong as cubensis, in the dry state typically they contain 12-18mg Psilocybin.

The harvest is huge for this wild patch, about 3x of an average year.

Last year I was an asshole about how I handled the bed. I had pain in my back and resentment in my heart so I poured a bag of beech wood chips in the indentation in the bed, I threw two buckets of water over it and went inside :crankey:


BUT NOW LOOK! BIGGEST HARVEST EVER!!









680 grams, 1.5lbs of fresh super strong Wavy Caps after chucking a bag of dry wood chips and two buckets of water onto a bed that was established about 12 years earlier. :rotfl:

I ask you again...


...is it worth it?


--------------------
Omnicyclion.org
higher knowledge starts here


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisiblemushboyMDiscord
modboy
 User Gallery


Registered: 04/24/05
Posts: 32,390
Loc: where?
Trusted Cultivator
OG Cultivator
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: Asante] * 1
    #27024763 - 11/06/20 10:28 AM (3 years, 3 months ago)

:yes:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleBaba Yaga
♥ coir grower

Registered: 09/13/20
Posts: 4,035
Loc: Hyperspace Chicken Coop
Trusted Cultivator
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: mushboy]
    #27024891 - 11/06/20 11:54 AM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Beautiful patch Asante!
I find the aspect of the same patch being active for that long super appealing.
It's like becoming old friends that care for each other.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineSirTripAlot
Semper Fidelis
Male User Gallery


Registered: 01/11/05
Posts: 7,523
Loc: Harmless (Mostly)
Last seen: 3 hours, 47 minutes
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: Asante]
    #27024953 - 11/06/20 12:26 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Damn bro, very inspiring. :sparta:


--------------------
“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleLoadedFish
Psilocybin Enthusiast


Registered: 07/12/20
Posts: 107
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: Asante]
    #27024965 - 11/06/20 12:35 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

This is fucking awesome :bonghit:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleAsante
Mage
Male User Gallery

Registered: 02/06/02
Posts: 86,958
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: Baba Yaga] * 1
    #27025150 - 11/06/20 02:12 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Baba Yaga said:
Beautiful patch Asante!
I find the aspect of the same patch being active for that long super appealing.
It's like becoming old friends that care for each other.




For the past decade, all mushroom trips of my closest ones and myself were homegrown Cyan trips.

Its a fact of life, Psilocybe Cyanescens lives there.

I poured a bag of beech wood chips in the indentation in the bed, I threw two buckets of water over it and went inside

Its like a farmer feeding the chickens :lol: Food, drink, eat up eat up :awesomenod:

Its in the substrate, its in the soil, if you drop a piece of natural wood on the patch it adheres to that..

It lives there and is there to stay.

If I keep topping it off with beech chips it will keep going as long as I do that.

Its one organism, one mycelium.

A beautiful thought


--------------------
Omnicyclion.org
higher knowledge starts here


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleLoadedFish
Psilocybin Enthusiast


Registered: 07/12/20
Posts: 107
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: Asante]
    #27025226 - 11/06/20 03:10 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

A couple questions from a noob if you don’t mind

Is the verm mixture the only way to transfer woodlover myc to woodchips or can you agar -> grain -> woodchips to avoid having to directly inoc jars? Unless there’s no need to do it with agar in a SAB as opposed to cubes

Do you have any recommendations on books / reading material to get more familiar with the traits/habitats/cultivation techniques for all the psilocybin-containing species? I’d love to get a deeper understanding of all the different species and a deeper knowledge of mycology than just knowing how to follow some cube teks. I know Stamets has books but I’m not sure if there are more up to date resources these days.

Thank you so much


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleAsante
Mage
Male User Gallery

Registered: 02/06/02
Posts: 86,958
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: LoadedFish] * 1
    #27025263 - 11/06/20 03:28 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

can you agar -> grain -> woodchips to avoid having to directly inoc jars?




Completely possible.

Quote:

recommendations on reading material




The Shroomery cultivation forums, accessed through specific searches.


--------------------
Omnicyclion.org
higher knowledge starts here


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleWall.E
Bacteria's Bitch
Male


Registered: 06/05/20
Posts: 2,860
Loc: Fungal Void
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: Asante]
    #27025281 - 11/06/20 03:36 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Well fuck, now I'm interested in these even though I know I'm gonna get fucked with paralysis


--------------------
Life’s shit, but I’m loving it



Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblebit2ez
Stranger
Registered: 11/06/20
Posts: 25
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: Asante]
    #27025282 - 11/06/20 03:36 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

I enjoy outdoor grows and love the moss in there. Thanks for the update and share.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleLoadedFish
Psilocybin Enthusiast


Registered: 07/12/20
Posts: 107
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: Asante]
    #27025287 - 11/06/20 03:37 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Many thanks Asante. :mushroom2:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleAsante
Mage
Male User Gallery

Registered: 02/06/02
Posts: 86,958
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: Wall.E]
    #27026563 - 11/07/20 10:53 AM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Myc_Hunt said:
Well fuck, now I'm interested in these even though I know I'm gonna get fucked with paralysis





If you use moderate doses, chances are you won't.


--------------------
Omnicyclion.org
higher knowledge starts here


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleWall.E
Bacteria's Bitch
Male


Registered: 06/05/20
Posts: 2,860
Loc: Fungal Void
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: Asante]
    #27026796 - 11/07/20 12:57 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Asante said:
Quote:

Myc_Hunt said:
Well fuck, now I'm interested in these even though I know I'm gonna get fucked with paralysis





If you use moderate doses, chances are you won't.




While I want to believe you I also think I'm super sensitive to mind altering chemicals. 3g of ape will paralyze me to an extent


--------------------
Life’s shit, but I’m loving it



Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineA.k.aM
Stranger
 User Gallery


Registered: 10/27/19
Posts: 16,816
Loc: Gaming the system
Last seen: 1 day, 2 hours
Trusted Cultivator
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: Wall.E]
    #27027059 - 11/07/20 03:24 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

I’d love to do this but I don’t think it’ll work where I’m at. Do you think it would survive temps of 100+ for four months?? If it grew deep enough I guess it wouldn’t matter right.


This has inspired me to make a patch at my parents house in the pnw, something extra to look forward to on holiday visits :awesomenod:


--------------------
LAGM2020


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblealaskappalachian
Entitiologist


Registered: 10/22/19
Posts: 1,688
Loc: The 49th Dimension
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: A.k.a]
    #27027116 - 11/07/20 04:09 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Super inspirational.  Woodlovers have taught me more about patience.  There's some homespun and grounding about the idea of having a patch or three living with you and sharing the seasons/years with you.  :toast:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleAsante
Mage
Male User Gallery

Registered: 02/06/02
Posts: 86,958
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: alaskappalachian]
    #27027998 - 11/08/20 06:12 AM (3 years, 3 months ago)

When the weather gets cold and wet, after summer dies...

I know the Wavy Caps will grow :rainbowcloud:


Its a great consolation for the summer ending.

Roughly around Halloween, they come.


--------------------
Omnicyclion.org
higher knowledge starts here


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineTuff_Guy2
Tuff Guy
Male


Registered: 04/08/15
Posts: 164
Last seen: 22 days, 23 minutes
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: Asante]
    #27028037 - 11/08/20 07:13 AM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Haven’t cultivated anything in like 5 years and I just finally moved to a good location to start back up. Just came across this. Years ago I wanted to do something similar but life didn’t lead in that direction until now! Next year I have a few spots I may try in and update!


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineYesmeliz36
Student
Female User Gallery

Registered: 11/19/14
Posts: 18
Last seen: 9 months, 17 days
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: Asante]
    #27043866 - 11/17/20 01:16 PM (3 years, 2 months ago)

BRAVO! Thanks for the amazing information!! Im in Oregon where we just passed the law making mushrooms legal for medical. .....and the door is opening!!


--------------------
Me likey mushrooms!


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinebasidionerd
explorer
I'm a teapot

Registered: 11/01/20
Posts: 22
Last seen: 1 year, 5 days
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: Asante]
    #27043896 - 11/17/20 01:33 PM (3 years, 2 months ago)

yes YES YES

thanks for revisiting this and giving us the update! now THAT's an entheogen......100% organic wavy caps mmmmmmmm


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineGrinchGrower
N00B
Male User Gallery


Registered: 10/02/20
Posts: 682
Last seen: 2 years, 9 months
Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 12 years after update! [Re: basidionerd]
    #27054458 - 11/23/20 06:52 PM (3 years, 2 months ago)

:naturetrip:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | Next >  [ show all ]

Shop: Bridgetown Botanicals CBD Concentrates   Left Coast Kratom Buy Kratom Extract   PhytoExtractum Buy Bali Kratom Powder   Original Sensible Seeds Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds   Mushroom-Hut Liquid Cultures   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom   North Spore Bulk Substrate


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Wavy cap cubensis? Pharmette 2,883 8 07/02/02 11:11 PM
by Zen Peddler
* Chunky Monkeys - Cracked Caps AlkiZag 184 7 02/14/22 07:33 AM
by 0001001
* wet caps help please crackolakka 2,163 8 09/30/04 10:47 PM
by crackolakka
* Rain kills patches - what do? Surgeon 314 12 02/19/22 07:31 PM
by LogicaL Chaos
* Melmak isolate#3 Hobbit GDF 2,281 15 04/10/20 01:47 AM
by Hobbit GDF
* Melmak / Homestead Only
( 1 2 3 4 ... 73 74 )
Buddaking 66,583 1,470 01/23/24 03:18 PM
by EniQma
* 1st Grow Ever PF Tek Mexicub and B+ 01/10 Pics update
( 1 2 all )
Ir0NLunG68420 8,710 26 03/11/05 11:21 PM
by Ir0NLunG68420
* Wow.. What should I do? Cambodian casing pics.. *Update* Patched.. Hows this look? discman1 1,938 9 11/11/04 11:45 AM
by hyphae

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Shroomism, george castanza, RogerRabbit, veggie, mushboy, fahtster, LogicaL Chaos, 13shrooms, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
15,196 topic views. 37 members, 202 guests and 30 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.03 seconds spending 0.01 seconds on 14 queries.