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 splifftoter
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 What to look for when buying shroomies? 
#2852153 - 07/02/04 04:38 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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Alright last night my friends came over with a pretty fucked up looking bag of shrooms. They hadn't been dried, they were in a plastic bag so they turned to goo, and the dealer didnt even know what strain they were. I do not want this same thing to happen to me so what are some things to look for and questions to ask when buying a sack of mushrooms.
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 Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: splifftoter]
#2852191 - 07/02/04 04:56 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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Very few dealers know the strain, or at least they never seem to want to admit they know. Goo = bad. Just learn what the standard magic mushroom looks like, and look at the bag before you purchase.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: splifftoter]
#2852281 - 07/02/04 05:51 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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dont get goo. good chances it WAS shrooms, but they didnt dry it long enough, or didnt dry it at all. Either way, as warm goo (not frozen), there are good chances it's already pretty much crap.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: kotik]
#2852360 - 07/02/04 06:30 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah, plus i know the guy who they got that shit from and he had no idea what the fuck he was doing. He totally ripped them off with the weight too.
I just want to know what to ask and look for when its time for me to get some.
Thanks for the help so far! Anything else you guys can think of?
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: splifftoter]
#2852362 - 07/02/04 06:32 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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just make sure its dry, and weighs out; or lately I've been hearing it comes in chocolate.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: kotik]
#2852800 - 07/02/04 11:06 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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Most good dealers will hook you up with a bag of brittle mushrooms. These will snap like a cracker. Unfortunately, you see a lot of crap in the bag, which are shreds of mushrooms that are in the bag. If you get a sack with whole mushrooms, chances are they were grown.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: splifftoter]
#2852810 - 07/02/04 11:11 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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[img]http://www.erowid.org/plants/show_image.php?i=mushrooms/mushrooms_dried1.jpg[/img]
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: Cherk]
#2853316 - 07/03/04 03:51 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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^^^^
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: splifftoter]
#2853379 - 07/03/04 05:12 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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Lol... Dont even screw around with that crap. When it comes to mushrooms I prefer to get mine from people I trust and know what thier doing. You need a better drug dealer.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: splifftoter]
#2853540 - 07/03/04 07:25 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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look for whole shrooms or one's that were whole before being pocketed and also ones that are more golden caps and white stems rather than purple or black cuz they're probably field shrooms but that depends where you live i guess, field shrooms suck compared to grown ones though. and cracker dry is another thing to look for like said previously. about asking the strain, whenever someone asks me i say p.cube, they say yeah but what strain (me: p.cube) it annoys me to have someone ask what strain like it matters, they are fuckin cubensis, i could say any strain i could think of and you wouldn't know the diffrence anyway so why the fuck ask what strain. even if i remember i won't tell the person as to not encourage people asking that. also it might encourage the dealer to lie or just make up any strain that comes to mind, i have with people that were persistant but only because i honestly couldn't remember so i just say the first strain that comes to mind and they're happy, kinda pointless imo, dryness is a lot more important than what strain and also you can tell by how they look how well the person cared for them which matters as well.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: John]
#2853746 - 07/03/04 10:50 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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Strain = Potency
Therefore, I'd like to know how potent my shroomies are 
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: GanjaManDan]
#2854998 - 07/03/04 10:45 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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^^
All the strains should have almost no differences in potency, they are all still P.cubensis.
The strains only exhibit slight differences in appearance, not amounts of alkaloids.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: kotik]
#2855002 - 07/03/04 10:48 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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thankyou
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: splifftoter]
#2855014 - 07/03/04 10:58 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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yeah most likely you will get something that looks like that, a bag of sad looking mushrooms, but those are still mushrooms and will still do the job pretty well. You can tell they have been grown off cakeds because some of the stems will be curved like you can see in that bag. You'll probably see some gold flakes of vermeculite, those where used in the cakes and have nothing to do with shrooms.
Or you can buy abag with better looking shrooms, mushrooms that ahve been grown by the dealer or someone close too.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: iamgod]
#2855579 - 07/04/04 04:02 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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I would tend to agree with Dan on this one. Check this link to Erowid:
http://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_info4.shtml
Also, I've had a few different strains before, and the skinny little 'Hawaiian' fellers I got via Azarius while living in Europe were WAY stronger than the monsters I get here in Canada. That said, the stuff in Canada is WAY WAY cheaper, even though I have to munch a lot more to get the same buzz or better.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: PiperDoon]
#2855819 - 07/04/04 08:16 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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probably a diffrent species which can make a world of diffrence, strain dosn't mean shit imo. substrate effects potency as well, so how come people that ask strain don't ask what they were grown on, how they were dried ect. it makes story time out of getting some shrooms, i guess if you got ripped off a lot it'd make you question stuff more but the person is likely gonna tell you what you want to hear.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: John]
#2856020 - 07/04/04 10:29 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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a cube is a cube
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: John]
#2856025 - 07/04/04 10:34 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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I agree with john, you said you tried azuers, that is a diffrent species, Hawaiians are cope cyans or blue meanies.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: splifftoter]
#2858665 - 07/05/04 11:50 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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Just by looking at them you can usually tell if they ahve been dried correctly.
Make sure they are cracker dry (stems should snap, they may have some small bend to them 100% dry, but they should crack)
Some bluing is ok, but if its excessive the mushrooms where beat up before drying.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: splifftoter]
#2861166 - 07/06/04 10:25 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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I skimmed this thread and i didnt see anyone mention closed vs. open caps. i dont grow my own shrooms, but i have been getting my stash from a large (100 lbs. +) commercial op. the dude does one large grow after another, and the quality get's better each time. the batches have gone from 50-50 closed to bout 9/10 closed caps. not only have i noticed the potency is up a lot, but the shrooms travel much better when the caps are closed, 'cause the stems stay attached and therefore there is much less shake in the bag. So i'd agree a cube is a cube, but a closed-cap cube is better.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: splifftoter]
#2861211 - 07/06/04 10:53 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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DONT EAT THE GOO DUDE ...... THEY PROBABLY DRIED THEM INSIDE THE PLASTIC BAG (BAD IDEA)...THEY'RE NEVER GOOD LIKE THAT YOU WILL GET SICK
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: shroomstix]
#2861259 - 07/06/04 11:28 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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I wasnt about to the kid my friends got them from is a good for nothing scammer fuck up, which is exatly why i asked this question, most of the ppl i know in the drug culture are dishonest good for nothing fuck ups.
Thanks for all the help you guys have given me, hopefully ill be able to find some mushrooms at the up coming Dead show ill be at.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: splifftoter]
#2861502 - 07/06/04 01:21 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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I find when people complain about "bad" shrooms or ones that don't work as well as the last ones it's all about how they were dried. Sadly lots of typical drug dealers don't really know how to dry their mushrooms properly, a friend of mine showed me a bag and these things wouldn't even crack, I could bend them all over the place.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: moeshroom]
#2861542 - 07/06/04 01:47 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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The only real difference in potency you may notice is between cubie's and the azure's, besides that don't worry about the strain. And probably 90% of street shrooms are cubies anyway, so hawian, b+, F+, its all the same. And about closed vs. open caps...I THINK that you generally want to pick them just as the veil breaks because psilocybin production slows down considerably after the cap opens. So basically if you eat a shroom with a big wide open cap you are just having to eat more mushroom material to get the same effect as that mushroom would have had with the veil just tearing.
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: Cubieman420]
#2864130 - 07/07/04 08:20 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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nobody has offered one bit of evidence that that is true, just internet rumor that never died imo 
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 Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: splifftoter]
#2864875 - 07/07/04 12:20 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: What to look for when buying shroomies? [Re: diablovt1125]
#2865040 - 07/07/04 01:14 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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So 9/10 times im going to get cubes? So i should just look for nicely dried mushrooms with golden caps?
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