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Seeing Psilocybin under microscope * 1
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I had been shroom hunting for a few weeks with the goal of cloning my finds and growing them at home, but since it's nearing winter I decided to put it off until the warmer months and just clone some dried golden teachers. I am pretty new to the mushroom cultivation scene, so when I managed to produce some mycelium on my ~3rd attempt, bacterial growths were of course present.

It looked pretty sick under the microscope so I took a picture of it, and only a few days later did I notice what looked like a blue liquid seeping out of the mycelium.





I have seen a post on shroomery asking if it's possible to see psilocybin under a microscope to which people said no, but given that shrooms bruise blue as a result of psilocybin oxidizing, wouldn't it be just as possible to observe that reaction in the microscope? I'm curious what those with proper experience have to say about this.

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Re: Seeing Psilocybin under microscope [Re: jamesonjones] * 1
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Psilocybin is a molecule. There aren't really hobbyist microscopes available with that kind of resolution. You may be able to observe bruising, a process which indicates the presence of psilocybin, as bruising occurs at the cell level instead of the molecular level. But you won't be able to see the molecules themselves without some bleeding edge $2 million equipment

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Re: Seeing Psilocybin under microscope [Re: CultiV8]
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I prolly should've clarified further at the end of my post, I get that you can't see psilocybin molecules. What I am curious about is whether the blue seen in the image is a product of psilocybin or of something else. If bruising occurs at the cellular level, which the images are at, is it reasonable to assume the blue streaks seen in the image are a result of microscopic bruising?

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