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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: Breadly710]
#28715563 - 03/26/24 09:16 PM (2 months, 29 days ago) |
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Breadly710 said: I am doing my first grow. I have 2 bags that are about 70% colonized, I was going to do some 6qt shoebox Tek for one bag, and a 27qt tub for the other. Reading in here it seems like 1:3 ratio is what most of you are using? I was planning on doing straight coir. Do you use 2.5 of the 1:3 mixed and add the last bit on top for pseudo casing, or add some coir on top of the 1:3? I have some agar for backup if I don’t get any fruiting or contam on all of them, but hoping I can have at least a little success.
For what it’s worth, I’m having solid success right now with everything. 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, it’s all growing. Remains to be seen how they all look different from each other. 1:3 seems to be the most common.
I did the ratio and then just added pseudo-casing on top.
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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: oaklandish]
#28716007 - 03/27/24 10:36 AM (2 months, 28 days ago) |
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The first picture looks like the giant cake of overlay I had in January. Albeit less matted and dried out. Not holding any high hopes there. At least the second picture looks okay? Maybe pin soon??


Oh and these are ready for S2B!! Woohoo!! 😆
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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: NattyOrNice] 3
#28717647 - 03/28/24 02:26 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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Not gonna be too long now!


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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: oaklandish] 2
#28720152 - 03/30/24 11:08 AM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: Carnonos] 1
#28720293 - 03/30/24 01:51 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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Yo All,
I'm doing my third Nat grow, mono tub off liquid culture, great yields...excellent strain.
But, whoa, have not seen this before. The sample on the right is from the second flush and the sample on the left is the third. Look at the blue shade...wow...I'm assuming it denotes high psilocyn content...?
Thoughts?
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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: PedroZed] 1
#28720534 - 03/30/24 05:43 PM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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Nah, bluing doesn't mean much potency wise. I've had pure white shrooms blow my head off and blue shrooms do nothing. Only way to tell potency is to test them.
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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: Bigworm]
#28721081 - 03/31/24 08:22 AM (2 months, 24 days ago) |
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There’s a lot of natal tubs that go silver/blue like that it’s weird. I’ve had it happen with cubes also but only when I harvested and let them sit a day or so before drying
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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: A.k.a] 3
#28721171 - 03/31/24 09:25 AM (2 months, 24 days ago) |
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If ya’ll find yourselves longing for some important/interesting scientific literature to read …. Here’s something that should help you with any inflammation you have going on -> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7570254/

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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: Bigworm] 5
#28721176 - 03/31/24 09:29 AM (2 months, 24 days ago) |
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Bigworm said: Nah, bluing doesn't mean much potency wise. I've had pure white shrooms blow my head off and blue shrooms do nothing. Only way to tell potency is to test them.
And on that note here’s where my most recent P. Nat grow tested

I estimate roughly 2.97% on a reagent Q-test
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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: PhreakFakt0r]
#28721224 - 03/31/24 10:21 AM (2 months, 24 days ago) |
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I'm still saving up to get another 5 pack of the q test. My new Natalensis culture will be the first tested, I'm assuming they will be up there too. Did you cut back on material at all?
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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: PhreakFakt0r]
#28721225 - 03/31/24 10:22 AM (2 months, 24 days ago) |
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PhreakFakt0r said: If ya’ll find yourselves longing for some important/interesting scientific literature to read …. Here’s something that should help you with any inflammation you have going on -> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7570254/

Phreakfaktor
Woah! 🤯 😆 Thank you for sharing!!
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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: Bigworm]
#28721448 - 03/31/24 02:44 PM (2 months, 24 days ago) |
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Bigworm said: I'm still saving up to get another 5 pack of the q test. My new Natalensis culture will be the first tested, I'm assuming they will be up there too. Did you cut back on material at all?
I did not cut back on material BUT I could only bet .9ml liquid test through the syringe filter and into the sample syringe once I soaked my dry-n-powdered material the prescribed amount of time. Thusly my test result math turned out to be.
.9x = result x=result/.9
Keep in mind I have standardized on pasteurized multi input substrate. As such in a full sterile / theoretically optimized environment on the preferred-and-perfect diet for P. Nat maybe the resulst would be higher .... maybe lower. Who knows.
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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: PhreakFakt0r]
#28722710 - 04/01/24 05:41 PM (2 months, 23 days ago) |
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Does anybody else get mold only in the overlay?? I get this a lot and have verified it’s not in the sub each time.
I’m pretty sure over the years I’ve accidentally bred a mold that specifically likes eating mycelium by leaving tubs out and rarely cleaning the grow room, so it might just be me.
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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: A.k.a]
#28722756 - 04/01/24 06:12 PM (2 months, 23 days ago) |
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I've seen that on yeti and ghost but not on Nats, pretty sure that I'm doing something wrong but still haven't through the TAT thread.
My last MS Nat grow was all clusters of low spore monsters, probably should've done some cloning.
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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: A.k.a]
#28723094 - 04/01/24 10:39 PM (2 months, 23 days ago) |
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A.k.a said: Does anybody else get mold only in the overlay?? I get this a lot and have verified it’s not in the sub each time.
I’m pretty sure over the years I’ve accidentally bred a mold that specifically likes eating mycelium by leaving tubs out and rarely cleaning the grow room, so it might just be me.

Your 100 percent that's mold?
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NattyOrNice said: The first picture looks like the giant cake of overlay I had in January. Albeit less matted and dried out.

I dabbed up some yellow metabolites with a paper towel and it bruised blue then green looks like mold if I didn't know any better. But, it just started fruiting a few hours ago. Like 13 days ago At 80-85% colonization (oops!) the bag pictured was cased with jiffy mix pasteurized at 2 hours. I compressed it though, and it was cased a little early. I know everyone says overlay is just genetics, but, could the casing, timing of casing, and compressing it vs not has an effect on overlay? We have another natalensis bag cased a couple days ago, and laid out gently, not compressing it just covering and leveling, and it's only poking through like knots not overlaying, no clouds. FWIW. Upload pictures tomorrow.
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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: NattyOrNice]
#28723281 - 04/02/24 08:24 AM (2 months, 22 days ago) |
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Yep green all over the myc climbing the walls, the bare spots are where I pulled moldy overlay off a couple days ago to check under it
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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: A.k.a] 1
#28723683 - 04/02/24 05:48 PM (2 months, 22 days ago) |
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These things are growing small and have lots of fuzzy feet. I don’t think I can get them much more FAE than I already do. As you can see the fuzzy feet goes up and up. I’m not worried about it per se, but I don’t think they’re entirely happy vis a vis the stunted growth and seemingly slow grow time.
This is a tub with relatively low substrate so it may be getting too dry.



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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: A.k.a]
#28723715 - 04/02/24 06:20 PM (2 months, 22 days ago) |
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A.k.a said: Yep green all over the myc climbing the walls, the bare spots are where I pulled moldy overlay off a couple days ago to check under it
What was your casing procedure?
See the bruising.


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Re: The official Psilocybe natalensis thread [Re: NattyOrNice] 1
#28723943 - 04/02/24 10:38 PM (2 months, 22 days ago) |
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Hello everyone, posted a thread already but figured I may as well post here too and double my odds of an answer. Inoculated a 1kg bag if grain spawn 5 days ago with 3ml of Natalensis liquid culture, my temps since then around the bag have been between 14°c and 28°c. I've seen it said in this thread a while ago while lurking that I should see mycelium after 3 days or so with LC at these temps. On the third day there was no mycelium, but I woke up to find heavy condensation on the inside of the bag, and the bag had started generating its own heat being 4°c warmer than it's surroundings. Today I picked up the bag to move it somewhere less cramped where it would get better air exchange, while moving it I looked at the bottom and saw pic related. Do you guys think this is living mycelium or just a pool of liquid culture that has accumulated at the bottom? The condensation and warmth make me think something is definitely alive in the bag, but am worried about contamination, this is my only bag of spawn right now and our climate gives us an extremely short grow season, I will likely only be able to get 2 grows out of this year.
Thanks for any help and happy belated Easter.
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You're from South Africa, you can most definitely get more than 2 grows out this year.
That does look like mycelium.
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