BeefSupremeJr said:

PancyanterA said:

BeefSupremeJr said:

Its gentic.  get a good culture from a trusted member.  id send it if i had it but i dont do nats anymore.

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Nothing but curiosity. Why not? What do you prefer now?

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i never liked the high and i dont like to grow them.  theyre a rather ugly fruit and the alkaloid profile feels off to me.  gives a kindof disorienting skinny high in my experience. 

well speaking of the devil,  i mostly grow fahtster cultures.  fp+ and yeti being my favorite.  i do a sporeless gt that i love too.  i do a semperviva but i never fruit it.  just myc.

hmm.. yeah i think thats all i do now.  i like cultures that are nice to grow and behave and make pretty fruit. also alkaloid profile has to be nice.

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GenesisCorrupted said:

I’ve been meaning to ask.
Do people brush off coir before or after drying and if you do have a preference do you have a brush that you would recommend?

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I usually pluck em and snip off the butts. I use this cheapo brush from the hardware store if any cleanup is needed after drying.

PancyanterA said:

Sounds wonderful and I can comprehend. I’ve “flipt the script” before. My wife has expressed concern.

I love, mostly use, and highly suggest a more moderate approach. But I have that itch and curiosity to push the envelope.

It is a slippery slope.

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BeefSupremeJr said:

depends.  if i get a real dense tub and i feel lazy ill leave the coir on and then i put it in a bag and shake it a bit and most of it will agitate off.  typically these mushrooms get ground into capsules anyway.

if im doing something with some bag appeal and i want to keep them whole, i cut the bottoms off with a shitty pair of scissors my girlfriend calls my brocolli scissors because their fuckin worthless for about anything else

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BeefSupremeJr said:

Its gentic.  get a good culture from a trusted member.  id send it if i had it but i dont do nats anymore.

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BeefSupremeJr said:

semps are by far the best high ive had from any mushroom but they can be flat out dangerous.  even at half a gram it can get out of hand which is why i only do the myceliated grain now as per rev myc's research. 

we had a TC member--a heavy-- took two grams a couple years ago and about lost the plot for a minute.  scared us all.  semps dont play.

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Very interesting.  Somebody please do a semps giveaway. I wanna get in on this as well.  I love strong trips.

4gs to start always. Plus another gram a lil later if Im Feeling good.


I've always been a very experienced tripper.  And I've definitely had some really terrifying "bad" scary ego death type trips. So I am aware of the possibilitys but thats nver discouraged me. i just accept it and move on.

lsd. 2c-i. And 2c-e. Have always been my favorites.  2c-e is insanely
Strong.    When it comes down to it I just recently started liking I'm mushrooms much more. In the past I feel like I've had way more "bad" trips on mushrooms then I ever did on acid. 


Ime one out of every 20 mushroom trips has the potential to be in little scary. However when it came to acid I may have only ever had one scary trip in my entire life out of hundreds of trips.

Anyways if I can have an amazing heroic trip off of half a gram to one gram off  semps as opposed to four to five grams of PE  then that sounds amazing and im very intrigued.

Why have I been wasting my time with anything else LOL


Sorry that got long.
Lol I'm tripping pretty hard right now.

ThurmanMurman said:

BeefSupremeJr said:

depends.  if i get a real dense tub and i feel lazy ill leave the coir on and then i put it in a bag and shake it a bit and most of it will agitate off.  typically these mushrooms get ground into capsules anyway.

if im doing something with some bag appeal and i want to keep them whole, i cut the bottoms off with a shitty pair of scissors my girlfriend calls my brocolli scissors because their fuckin worthless for about anything else

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Are you the type to have a 300k mile Camery or is it just the scissors?

Cult question - I just harvest a ton of small fruits from a shoebox. I was lazy and stumped them instead of plucking them. The surface is absolutely covered in stumps now and I was thinking either flip the sub and water tub it or see if I can peel off the pseudo casing and reapply. I haven't seen any chatter about the former, so I assume the water tub would be a better option? Stagnant water kinda grosses me out, or I wouldn't bother asking.

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the.alchemist said:

Hey, total noob here. I think this is the right place to ask this question - if not could someone please direct me. I've been navigating the site and using the search function.

Quick Question



Is this contaminated?

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the.alchemist said:

Hey, total noob here. I think this is the right place to ask this question - if not could someone please direct me. I've been navigating the site and using the search function.

Quick Question



Is this contaminated?

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Is that a pre made kit or did you make it?


So far looks ok. Give it time and follow the tek if it ends up being a little bacterial that's okay with PF Tek.

However
That jar might cause you some problems  Have you read through the pf tek?

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/24179086#24179086

It's recommended to use the short Wide Mouth half-pint Jars like thebones below. instead of those taller ones you have..



Both of these jars are half pint wide mouth even though one's a little bit bigger than the other I don't know why that is. But these are the recommended jars in work perfect. 


Its to be very hard if not  impossible to birth out of that jar. And you could run into problems with it stalling out.

GenesisCorrupted said:

I’ve been meaning to ask.
Do people brush off coir before or after drying and if you do have a preference do you have a brush that you would recommend?

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I feel very strongly about this, to an unreasonable amount I’m sure, but I harvest every individual shroom with a pair of scissors like this


They are like 10 inches long and I wrapped twisted tape around the handles and then taped over for some nice padding.

No coir in the dehydrator is my rule, to some that may be stupid but I’m miles over the line into the camp that these are food, coir is nasty, no nasty on food.

Tri said:

I feel very strongly about this, to an unreasonable amount I’m sure, but I harvest every individual shroom with a pair of scissors like this

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I picture you listening to classical music and wearing a monocle while doing that. haha. Whatever works.

I do agree about no verm in shrooms. I cut them off above the base with scissors, and let the base be waste. Sometimes I pull them out then fillet them with scissors and toss away the base. It's no worry to waste when it's easy to grow as much shrooms as you want.

Sometimes if I really make a mess of the substrate harvesting, I flip the whole loaf into a new liner / bin and grow the bottom as the new top for second flush. Works fine.

You especially don't want any verm in your shrooms if you're chemically testing it. When your sample size is only 0.15 grams, a piece of verm in there could throw off your test results for the worse.

Here's trash from filleting the bottoms. Someone could make active tea from this but it's trash to me.

ThurmanMurman said:

Agreed. Using rusty gear would drive me nuts, even if there isn't a real issue with it.

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BeefSupremeJr said:

ThurmanMurman said:

BeefSupremeJr said:

depends.  if i get a real dense tub and i feel lazy ill leave the coir on and then i put it in a bag and shake it a bit and most of it will agitate off.  typically these mushrooms get ground into capsules anyway.

if im doing something with some bag appeal and i want to keep them whole, i cut the bottoms off with a shitty pair of scissors my girlfriend calls my brocolli scissors because their fuckin worthless for about anything else

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Are you the type to have a 300k mile Camery or is it just the scissors?

Cult question - I just harvest a ton of small fruits from a shoebox. I was lazy and stumped them instead of plucking them. The surface is absolutely covered in stumps now and I was thinking either flip the sub and water tub it or see if I can peel off the pseudo casing and reapply. I haven't seen any chatter about the former, so I assume the water tub would be a better option? Stagnant water kinda grosses me out, or I wouldn't bother asking.

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not 300k but lower mileage late 90s toyotas are my jam.

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nektar61 said:

ThurmanMurman said:

Agreed. Using rusty gear would drive me nuts, even if there isn't a real issue with it.

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There could be an issue with it if you don't PC it often. Rust can carry tetanus. PCing would probably kill it but if you stop growing for a while and cut yourself.

I see some sharp edges on one of the ones on this thread. I file those down when I drill the tops. I use a drill (with lid on wood, held down by my foot), then Dremel to get rough edges off, then grindstone attachment for my drill to get it even smoother.

That may be overkill, but I'd do at least the first stage of that. I wouldn't risk having a sharp edge that could poke your finger.

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