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retrospect
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How to dose without a scale? 1
#7060098 - 06/18/07 02:32 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Is it possible to dose mushrooms without a scale? I'm growing India Orissa and Golden Teacher, and they've just taken off. Pins everywhere. Anyway, I don't have a scale but if possible want to do a low dose at a friends get-together/party this weekend. (Take note most of the people at there are anti-drug, so i want a low dose to be more social, not to stand out).
Then in the holidays would like to do a more heavy/learing trip. Like 1/8.
So is it possible to dose without scales. I could probably get my hands on scales by the holidays. But for this weekend. Will it at all be possible?
Edited by retrospect (06/18/07 02:34 AM)
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Re: How to dose without a scale? [Re: retrospect] 1
#7060233 - 06/18/07 05:04 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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if you absolutely must dose without a scale buy some measuring spoons from a supermarket. grind up your dry shrooms and 1 level teaspoon should = approximately 1 gram (dont use just any teaspoons that you may have in your kitchen as they generally arent the exact measurement, you will need actual measuring spoons).
before i finally bought some scales me and my mates would use this technique all the time and it seemed to be pretty accurate. i got the idea from one of the faqs on this site so have a look for it yourself instead of just taking my word for it.
btw you can get decent pocket scales off the net for under $50 so just have a look around for one of those when you can.
Edited by JRichter420 (06/18/07 05:08 AM)
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Re: How to dose without a scale? [Re: retrospect] 1
#7060265 - 06/18/07 05:32 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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I just nibble the mushrooms a little bit at a time until I feel it.
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Asante
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Re: How to dose without a scale? [Re: retrospect] 1
#7060299 - 06/18/07 06:02 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Look no further, just save the pic and you're set!
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Re: How to dose without a scale? [Re: Asante] 1
#7060307 - 06/18/07 06:12 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wow, nice thread, I just was wondering how to scale my upcoming load.
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Re: How to dose without a scale? [Re: BuddyGuy] 1
#7060427 - 06/18/07 07:22 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well I found out that a sheet of notebook paper weighs exactly 1.5 grams. You can fold a sheet of paper into a triangle, then fold up the hypotenuse of the triangle, and attach strings with little pouches attached to each end of your folded up hypotenuse... then poke a hole in the center and put a string through that hole that you can hold the thing with.... and mark the center. Then put a folded sheet of notebook paper in oneside, and fill up the other untill the scale balances out. You can fold the notebook paper into 3 and tear it apart to create 3 peices that weigh 0.5 grams each... so you can do .5, 1, or 1.5... and up...
Pretty easy way to dose if you don't have a scale... if you make it good, it can be very accurate.
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Re: How to dose without a scale? [Re: JohnP] 1
#7060533 - 06/18/07 08:18 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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I guesstimate.
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retrospect
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Re: How to dose without a scale? [Re: Kinematics] 1
#7068038 - 06/19/07 11:41 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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thimble idea looks best to me.
so approx how much does one thimble equal?
thanks.
Edited by retrospect (06/19/07 11:45 PM)
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Re: How to dose without a scale? [Re: retrospect] 1
#7068160 - 06/20/07 12:16 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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kind of like driving wihout a map. you can drive, but be kept guessing wihout the precision of knowing.
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Re: How to dose without a scale? [Re: cavemate_A] 1
#7068262 - 06/20/07 12:57 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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I will never forget my first grow... The yield looked impressive and the "wet" weight was pretty good. After taking what I saw on these forums as the "recomended" dose; I was very unimpressed. That specific experience was my "first" and for the next few months I experiemented with more and more. About half a year later I was drying my shrooms and no longer experimenting with "fresh" shrooms.
But still, I was very unsatisfied with the "trips" I was experiencing. It was all "kiddy" stuff. I gathered up a formidable stockpile and went on holiday with a bunch of mates. On our first few nights we toyed around with them and had a little bit of fun, but nothing like what I thought(from reading various posts here) that they were capable of. Then one morning we all woke up and went out for breakfast and beers... After a few good hours of drinking I "decided" that I wanted to see what these little shrooms were capable of... One other friend and I ate all of the remaining stash.
The trip that followed was amazing...
Amazing in more than one, or many ways.
It was scary... I was scared
It was revealing... I was enlightened
It was beautiful... I was amazed
It shared secrets... I still "think" about them over a year later
After describing it to certain respected people here I was told I had endured a "hard" lv 4.
I know you are here for basic "dosage" info, and sorry if I have gone off on a tangent... BUT this is what I know via what happened to me.
I basically tried to "wade" into this whole thing and couldnt do it...
There are so many factors that go into dosage... that I doubt anyone can give you solid "universal" advice for "your" specific situation.
Some questions to ask yourself that you may or may not know the answers to:
Why are you seeking a "trip"? How potent are your shrooms? What type of trip are you aiming for?
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retrospect
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Re: How to dose without a scale? [Re: kimikiri] 1
#7068414 - 06/20/07 01:58 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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i dont want to wade in. i want to low dose at a friends party. its not a go out and get smashed party. its a hang around and chat party. i am going to take one teaspoon of dried ground shrooms an hour before i go.
a week or two later im planning on doing around 3 or 3.5 grams at the beach, depending on how the teaspoon effects me. i'll have some 0.01g scales by then :P
ive done fairly high doses of acid before (200-300ug). so i should be ok with 3.5 grams of mush?
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retrospect
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Re: How to dose without a scale? [Re: retrospect] 1
#7073213 - 06/21/07 01:30 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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actually. how about this. a dollar AUD coin is 9.8 grams or something. if i weigh a coat hanger out straigh with fresh shrooms on one side and the dollar coin on the other, thatll get me approx 10 grams fresh for the party.
hows it sound?
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Re: How to dose without a scale? [Re: JohnP] 1
#15232964 - 10/16/11 09:47 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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If you're on the go the post office self-label machines are great... most accurate, most precise, widest range of mass tolerance, free, unless you have a lot it's a pretty private ordeal,and it tells you how much it would cost to ship it!
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Re: How to dose without a scale? [Re: retrospect] 1
#15233150 - 10/16/11 10:55 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
retrospect said: Is it possible to dose mushrooms without a scale? I'm growing India Orissa and Golden Teacher, and they've just taken off. Pins everywhere. Anyway, I don't have a scale but if possible want to do a low dose at a friends get-together/party this weekend. (Take note most of the people at there are anti-drug, so i want a low dose to be more social, not to stand out).
Then in the holidays would like to do a more heavy/learing trip. Like 1/8.
So is it possible to dose without scales. I could probably get my hands on scales by the holidays. But for this weekend. Will it at all be possible?
I guess what we should be aking is How was the party??
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