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how do you spot mold on dried shrooms?
    #7571598 - 10/29/07 12:29 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I'm new to shrooms, recently I obtained some from a "friend" and am temporarily keeping it in the fridge, in a tupperware container. My question is, how do I spot mold on shrooms that are already dried? They are really dry, grayish light brown in color but some parts are dark blue... I know about bruising but these blue spots are on the stem, not caps.

When I ate 2g's last night, nothing happened for about 30-45 mins, then I started to get some effects, like waves of anxiety coming over me every 10-15 mins or so but that was about it, this happened for about 2-2.5 hours but no visuals at all, it was as if I had taken a 1/2 hit of acid or something, except I was more agitated and disappointed... Then I decided to eat another gram, thinking it wasn't enough, it tasted ok, not bitter or "moldy" not that i know what mold would taste like, but it wasn't bad... Then about another 45 mins later I felt totally retarded, I was VERY agitated and just a little nauzeous, but nothing happened again, I looked at the wall and it was waving very slightly buthing to write home about... Then I started to get ideas like I was actually experiencing how mold was reacting to my body, etc as if I was having a bad trip, but it wasn't really a trip at all, I had close to full coordination, just very agitated and I had the after effects of an acid trip, feeling kinda exhausted and felt as it something was bothering/agitating my spine and I was very restless and all that.. This persisted for about 6-8 hours and I gradually started to snap out of it...

I have no idea wtf it was but it definitely wasn't a mushroom trip, while it was happening I felt like I didn't know anything and I couldn't intelligently figure out anything, felt like I was retarded and was very agitated, almost wanted to bang my head against walls, very weird experience.. It was as if I was experiencing some sort of psychosis, and thought I had food poisoning and had to pee and deficate but there was no stomach discomfort and throughout the experience, I always had some nervous feeling in my stomach. The waves only came on after 45 mins and lasted for about 2 hours, afterwards it was complete hell.

I tried to snap some pics of the remaining 1/4oz of this hellish shit I have no idea what it is... I'll try to get better picture but for now this phone pic will have to do... It was the worst experience of my life as far as drugs go.

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9715/brewmod108881029070202oy6.jpg

EDIT: Here is a better resolution pic:

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8493/dscf0005wb5.jpg


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Re: how do you spot mold on dried shrooms? [Re: c0_hush]
    #7571835 - 10/29/07 04:20 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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I know about bruising but these blue spots are on the stem, not caps.




Bruising occurs anywhere that contains psilocin; this includes the stems.

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Then I started to get ideas like I was actually experiencing how mold was reacting to my body, etc as if I was having a bad trip, but it wasn't really a trip at all




Psychosomatic.

Those mushrooms look, and are fine. It's extremely rare for mold to actually devour live mycelium in a fruiting body; I seem to remember RR saying he'd only seen it 2-3 times, ever.

I'd advise checking about this prior to consumption; it'd alleviate your ill feelings and not give you a paranoid trip for no real reason.


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Re: how do you spot mold on dried shrooms? [Re: CaptainLinger]
    #7579163 - 10/31/07 12:53 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

those things look pretty gross to me...it looks like there is some nasty light blue moldy lookin stuff all over the stems and some of the caps, not like typical bluing. I don't know if i would chomp those little guys. and what do you mean mold can't grow on fruiting bodies? i see it out in nature all the time...


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Re: how do you spot mold on dried shrooms? [Re: SuchSmartMonkeys]
    #7580320 - 10/31/07 11:32 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

SuchSmartMonkeys: i think you're right, compared to the rest of the shrooms, the bluish parts are squishy and flake off when i pick them, they are not hard like the rest of the dried mushroom structure, i definitely think it's mold, i'll peel off as much as I can and see if I can salvage anything, if not I won't ingest these things whole. I think the advice to throw them out and get a new batch was sound, too bad I don't have a good cam to take super close up pics or a microscope or something to verify what it is...


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Re: how do you spot mold on dried shrooms? [Re: c0_hush]
    #7580571 - 10/31/07 12:31 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I just saw the edit and higher-res pic...that does look way out of order, where the first one didn't. If it's flaking off, I'd certainly avoid it; how long were they stored wet?

Mold growing on fruiting bodies is pretty rare while they're growing; once it begins to decompose, mold takes over. I still find it pretty odd that a penicillin mold infected your mushrooms. Fuzzy mycelium can turn blue, but it sure doesn't look like whatever's on that cap.

Who gave these to you? I obviously take it for granted that they were properly dried; it seems evident they were not. I'd grow your own or not acquire any more from that guy :frown:


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Re: how do you spot mold on dried shrooms? [Re: CaptainLinger]
    #7584526 - 11/01/07 03:50 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Yea, I've been looking more and more into growing my own, now that I had a not so good first experience with shrooms, I'm never going to trust anyone else's ever again :P

The person I got it from got it from HIS dealer already dried, and stored them in a fridge for about 4 months before giving it to me. He said others have eaten from that same batch and and were fine, and was nice enough to have me give bad batch back to him but just to avoid this whole frustration in the future, I'll just learn how to grow my own and call it a day.

I'm not the most patient person in the world and I'm sure I'll have some frustration with possible contamination at 1st but it'll be a good learning experience for me, it's just a bitch to get everything together for the 1st time and try and do this thing, but once that's outta the way, I should be all set.

Thanks for the replies and opinions, much appreciated!


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