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 The great potency debate 
#966345 - 10/16/02 03:37 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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Ok, lets have everyones opinion, and maybe we could put this in some sort of General Questions FAQ.
The debate is whether there is a potency difference between strains of cubensis.
Of course, we can't all analyse the chemicals in the different strains we may encounter, so we need to break this down into categories
1. Personal subjective experience
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 Re: The great potency debate [Re: DreaMaTrix]
#966348 - 10/16/02 03:37 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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2. Variations in effects
3. Scientific data
Please post any research that may prove any differences.
4. Personal experience/opinion
Please post any personal experiences or opinions on this matter.
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Re: The great potency debate [Re: DreaMaTrix]
#966366 - 10/16/02 03:42 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: The great potency debate [Re: DreaMaTrix]
#966373 - 10/16/02 03:44 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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 Re: The great potency debate [Re: DreaMaTrix]
#966541 - 10/16/02 04:33 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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I do believe that there is a difference in potency...this, from my experience differs from the substrate and the quality of the strain itself.
So far I have seen that Puerto Rican's that have been grown off of manure surpass in potency from any other cubensis strain. 3 of my closest friends and I all ate only 1 dried gram to test the potency of the Puerto Ricans. We were all humbled by the strength of these mushrooms. All were at least on a "level 3" from only one gram. Visuals, body, closed-eye's, we got them all. They seemed to be very "speedy" coming up, to where my entire body was shaking. A little too intense if you ask me. 
I do not cultivate nor partake in any more mushroom journeys for the time being, and that being the last trip to take for a while was certainly a good one. Once again, 1 gram took me to a higher demension (the vertical plane if you will), for a good 6 hours.
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Re: The great potency debate [Re: DreaMaTrix]
#966694 - 10/16/02 05:24 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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In reply to:
The debate is whether there is a potency difference between strains of cubensis
And this debate will do nothing to answer that question.
People who subjectively believe there to be a difference will say yes.
People who,just as subjectively believe there to be no difference,will say no.
You will have a bunch of subjective data,and probably a few flames thrown in,and be no closer to the answer than you were yesterday.
Sorry to sound negative,but....
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Re: The great potency debate [Re: Macey Howard]
#967210 - 10/16/02 08:24 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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Weilii= different speices, not cubensis.
And I'd have to agree with arual on this one... This just isn't going to prove very much. Too many factors could play into having a different trip... substrate types, dry vs wet, drying methods, growing environment, and trip setting/environment to name a few.
Edited by GumbyDude (10/16/02 08:32 PM)
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Re: The great potency debate [Re: Gumby]
#967243 - 10/16/02 08:32 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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Ive ate 9 different strains. The differences between strains are usually the way it looks and grows. Some strains seam similar. Another difference is bluing intensity and how fast you can see it blue.
Im almost positive certain strains in general are more potent then others althought every batch even from the same strain varies slightly.
Every trip i take is different in its own way, but after probably 20+ mushroom trips i think all strains provide the same expierence in general.
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Re: The great potency debate [Re: DreaMaTrix]
#968125 - 10/17/02 03:25 AM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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definate difference!
check Stivje and De Meijer 1993
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Re: The great potency debate [Re: Zen Peddler]
#968128 - 10/17/02 03:30 AM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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hahahahaha finally.
ANgryShroom my PR grown on Dubg were also as intense.
10 different ppl tested them and all were totally astounded by the potency and speed of the come-on.
Not only that but the length of the trip as well.
And I also experienced serious shaking on a small but powerful does of PR.
I`m not willing to say PR is the most potent but I can say it is deffinatelly an intense powerful guide and experience.
Edited by DERRAYLD (10/17/02 03:33 AM)
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 Re: The great potency debate [Re: DreaMaTrix]
#968421 - 10/17/02 08:29 AM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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I do not see Plantasia Mystery on your poll list. I can not say for sure if one cube
strain is more potent than an other, but I do enjoy the Mystery's trip much more
than any other strain. So I guess that would fall into, I think there are distinct
differences between strain trips. But as for as potentcy i think that is to subjective
to ever answer in a forum, with out measuring psilocybin, and psilocin amounts in
different strains. 
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Re: The great potency debate [Re: aural]
#968742 - 10/17/02 11:03 AM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
And this debate will do nothing to answer that question.
Even if it doesn't answer the question, it provides a good link to a question that gets asked at least once a week.
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People who subjectively believe there to be a difference will say yes.
People who,just as subjectively believe there to be no difference,will say no.
Yes, that is the point of the poll.
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You will have a bunch of subjective data,and probably a few flames thrown in,and be no closer to the answer than you were yesterday.
And maybe some scientific data.
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Re: The great potency debate [Re: ]
#980345 - 10/21/02 04:40 PM (22 years, 6 months ago) |
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The aknowledgment for that list goes to chromed crow.
I borrowed it
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#1020486 - 11/04/02 09:12 AM (22 years, 5 months ago) |
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Good poll, nice to get a little insight into what people think of different strains.
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Re: The great potency debate [Re: TheHobbit]
#1087423 - 11/26/02 11:08 AM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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I voted puerto rican the most potent, at least from the strains I've tried, not subjectively, but factually. There is a very simple way for each individual on this forum to semi-scientifically and factually test the potency of your own mushrooms... That is to do a methanol extraction of the alkaloids and weigh the results... Since some prefer to eat fresh, and some prefer to eat dry, and given the two alkaloids (psilocin and psilocybin) I will post the method for each:
DRY:
1. Grind up your dry shrooms to a fine powder.
2. Place your shroom powder in a glass/flask/container.
3. Pour in about 10 times the volume of your dry shrooms in annydrous methanol. If you have 100ml of shroom powder do 1000ml (1 liter) of anhydrous methanol.
Note* Anhydrous Methanol can be found in your local stores automotive section as yellow HEET.
4. Stir like hell for as long as you can. If you have a magnetic stirring plate put the container on the magnetic stirring plate with a stir bar.
5. Let sit for about 7 days, covered, stirring hard several times a day. If you have a stirring plate, let it stir on the plate the whole time.
6. Take a relatively thick coffee filter (#5 or 6 is plenty) and filter all the liquid through it, saving the liquid in a bowl. Squeeze the filter at the end to try to get most of the remaining liquid, without tearing the filter.
7. Put the powder back in the soaking container and repeat another one or two times. You can repeat more to be sure you got it all out, but a 2nd extraction should be plenty. Continue adding the liquid to the first extraction.
8. Put the liquid in a glass baking dish or something similar that is easy to scrape and using a fan dry the methanol off.
9. When all the methanol is gone and there is no more smell of methanol, scrape up the goo that remains. This is relatively pure psilocybin.
10. Weigh it, and move on to the next strain, and weigh that.
WET:
1. Weigh your fresh mushrooms (this is important) in grams. Make a note of 9/10 the weight. 9/10 the weight of your wet shrooms will contain the same amount of water in milliliters.
2. Put all your fresh cleaned mushrooms in a blender.
3. Pour in 10 times as much methanol by volume.
4. Blend REALLY good. You don't want to liquify the solid material, but get it to small fine peices. BTW, this should be done in relatively low light conditions.
5. Stir as described above, I recommend a magnetic stir plate for this method.
6. Let stir for about 7 days.
7. Filter, with a #6 coffee filter (I wouldn't use any other thickness).
8. Save the liquid in a glass/flask/jar, repeat the process once or twice with the solid matter left over, but don't blend a 2nd time, just stir really hard.
9. From step one, grab your note of the # of ml of water the mushrooms initially contained. Measure out approximately half the # of ml in DRY epsom salt.
10. SLOWLY add your epsom salt to the liquid while STIRRING. The epsom salts will soak up the water. Don't add too much epsom salt or you risk soaking up some of your alkaloids. You can do a test with straight water to see how much water your epsom salt will soak up before doing this to calculate the correct amount.
11. After about 5 minutes of stirring, filter again through a #6 coffee filter.
12. Place your liquid into a drying dish and dry it out with a fan until it no longer smells like methanol at all.
13. Scrape it up the remaining good stuff, and weigh it. This is the weight of the combined psilocin and psilocybin. Keep in mind some psilocin will be lost in the process, but equally so for each strain you test. Compare your weights.
BTW, as long as you COMPLETELY EVAP ALL the methanol off, the remaining psilocin/psilocybin is edible and unharmed by the methanol. You have pure alkaloids here, so be careful with how much you ingest.
I have compared Puerto Rican to several other strains, and every time puerto rican comes out way ahead. I hope this helps people to settle this long lived pissing contest once and for all and removes the subjectivity of the whole deal. No more matter of opinions 
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Re: The great potency debate [Re: matts]
#1095566 - 11/29/02 06:37 AM (22 years, 4 months ago) |
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The only things in the mushrooms that are methanol soluble are the alkaloids, so you will have a combination of alkaloids, all which contribute to the trip anyway, but in almost every case 95% or more of it is psilocin/psilocybin. It will definitely give you a sure indication of which is more potent, especially if you do larger extractions.
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Re: The great potency debate [Re: DreaMaTrix]
#1227789 - 01/17/03 08:29 PM (22 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thinking that different strains do different things is WAY more interesting of course, but I personaly do not see any difference at all...To say that one strain is "dreamy" and another is "more visual" is just nonsense...... Untill theres a real scientific study and not just opinions, I'll continue to ignore it all..... Psilocybin is psilocybin, psilocin is psilocin.
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