Jimster
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Good lord, man.Im pretty excited, gotta tell ya. I havent been so hooked by a hobby in a long time.
Tomorrow ill prep the grain and soak it overnight. Saturday, itll get loaded into jars and pressure canned. Sunday, if all goes well, I'll do the deed of dropping some fungus!
Good lord, man.
You said you have teenagers?
How the fuck do you fit it all in... I talked about starting up my projects what... 2 weeks ago? I still haven't done shit but type up some preliminary stuff while I'm killing time at work.
These two cats are a handful, I guess...
Yeah.. heftier doses are best done over time. I worked my way up to a tea made with 30 grams, but that was after weeks of building tolerance tripping about twice a week, incrementally upping the dosage.So far, I have 6 out of 6 jars that are about 75% colonized. This is a first time attempt at growing these after a very foolish experiment 30+ years ago. I DON'T recommend consuming 14 grams of tried shrooms. It was beyond anything I've experienced. I'm really on the fence about trying these again, but the experience of making it happen is cool as hell.
On a side note... The spores were supplied as a syringe filled with water and spores to te best of my knowing. How do I go about making a water suspension from a spore print... if it can be done? I've tried growing from spore prints without much success, although I was totally clueless on how to do it. This was before computers came onto the scene and decades before the internet.
Yussssss!Can you tell im excited! haha, oh man i can't wait to get this on. Picked up 4 shoeboxes and a sterilite gasket box for an SAB today. Ill likely fill all the shoeboxes so ill probably pick up 4 more once theyre ready for fruiting to "dub" the tubs so to speak.
I think ive got everything to get started now though. Alcohol, gloves, thin utility knife blades,... Pretty much set. Only thing left to pickup is some reptile coir and vermiculite from town next week.View attachment 1058241
Yussssss!
I'm gonna make some agar and inoculate/germinate spores this weekend!
I'll throw together a little tutorial to add to my other thread, too.
Channeling some of that productive, 'I-have-teenagers-and-am-self-employed' energy.
Tea? Enjoy!Speaking of profound mind altering effects...
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Light meal. Little wine. And I'm blasting off again...
And all yours. (Yes, I am a little envious.)Yep.
As simple as loose leaf camellia.
A little honey. A little lemon essential oil.
So pleasant.
It’s the essential oil if I remember correctly. Squeeze some of the lemon zest in and then float it. I need to find shrooms locally lol.Man... Now im tempted.. lol. Ive been eating a lot these last few weeks. Usually at night, wife and kids go to bed by 9 or 10, so ill drop around 9 and trip in the living room by the fireplace until 12 or 1, listening to tunes or whatever.
Maybe tonight is the night! Again! Lol..
Does regular lemon juice work as well as lemon extract?
FWIW, and I m certainly NOT the fountain of information on growing these, but I initially had my jars at room temp... around 70-73/ I recently moved them to a location that was about 80 degrees and the growth rate doubled, if not more. In south Florida, the temps rarely go below 80 upto about 90 in the summer, when the shrooms are most prolific. I'm sure different strains have different temp preferences, but the Cubensis (sp?) seemed to like it warmer, which seems to be verified by the increased growth/colonization.Nice, I look forward to checking it out!
I have to admit im feeling pretty well prepared. Compared to 2 weeks ago, i feel a lot more confident that ill be able to hopefully pull this off.
One more thing
What would you recommend for target temperatures for culturing the jars, bulking to coir, and fruiting stages? I have a temp controlled mini fridge i used for brewing, but it has a heater in it too so i can set it at whatever temp I want. Thinking about using that for culturing the jars in. Ill just need to drill a few holes in the wooden collar for fae.
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