The Shroom Thread

dabean said:
I took 3 grams for my first trip this Saturday evening with my wife (3g each).

We didn't make tea or anything, just chewed them up and swallowed. They tasted very dry and mouldy at first, then very bitter and earthy, then a bit mushroomy as they re-hydrated.
Not very pleasant but we both managed to keep them down.

About half an hour later the fire we were sitting watching seemed to lift about half a meter (the ground came with). That was my first sign that they were kicking in.

Everything started looking more beautiful and vibrant. A log in the fire started looking like a lizard with glowing eyes. The stars seemed an order of magnitude brighter. Faces looked like instagram filters were being applied (angelic or demonic, for lack of better descriptions). Closed eye visuals were pinecone-like geometric patterns.

I had a bit of nausea for the first hour or so but not too bad.

My wife tripped pretty hard, she kept saying she'd lost her mind. I kept saying "join the club" or something which made her laugh. We went inside and I kept her calm (not the first time I've lost my mind). TV shows (Universal channel, not sure which) seemed evil and were talking to me directly, so I watched some stuff on YouTube which was great.

Lots of introspection about life/death.

The trip was over before midnight (I lost track of time) but I only fell asleep at 4am.

Overall a very positive experience.
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Nice to have a proper playlist waiting for the last stretch. Progressively more chilled into nature sounds helps with crossing the barrier to eventual sleep.

Of course, music can also greatly enhance the earlier stages.
 
RanzB said:
Another bum trip. Can't just be the dosage can it? I'm a large guy, but I took it with someone tiny and she barely got high either.
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Anecdotal, but I'd suggest grinding the shrooms (fine), mixing with lemon juice (theory is the acid starts converting the psilocybin to psilocin), leave for fifteen minutes and drink.

Shrooms are so widely variable in strength, it's hard to judge a correct dose from different batches. I've had 2 grams before that sent me packing, and on other occasions had similar effects with 5.
 
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For those that grow shrooms, how do you germinate them? I seem to have bad luck with germination. Most of the time, I try to germinate directly on rye, using spore syringes. But it seems that germination just fails.

They don't get contaminated, they just don't germinate. Nothing happens. I keep them at a decent temperature of about 22 degrees Celsius using a heating mat.

I'm using rye grain mostly. I bought some prepackaged rye grain bags on the Internet, which are supposed to be just inject and forget. I've injected more than once, and only had some small area of germination on one bag (out of 8) which is growing slowly.

Any ideas? Is trying to germinate directly on grain a bad idea? I'm also trying agar, in the hopes that it works better for germination.
 
Ancalagon said:
For those that grow shrooms, how do you germinate them? I seem to have bad luck with germination. Most of the time, I try to germinate directly on rye, using spore syringes. But it seems that germination just fails.

They don't get contaminated, they just don't germinate. Nothing happens. I keep them at a decent temperature of about 22 degrees Celsius using a heating mat.

I'm using rye grain mostly. I bought some prepackaged rye grain bags on the Internet, which are supposed to be just inject and forget. I've injected more than once, and only had some small area of germination on one bag (out of 8) which is growing slowly.

Any ideas? Is trying to germinate directly on grain a bad idea? I'm also trying agar, in the hopes that it works better for germination.
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Agar is the best way. Are you injecting enough spores in multiple locations? I find popcorn too colonize the fastest but I bought a bag of oats now so that's going to be the substrate going forward.
 
krieg said:
Agar is the best way. Are you injecting enough spores in multiple locations? I find popcorn too colonize the fastest but I bought a bag of oats now so that's going to be the substrate going forward.
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Yeah, I do inject in multiple locations.

Keen to see if my agar experiment works - wonder if I added too much agar to it. It looks quite solid.

I injected spores into the agar last week... Thursday? I can see something on top but I don't know what it is. It is like a white-ish film that covers most of the surface. So that might be contamination. It certainly doesn't resemble mycelium unfortunately! Although it is white and not funky coloured.
 
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