mexican mushroom

[LucidShroomDmtier]

hello guys this is gona be my first test with shroom. the guy told me that those are mexican mushroom not sure though, am worried about the cyano greenish color it has on some spots is it natural? also what should i expect with 1+1/2 mushroom weighs about 2-2,5 grams.Have done acid many times tried truffles (mexicana) too thx.. also how is better to consume them when they are dry??

 

[Solipsis]

Green is no good (most likely mold), but I think you are just looking at blueish staining which is very typical of these kinds of mushrooms. It is indole alkaloids oxidizing, so it's the active chemicals and ones similar to it that give it that color.

Mexican mushroom is a trivial name for the Psilocybe Cubensis (in by far most cases it's not P. Mexicana although they are all fairly alike). The cubensis mushrooms are the most common of psychedelic mushrooms.

The Mexicana strain is indeed known best for sclerotia production (the truffles).

If your mushrooms are not dry yet, make sure they are stored in the fridge and that they are super fresh otherwise the spots are much more likely to be mold or other contaminants (especially if they aren't really blue-ish). Eating them raw or dried doesn't make that much difference for the effects but it makes a lot of difference for shelf life. Dry them if you want to keep them for more than a week after harvest.

Again, for your dosage question I must ask how dry they are. If you say 2-2,5 grams I wanna assume they are dry after all. That seems like a pretty good dose to begin with. Because they are natural products the effects can vary a lot. You should get a nice introduction to mushrooms with the dose but if you are unlucky the effects are very mild and on the other hand they can be very potent which can give you a full fledged trip at that dose.

If you have done truffles though, the drugs in them are basically the same so you can compare them. The shroomery has a dosage calculator (google it) that allows you to translate your dose of Cubensis to what it would equal as a P. Mexicana truffle dose. Then with your previous experience you should be able to estimate quite well what you are in for.

 

[LucidShroomDmtier]

you were very helpful Solipsis thank you that was the kind of answer i expected. they are very dry they was about 34-40 grams when they was ripe

 

[Solipsis]

Alright, good to hear.

34-40 grams would on average yield 3.4-4 grams dry... but it is possible that you end up with less if during cultivation there were techniques used to make the mushrooms take up exceedingly large amounts of water. This gives you nice big shrooms but it does not actually make them more potent. If all that water is then removed through drying, you would probably just end up with the same dry amount you would end up with if those cultivation techniques hadn't been used. Anyway don't worry about that, what matters is that yours are dry and it allows you to gauge a dose nicely, although there is still the problem that they are natural products with varying potency.

FYI there is a way to avoid this: if you ever get a large batch of dry mushrooms, you can grind and powder them as fine as possible and then mix them. This homogenizes your batch making every dose more equally potent. The better grinded and mixed, the more equal it should be. That way the strength of your trip gets more predictable after you have done some trial doses with the batch.

I guess that is more info than you asked for, so let me close this. If there are more questions you can use the mushroom subthreads (there are ones on a number of specific topics), via the OP in the Big & Dandy Mushroom thread. Use the Index to find it.
Or, you can PM a mod if closing this does not agree with you.

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