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☛ Official ☚ [Mushrooms Subthread] Different Strains & Cultivation

Blue Caps

Alright, so I was asking my friend about his mushrooms, and he said they're blue caps, meaning I guess they have blue bruising spots on them which means they're most likely psilocybin containing mushrooms, and he said that they have pointy tops, any idea what kind these could be? I have not seen them yet, but I'm curious.


EDIT: After researching it sounds like they are liberty caps, I'll be certain once I can see what they look like.
 
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In my experience semilanceata is not a very visual mushroom. It's more of a mindfuck type. Cubensis gives nice eyecandy.
 
P. Cubensis-Cambodians-Good Strain?

I've heard they grow fast and have big flushes with good potency.

A good strain?
 
PaxTX said:
I've heard they grow fast and have big flushes with good potency.

A good strain?
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ime they are quick to colonize. though there are too many variables to consider this a trait among this particular 'strain'

if your spores have genes with this trait you will observe it. otherwise you will not.

some spores will germ and colonize quickly yet might put out small fruits. some may take forever but put out better fruits.

all you can really do is just hope for the best and isolate myc that is producing desired traits.

check out the shroomery for more.
 
ehrlich reagent for the testing of active mushrooms.

So i had an idea that may or not work at all, its just an idea.

I know that ehrlich reagent test for the presence of indoles, and psilocybin and psilocin are both indoles if i recall correctly. Lets say you have a mushroom that you were not quite sure about, could ehrlich reagent be used to test whether it is active? or do certain inactive mushrooms or poisonous ones contain indoles that would react anyways?

Of course with all wild mushrooms spore printing and all the other usual stuff to identify them should still be used, but could this be another potential way of testing for actives?
 
Spore printing sounds like the absolute worst idea possible for identification of fungus species by a layman. I'd had a fair amount of formal training in the field and I likely could not identify, by spores, one species from a series of related ones without a lot of reference material to go on. Many that grow around the ones you want produce fairly similar prints, and in any case I kind of doubt you are sitting on an appropriate microscope, have access to a library of samples for comparison, etc. (that said I think the fruitbodies themselves are fairly easy to pick out)

No comment on the rest of it really, as I don't know what other indole compounds might be present in whatever fungus happens to grow in your area. Tryptophan will be present in much of what they would be growing on, and it is but a small modification from there than will create indoles.
 
That fact that the essential amino acid tryptophan; which is a component of every kind of mushroom is an indole, leads me to think that it'll react with pretty much every organism there is. ;)

Fizz, I don't think tryptophan needs to convert into anything to become an indole. It is an indole itself isn't it?
 
Whatever the case, many organisms are going to convert that into something that would most definitely light such a test up, depending on how much of the substance were needed to cause a positive result. Its definitely not something I would rely on, that is for sure. But then, quite honestly, I think only someone with little to no experience collecting the mushrooms would even ask this (pls don't take that to be insulting, OP). Once you do some research and find out what fungus grows on what substrate, at what time of year, in your area, I think it should be rather obvious what you are looking for. It is best to have someone show you this in person, using many examples. But once you get it down, you should be ok. At least in the southern US, there are not very many types of mushrooms that you could confuse for P. cubensis or Pan. cyanescens. They are obvious from a combination of: shape, habitat, growth patterns, blueing/bruising, spore color, etc.
 
Fulheartedly agreed, a positive doesn't prove anything useful with this test. Scour the Shroomery for IDing stuff, I think though that for a good identification you would need either sophisticated analysis equipment to detect alkaloids or be able to taxonomically determine the species.

Merging into the differents strains subthread since this is at its core an ID method question, you may carry on there!
 
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Psilocybe Cubensis,Psilocybe Coprophila

These are the main Psilocybe mushrooms that grow directly on cow or horse dung. I live in SE Lousiana where the P. Cubensis if found nearly year round acording to my reserch. I have never seen them and tomaore is gonna be my first hunt. I taken them once before from a homegrown batch. Well heres the question...do farmer have a certin something that they put in the mammels food to stop the mushrooms from growing? I would like to know this if this if the reson we may not see any becouse from my under standing they are year round fruiting. Thanks if anyone has any input or info for my area or the mushrooms.:)
 
Farmers put fungicides in the grain they feed their animals. This however is to combat mold, and will not prevent mushrooms from growing in the manure.
 
Merging to the brand new Mushrooms Strains & Cultivation subthread!
 
mushroom growing question

If I only use 2ml of spores do I have to put the syringe in a fridge in order to save the spores for another time to use.

Because I cant put it in a fridge because my dad will go crazy, can I just put the syringe in the bottom of my wardrobe away from light.

also when its in the airing cupboard does it stink? Like will my dad be able to smell that something is in the airing cupboard?
 
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I've changed the title of your thread as the product you named would be classed as sourcing as it's also the name of the website that sells them.

I'm not sure about the syringe refridgeration cos I've never used them but when I grew shroom kits they didn't stink - bit musty maybe but nothing outrageous. Depends on how many you grow though, I would think.

I'll move your question over to the mushroom cultivation thread which may well answer your questions already and is worth a read for some tips :)
 
bighooter said:
If I only use 2ml of spores do I have to put the syringe in a fridge in order to save the spores for another time to use.

Because I cant put it in a fridge because my dad will go crazy, can I just put the syringe in the bottom of my wardrobe away from light.
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you really want to stick the syringe in the fridge so you inhibit the spores' ability to germinate. even stuck in a place with no light they will begin to germinate in solution.

the solution may have some shelf-life outside a refrigerated environment but i would doubt it's very long. i've had syringes stay viable for years when put in the fridge.

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also when its in the airing cupboard does it stink? Like will my dad be able to smell that something is in the airing cupboard?
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for best results use a food dehydrator. in general there really is no stink but they do tend to have a bit of a musty smell. i imagine this is only potentiated by remaining wet for a longer period of time, especially in some sort of cupboard. a food dehydrator is your best bet.
 
Panaeolus Mushroom?

Has anyone eaten those mushrooms? I remember going mushroom hunting at a rainbow gathering in Shasta (regional) and picking mushrooms. One of the guides said that it wasnt a psilocybin containing mushroom but that it had high levels of psilocin which is the stuff that makes you laugh.

These are awesome mushrooms, but I have never heard of anyone selling these....its a shame. It was definitely a happy and feel good experience, but a lot less warping and visions.

I wonder if they are a controlled substance?
 
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