Did you know that you can inoculate an instant rice bag or sterile jar of sugar water, then mix it into a garden or mulch bed to get reliable psilocybin without risking being caught with an indoor colony? Chaos gardening is fun.
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Are there any concerns about the mushrooms picking up pesticides or other crap from the soil?
Probably. I'd only do it on clean beds. Any nearby forest can become a clean mulch bed with a bag of mulch and there it will just decay like the logs around it.
My old roommate tried growing shrooms but something went wrong and he threw everything in the compost pile like 6 months ago. Now there's familiar-looking mushrooms sprouting in my garden, but I'm not confident enough in identifying mushrooms to eat them.
Edit: I took another look and I'm pretty sure they're not psilocybin. There was also some weird yellow ooze coming out of the compost pile, so there's all kinds of weird things growing in my garden.
I might try growing from spores indoors later.
It can be tricky because there are so many different strains that are morphologically different, but if the anatomy matches up and the spore print is the right colour then you're probably safe. Or so dead that you can't say I was wrong and that technically still makes me right.
Feeder mice are cheap in a pet store. Their job is to be eaten so being a lab rat would be a stay of execution. You wanna do some animal testing?
If you cut a tiny little sliver off and bruises blue/purple that's an extremely good sign it's psychoactive. It isn't full proof and you should still take numerous photos from every angle, especially under the cap where it's growing out of and submit the pics to mushroom ID websites or even reddit to get at least a few answers to be confident about it.
Also if u live in CA or possibly other states you can sometimes bring the mushrooms to a college with a mycology department and to have them ID it. I've used UCSF for this in the past. Obviously I'd call first to make sure they'd be okay with that. A bit more work than the other methods tho tbh if you're not close to one
I live in cattle country and have seen likely candidates on horse manure, but I can never get over the yuck factor of harvesting them from it. This one is growing out of coconut coir and rye berries so I can wash it off with confidence. The couple times I used manure it felt like I could never wash them enough.
No I did not know that, and I've looked for a tek to do exactly this before.
Saprophytes just need a source of cellulose to fruit on and something they can quickly expand on from spore>mature mycelium. If you mix 4% honey by volume into distilled water and shoot 1ml of a spore syringe into it, that will make a liquid culture over the course of a couple weeks. Then you can spray that on any cellulose candidate- mulch, cardboard, coconut coir, hardwood sawdust pellets, composted manure- and it will fruit sporadically after a few weeks. Using a grain instead of a liquid culture will let it persist longer.
How do you get the spores? I’ve wanted to grow some for a while but that’s my biggest hurdle
You can buy them online. It's one of those weird legal cases where it's totally legal to sell and distribute the spores but illegal to own the mushroom.
Oh shit really? Well I have a new project for the week
Hey the r/unclebens subreddit has a pinned post with legit vendors to order from an extremely well made, detailed guide on how to do successfully grow. I'd watch a few YouTube videos too so you can have a better visualization of what each stage should look like. Highly recommend that sub tho
I would get sterile substrate from a vendor with a proper injection port and miss all the rice stuff, but the technique is pretty much the same post inoculation
North spore sells sterilized manure I just found out, I really like their stuff, and boomingacres.com has good grain
I’ve never grown cubes before so figuring it out as I go now
As long as you aren't in one of the few illegal areas where it can't be shipped, I buy all mine from this mycologist in Michigan: https://www.mushroommanmycology.com/product-category/spore-syringe/
check out 'my g' on facebook. it's a legit shop that's just a dude so he'll ship anywhere afaik.
also the name sounds sketchy but it's my g because of mycology so it's actually pretty clever.
You might be able to get Psilocybe tampanensis to grow there that way. Psilocybe cubensis prefers 60-80f weather and 80% humidity. It might be too dry there without some shaded forest area or like a garden pond nearby.
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