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tokerwolf

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hey guys! first time with shrooms (growing and soon consuming them), but I been reading up for the past couple months learning about mushroom cultivation.

I have been cultivating medical marijuana for my self and my self alone here in AZ since 2011. I moved here at the 4th quarter of 2010. I'm originally from Chicago. and for well over a decade I have been trying to score some shrooms with no luck what so ever. came close a few times but no real luck. I'm not a very social person so I have not made any friends here, and the hand full of friends I have are all back in Chicago.

Then a couple months ago I got to thinking about shrooms again, so I decided to google mushroom growing and found a few videos and websites. YES! I can finally try magic mushrooms for the first time, I just have to grow some...

So I ordered 1 B+ syringe from spore depot. Was disappointed since he didn't give me a free syringe even with 1 order like many people have. and the syringe wasnt really that black but I was like whatever, I do plan to get other strains from him. I also got 6 BRF 1/2 pint bags and rye grain 2ibs bag (for oyster mushrooms) from ebay (bastards never left me feedback!)

As soon as I got the syringe in the mail I proceeded to inoculate the bags. I had no clue the bags were wrapped in more plastic wrapping so I went ahead and injected the diluted spores into the bags. then I was like, doesnt the filter on the bag need to be exposed? so I unwrapped the bags and started cussing as I reached for more tape to cover the injection sites that I thought was already sealed. I thought I blew it already but I was wrong! 3 days no growth I was worried, 5 days then bam! white! me so happy! anyway that was 1 week 4 days ago. here some pictures (temps, high 70s at night and mid 80s during the day)

I flipped the bags so I can take pictures of the other side. all pictures except for 2 was taken today.



how much longer do you guys think it will be before I can wait the 1 week before fruiting? 3 more days for 100% colonization ? plus 7 days? so excited!

This will be my first time doing shrooms, i figured 3grams - 3.5 grams (30 grams wet) would be the best first time dose for me from the threads i've read. and either redose 2 grams 2 hours later or take 4grams (40 wet) the next day then wait a week or so for my next trip.

at first, I was just looking to do this for recreational purposes, chasing the great psychedelic highs I got from cannabis about a decade ago and synthetic cannabis psychedelic highs from 3-4 years ago but then I started reading up more and found out shrooms can do much more for me. like a cure my depression and other issues I'm having. I've been on anti-depressants in the past before with no luck, a few months ago I tried wellbutrin with no luck, I just finished tapering off yesterday (I was also on an SSRI for 2 years until I tapered off 2 years ago). Stupid nurse practitioner, not a real shrink with no ADD experience (my only option for mental help, my insurance sucks) keeps on forcing the fact that I don't have ADD even though I'm clearly suffering from the symptoms (inactive ADD). she tried to make me try the lame version of xanax or an anti-pschycotic respedal (makes men grow female tits) for my racing thoughts/concentration. I picked the buspirone(lame version of xanax), and now I only take it when having a bad day but I'm getting off that garbage too as it does not really work. I know she's full of shit cause I read somewhere that patients actually have to educate their treating physicians. She's either a moron or thinks I'm just trying to score drugs.

I'll only be taking hydroxyzine hcl 25mg once a day for my skin itching condition and nothing else when I do shrooms for the first time. does anyone know if this will affect my mushroom trip? I'm suppose to take it 3 times a day but i figured I'd lower it to once a day for future shroom trips, id just get off the medication if I could, If I wasn't literally scratching my skin off, id be off the stuff.

I no longer have faith in doctors, greedy bastards! my trust in doctors started fading when I had back surgery in 07 and other pain treatments. cannabis is the only thing that works for my chronic back pain!! after my second go with anti-depressants, zero trust in doctors now.

I'm 30 now, but here is the drugs/plants I've used in the past.
-Cannabis the best plant known to man! Only plant(drug they call it) I still use and will keep on using
-Salvia (3 times, 2 last times 4 years ago were bad trips, I was walking around the hotel hallways only in my boxer briefs, telling my self over and over, I EXIST! I EXIST! I don't remember stripping down to my boxer briefs) I kind of remember a woman laughing at me as I entered into the bad trip (she wasn't real)
-DXM first trip was amazing, total bliss! but the robo-itch sucked, other 3 times I did it was so lame compared to the first, months and years between trips. So I stopped, brain lesions scared me too.
-all kinds of pain medications (before and after my back surgery, I already swore off pills as they don't help)
-Ecstasy first trip wasnt much of anything but then I found out my DJ buddy in Chicago had some good stuff, so I scored several pills and enjoyed it. but I think my other friend (his best friend) talked him into cutting me off. I'm glad they did this to me as I probably would of fried my brain on eX. posters, sex and gaming was fun on this drug. fun visuals
-synthetic cannabis/spice (K2 etc.) I had amazing highs on this while gaming. sweet psychedelic state of mind, Fallout3, Left4dead 1 and 2, blackops zombies and other games were amazing on spice. no real visuals but the world seems so psychedelic-y. I was having a blast while killing aliens on the alien mothership and walking around the wasteland exploring. and I had serious skill on this while killing zombies, I can see everything! over time the drug kept changing to the point where the high was no longer fun at all, then finally it was made illigal. I'm glad they did. RIP spice of 2010
-bath salts ive only done this around 6 times and decided to stop cause it was bad for me and everyone. although I did have fun re-reading and designing character builds over and over and over and over and over and over.... hard to focus my eyes though but my mind was working fast and the data was fun.

So that's it! sorry for wall of text, I tried my best to keep it short, but when you don't have anyone to talk to about this stuff I tend to not shut up


To sum up my questions again:
How much longer until I can start fruiting? I'm so excited!
Me being on hydroxyzine 25mg a day, will it affect my mushroom trip? I take it for a skin condition.
 

Silky Shagsalot

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i didn't want to read your giant post, cause it's wayyy too long, lol. but if you have shroom questions, ask taviddude. he is in the know! i hope he doesn't hate on me for giving out his name...
 

Texas(THC)

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you want to wait a week after fully colonized (completely white)
what kind of fruiting chamber are you plan on using
looking like you may need a mini greenhouse
 

tokerwolf

Member
boy youre in for a big suprise...
what kind of surprise? ur talking about the trip right?

you want to wait a week after fully colonized (completely white)
what kind of fruiting chamber are you plan on using
looking like you may need a mini greenhouse
going to be using a 20gal tub for my fruiting chamber with perlite

btw I lost a bag to contamination last night, 5 more left at least!!
 

Texas(THC)

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I think he was saying that because it looks like you got ahead of yourself...

im not 100% sure but a 20 gal chamber may be too small to fruit out all of those bags at once
was that your plan?
 

canndo

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why brown rice flour? Seems to be wrong on every level.

what is your pinning strategy?

going to fruit in the bags? Going to case? What will you use if you do?
 

canndo

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ask duck about the ssri interactions with mushrooms, he will give you the lowdown better than anyone else here.
 

rory420420

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ducks mia till after the 24th...
i was talking about how astounded youll bee since you have mediocre experiences at best with different drugs..the closest thing youve seem to have done is mdma..and its a tottally different game when it comes to hallucinations...lol..have spun!
 

canndo

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yeah, but I still don't understand the brown rice flour. Brf is for of tek and it is mixed with vermiculite. The whole point is to create innoculation points if you are doing spawn and granular substrate if you are fruiting from your spawn material. You can't redistribute the substrate in order to speed colonization, the brf won't hold a lot of water and you end up with an impermiable block.

granted, if you let your spawn knit you have something similar but one usually does that after the substrate is molded into its final shape or container.

in short, you get the worst of every method if you out pure brf in a bag and inniculate it.
 

tokerwolf

Member
I think he was saying that because it looks like you got ahead of yourself...

im not 100% sure but a 20 gal chamber may be too small to fruit out all of those bags at once
was that your plan?
66qt tub shotgun chamber with perlite, removing bricks from bags. if 5 is too much i have a 10gal fishtank for 2.

brf/verm bags from ebay

everyone on shroomery.org who posted on my thread said im doing great

how did i get ahead of my self?
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thx rory, ya im excited, thinking 25grams wet for my first time. hitting lvl 3 on my first time should be perfect
 
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Texas(THC)

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was just confused at what your plans were
I was thinking you didn't have enough room in your fruiting chamber to do all them at once
sounds like your good to go though

best of luck!
 
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