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Hackers, Mason Jars, and the Psychedelic Science of DIY Shrooms
Author : jelliclesfarm
Score : 66 points
Date : 2021-03-10 16:11 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| throwawaypftek wrote:
| What's the current best resource for this? Long ago it was
| pressure cookers and mason jars and even an aquarium! Is there a
| more streamlined simpler process now?
| RickS wrote:
| r/unclebens for sure
| h2odragon wrote:
| Careful; shrooms are fun and rewarding just as a hobby, and may
| be a gateway drug leading to pressure canning your own foods, and
| / or having a pet slime mold.
| bergesenha wrote:
| I can vouch for this. I recently had a wonderful experience
| spanning a few months cultivating Psylocybe cubensis by
| salvaging spores from a bag of dried shrooms (spore prints are
| as illegal as the shrooms themselves here and really hard to
| come by). Coming from a physics background and never really
| having done work on living things it was almost magical
| watching the spores germinate on agar plates, transfering
| healthy mycelium away from contamination onto new clean plates,
| colonizing grain with the resulting mycelium and in the end
| fruiting several healthy flushes in a small plastic container
| in my cupboard. You really just need a kitchen and some
| commonly available groceries. I'm now cloning store-bought
| edible mushrooms and planning to grow enough for my own dinners
| throughout the warmer season. It's a very rewarding hobby.
| RickS wrote:
| Neat article, but inaccurate.
|
| >...tailored to one species in particular, the most potent and
| easiest to cultivate: Psilocybe cubensis.
|
| Wrong re:potency. cubes are ~50% the strength of the heavy
| hitters like p.azuresens & p.cyanescens (sp). But right about
| cultivation: the strength gains are negated by their extremely
| fickle fruiting habits. People grow cubes because they fruit in
| abundance indoors.
|
| Mason jars are a thing of the past as well. r/unclebens really
| changed the game in the last few years. $2 ready rice is an off-
| the-shelf version of the DIY jar: a damp, nutritious,
| industrially sterilized colonization environment.
| barbacoa wrote:
| I miss the days when some 15 year old could just start a website
| for mischievous/conversational interests and it could go on to
| become popular. If you tried to start anything like that today
| you would be de-listed from google search engine, kicked off AWS,
| and black listed from ad revenue.
| scyzoryk_xyz wrote:
| Well, I learned everything I needed to know about mushroom
| growing over the past two years from what sounds like a 16 year
| old on YT. It doesn't seem like direct ad revenue or listing is
| the goal for these kids. It's only about sharing knowledge and
| passion. The other more serious ones make money by making deals
| directly with the companies who's products they show off,
| without YT's participation.
|
| Not that I disagree - it just seems to me that video is the
| medium of today's internet.
| heavyset_go wrote:
| > _It's only about sharing knowledge and passion._
|
| This is what made Paul Stamets such an icon before the age of
| YouTube.
| RickS wrote:
| Agreed - the info is readily available, but to the GP's
| point, it's fighting an uphill battle against soft
| censorship. Subreddits have to tread carefully to avoid bans,
| and YT videos are frequently put behind login walls for
| content reasons.
| gridder wrote:
| As a Cluster Headache sufferer I would like to remind everybody
| this is the only cure. https://clusterbusters.org/
| hirundo wrote:
| I recommend this hobby to the neurotic, depressed and phobic. A
| psilocybin trip isn't always pleasant, and any kind of gardening
| takes time and effort, but the risks are relatively low
| (comparable to antidepressants, etc.?) and the potential rewards
| in terms of inner peace are high.
|
| It's also a blast to watch 'em pop up, the rapid endgame of a
| drama that intensifies over weeks.
|
| As I understand it, if you don't desiccate them the legal risks
| are quite low. Given their benefits it's a crying shame that you
| can't buy these over the counter at the local store. This is so
| much less a substance of abuse than so many of the other things
| they sell.
| aqme28 wrote:
| Interesting. Why is it riskier when you desiccate them,
| assuming you aren't selling them either way.
| hirundo wrote:
| IANAL. As I understand it the possession of dried shrooms is
| much less ambiguously illegal than fresh shrooms. It varies
| widely between states. In mine a rare prosecution for
| possession of fresh shrooms failed due to that ambiguity.
|
| https://www.inverse.com/article/7772-magic-mushrooms-are-
| leg...
| uoaei wrote:
| In most jurisdictions in the US, cultivated [psychoactive]
| mushrooms of any form are illegal. In some jurisdictions,
| spores are legal for microscopy only, but as soon as you
| cultivate them the organic mass becomes illegal.
| aqme28 wrote:
| A lot of people nowadays just inject their spores into ready-made
| bags of rice such as Uncle Ben's so they can skip most of the
| sterilization process. Surprised the article didn't mention it.
| jmcgough wrote:
| Used shroomery + PF tek in college, it cost around $100 and half
| was on a pressure cooker for sterilizing jars. For someone who
| struggled with depression at the time, it broke through in ways
| that SSRIs failed to. It also was my gateway into non-psychedlic
| mycology: growing mushrooms is fun, and I love cooking with them
| now.
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