Shrooms

Plan

• Jan 03 2021 - Inoculated...

Shitty Myc Petri -> Tiny Shoebox

• cut off some coir, size of coir roughly doubles
• Weigh, add water ratio of 200g coir to 920ml water
• Put in glass tub
• Microwave 10min? Apparently Will reduce water too much? Could just add more boiling water later...)
• Maybe fridge/freeze it...
• Take out about half for a casing layer... Check it's not to wet. you want is to be able to squeeze the fuck out of it w/o almost any water running out of it.
• Maybe add some charcoal?
• Chop up or blend the mycilium? Would need to sanitize the blender but could get more spread... Blended could loose stuff up the sides of the blender. A few bigger chunks in the bottom would be easier to see grow
• Add casing layer
• Top spray for Propper surface conditions

Misc

• DMT Nexus
• Active Journals
• @kinocorium - Mushroom Terrariums
• Measure PSI, 36g 0.12lb (0.08 lb???), d=2.8mm = 0.0095441in², about 8 psi
• https://mycotopia.net
• **Official Victoria Psilocybin Season 2020** ☆NO ID REQUESTS☆
• Attention AUSSIE Cultivators!
• Psilocybe subaeruginosa
• sclerotia - apparently much easier to grow, more potent wet, but less dry. 'truffles', 'Mexican', 'stones'
• PRISM Guide
• https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicPlantsAustralia/
• Hopkins Playlist for Psilocybin Studies
• r/unclebens

• Bad mushrooms: stropharia, Hypholoma fasciculare, psathyrella, Galerina, these and more

• "Growth is much slower in cold temperatures until you hit 69F, where it speeds up quite a bit until about 75F, where it remains 'flat' until 81, then is flat again until 83, where it falls off fast beginning at 84. By 'flat' I mean there is no discernible increase or decrease in rate of growth within those ranges. Jars will colonize as fast at 75F as they will at 80F. I've proved this time and time again with every strain in my collection. Growth also falls off rapidly above 84, and this is why so many new folks have problems with incubators set at 86F, and jars that 'won't colonize'. The figures I give are substrate temperatures, not air temperatures. The temp inside the jar is 1 to 5 degrees higher than the surrounding air, depending on where in the colonization cycle the jar is. The heat produced falls off fast as the jar approaches full colonization."

Gourmet Mushrooms

• Gourmet Mushrooms

Subaeruginosa Locations

General

• They're around. Mulched garden beds on the south side of buildings
• "Look for parks.

after you select a few to search, make sure they have gumtrees after that, check for woodchips If you have those, then you should have a good chance.

I hunt for shrooms looking for the gumtree/woodchip combination, my success rate is 1 every 4 combination finds."

P.S. whoever said that they only find shrooms in thin bits of mulch i agree, i've only seen them out of fairly thick beds a couple of times, most of the time its a light sprinkling of chips.

• You want the big greyish/brown woodchips.
• my biggest patches are adjacent to creeks.
• its dry in near the city mate. wait for more heavy dews.
• usually facing East where they get morning sun but not afternoon sun.

Melbourne City

• Blackburn station, nature strip adjacent to the tracks.
• Deakin uni near the pedestrian path
• Monash University.
• Rocket Park in Hawthorn used to have them but a lot of people knew about that.
• Red hill and surrounding areas
• Mulched garden beds on the south side of buildings (these are protected from extreme drying in warmer months).
• La Trobe university
• near the museum
• a spot a good mate told me about today and low and behold it is near the yarra
• very time i see a landscaped garden with pine bark i would see them last year - service-stations, railway stations
• Flagstaff gardens (2004)
• Carlton Gardens (2008)
• Just outside the Zoo. Near the tram stop. (6 years ago)

• Diamond Creek and beyond
• park near Darling station, east Malvern

• 6 years ago - https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1ekci8/shrooming_spots_outside_of_the_city/
• I also hear even just at Deakin Uni, I'm not sure which campus, they grow everywhere near some creek? I've never been there but you know, rumor has it. Burwood student here confirming. It's a long creek and there are loads of places along there where they grow. Remember: it's a uni tho so most of them will go pretty quickly methinks
• Rowville - schools and parks... so so so much here.
• Hampton Park - Cairns rd park
• Dandenong - Kriegal way park just off Outlook Dr, there's a big park there with HEAPS growing near the creek. Follow the path near the toilets about 100m up.
• The park next to laburnum station
• Alfred Nichols & George Tinsdale gardens in Sherbrooke are fruitful.
• Bundoora/Reservoir. Plenty around the uni campuses up there but they get snapped up very very quickly.
• Wombat State Forest and the small pine forest above Shoreham beach down on the way to Flinders. Sometimes the Dandenongs are fruitful too.
• 2 spots in the inner east: the tanbark area of the park on Park Grove, Richmond (the tanbark lies between the oval and Yarra Boulevard) - there's also a few good tanbark spots near the skate park at Camberwell junction
• Mt Macedon GPS
• Upper furntree gully used to be nice place. Train access, parkland and a lawnmower to spread spores.
• Mornington Peninsula national park just walk down hill off the walking track right at the start (might have to jump a few fallen trees and whatnot, also can't remember the name of the specific track, sorry) there is hundreds of them, unless someone got there first.
• Mount Waverley, look for parks, drive to parks, look for mushrooms. (2008)
• Had a poke around a national park east of Melbourne today. Lots of little guys popping up (2016)
• Never picked at Hamilton but have heard good things about shrooms down that corner of vic. (2016)
• Frankston (2016)

Further Out

• Macedon and Mt Macedon, Red hill, Flowerdale, Myrtleford, Cropper Creek, Tawanga, Barwidgee, Running Creek Bright, Porepunka, Bright, Bungamero (huge), Winteriga, Matong North, a few around Toombullup like Fens, Spring Creek, Tromps, Blue Range, Kopps, Archeton
• Yarrunga Reserve in Croydon hills
• Mt Macedon pine plantation

Buying

Grain

• A1 Health- Farm fresh produce for your lovely pets- 20Kg Wheat Bags - $29.99
• Wheat 20kg Bag Bird Poultry Feed Various Uses Multipurpose Bulk Bag - $41.3
• HARMONY Wild Bird Seed Mix 8 kg, One Size - $25.11

Spores

• Ebay Section
• Edible
• https://www.mushrooms.com/
• PE6 Print (Out) - https://www.mushrooms.com/texas-pe6-cubensis-spore-print
• PE6 Syringe - https://www.mushrooms.com/texas-pe6-cubensis-spore-syringe
• https://www.mushrooms.com/psilocybe-subaeruginosa-spores
• https://www.mushrooms.com/psilocybe-subaeruginosa
• https://www.mushrooms.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=subaeruginosa
• https://www.mushrooms.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=PE6
• RW Giveaway

Misc

• Polyfill
• Micropore Tape
• Gypsum
• Mason Jars - Mason Jars seem overrated...
• Transparent Bag - Need HEPA+ionizer filter...
• Strainer Bags

No Pour Containers

• Square ones with latches
• 50x 85ml Plastic Small ROUND Storage Container w Colored Lid 6.5x3.5cm box BULK $17.99
• 100Pcs/Set Small Plastic Sauce Cups Food Storage Containers Clear Boxes + Lids - 100 for $6.49 (Hinged)
• Sauce Cup Condiment Food Storage Transparent Disposable Plastic Container WT 74ml x 50=$13.60 - Curved Bottom
• 40Pcs 100ml Disposable Clear Plastic Sauce Chutney Cups Food Container Storage - $13.89 - Rimmed bottom
• 6pcs / set Clear Lid Magnetic Spice Jar Stainless Steel Spice Sauce Storage O8P5 - $6 for $15.48 (Comes with holes already., not sire if plastic will survive]
• 5pcs Clear Cosmetic Jar Pill Case Box Storage Pot Cream Mask Container 100ml - $5 for $7.88 - Not sure if plastic will survive... Looks like they are PET which probably won't survive...
• 100ml of above Same as above
• ebay query

Techniques

• SAB - Still Air Box
• SGFC - Shotgun Fruiting Chambers - Probably better to use coir.
• SHIP - Self Healing Injection Port
• PMP - Poor Man's Pod
• WBS - Wild Bird Seed
• PDA - Potato Dextrose Agar
• MEA - Malt Extract Agar (half strength=faster growth: 20g agar-agar, 15g light malt extract, 1L h2o), (original: 20g agar, 30g malt extract, 1 L distilled water)
• PDYA Potato dextrose yeast agar
• Dog Food Agar
• Grain Soak Water Agar

Misc

• Kramer Cakes
• Recognizing and dealing with contamination
• Culturing Tech • Agar containers, "Grain Petri" Tek, Invitro growing & Sterile Spore Printing!
• Intro to AH's "Pom Teks" (1 of 4) • Growing fruits from grain "agar" & scubbies!
• P. Subaeruginosa tek, information and thread collection
• Egg Carton
• Grain to grain in a SAB + video
• Ultimate Tek Compendium, public edition - Contains glossary
• Agar's OPTIMAL LIDS
• Ziran's Tek's
• AMU TEKs
• Resources for Reference
• http://www.fungifun.org/English/Teks
• Pastywhyte's Easy Agar Tek
• The Tiger Drop - Use a SAB. Drop your entire plate of agar into the jar and shake.
• Faht's oven bag clone tek (2007)

TEK lists

• Mush Cult Life Hacks (2017)
• Getting Started, Up To Date TEKs, Trusted Cultivator links: Bod's simplified cultivation methods (2017)
• Ultimate Tek Compendium: For Noobs And Onward - Psilosopherr (2016) (last updated 2020)
• Violet's Teks and Posts (2015) (last updated 2017)
• Threads that have helped me and that I would recommend to any/everyone - (2017) (last updated 2019)
• The Official TNF Recommended Teks and Methods (2015) (last updated 2017) - SpitballJedi
• Ziran's Teks (2017-2018)
• How Frank gets shit done (link list) (2013) (last updated 2018)
• AMU Teks (2012)
• TranscendingLife's : How I do Everything (2011-2012)
• All Of RR's Notes On Mushroom Cultivation Forum (2008)
• One stop shop for lid teks
• random

Videos

• Bod's Cultivation Videos
• Munchauzen: Mushroom Cultivation Videos
• GordoTEK Bulk Mushroom Cultivation best methods COMPLETE spores to capsules step by step VIDEO - See also Gordotek YouTube channel.
• PhillyGoldenTeacher
• The Astro Way
• Uncle Ben's Tek Part 1 Best Method for Beginners to Grow Mushrooms At Home No Pressure Cooker Needed
• Fruit Mushrooms DIRECTLY From the 90 Second Rice Bags | FULL DOCUMENTARY!

SAB (Still Air Box)

• BOD's SIMPLE AS FUCK SAB TEK (2017) - "70% alcohol sanitizes better than 90+ or higher concentrations"
• My SAB (Still Air Box) (2014)
• Stro's Still Air Box (2013)

• Grain to grain in a SAB (2012) - Uses Warm Soapy Water to make the bacteria stick.

• bodhisatta Cultivation Videos
• How to Prep Your SAB for Sterile Work

shmuvbox

• Facey finally put together a shmuvbox tek! - Alternative to a flowhood
• Shmuvbox: 9er Tek Cloning and G2g transfers

Growing

Spore Syringe Making

• Making spore syringes from swabs (I’m using an oven bag**optional) (2020)

PF-Tek

• a growing substrate made of vermiculite, brown rice flour and water
• Just get brown rice and blend it
• Updated PF-Tek Guide (2017)
• fungifun PF-Tek
• Pf tek - Uses take away containers for BRF. Probably work for grains too?
• Let's Grow Mushrooms! - RR Video - Brown Rice Flour Technique Also Known as PF Tek
• PF Tek v2 - It's actually old from 2003...
• PF-TEK - The wiki has a bunch of categories...
• BOD's Easy AF UnBODified Monotub TEK (No Holes No Polyfil): Bod's Unmodified Monotub TEK

BRF

1 part brown rice flour
2 parts vermiculite ( fine grade )
1 part water( cold )

• BRF
• EvilMushroom666's Take on BRF Cakes

• BRF to bulk/Cakes as spawn : Post your BRF Bulk grows: USE YOUR BRF CAKES AS SPAWN!

SGFC

• The Basics - SpitballJedi
• Where To Begin - SpitballJedi
• Water Tub Tek for fruiting BRF cakes

Invetro

• PODS TEK – Invitro tek growing with BRF or Grass Seed: a simple, self-contained, single-step method
• Invitro casing layers
• Casing Pf-tek Jars/Cakes - Ziran (2017)

Outdoor Cubes

• Moe's Outdoor Growing Tek (2004)
• TheNewGuy's Outdoor Tek (2007)
• Stoned_Myconaut's Outdoor Grow Tek (Southern Style) (2017)
• True(cube)outdoor cult,Not buried old spawn or wood lovers

Subaeruginosa Related

• The Official Woodlovers Thread
• A few notes on spraying spores to start patches
• Psilocybe subaeruginosa
• Edmunters everything Woodlovers; Fermented woodchips verses sterilised woodchip bags
• Images of growing in tote
• "cardboard sucks for wood lovers"
• apparently they love this mulch...
• Edmunters everything Woodlovers; Fermented woodchips verses sterilised woodchip bags

Agar

• Agar portal
• BOD's Comprehensive Agar TEK
• c10's Agar Guide + Tips & Tricks
• FastFred's Media Cookbook
• Dog Food Agar
• Interesting agar recipes from the Radical Mycology book
• "hot pour method of agar, pouring agar on top of a colonising plate and clean myc growing through it"
• Making slants with Frank

• Agar starts to set at 42°C
• Solid agar remelts at 85°C.
• Ideal pour temp is 47°C. Pouring too hot causes condensation.
• Agar is sterilized at 15 PSI for 20min. If you have sediment then 30-45m time frame.

Agar Substitutes

• Hippie3's Simple Agar Tek
• Cardboard
• Pectin
• Agar substitute - BRF+Water
• Agar substitute - BRF+Water (old link)
• The Biopsy Method: No Mercy for Bacteria

No Pour

• Pastywhyte's Easy Agar Tek
• Josex' Guide to No-pour Agar. - This one says to make the hole in the side and you don't need tin foil. 30-45min @15psi (20 for LME). Don't leave overnight.
• Alien's Holy Grail No pour Agar unmodified containers.
• No Pour Plates Ziran Style

Agar Containers

Keywords: Slime storage containers, Deli container, Sauce container

• 100 x 11mm Plastic Petri Dish - Polypropylene - Pack of 12 - $20.39, (75mm for $13.09, 50mm for $7.89 - no shipping to aus
• Big container (via)
• 6 for $12
• 16 for $30 screw top
• Squeeze bottle
• 10 Deli for $5 from china
• Aluminum/Glass from OPB's Reusable, No Pour, Unbreakable, Glass Top, Agar Petri Dish for under $1

Grain Containers

• House & Home Preserving Jar - 825mL $2.50
• Just get spawn bags, there cheap...
• Spongi's PF Block Tek - Spawn Bag Tek

Working with Agar - Sectoring/Contams/etc...

• Hidden contams
• Improve your sterile techniques! (a comprehensive guide to agar)
• Interactive Guide to Cleaning Cultures on AGAR
• Stro's Cleaning and Isolating On Agar

Cloning

• Frank's Proper Cloning Tek (2007)
• See also the "growing mushrooms" videos.

LC

• The Biopsy Method: A different way of doing LC.

Grain

• EAT’S EASY OAT PREP™
• Growing on rice - Just brown rice
• Objective & Inclusive grain comparisons - Not all grains are the same! (2013)
• Culturing Tech • Agar containers, "Grain Petri" Tek, Invitro growing & Sterile Spore Printing! - Mentions grass seed, Rice Grain Agar
• Grain Prep Tek • All Grains, featuring Brown Rice & Grass Seed
• "V" Tek •Seed & Plastic• Myco Match from Heave (2013-2017)

Popcorn

• Popcorn Tek 2020, is this best practice?

Wheat

• PinPornProducer's wheat prep

Coir

• My Elementary Coir Tek: Damion's Coir Tek - daimon5050 - "His tek is 1 x 650g block to 2 quarts verm. "
• BOD's Bucket TEK for Coir substrate (an adaptation of the elementary coir tek by Damion5050): Bod's easy AF bucket tek
• Smarts Phucket Bucket - Coir prep
• SFF Coir Tek
  • Flat-Head Screwdriver+hammer
  • 200g coir to 1000g(1L) water (920ml with %8 less)

CVG - Coir, Vermiculite, gypsum

• How Spitball Prepares CVG
• 60/40 Vermiculite and Coco Coir Casing Tek

Bags

• How EvilMushroom666 Prepares Grain Spawn (Jars & Bags)
• A+ Bag Tek, (AKA: how to cook a shitload of grain)
• (TEK) 45 Minute Millet Grain Prep for Spawn Bags : No Rinsing, No Soaking and No Boiling. (2020)
• Cybers WBS myco-bag Tek
• Truskool's Self Fruiting Bag tek
• Growing with bags, start to finish
• Micelio's Spawnless, Growing In Bags (2021)
• Spongi's PF Block Tek

• Eatyualives Lazy Mofo Bag Tek (regular ziploc, not mushroom bags)

Grow boxes

• - Updated Bottle Tek New and improved (2015-2016)
• Proper Surface Moisture / When to Increase FAE
• Bod's easy AF cheapest way to get started by yourself no need for a pressure cooker - Puts plastic bags over the jars/tubs... Also goes into details about brf cake spawning...

Shoebox TEK

• Bod's Easy AF SHOEBOXES STUPID SIMPLE: How to do S3(shoeboxes stupid simple) (2018)
• ShaperDreaming: SFF Shoebox Assembly TEK
• mushboy: Making shoeboxes
• ComebackKid: Proper Surface Moisture / When to Increase FAE
• "Have you ever tried a top layer of coir? That was a game changer for me."
• Growing Without A Fruiting Chamber
• BRF to bulk/Cakes as spawn : Post your BRF Bulk grows: USE YOUR BRF CAKES AS SPAWN!

• Small Spawn Trays by Ziran

• How Ziran gets down on mini mono's

Monotub TEK

• BOD's Easy AF UnBODified Monotub TEK (No Holes No Polyfil)
• Pastywhyte’s Ez dialed monotubs
• Pastywhyte's Easy Micropore Dialed Monos
• Basic Principles of a Monotub - SpitballJedi
• How to dial in your monotubs like a boss (2012)

Sclerotia/Stones/Mexicana/Galindoi/Tampanensis/Truffles

• The OFFICIAL Stone producer/sclerotia thread and discussion
• growing stones
• Sclerotia FAQ - 'Easier than Cubes!!!' summary (Update 1-16-10) (2010)
• Easier Than Cubes!!! (2009)

Pressure Cooker

• "The important thing is to keep the weight/rocker off the nozzle until steam has escaped for ten minutes or so at the start of the cycle. This replaces all the air in the PC with steam, which is critical."
• link:
• bodhisatta: The Importance of Venting a Pressure Cooker or Autoclave
• VENT YOUR PC! - The influence of the air-content inside a Pressure Cooker on sterilizing-times

Steps

• Need micropore tape
• Make inoculation loop.
• Make SAB
• Poke holes in PP5 containers add micropore tape.
• Mix up agar
• Spore Print -> Agar.
• Need brown rice flower or 'grain' (later).

Consuming

• PF MAGIC MUSHROOM LIQUEUR TEK - CRYSTALS OF THE GODS
• Gummy Tek
• Experiencing Mushrooms - Wiki
• How to Avoid a Bad Trip
• ALCOHOL EXTRACTION OF PSILOCYBIN

Amount

• Dosage Calculator
• i had a an awesome trip this weekend on the lowest dose i have ever taken. it was 15g fresh. i got the same level that i would expect to get from 3.5g dry.

Dried	Fresh	Level	Description
0.793g	7.467g	Level 1	This level produces a mild "stoning" effect, with some visual enhancement (i.e. brighter colours, etcetera). Some short term memory anomalies. Left/right brain communication changes causing music to sound "wider".
1.349g	12.69g	Level 2	Bright colors, and visuals (i.e. things start to move and breathe), some 2 dimensional patterns become apparent upon shutting eyes. Confused or reminiscent thoughts. Change of short term memory leads to continual distractive thought patterns. Vast increase in creativity becomes apparent as the natural brain filter is bypassed.
2.38g	22.4g	Level 3	Very obvious visuals, everything looking curved and/or warped patterns and kaleidoscopes seen on walls, faces etc. Some mild hallucinations such as rivers flowing in wood grained or "mother of pearl" surfaces. Closed eye hallucinations become 3 dimensional. There is some confusion of the senses (i.e. seeing sounds as colors, etcetera). Time distortions and "moments of eternity".
3.65g	34.34g	Level 4	Strong hallucinations, i.e. objects morphing into other objects. Destruction or multiple splitting of the ego. (Things start talking to you, or you find that you are feeling contradictory things simultaneously). Some loss of reality. Time becomes meaningless. Out of body experiences and e.s.p. type phenomena. Blending of the senses.
4.92g	46.29g	Level 5	Total loss of visual connection with reality. The senses cease to function in the normal way. Total loss of ego. Merging with space, other objects, or the universe. The loss of reality becomes so severe that it defies explanation. The earlier levels are relatively easy to explain in terms of measureable changes in perception and thought patterns. This level is different in that the actual universe within which things are normally perceived, ceases to exist! Satori enlightenment (and other such labels).

Teas

• Does tea pull out all the actives? And can a batch be dead in potency?
• Jordainio's Lemon TEK
• MAKING SHROOM TEA
• Making and preserve shroom tea

Storing

Dehydration

• Re: Dehydrator potency blackout - Mad Season
• "had it at the range cited by george, 150-170F, for about 3-4h. But from what I've searched through in this forum since then, if you're drying psilocybin mushrooms, psilocybin doesn't start to melt until it reaches 220°C (420F :rasta:) and potency loss seems to happen more from time until they've dried rather than exposure to high temperatures."

Tripping

• https://www.patreon.com/posts/32638441 - hopkins playlist
• https://www.patreon.com/posts/28680845 - hopkins info
• Nature Videos
• Primitive Technology?

Log

• 14 Mar 2020 - Sub spores added to cardboard in take away box.
• 25 Mar 2020 - Inoculated plates
• 30 Mar 2020 - Inoculated 2 extra TOC plates

• 16.35g total
• Big Long 4.5g
• 2.45g
• 2.0g

Log2

• 04-Jun-2022 - 0.95g dried from smaller more intact samples. ~11:50