About dried shrooms

[zdarian]

Hello people!

How are you all doing? I'm new here, though I already made my formal introduction on the French forum, for obvious reasons. I'm basically a foreign college student in Paris, France 8)

I've decided to venture into mushroom growing, especially since them becoming illegal (in the Netherlands) is almost unavoidable right now... I have some questions, but I need to rethink them and read some more and see if I really need to ask them (I've noticed a lot of people get flustered and an attitude when newbies ask questions that they deem idiotic or amateurish... ).

In this post though, I'm going to ask about dried shrooms. I have 2 grams of dried Hawaians. I think they're completely dried. They're cracker-ish (not like a real cracker, at least not the whole thing, but seriously it's as dried as I think they can be).

I've stored them in what I thought was air-tight. In a plastic gel jar kind of thing. Maybe it's not too air-tight. What can happen if it's not too air tight?

I'm thinking of eating a gram soon, but mmm, everywhere I read you should make them into powder and then drink it with something. I personally don't mind the taste of shrooms, and I'm guessing dried shrooms are less gross. But then, is it going to work if I eat my dried fruits, just like that, without turning them into powder?

I'd greatly appreciate your help fellow psychonauts!

Thanks in advance!

Zdarian.

 

[poisoninthestain]

in my experience it's always been most effective to just eat them raw/whole.

if the jar isn't totally air-tight it won't really make much of a difference. it's possible the psilocybin can degrade and excite mold growth but the odds of much of that happening are uncommon.

 

[ophiuchus]

you can eat them however you want really.if youre gonna grind them up though, put them inside of a teabag and brew it 50-50 with some tea. you can make 2-3 batches or mugs from one teabag(the next cup being slightly weaker than the last). and finally, after that, you can eat or drink the crushed remains.(if you didn't mix them with the tea grounds itself) and don't forget to chug some orange juice after the tea settles in your stomache. i believe(personal exp.) and have heard from friends how vitamin c will really kick your trip in on shrooms or acid. i personally guarantee this to work or else i'll give you my address and let you mail me a hot bag of turds.

PS this will not matter if you got ripped off, because a gram of shitty fieldys might not even do shit to you, just depends though

 

[GOD]

As Bear said the other day there are no stupid questions , just people who are to stupid to ask . So ask away and you will get some answers .

"I've noticed a lot of people get flustered and an attitude when newbies ask questions that they deem idiotic or amateurish."

I hope you dont mean me ? If you do please tell me when and where and i will explain / apologise as i sometimes go to far and slag people off...... a bit . If someone asks a question they should get an answer . If you tell me who has a go at who when it happens i will try to straighten it out . = we all have equal rights and the weak should be defended by the strong . We are all part of the comunity and some of us have diferent usefull skills . If we all work together we are strong and can help and iron out problems . To me a forum is the ultimate democracy where everyone is equal and everyone has a right to express their thoughts and have a say .

"What can happen if it's not too air tight? "

Not much exept that they wont stay as potent so long . What people mean by air tight is that they should be powdered and then stored in a plastic bag with all the air pushed out in a closed , air tight bottle in the fridge . So dry , cool , air tight and away from light . If you take whole mushrooms it will not be quite as strong and take longer to come on than powdered mushrooms . Eating powdered mushrooms is Y-U-K !!! = you have a mouth full of powdered sludge wich gets everywhere so you need to drink loads of water to wash them down with wich makes them weaker . If you powder them and drop them in , at the highest , 70°c water , wait 10 - 15 minutes , filter it and drink it it comes on faster , stronger , cleaner and more like taking chemical Psilocybin .

Mold can only grow on them if they are not dry , for example when they are put in a fridge in a not air tight jar so it sucks water out of the air . Yours sound dry to me .

 

[ophiuchus]

DISCLAIMER ABOUT AIR-TIGHTNESS
i have noted that from keeping my eighth of lab mush in a plastic Rx bottle for more than a week or so they oxidized(turned dark blue), and got slimy with little bits of white mold starting to cover the whole mushroom, but this was because my mush was not properly dried, they were still a bit moist. i actually ate them anyways but i didn't feel anything noticeable..(i had been smoking weed though, but regardless..) hope some of this helps, this is just some of my experience with mushrooms

 

[druglessdouglas]

stick a bag of silica gel into the container and they should las longer ive kept lierty caps 2 years in a sealed brown glass jar containing sachet of silica gel for 2 years with little loss of potency. as for orange juice etc. vitamin C lowers the pH of the urine increasing excretion rate of most drugr by stopping reabsorbtion through the bladder ans is used as a treatment for overdose of halucinogens and stimulants! if you want to extend your experience glug some sodium bicarbonate to raise urine pH. always good to know how to turn things off if your friends are having a hard time. also handy if youve got a drug test comming up a few days vitamineC then bicarb on the day of the test. you can get your silica gell from photographic supply shops

 

[zdarian]

wow!

I can't believe I got these answers! Wow, coolness! Thank you guys!

GOD I wasn't referring to anyone specific, I was just err, commenting on something I've perceived. No accusations here. If anything, I think you're awesome! Can I visit you and pick shrooms with you? Please? Pretty please? (I've read a little bit about your GoD tek hehe).

Now about powder... Mmm... I think I like the form and shape of mushies too much for me to turn them into powder hehe. Plus I don't really know how to, and I'm not sure if I'd like the feeling of just drinking a chemical. Call me naive, but there's a sentimental/spiritual thing to "shrooms". Having said that, I LOVE the chemical

Ok, now I'm just being random.

It was nice of you guys, replying hehe.

Be ready for some more questions hehe (not sure if today, I might go on a 6 hour vacation pretty soon, if you get my drift :wink: )

Zdarian.

 

[ophiuchus]

yeah, powder isnt a mandatory thing, i just finely chopped mine and popped them in a teabag, and it was still enough to cause me to not understand english at times and freak out and try to drive my car fucked up

 

[tryptonaut]

I keep my dried shrooms in a plastic bag in a drawer - it's neither cool nor airtight, but I never noticed any huge degradation of effects. However they are usually in the bag for half a year at most.
I usually take enough shrooms to produce a substantial effect (>5g) so a little degradation of effectiveness won't do much. If I did notice they got less effective, I'd just take a little more next time (if you grow them yourself then they are really inexpensive)

 

[BirdGame87]

On the subject of powdered mushrooms, can anybody comment on pill form shrooms?
GOD mentioned that consuming the powdered product results in a need to drink extra water to wash them down which makes the shrooms weaker, so it seems powdered shrooms in geltabs would have an advantage if taken with little or no water.
I saw a guide on how to make them, but I'd like to get all of your opinions first. They seem convenient and user-friendly to me.

 

[druglessdouglas]

pill form shrooms; not quite pills but i ate 150 or so few hours ago and this is what i did. i rubbed them in a bag till powder, stuck 4 lots of two skins together then split the shrooms in4 wraping lthem tightly in skins to make little bolus. managed to get them down except last one which stuck and opened. washed them down with orange cos its all i had. that way i almost didnt taste them. if i taste them my body tries to reject them but what does it gnow.propper pills would be great aranoid:

 

[Bastiaan]

A different question related to the subject:

How long can you keep em if theyre perfectly dry and you store them under ideal circumstances before they start losing potency?
I still have some lying around but theyre from a couple months back..

 

[druglessdouglas]

ive eaten p,sem after nearly 2 years in diabetes test strip bottle(with zeolite in the lid)and they worked ok though they made me yawn more than usual