Psilocybin production

[Thinker]

Hi

Some of you may have seen my earlier thread asking about simple drying methods because I had to leave my mushies in someone else's care, just as it was getting to harvest time.

Anyway that worked out well, I left simple instructions to cut the shrooms at the base and stick them in the airing cupboard. My friend did exactly that, cutting the stalks at the base with scissors. This resulted in ~60 loverly shrooms but since he did not actually pull them off the cake the stalks continued to grow instead of forming new mushrooms.

So yesterday I came home to a load of headless mushrooms! My question is does anyone know if psilocybin production is reduced or even stopped after the veil breaks? Which would mean the stalks are useless. I don't see why production would stop but a couple of people have talked to have claimed that this is the case...

THanks

 

[Mycophile]

I hear that a lot, that the heads are stronger then the stems.

I don't believe so. When I make prints I cut off the head and use them for that. The stems end up in my tea; had fantastic trips with those headless shrooms.

 

[Guest]

Well, since the psilocyn/psilocybin is produced before the muchrooms start to grow I'd say just remove the stuff your friend left in and hope new mushrooms will form.
Aborts (shrooms that don't grow out to full mushrooms) do also have psilocyn/cybin levels, so I don't think it will produce more when you leave a part of the stem and it keeps growing....

 

[GOD]

That with the airing cupboard was a good idea . It is suposed to be better to cut the whole mushroom just when the caps start to open with a very sharp knife , because scissors can squash the stem when you cut it off alowing contaminents to have a bigger surface area / open wound to infect them .The myceleum is supposed to have a little more Psilocybin in it than the mushrooms do . That when the cap is open the mushrooms produce less Psilocybin weight for weight . = they stiil produce it , but that the biger they are the more Psilocybin you have but that the concentration is less . The caps havent got any more Psilocybin in them than the stems , they are both the same myceleum but with diferent functions . The mushroom is realy the myceleum and the mushrooms themselves are just the sexual organs / flowers of the myceleum . I think that it would be good to harvest capless stems so that new mushrooms might form .

 

[Thinker]

That with the airing cupboard was a good idea . It is suposed to be better to cut the whole mushroom just when the caps start to open with a very sharp knife , because scissors can squash the stem when you cut it off alowing contaminents to have a bigger surface area / open wound to infect them .The myceleum is supposed to have a little more Psilocybin in it than the mushrooms do . That when the cap is open the mushrooms produce less Psilocybin weight for weight . = they stiil produce it , but that the biger they are the more Psilocybin you have but that the concentration is less . The caps havent got any more Psilocybin in them than the stems , they are both the same myceleum but with diferent functions . The mushroom is realy the myceleum and the mushrooms themselves are just the sexual organs / flowers of the myceleum . I think that it would be good to harvest capless stems so that new mushrooms might form .

Thanks! Thats exactly what I needed to know, I just wasn't sure if the shrooms actually stopped producing psilocybin or if they just produced it at a slower rate.

And taking them out was the first thing I did when I saw them... I wonder if it will actually turn out better this way because effectively I have now got one flush of double size mushrooms! As long as the other flushes come that is...