Quick question

[Thinker]

I will not be around to harvest my shrooms so I need to leave simple instructions for a friend so that he can do it. So whats the most fool proof way of preserving shrooms?

I thought of 3 options:

1) Bunging them all in a bag of salt but I have heard that the salt itself may absorb some of the psilocybin.

2) Sticking them in a few jars of honey.

3) Just leaving them on a book shelf to dry then putting them in the fridge

What do you think?

 

[GOD]

http://www.psychonaut.com/post-29053.html

 

[Thinker]

Thanks but that doesn't help, I know how to dry shrooms I am just looking for any super simple methods that people have come across. They need to last up to 3 weeks untill I get back. Oh and the moethod needs to be simple becuase my friend is a forgetful fool.

I was also thinking of sticking them in the fridge without a bag I think that should suck out the moisture.

 

[GOD]

When its time to harvest cut them with a sharp knife . Put them on a sheet of newspaper on top of a wardrob or cupboard and leave them at about 18°C . You can cut them any time after the head starts to open , or leave them to grow . If you keep them a bit cooler than normal they will flower / grow slower . So your friend only needs to harvest before things start to go moldy , If i were you i would do a harvest just before you go away , drop the temperature a little and tell your friend to keeep an eye on things and only harvest if things start to go limp , stink or go moldy .

Dont put wet mushrooms in plastic bags or in the fridge or you will loose them .

If i still havent understood ask again .

 

[Thinker]

ok thanks,

How long do you reckon they will last once fully fruited, before going bad? (Just so I can give him an indication of when things might go bad)

Also just out of curiosity why can you not put shrooms in a fridge to dry? I know that ice crystals will damage the cell walls and the psilocybin but ice only forms in the freezer. Also I know that the inside of a fridge is about as dry as you can get and I have used it to dry other things before now so I figured it would work for shrooms too...

 

[Thinker]

Ah just realised I was wrong about the fridge, its the freezer thats dry as bone due to the moisture in the air being frozen!

 

[user_1919]

I would just set up a large bowl, with a screen about 6-8 inches from a chemical that absorbs water. Then all your friend has to do, is harvest the mushrooms, and put them on that screen, and seal, and finished.

PEACE & LOVE

 

[GOD]

"How long do you reckon they will last once fully fruited, before going bad?"

Cant say , to many variables . Going bad is not the only problem . They can dry out , or not get enough air , to much stagnant air , to wet atmosphere ............ How much experience have you of growing ? How much time have you before you go away ? The only thing that you need is a bit more experience , and experience comes from mastering problems . In the end it comes down to suck it and see . I think that the cut `n newspaper method is by far the easyest . Especialy if the friend gets told to cut every mushroom as soon as the cap opens and then to dump it on the newspaper .

Drying things in the fridge / freezer only works up to a point . Its not possible to DRY things , you can only extract water . The only thing that happens is that the mushrooms turn into a shity , sludgey , snoty lump of black GOB . Its something to do with protein breaking down if i remember rightly .

 

[HeartCore]

I try to remember if that frozen tea experiment from a while back was actually succesful.

That would be supereasy also, just mesh them up, put them in (LOW) boiling water for about 20 minutes, seperate flesh from tea and freeze your tea,

Anyone comment on this if this is valid?

 

[GOD]

High H.C. ,

Sounds good to me , maybe less heat , but thats something we will have to experiment with to get it optimal . Everybodys method is a bit different , but they all work . I looked at a bit of info about extracting Psylocybin and all the temperatures used never went above 70°C . So it sounds like if one is being gentle with them one cant realy go wrong . I think that it must be the lower the temperature and the shorter the heating period the better . I agree with you about doing the extraction 2 times and mixing the products .

But....... I dont think that it would be good to have another person doing dangerous things with my mushrooms . I still think the minimum is that the guy comes one or two times a day , opens the box and gives it air . Then when he sees a mushroom that is just opening , to cut it and put it on a news paper on top of a cupboard . It sounds like the most fool proof method to me ????

L+P2U

 

[MyBeautifulMind]

I placed them in natriumbicarbonat, completly covered. That dries them and
protects against oxygen.