tips on picking shrooms

[zeppelin tripper]

It would be nice if someone could give me tips on picking shrooms thanks

[delta9]

Look up identification guides like "safe pik", learn how to identify bruising, spore prints, and other cap and stem characteristics. Find a group that specializes in mycology, especially of psilocybe mushrooms... All things await you through the great internet oracle Google (http://www.google.com/). ;) Self education and research... I'll teach you to fish, yet (so I can go back to my own fishing)!

[zeppelin tripper]

thanks for tellin me i did that and now i have all my info peace

[mamasharones]

I think the easiest way to find good mushrooms is if you talk to some one who grew them themselves. If they grow them themselves they had to have bought a syringe of spores from some where and obviously know what they're doing. The bad thing about field mushroom guides is that a lot of mushrooms look the same and the only way to truly tell is to look at the spore and unless you've got a microscope lying around then that's not really possible. So know your grower got to shroomery.com and read up on it. Make sure they're are he right genus and species (psilocybin cubenis I think but spelling could be wrong)

[mamasharones]

My fiancee and I grew mushrooms for a long time and make sure that when you get mushrooms they are not some kind of funky color. They should look like regular mushrooms with a little hint of blue (blue color is hallucinagen breakdown) if they are really blue then grower didn't take proper procautions drying them out. Also in my opinion fresh is better

[delta9]

If they're really really really blue, it means you have a high psilocin when they were fresh. If they're BLACK, that's bad, either aborts or improperly dried.

As far as fresh verses dried, and I called my mycologist to make sure, some types have more psilocyn than psilocybin when fresh. Psilocybin is converted to psilocyn in your body, but psilocyn that occurs naturally in a mushroom breaks down to inactives when it dries. So if you like fresh more than dried, you grew high psilocyn content mushrooms. :)

AND the blueing is from psilocyn oxidizes... :P

[delta9]

Uh, to further elucidate my point on the bluing/freshness things, erowid's comparitive mushroom strengths (http://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_info4.shtml), which I don't know if they're basing it off of fresh or dried mushrooms or what, but... What's more potent? Cubensis or Tampanensis? Well, fresh, the cubes, 'cause they have more psilocin! But dry? The Tamps just barely beat out the cubes (and are a lot easier to grow - not that growing mushrooms is difficult, or anything).


So like with your bud, the type of your mushrooms matters as well :).

Note, cubes are the most common mushrooms out there, probably 4/5 trips are cubes.

[note to self, psilocin, not psilocyn!]