Psilocybe Cubensis Potency Variation

indicat33

indicat33

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MadDog607 said:
When you grow cubes lower the temp to about 68F when in fruiting. This will make them supper potent and they will grow much slower because of it. Thats with any cube. Penis envy and albino penis envy are pretty potent. If you fruited some APE at 68F I'm sure you will find what you're looking for.
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Thanks bro, i may just experiment with that strain and lower temps during fruiting :-)
 
Smudga

Smudga

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TonightYou said:
I've never encountered 'weak' strains really. I recall having some strains stronger than others. Most notable to me was the penis envy strain. I'm not sure how often you are tripping on chemicals or mushrooms for that matter, but when I was enjoying trips on the biweekly basis, I found I needed higher doses. I was never one take take epic doses, and generally enjoyed 3.5 grams per trip, sometimes pushing it to 5 grams. I do recall with Penis Envy, 2 grams was easily rivaling 3.5 grams of other strains. I only cultivated cubes. I was interested in others, but due to being indoors it is rathering limiting without putting additional effort and work into cultivating other types.
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Blinding signature had me chuckling!
 
Smudga

Smudga

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TonightYou said:
I've never encountered 'weak' strains really. I recall having some strains stronger than others. Most notable to me was the penis envy strain. I'm not sure how often you are tripping on chemicals or mushrooms for that matter, but when I was enjoying trips on the biweekly basis, I found I needed higher doses. I was never one take take epic doses, and generally enjoyed 3.5 grams per trip, sometimes pushing it to 5 grams. I do recall with Penis Envy, 2 grams was easily rivaling 3.5 grams of other strains. I only cultivated cubes. I was interested in others, but due to being indoors it is rathering limiting without putting additional effort and work into cultivating other types.
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For the sig lol
 
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Xylene

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canndo said:
You will need a hard wood that was cut in the spring in order for the sugar content to be highest. You are best using corregated cardboard as a spawning media and you should use a combination of small chips, coarse sawdust and a bit of very fine sawdust brought to just under field capacity and kept at rather low temperatures. I have found that azurescence definitely needs a cold shock (Cubes benifit from it, but it is not necessary). This shock can confound new azur growers. I also found that a light leaf mulch "casing" I use quotes because it isn't in my mind a true casing. Your air exchange system will need a plenum if you are working indoors so that you can precondition the atmosphere before it is pumped into your chamber, otherwise you will battle with drying substrate throughout the course of your grow.

I have also found that disturbing the medium does hinders producton so you must wait for the mycelium to run rather than shaking your containers (although I have done wood to wood transfers that will accelerate initial spawn in mixed media. Colonize chips in jars and then do a clean or sterile transfer of the chips into sawdust. Each chip will be an innoculation point and you will have a far shorter collonization time.

You can also innoculate "flats" of cardboard and layer the cardboard between your wood preparation.
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You've successfully done this several times? Spent what feels like wasted time at the shroomery for some advice, and pretty much got shot down in flames just for asking. What kind of yields? Around here people say they usually sprout with the first frost, so that shock you speak of makes sense. I have access to natural cultures of them, so I was planning on trying to grow despite never having done one before. I can create whatever temp/humidity I want, but do you cycle yours at all? What lighting times/types? Near as I can tell, 12hr on/off was recommended, along with around 50*F. I planned on using a wine cooler. My grow won't be very large, so will I need an air exchange if I just open it to the room once in a while? Thanks!
 
canndo

canndo

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You need a plenum, exchange rates are important and your yields will be small, if youu get the hang of it you can do better, i never did, it was too hard to emulate those conditions. 12 hrs of light is ok but you dont actually need but a few.
 
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Xylene

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Thanks for the quick reply! If you don't mind my asking, how did you go about designing your plenum? I'm afraid I'm not terribly familiar with the concept.
 
canndo

canndo

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Find a way to introduce moisture into moving air. Your priblem is that cooling the air as wekk will dry it. After the air us cinditiined, then direct it into your growing chamber but not at the surface. You can spray a mist into a column of moving air, or you can create a box that conditions that air before it is pumped into the chamber.
 
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Xylene

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Is it absolutely necessary for the air to come in moist? Like... what if I have a humidifier inside the chamber already that will bring the RH back quickly? My room RH is about 50%. I can create a box with moist air already in it using humidification beads, but it adds some bulk.
 
canndo

canndo

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Think, you are exchangung air twice ir three times an hour, you will NEVER get your humidity to 90 percent, what you will do is dry your substrate at the flow points.
 
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Xylene

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This makes sense. Though I do have one interesting thought... The RH in the natural environment is usually 50-60%. It jumps to around 80-90% when it's foggy, but that doesn't happen every day. Do you know what to make of this?
 
KLITE

KLITE

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Ive found that my mushroom winter flushes are considerably stronger than the summer ones, however i only get those disgusting arm sized monsters in summer. Fuck i once got a mushroom so big i was afraid to pick it. I think i just put the monotub in a corner somewhere til it composted in there, not my finest moment by far.
Where can a guy get the decent spores of penis envy shipped to europe? Has anyone tried crossing penis envy with anything?
 
canndo

canndo

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Crosses are very difficult to do. They involve single spore growth and lots of luck. Even if you get a true dychariotic mycelial mass, there is no guarantee of fruit and even if you get fruit there is no guarantee of viable spores.

I think the odds of one in four just for clamp connections.
 
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