OK- I’ll start with no permission but know many of you are in contact with Nebula & Sirius & GWE policies (it is freaking me out not hearing from them on either platform right now) and I’ll just take the plunge into what is from the VERY bottom (as with my cannabis) journey...and I mean the bottom not having a single clue nor person to person contact for questions. I am relying TOTALLY on The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible. As I said before-I find it a great read, re-read, re-re-reading-dealing with the chapter on PF Tek (the jars) process. I did look online for information about this process but found the book to be my way even tho there were/are glitches in the information and no forum that is suitable for me. Besides I like dog earring, underlining, writing in margins A LOT. If i get a no from GWE I will stop.
I did start 4 jars which I threw away-not too sure why now-but I did. I think I did not have the right ambient temp-it wasn’t happening fast enough at that time. This blab will be the 8 jars-and basically the same with more patience. My curiosity came from (my middle of the night) streaming The Good Fight where a para legal asks an attorney if they are “micro-dosing†I sat up in bed and WHATS THAT?..and it started. I simply want to know if I can do this. If I can I can do gourmet too? It’s a classroom science experiment. I haven’t done psychedelics since the early 70s and that was Orange Sunshine which made me chase my oil paint ( that became organically live while painting live) , see dirt scum in corners that made me start to clean and ultimately sent me under my bed sheets laughing covering my head and I am claustrophobic. If I could figure out “just a tadâ€...maybe.
(not quite finally) this blab is NOT a how to. If you want to follow along-literally-do get the book/ I mean it. Having never done this before, nor confirm this is the only way (looking into mono tub) it is a beginners best newbie ever giving it a go-from scratch. The new nomenclature is fascinating-just like cannabis-screw my smart watch I need a wrist dictionary (that I can see)
Obviously there are many kinds of “shrooms†(ref that as opposed to Baby Bellas which I love)... Beginner shrooms- Psilocybe cubensis: B+ and Golden Teacher, not extreme in high, “easy to growâ€,
got Penis Envy but it wont grow in PF Tek style (like that’s a shock)..mono tub should I do it but then I need some good horse/cow
seasoned manure and a glove box
true last: the first thing I did was buy a pressure cooker: I don’t implement that kind of cooking-AT ALL I don’t like cooking with explosives. I chop, sauté, Dutch oven with feet outside, boil noodles.
BUT I invested in a DIGITAL pressure cooker with built in STERILIZE mode which meant we ate brown rice for weeks to foot the bill. In this 8 jar I did pressure sterilization of vermiculite, brown rice flower as well as heavy lid stove top. The substrate MUST be sterile before inoculating.