Magical Mushrooms

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I've only just scratched the surface of the field.

That's where you find 'em! Don't be eating any fungi you find buried 6 feet down now! 

[Kurt Cocaine]

That gorgeous feeling of literally standing on the mushies as you are picking them.
I picked around 1000 there in two hours....

Holy fuck lads. I finally got to experience this. Found the holy grail of spots, literally could not look at any point of the field and not see mushrooms. Fuck me sideways,  must have picked about 800 - 1000 and I've only just scratched the surface of the field. Amazing.

Happy days man, enjoy....

[Kurt Cocaine]

I took two of my friends (a couple) out to a couple of my haunts yesterday as they weren't having much picking luck around their area.
They got around 600 in two hours and went home delighted...

[astfgyl]

Hands up who loves it!

✋

[Kurt Cocaine]

H'up da mushies.... 

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[Kurt Cocaine]

Had another good picking day today. Brung me knee pads this time. Helps with the stooping over no end.... 

[Kurt Cocaine]

I picked about 600/700 this morning. Next weekend will be my last forage of the season methinks...

[nukeabuse]

Bought a grow kit, from scratch, spores in a syringe job. The company sent me a free mystery strain syringe along with the one I'd originally ordered.

Would anyone here know if I'm able to use both syringes/spores on the one kit. Theres enough material to innoculate 3ml of spores, each syringe is 1.5ml. but I'm unsure with them potentially being two separate strains this might be an issue?

I've emailed the company my query but said could take a week to reply and sooner I start sooner I pick.

[Giggles]

Don't do it. I don't think you have anything to gain from using 2 different spores.

It will be a nightmare if one strain fruits earlier than another, you'll have to remove the box out of the bag twice as often, which could leave you twice as prone to infection.

I haven't used syringes in donkeys, I can't visualise what 1.5 ml is, but if you have enough to inoculate the opposite corners of the substrate - do that as it will colonise faster.

From what I remember, it's going to take about 5 weeks from when you inject the spores, to it being almost fully colonised, and then another 2ish weeks from there to when you're actually picking the shrooms. That's almost bringing you into the new year!

If you're in a rush to pick, I recommend buying a kit that's already colonised. All you have to do is add water and you're good to go. If you bought a kit today, you'll shave a few weeks off your wait time.

I did away with syringe kits years ago - gave me too much contamination problems. Or maybe I'm just a dirty cunt.

Shroomery.org is a great resource for growing. What strain did you order?

[Kurt Cocaine]

Here's a very informative video for anyone who isn't versed on the foraging of Liberty Caps...

https://youtu.be/bt_vjXiDoxs

[Kurt Cocaine]

Mushies are growing on my neighbour's lawn and two other lawns at houses close by.
They're everywhere this year.... 

[nukeabuse]

Thanks giggles that's a great help. I thought it probably wouldn't work but needed the confirmation. It's a good excuse to get another kit at least.

I had considered getting one of the colonised kits but it was gonna be £35 shipping from Holland. I got the spore kit from the UK for about half the price. My mate has got from this seller before and got 3 good flushes, so hoping it works out. Plus I'm also trying to grow some oysters ATM, so wanna see if I can get a hang of the whole process.

Can't remember the exact strain but the Thai ones. Wanted something gentle as my lady wants to give them ago and has nice had any psychedelics before. I'm intrigued as to what the mystery strain is though.

[Giggles]

I did a couple of quick searches about mixing spores, out of curiosity. It appears that either:

A - one strain will take over as the dominant strain, so your box will only produce 1 type

Or

B - they will co-exist and your box will produce the 2 strains

However, that's under the assumption that both strains belong to the same species. Those Thai spores you have would be psilocybe cubensis, so if the other mystery strain is of a cubensis species (it most likely is, unless wherever you bought them also offer different species, in which case who the fuck knows?) then you should get outcome either A or B above.

Personally, I wouldn't mix it this time. Along with the fact that we don't really know what that mystery strain is, the fact that it was free could mean that it's old stock too. There's also a possible increase in the risk of contamination, since you'd be inocculating from an additional source.
Maybe just try and keep your first grow simple and straightforward and then take it from there. You could make your own substrate for the mystery strain and keep the grows separate in different boxes.

Make sure you clean the fuck out of everything and good luck!

P.S I'm not an expert!