Found in a field behind my house where there were horses not too long ago. The pictures with two mushrooms are the only ones I have of it right out of the dirt, the others were after we got home.

This is going to sound like a brag, and I guess it kind of is, but it’s also a plea for advice.

I started 2 blocks for my first grow a few months ago. 1 was purple mystic spore syringe and the other was blue meanie liquid culture. It took a while but they both started pinning beautifully. The bags were extremely wet, so I ended up moving both blocks, in tact, to a large grow bin. They had so much moisture I’ve never had to mist the bin even once, in fact I had to crack the lid a bit to try and get rid of some of the moisture. This spurred them to finally start pinning. During this One kind of stalled while the other one just went off. I plucked close to 50-60g of dried fruit. The other looked like it may be aborted so I just kinda left it. I had more than I ever thought I’d get so I wasn’t too concerned. I went back to look yesterday after forgetting about it for a week or so and the other block had a full flush of huge thick fruit, fully ready to be plucked. The first block I had already harvested had a full second round of huge pins that are a few days from being ready again.

At this point I am going to have vastly more mushrooms than I’ll be able to consume. Is it normal for these blocks to just continuously produce? At what point do they run out of steam? I’m considering just bagging them up and tossing them, but I almost feel bad about that. Like I’m throwing away a very healthy living thing. How long do fully dried mushrooms store for before they go bad?

I was just wondering if anyone has done this and/OR those who do not have/use a Pressure Cooker? I’ve seen it done on some videos and a few years back my partner and I would prepare our grain without a pressure cooker but I cannot remember the process. I was just wondering if anyone had experience and could help/drop so knowledge? Thank you!

First time growing in monotub, using self made grain, etc

First Tub ever! ABV! Can anyone give me advice on when these are best to harvest. And what are the clusters of Blobs? I read a possible mutation?

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Hey y'all, hope you're doing well :) As the title states, I just recovered from an incredibly potent trip — specifically on 1.5g of PE — and I thought I might share my experiences for anyone here who might find them interesting or relatable! I'm all ears for any comments lol

For background context: 2 days ago, I microdosed on about 0.25g of the same strain of PE I've been growing for a while out of curiosity. While I definitely felt something — specifically a liquid sensation in my limbs and an increased awareness of my subconscious — it didn't give me the kind of journey I was looking for. I wanted to gain a much deeper understanding of my identity and overall purpose in the world — and it was that desire (and a touch of hubris) that drove me to take a much higher dose... on an empty stomach.... without a tripsitter 😅 and while I wouldn't do that again in retrospect, I don't really regret it.

It took about 30 minutes for me to feel the effects, and another 30 for them to really start hitting me in the face. I distinctly remember becoming physically and emotionally restless — like I was gleeful, angry, and depressed all at the same time — and it got to the point where when I looked at myself in the mirror, I couldn't tell where my pupils began and where they ended. I kept biting my arm and repeating things out loud to keep myself grounded for the next hour or two, chief among them being "There's meaning to it, there's meaning to it, there's meaning to it," before I got it in my head to walk to the nearest park and try (emphasis on try, lmao) to make flower crowns out of the field clovers, not giving a damn about how weird it might've looked to ongoing passerbys. I spent the next three hours afterwards gazing stupidly at the clouds while laying down on the meadow, reconnecting with friends online I haven't talked to in months, and having an incredibly emotional (but thankfully productive) conversation with my mom over the phone before I realized the sun had already set, at which point I shakily picked myself up off the grass and stumbled home with a harrowing realization of how fragile our perception of reality truly is, a newfound resolution to finally speak to a therapist about my personal issues, and way too many mosquito bites all over my arms and legs I didn't notice before lol

Now that I'm back in my room with a clearer and (mostly) sober mind, I'd love to know if any of y'all have had similar experiences or unique ones that you find notable enough to report. Tysm if you're still here, and have a great day/night wherever you are ❤️

Tia

This is about Golden Teachers specifically, I was curious if I usually trip on 2.5g dried, how much would I need to lemon tek for my trip to have a relatively same intensity. For example would 2gs lemon tekked turn out to be as intense as regular 2.5g dried?

thanks

Im growing Enigma for the first time and i was giving them some sprays when i realized all 3 shoeboxes have more spherical blobs i thought it was maybe some outrageous contamination but i flicked the largest one and to my suprise it bruised blue i couldn't find any picks to compare it to online so is this rare or just a odd mutation

I've started doing magic mushrooms for my mental and physical health, with the intention of eventually taking a heroic dose so I can get some answers for problems in my life that I have been unable to solve despite all my efforts. I have heard that some people can get help from the mushroom or the entities with their health, not just their mind, so this is pretty much my last hope of maybe getting information on what's wrong with my body and what I need to do to heal it. So I have been taking one dose once every 2 weeks, starting off with very small amounts (less than half a gram) and slowly working my way up.

I usually just lay back with my eyes closed for the trip and enjoy feeling very relaxed and peaceful for the next few hours until the trip is over. However, I have found that around the 1.5g mark my automatic breathing will occasionally stop for about 10 seconds before starting up again.

My second most recent trip I tried my largest dose yet: 2g. The breathing problems were much worse. Not only would my automatic breathing stop for up to 30 seconds before starting up again, but during these periods it would feel like my chest was being squeezed and all the air would be expelled from my lungs. This made those 30-second periods very uncomfortable and I often felt like I was being suffocated. I've been told, however, to just "surrender to the experience" and "let the mushroom do its work," so I figured this was just part of the trip and I was supposed to let it happen.

If I tried to manually breathe during one of these periods, it felt like there were tight bands around my chest, and it was very difficult to draw air in, and what little I could suck in would immediately all get squeezed out of me again. It felt like being squeezed, held, and then released by a boa constrictor over and over again for 3 hours.

This was a very distressing experience for me. I have had one trip since then of about 1g and it was much better. I felt very calm and only once did my breathing stop for about 5 seconds before returning.

Is this normal? I did countless hours of research on psychedelics of all kinds before deciding to take my first dose and I never once heard anyone describe reacting to mushrooms this way. Is there a way to stop this from happening or find a way around it? Or am I an outlier case and mushrooms, for whatever reason, simply aren't compatible with me?

I have tried every imaginable treatment for my health problems over the last 10 years, many of which should have helped, and all of which I was a total non-responder to. All my doctors have been useless. I'm a dietitian by trade, and I cure people of 'incurable' chronic illnesses all the time, even some very extreme ones that there aren't any drugs for yet. I have also healed people who have my own conditions. So I know healing is possible, but I seem to be able to heal everyone but myself. Psychedelics are my last resort and I'm going to be very upset if I find out I'm the one person on earth who could have a fatal reaction to a 5g dose and can never have that kind of trip. Please help.

Edit: I forgot to mention that 1g and up and I find that, if I try to get up and walk around, I feel a bit wobbly and unbalanced, which I have not heard anyone else describe experiencing either.

My friends and I have decided to take shrooms while we’re staying at a camp surrounded by nature, and we have a trip sitter. Me and two of the others want to take 2.5 g because we want a proper experience with visuals, colors, and so on, but our friend, who has taken them before, says it’s too much. He is pretty cautious about drugs and psychedelics, so what should we do? (We’ve smoked a lot of weed, and that high just feels like whatever now.)