PF tek - Shotgun Terrarium - GT & Cambodians Cubensis

Gratz on your grow Mr. Heatless!

Here's a couple of pictures I snapped on Christmas morning. A lone cake I knocked up in late September decided to throw a second flush and the veils dropped Christmas morning. A nice gift from Mother Nature!

MASS97 said:

Heatless,

I've never attempted this, but have been READING A LOT!! I have my first shipment of spores coming from micro-supply. My question is how do you distinguish between the blueish bruising from the handling of the mycelia and potential contamination? I was a little concerned for you after looking at the pictures you posted on page 12 and 14. I hope the blue green is just bruising, maybe it's more obvious in person? Good luck!! Your mushrooms look AMAZING, BTW!!! Thanks for your input!

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it is just bruising. no contams. =]
before you handle your cakes during birth or while flushing a cake....you SHOULD wash your hands before.
and it is more obvious in person.
dont worry. only thing you gotta worry about when it comes to contam is when the jars are closed after inoculation.
and DURING.
after its colonized its easy to keep clean.

noobdestroyer said:

looks like your booms are coming out the top not the white sides? is this always? which way is up jar topside down right?

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reason is because i used a double casing layer. i put a layer of verm ontop of the cake. while the bottom layer of verm was there from birthing and incubation as the dry layer of verm. hense....double casing layer.
the white sides NEED to be covered by verm as a casing layer to make sure more mushrooms get more water and stay hydrated. i made the mistake of doing double casing layers and none at all.
ROLL YOUR CAKES COMPLETELY.

glShemp said:

Gratz on your grow Mr. Heatless!

Here's a couple of pictures I snapped on Christmas morning. A lone cake I knocked up in late September decided to throw a second flush and the veils dropped Christmas morning. A nice gift from Mother Nature!

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nonono sir!!!
merry chirstmas to you!!!!
=D
i hope you enjoyed those wonderful looking cubez.

now all i can look forward to is eating 2 grams dried of these babies and go see MiM0SA and Sound Tribe Sector 9
with some fire mdma!!!!!!!

soooo excited!!!!

HeatlessBBQ said:

it is just bruising. no contams. =]
before you handle your cakes during birth or while flushing a cake....you SHOULD wash your hands before.
and it is more obvious in person.
dont worry. only thing you gotta worry about when it comes to contam is when the jars are closed after inoculation.
and DURING.
after its colonized its easy to keep clean.

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Thanks!!! Would wearing latex/nitrile gloves help when having to handle the cakes or is it truly "bruising" like from to much pressure?

I can't wait to get started! +REP to you!!!

MASS97 said:

Thanks!!! Would wearing latex/nitrile gloves help when having to handle the cakes or is it truly "bruising" like from to much pressure?

I can't wait to get started! +REP to you!!!

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it would help.
but if you dont have gloves, a good hand wash and sanitizers gel is enough to keep it clean.
=]

if anyone is stressing over your cakes turning blue.....DONT.
its fine haha

however, the longer you keep it white as possible the more times you can flush you cake

and like i said and will keep saying....its easy!
hardest part of keeping things clean is inoculation of the jars.
once you have good, clean, solid, WHITE growth in the jars. DO NOT OPEN LIDS UNTIL FULLY COLONIZED (this will lead to contam for sure)
once its growing and not disturbed, the cake is less prone to contaminants.
WHITE IS ONLY WHAT YOU WANT.

and good luck to you on starting.
EVERYBODY!!!!!
please read this whole thread from start to finish and all of your questions will be answered.

if you have an additional info about the PF tek method. please post and I and others will answer the best we can.

much love.
-BBQ

today is a beautiful day.
had an amazing chirstmas....

the weather today may be perfect conditions to get silly off of a gram of some closed caps

=D

yea snowing where im at. and picked/harvested a few guys yesterday. i put them in some brown paper bags, opend in front of a room heater thing wit a fan on the other side blowin on low. thry r pretty dry,havent checked if they r "craker dry" but im thinkin of eat a lil bit...i guess a gram like heatless said. im not lookin for full blown trip just nice lil trip,with some bud

and growin is pretty easy, as stated..just follow directions/how to's/videos'.....not difficult at all.

fresh but dried mushrooms are killer still none the less.
but im telling ya...
eating them freshly picked literally DOES give a different effect.
the effects are exactly the same as they would be dried but there is a little more too it, you see...

all i can say is that its a more colorful, potent, concrete trip. i could relate it to an LSD trip because of everything looking more flashy and colorful.and my mind seems to be more controlled and less intense thought patterns. which means i can enjoy my trip a lot easier.

but maybe this is what a more potent shroom trip really is like?

i have purchased quite a few batches of cubensis from the black market in the past... 2.5 grams barley did anything...
i believe that these boomers that i purchased were very old and stored for a long time and didnt have much magic left...

this is why fresh are the best. =]

obviously

Beautiful day here too man. I had to work Christmas so today is a Shroom holiday.

I'm celebrating today with 1.7 grams of potent dried Sacred Mushroom. I have a musical evening planed and I think that's about the most I can take and not be impaired too much to play a musical instrument well. I cut the sacrament with scissors into the smallest pieces I can and them wash them down with water followed by bites of peanut butter and honey on bread. I know, I should just chew them up. But I get a bit of nausea that way. The peanut butter definitely settles the stomach.

Since this thread has clearly achieved epic status, I hope the OP, Mr. Heatless doesn't mind me sticking this in here I pilfered from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_and_setting

Set and setting describes the context for psychoactive and particularly psychedelic drug experiences: one's mindset and the setting in which the user has the experience. This is especially relevant for psychedelic or hallucinogenic experiences; the term was coined by Timothy Leary.
The set is the mental state a person brings to the experience, like thoughts, mood or expectations. The setting refers to the physical or social environment. Social support networks have shown to be particularly important in the outcome of the psychedelic experience [1]. They are able to control or guide the course of the experience, both consciously and subconsciously. Stress, fear, or a disagreeable environment, may result in an unpleasant experience (bad trip). Conversely, a relaxed, curious person in a warm, comfortable and safe place is more likely to have a pleasant experience.

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And from Timothy Leary's book The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead:

Of course, the drug dose does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures. The nature of the experience depends almost entirely on set and setting. Set denotes the preparation of the individual, including his personality structure and his mood at the time. Setting is physical — the weather, the room's atmosphere; social — feelings of persons present towards one another; and cultural — prevailing views as to what is real. It is for this reason that manuals or guide-books are necessary. Their purpose is to enable a person to understand the new realities of the expanded consciousness, to serve as road maps for new interior territories which modern science has made accessible

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Haha, I guess great minds think alike. I ate about 15-20g fresh yesterday afternoon just to test the waters. I couldn't in good conscience give any to my friends before testing them out myself. It's been awhile since I ate boomers and they were always crap, so I figured the 15-20g fresh range would be a good jumping off point. The experience was pretty mild, but pleasant. They actually tasted pretty good. Then again I love the taste of mushrooms in general. Sort of like a slightly woody baby portabella. The best part was, other than the fact I grew them myself, was that there was very little of that classic nausea associated with eating mushrooms. Not much of a "hangover" either. I guess at that dose, there really shouldn't be though.

i never get hangovers with mushrooms.

once you get into mdma or kitty....hangovers are nothing compared to those too...sometimes.
i dont even wanna know what a hangover is like after a meth or coke binge.

Ah yeah heatless... Looks great! Proof that if you can follow directions, you can have a good havest! Way to go brotha! Let's get a trip report

so i ate a gram on sunday, and then 1.5grams,monday...and nothing. i did smoke a bowl or two while...waiting for the effects,but nothing. they were like a day or two old, i grew'em my self. They had shrunken and gotten dried out,not cracker dry. I thought, ok fresh are suppose to be potent, soo let me do a little. nada, maybe a slight body high. but honestly nada......i guess i need to consume more,right??

also,how r u guys/gals dring ur harvest?

I bet you still had a bit of water weight to the shrooms you ate. So a gram or 1.5 grams was likely not enough. If they were cracker dry you would have noticed something.

Senor SmokeAlot said:

so i ate a gram on sunday, and then 1.5grams,monday...and nothing. i did smoke a bowl or two while...waiting for the effects,but nothing. they were like a day or two old, i grew'em my self. They had shrunken and gotten dried out,not cracker dry. I thought, ok fresh are suppose to be potent, soo let me do a little. nada, maybe a slight body high. but honestly nada......i guess i need to consume more,right??

also,how r u guys/gals dring ur harvest?

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dankillerbs said:

Ah yeah heatless... Looks great! Proof that if you can follow directions, you can have a good havest! Way to go brotha! Let's get a trip report

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i couldnt have done it without you brother...for real.
you know it.
i know it.
anyone who reads these/this thread knows it.
+rep

ill getcha that trip report as soon as i can

Senor SmokeAlot said:

so i ate a gram on sunday, and then 1.5grams,monday...and nothing. i did smoke a bowl or two while...waiting for the effects,but nothing. they were like a day or two old, i grew'em my self. They had shrunken and gotten dried out,not cracker dry. I thought, ok fresh are suppose to be potent, soo let me do a little. nada, maybe a slight body high. but honestly nada......i guess i need to consume more,right??

also,how r u guys/gals dring ur harvest?

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hmmmm....dude.
my buddy has a tolerance that sounds just like yours.

i still havnt figured out a good dose for him.

try eating 20-25 grams fresh and see how that does it for ya

1.5 normally wouldn't give me anything but some gentle wall breathing....

my first 2 times ever tring shrooms, i ate a lil more then 1.5 and boy did i see/feel it. that was like 3yrs ago and i've only done them like 4 time afterthat...well for my next trick,hahaha, ill take 2-2.5 for new yrs,maybe a lil before midnight.

drink a bunch of grapefruit or orange juice while and after eating them!!!!

itll kick those fuckers in fa sho!

sorry its been so long since update...

here are some random pictures i have taken a week or two ago.

busy holiday season this year for sure!!!!!
but was it a fun one...---------

fyi....the 4th image is the amount i got off of 2 GT cakes.
i believe it was the 2nd flush of both cakes.

i am into the 3-4 flushes on the golden teachers.
everything is looking good still.
no contams.

i only had 3 successful cambodians make it and are on their first flush.

i am ordering more syringes in the next few days.


rolling your cakes each time you dunk them helps a lot and will assure more flushes it seems.
but i dont know when you should stop flushing your cakes...

how do you know when a cake is completely spent?

how do you know when a cake is completely spent?

It contaminates eventually. Typically under ideal conditions it will produce over 80% of it's weight in the first 3 flushes so many just toss it out after that... It's more productive to have more cakes ready to go after your previous cakes flush 3 times... That way you get more weight and you don't have to deal with mold spores from projects eventually contaminating.