Missing the window by just a few hours can be the difference between dazzling golden caps and mushrooms tarnished with oily black ink from spores. To make sure you have a successful mushroom harvest that looks as good as they make you feel, we spoke to an expert to help explain when and how to harvest your magic mushrooms.
The first step to mastering the art of harvesting shrooms is knowing the precise time to pick them. With Psilocybe cubensis , the most popular and easiest type of magic mushroom to grow, you have just a few days after the pinning process to harvest. The pinning process entails creating a proper and extremely humid environment to cause little white pins to emerge from the casing. The goal is to harvest your shrooms right before the pin develops into a fruiting body, which happens in a matter of days.
By letting the magic mushrooms open up and become fully fruiting bodies, you risk having the veil break open, causing spores to be distributed over other shrooms growing in the casing. The spores have a black inky oily appearance that ends up on the surface of other caps, and ends up being sort of problematic.
Experienced growers like Potter typically prefer to follow each mushroom individually, waiting for each to reach its full potential before harvesting them. Most importantly, you should see the cap of the mushroom change from a rounded, globular shape to a more convex shape that protrudes over the stem. The color of the mushroom, which starts as a deep and dark reddish-brown color, will gradually become lighter as the cap matures and starts to change in shape.
When the convex shaped cap becomes apparent and the color starts to lighten, your shrooms are about ready to harvest. One area of the cap to keep a close eye on is the veil.
You want to see the underside of the cap start to stretch, but not fully open up into an umbonate, flattened shape. As discussed, the general rule of thumb is to start picking the shrooms once the cap is open, but before the veil has broken and released spores.
Many commercial growers utilize a mushroom knife, allowing them to cut the stem close to the surface and leave a small stump behind.
Read: How to Dry Shrooms. Put on rubber gloves that are completely sterile, eliminating any chance of contamination by bacteria or mold. You should also wash your hands with soap and water before starting.
Additionally, any tools or containers used during the harvesting process should also be sterilized prior to coming in contact with freshly picked shrooms. Place two of your fingers at the base of the mushroom, gently twisting and pulling the bottom of the stem in a counter-clockwise direction. Gently break the strands that are holding the stump in place without damaging the mycelium network below the stem. For any shorter or hard-to-reach mushrooms leftover in the bin, you can use tweezers to carefully pick them.
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Powdered psilocybin can be snorted or injected. Different species will carry different levels of psilocybin, which means that the same amount of mushrooms could have vastly diverse amounts of psychedelic ingredients, leading to very different strengths. Levels of psilocybin can also vary between strains of the same species.
As with any naturally-sourced medicine, the concentration of active ingredients can also vary between different parts of the fungi. The cap could hold more psilocybin than the stem and vice versa. This all means that measuring a dose of mushrooms is not an exact science. However, some guidelines can be followed, based on suggested amounts of dried Psilocybe Cubensis. Your mushrooms will come in two possible variants: fresh or dried.
The best way to measure a dose of mushrooms is to use a scale. Being under the effect of shrooms is a very strange new experience, which can be overwhelming at first. We recommend you begin with a low dose no more than 1. If you must eat something before your trip, try to have it be a light and easily-digestible meal like a salad or some fruit. Any kind of smoothie or juice will do the trick.
If your mushrooms are dried, just grind them as much as you can and mix them in with the drink. Shroom tea is basically a home-made psilocybin extract that can be a lot easier to digest. To make shroom tea, simply grind the dried mushrooms as fine as you can and let them sit in boiled water for about 15 minutes. After that, strain the mushroom caps and stems and drink the tea.
Feel free to add herbs and honey to the water in order to level up the flavor of your shroom tea. You can simply add your favorite tea bag or experiment by mixing shrooms with natural herbs like lavender, ginger, or chamomile. By dipping the ground mushrooms into pure lemon juice for about 15 minutes, we can help speed up this process since the citric acid present in the lemon is believed to break down psilocybin into psilocin in advance.
By chemically pre-digesting the mushrooms in a cup, they will start their effect sooner and possibly with more intensity. Those who experiment with mushrooms often talk of the notoriously dreaded bad trip.
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