Cubensis mushrooms for medical use

[Teetee]

It’s Jedi Mind Fuck update time…

The tub has been in the fruiting tent for two weeks. The surface of the mycelium has remained unchanged… no hyphal knots, no pins… no mushies.

On Monday I noticed a few pins forming around the sides, and by Wednesday evening, the tub looked like this…

Not much to see there at first glance, but zoom in and take a closer look and you can see mushrooms around the sides of the block on the right and at the bottom left.

Here’s a closer look at the right side…

And even closer…

The next day, Thursday morning, the mushrooms were much bigger…

And when I got home that evening, they were even bigger, and a few of the veils had opened, so I just started pulling them out.

There was much more that I expected because underneath the block in the corners, there was loads of shrooms.

Looking at that pic just above, you can see the left corner lifting up because of all the mushrooms that have grown underneath.

I was caught a bit by surprise and didn’t have my phone on me for pics, and I was worried about them going bad underneath, so I just pulled the lot immediately and laid them out on some kitchen paper towel to dry a bit.

Here’s the full crop…

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Here’s a better look at that clump of three on the top there…

Later I made a joint, and spent an hour trimming off any mycelium and substrate and tidied them up.

Here’s what I got…

And a quick weigh up…

Not bad at all… a shade over 300g!

I sliced any thicker stems in half and put them all in the food dehydrator.

Here’s the final crop, 28g Jedi Mind Fuck cracker dry…

and a closer look…

So why the side pinning???

I’ve been over fanning the tubs, making the surface of the substrate dry out.

On top of that, I haven’t been misting enough. Hyphal knots are stimulated to form when tiny droplets of water evaporate on the mycelium, and I have been drying out those droplets instead of letting nature do its thing. The gaps around the sides had a more humid microclimate, and the mushrooms grew there instead.

I’m now fanning less vigorously and for less time, and using the Flairosol water mister, so lets see if I can get the whole surface of the JMF tub to fruit for a second flush.

In other news, the Tat Wombat tub is colonising well…

and so is the Albino Trinity…

You can see the layers of dark substrate and white colonisation… they call that ‘lasagne’ in the mushroom world.

I forgot to put liners in when I made up the tubs, so that will be fun with more potential side pinning.

I’ll let you know how they go!

Cheers for tuning in and dropping out

[SAWNEY-BEAN]

my first attempt went mouldy so I tried a wee experiment, I used some mycelium grain from the bottom corner of the bag and mixed it with canna coco black tub with cling film.

It’s working first time ever trying golden teachers as a grow.

Going to make some spore syringes and go again .

[SAWNEY-BEAN]

Not bad for a rescue grow with not much mycelium in the box I hope I get a second flush, even just a few shrooms and I will be stoked

[IamPepe]

Glad they are helping for those nasty headaches. Did you try a third flush? My Puerto ricans dropped spores on the 2nd flush while I was working. I cleaned the block up the best I could while rinsing under the faucet. Mycelium grew right back and just harvested a 4th.

[IamPepe]

Nice harvest!

[Teetee]

That’s pretty wild @SAWNEY-BEAN … well done Bro!

They grew in plain coco, WITHOUT any Gypsum or manure? That’s impressive!

Have you had them yet?

[Teetee]

@IamPepe

Glad they are helping for those nasty headaches. Did you try a third flush?

I’ve still got two tubs in the fruiting tent… the original KSSS squats, and the Jedi Mind Fucks.

The KSSS tub has a few small mushies in there…

It’s such a hard strain to fruit, so I think I’ll chuck it after this 3rd flush is done. I tried turning the block upside down to see if it would fruit more, but it broke up into loads of pieces…

Yeah… so that’s that for the KSSS squats once those three wee shrooms are done.

I’ve got those tubs of Tat Wombat and Albino Trinity to go in soon anyway!

The Jedi Mind Fucks are on their 2nd flush. I didn’t soak the block after the first crop, I just misted it and left them to do their thing… minimal fanning.

On Tuesday I noticed a couple of pins down the side of the tub, and next morning on Wednesday they looked a bit bigger. I lifted up the corners of the block and saw more pins underneath.

So I decided to glove up and turn the block over. And break it as well…

Zoom in and you can see the mushies on the right side near the top…

Those are the side mushrooms that I saw the day before, now upside down. I pulled those three out and let the rest fruit up.

Here’s a closer look at the left side…

Lots of baby Jedis!

2 days later on Friday the JMF tub looked like this…

Look at how the left side has changed…

12 hours later, this morning…

here’s a closer look at the ones on the left…

and the ones on the right…

I picked the biggest ones as their veils were just breaking…

… and after tidying up…

181g fresh JMF with some lovely looking bruising.

There’s still plenty more to come in the next few days with this second flush because this is what’s still in the tub…

I think there’ll be loads more in there!

I had some of the first crop of Jedi on Thursday night, and it was really good gear.

I went to about level 2, the visuals (open and closed eyes) went on for a lot longer than normal, but it wasn’t overwhelming at all. Colours popped and music sounded fantastic.

I’m looking forward to my next dose!

[EyesOnFire-1]

Spectacular man..really nice​

[Teetee]

Thanks @EyesOnFire-1 I am really pleased!

I’ve just pulled another batch…

Another 43g on top of the 181g from this morning makes 224g for the second flush so far, and there’s still more to come!

I sliced them in half and popped them in the food dehydrator along with the rest.

Look at how they bruise after being sliced….

When I first cut them, they were pure creamy white, but 2-3 minutes later they look blue/green and then it went almost dirty grey.

[Teetee]

A few more to end a productive day…

So 67g added to the 224g already harvested from the second flush makes 291g!

We’re getting closer to the 300g mark and there’s still more in the tub!

I reckon that’s another 100g there!

The first flush was 301g, so I’m pretty chuffed about potentially smashing that with the second flush!

I am aware that you shouldn’t drag out a harvest, as that might affect the following flushes, so I will clear out the tub completely tomorrow morning and get ready for a hopeful third flush.

I’ll keep you posted!

[krug]

Quality! Gonna help a lot of folks with your project, well done!

[Teetee]

Cheers @krug for your comments, much appreciated mate!

This morning, I harvested the last of the Jedi Mind Fuckers.

And a few juicy little babies…

… which weight for weight are apparently more potent than the full grown ones.

So that’s another 96g plus the 291g from yesterday makes 387g. Don’t forget the 3 mushrooms that I initially picked from the side that were upside down when I turned the block over - around 40g - making around 427g in total!

It’s all being dried at 40°C for 22 hours, so the food dehydrator is on constantly (as advised by @jp1) and I have a list of what’s on each shelf to keep track of when to remove them.

I reckon that will give me about 42g of dried product, which isn’t too bad at all!

[JP1]

Congrats on the harvests! @Teetee Nicely done and great journal

[Kspun]

Ive been wanting to grow my own also..probably getting 3lb all in one bags and probably going to try tital wave spores out for my first try…my buddy is growing ape in all in one bags and after a few fails his bag is almost colonized!! ( slowly)

[Hobbes]

Thank you for sharing in all of this @Teetee !

[Teetee]

Thanks @JP1 I really enjoyed making this journal as it was a voyage of discovery into uncharted territory!

Growing mushrooms is very different to growing weed in terms of technique, but the highs and lows of actual cultivation are very much the same!

That’s why you should do it @Kspun… you’ll love growing them. Tidal Wave is on my shopping list, and it’s one of the parents in my upcoming tub with Albino Trinity.

I might try some all in one bags one day. They are more foolproof than the way I’ve been growing as there’s much less risk of contamination.

All in ones are also very flexible, you can just fruit them directly in the bags, or you can pour the colonised contents into a small monotub for a bigger harvest… the larger the surface area, the bigger the haul.
Personally I need to produce a fair amount more as I have to medicate twice a week, so I’ll stick with monotubs, but the all in ones might be useful for those ‘nearly empty’ syringes of mycelium rolling around in the back of my fridge.

Thank you @Hobbes for opening the Mush Room, I’m looking forward to continuing this thread and sharing the knowledge.

Finally today, here’s the full 2nd flush of Jedi Mind Fuck, cracker dry….

43g is excellent considering the first flush was 28g.

Let’s hope I can get a similar sized third flush, because these are pretty damn good

[SAWNEY-BEAN]

From what I understand how mycelium grows it was worth the shot to rescue a grow and it worked I made a spore print so I’m going to try the uncle Ben’s rice method ready to use microwave rice packs if you don’t know unk Ben lol

I microdosed the teachers and got 3 doseage capsules. Was good enough for me.

I got some penis envy from a friend in London plus fly agaric from a site here in the UK. Fly agaric are massively under rated as a medicine .

[Simply_nuggets]

Man, I wish I could enjoy mushrooms the way, so many other people seem to

Unfortunately, they are just not for me.

Every time I’ve tried them over the years I can’t get over the stomach issues associated with them

Still fascinating, watching the grow journal!

Is it weird that I still think it would be fun to grow them even without the want to consume them?

[IamPepe]

Beautiful! I thought about flipping the block to see what happens. Now I will have to try it.

[Kspun]

My belly doaent agree with the fruit either…try lemon tek or blue honey..