AIO vs DIY Monotub: Purple Mystic Takes On Blue Meanie Cubes

[BeccaBuds]

I’ve got a sudden craving for pizza, tea and cow poop. Time to call a friend love your work

Thanks & welcome, @budnoob3

You won't find any cow poop on my shrooms, though there is composted cow flop in the substrate. I carefully check the bottom of every mushroom & trim off any debris stuck to it before drying them.

 

[budnoob3]

I wasn’t being accusatory, I have actually flipped cow patties in the past and have been guilty of eating shit quite literally, so glad cleaner methods have been developed for sure

 

[BeccaBuds]

No offence taken. Picking shrooms in the wild is a completely different animal, especially when looking for dung-loving species. I've seen small bugs crawling around in the gills or on the cap or stem. Ick! A good magnifier is essential!

Safer growing your own, just like weed, imho.

 

[budnoob3]

Agree 100% my concentrate is made from 100% premium bud vs larf and sugar leaf. That only goes in edibles for recreation for me…
However, a lil poop and worms haven’t killed me yet, probably the extra proteins

 

[CaptainLucky]

Agree 100% my concentrate is made from 100% premium bud vs larf and sugar leaf. That only goes in edibles for recreation for me…
However, a lil poop and worms haven’t killed me yet, probably the extra proteins

I don’t know if I ever consumed any bovine feces but tripping in cow pastures is definitely for the young. Much safer all around growing them than picking them. My days of picking them is over and if I want to eat some then I’ll grow my own. Happy Travels CL

 

[budnoob3]

I don’t know if I ever consumed any bovine feces but tripping in cow pastures is definitely for the young. Much safer all around growing them than picking them. My days of picking them is over and if I want to eat some then I’ll grow my own. Happy Travels CL

Same here, just too lazy to grow my own because a great friend is very good at growing and sharing so why add any more to my plate god forbid he gets hit by a bus and makes me have to learn and add. Never know, only the good die young and he’s a great guy so fingers crossed.

 

[BeccaBuds]

Speaking of concentrate, I wonder if anyone has tried pressing the juice out of shrooms, like a rosin press.

Maybe partially dry 'em to get thicker juice, and I bet pressure alone would work, no heat needed.

 

[budnoob3]

My buddy makes a concentrate for micro dosing that I could ask how if that’s along lines of what you want.

 

[BeccaBuds]

Please do, @budnoob3 I'd love to hear more. I know there's a way to turn the psilocybin into a water soluble salt with an acid-base ion exchange, but don't have any info on the process or method.

 

[BeccaBuds]

Another 177 grams of Blue Meanie Cubes was ripe so it's pick 'em & dry 'em. Still some more to pick tomorrow.... Running BMC total is now 525 grams.

 

[BeccaBuds]

Picked another 285 grams of Blue Meanie this morning. It took another hour but it's done and I'm calling it an all but complete 1st flush. This harvest brings the BMC total to 810 grams wet. This is way more than I got of the Purple Mystic from both AIO and monotub combined and I am surprised! Had to put them in the fridge to keep until there's room on the drying trays...
I do like the Purple Mystic though. They are larger, caps are more meaty, easier harvest. The BMC took like over 5 hours to harvest the massive yield in 4 rounds over 2 days and you have to hurry so they don't go bad. The Mystic was way more casual, lol! The BMC caps are also very delicate once opened.

 

[BeccaBuds]

1st flush has concluded in both the PM-X & BMC monotubs so I spent some time cleaning up the substrate cakes by removing the aborts and in the PM-X, the dense side-pins. Both have fully absorbed the 100mL of distilled water added to each tub. Both are on vacay for a week in the dark.
The All-In-One contributed a half dozen more shrooms and looked done. A couple of aborts had fuzzies growing on them so it's now amending my potting soil.

 

[BeccaBuds]

Looks like 2nd flush is getting started in the PM-X tub and the BMC is kinda following along behind, just a few popping up so far. Hoping for a couple good big samples of Purple Mystic to collect spore prints.

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I had planned to compost the PM AIO, but it started to sprout shrooms again. Not a big flush, looks like maybe a dozen or so.

 

[BeccaBuds]

Harvested the last dozen shrooms from the AIO. 2 of them got good sized caps so I made spore prints. The cake is looking pretty bad so I think it's day is done now.
2nd flush in the Purple Mystic-X monotub is looking to be ready to harvest very soon.

 

[BeccaBuds]

With the 20 grams or so that I harvested last night, today's haul from the Purple Mystic - X monotub came to a rolling total of 250 grams for 2nd flush. Still a few stragglers that I left to get bigger, but almost all of the 2nd flush is drying in the oven at 125F-130F for 12 hours or so.
There's one huge Blue Meanie developing, like 3 times the size of any of the 1st flush BMCs, and a few smaller shrooms in the BMC monotub. It should make a primo spore print. 2nd flush is lagging a bit in this monotub, maybe next week?

 

[CaptainLucky]

With the 20 grams or so that I harvested last night, today's haul from the Purple Mystic - X monotub came to a rolling total of 250 grams for 2nd flush. Still a few stragglers that I left to get bigger, but almost all of the 2nd flush is drying in the oven at 125F-130F for 12 hours or so.
There's one huge Blue Meanie developing, like 3 times the size of any of the 1st flush BMCs, and a few smaller shrooms in the BMC monotub. It should make a primo spore print. 2nd flush is lagging a bit in this monotub, maybe next week?

Have you tried a bigger dose of those Purple Mistic’s yet? Happy Travels CL

 

[BeccaBuds]

Have you tried a bigger dose of those Purple Mistic’s yet? Happy Travels CL

I have, CL, and it was very nice. I ate one fresh 5g PM and a number of small aborts yesterday morning while harvesting. Not a huge dose, but they always seem more potent when fresh. Just chewed them up on an empty stomach with some coffee. It was like someone turned on a light bulb inside my head. Awesome visuals of another dimension when I closed my eyes. Like lucid dreams or something. Not nearly as lethargic as the Blue Yeti made me feel.

Meanwhile, that oversized BMC continues to grow and it's veil hasn't torn yet. The cap is about 1.5" diameter now.

 

[CaptainLucky]

I have, CL, and it was very nice. I ate one fresh 5g PM and a number of small aborts yesterday morning while harvesting. Not a huge dose, but they always seem more potent when fresh. Just chewed them up on an empty stomach with some coffee. It was like someone turned on a

I really like taking them in a blacked out room with something appropriate playing on the headphones . Those vibrating fractal colors that are ever changing with the center of it feeling like you’re moving through it. Happy Travels CL