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- From: dr303@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jim I. Walker)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: different psilocybe species
- Date: 14 Jun 1994 17:43:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <2tkq7a$plr@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- Supposing one were to decide to grow shrooms, and wanted to know
- which would be the best kinds for growing, both in jars, and
- naturally in one's own area.. here's the general ideas about
- a few of the different types that I have come up with from my
- knowledge; it would be really nice if people could add on to
- this list:
-
- p. baeocystis -- the "potent" psilocybe, grows in the pacific
- northwest.. I'd guess that this would be really good to get but
- I'm not sure how easy it would be to grow. I also read that
- besides being si
- slightly hallucinogenic, it *might* be poisonnous -- but the
- author was unsure. Perhaps, though, the amount of poisonous
- chemicals would have no effect because it is so potent in
- psilocybin/psilocin that you'd need to take more than enough
- to get a strong trip before you ingested enough poison.. that's
- just a guess, though -- I really know very little about this
- kind and I'd like to see what others know.
-
- p. coprophelia -- supposedly very week as far as the psilocybes
- go, but a source I read said that it was the species that was
- the most widespread in North America. I'd assume it would be
- easy to grow.
-
- p. cubensis -- grows in many places, and its seasons are all
- year round. Perhaps it is these growing conditions that makes
- it the most common, and sold in mushroom kits more often than
- any other type (actually, the only one I know about coming
- from kits)
-
- they also grow relatively large.
-
- p. semilanceata -- "Liberty caps" I read a file from ftp.hmc.edu
- where one person's friend said that they were, out of all the
- types he had tried, his favorite variety. He also said that
- most people who tried this variety tended to have visuals of
- mushrooms..... hmm.. is this just some weird coincedince?
-
- p. montana -- this seems to grow better in less humid, cooler
- climates, in comparison to the others. But it also looked like
- it was common across the U.S. in a field guide that I read.
- "Chiefly sandy soils in woods, heaths" -- anyone know about
- the potency?
-
- Do not assume that I grow or would grow mushrooms because I
- don't take big risks -- but I just thought that people would
- be interested in what I know, and I certainly would be
- interested in more info on this because I have friends who
- are interested in growing shrooms, although they haven't grown
- any yet. I think there are a lot of people out there who
- would probably be interested in what kinds would be wild in
- their area, how to get them and grow them, how potent different
- varieties are, and how to identify the variety that they just
- bought so they kno dosages (hmm.. that's difficult because it's
- probably hard to identify dried shrooms) ...
-
- If only shrooms were legal we wouldn't have to worry about
- ingesting unkown quantities, picking poisonous shrooms, and
- getting caught... :(
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