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Hello Mushroom Growers and Amateur Mycologists

If you are interested in growing magic mushrooms (if legal where you live) or are simply a microscopy enthusiast you probably know that psilocybe cubensis spore syringes can be expensive...

Fortunately there are a few projects that do some great work on this area, Free Spore Ring Earth is a non-profit organization that sends you prints for free!



Well, not exactly for free, it costs 2€ for shipping costs

Magic Mushroom Hunter - A guide to hunt liberty caps

So i found this guide/documentary that shows you how to find and identify the magic mushrooms in the UK (and Europe in general i suppose) by observing conditions,landscape and the local wildlife. Depending on where you live it may be usefull to you.

Using Mushrooms as Tryptamine Synth-Machines

There is a very interesting study that took place in Leipzig about 15 years ago. Jochen Gartz, a mushroom explorer, has done some fascinating studies with Psilocybe species by raising them on solid media containing strange tryptamines that are alien to the mushroom.

Apparently the enzymes that are responsible for the 4-hydroxy group of psilocin are indifferent to what it is they choose to 4-hydroxylate. He has taken things like DPT or DIPT and put them in the growth media and the fruiting bodies that came out contain 4-hydroxy-DPT or 4-hydroxy-DIPT instead of psilocin. In fact, he has a patent on the process. These active compounds are made by the mushroom so they really are natural and yet they never have been observed in nature. I'll give you even odds that if you put spores of a psilocybe species on cow droppings loaded with 5-MeO-DMT you would come out with mushrooms containing 4,5-HO-MeO-DMT.

But what kind of tryptamines can you shroom-synth?