finding magic mushrooms

If you got some fresh caps and made a print with one of them, it would be good to use, yes?

The Mushroom Man

 

Yeah, but if you're picking the caps, you still might need agar. I'm not 100% sure of the process of printing wild mushrooms, but I'd imagine that it'd be very easily contaminated.

If you're printing homegrown mushrooms, it's simple as hell. All the info you'll need to do it is on shroomery.org.

 

if you clean a wild mushroom cap up before printing they usually go alright, though some culture purification may be necessary it may be worth it if the culture is worthy of capture, if you have freshies you can do sterile tissue transfers which kick off faster and cleaner than spore germinations.
If you're picking wild shroomies it's way easier to just dig up the patch and put it in your garden with more mushroom food.
agar is easily made from junk from a healthfood store very cheap.

 

And more rhizomorphic, too! I forgot about tissue transfers. Would it be the same as doing it with homegrown, or would you need extra precautions to prevent contamination? I'd imagine it'd be fairly sterile since it comes from the inside of the stem, but what about spores that might be on the outside of the mushroom? Or does that not really happen?

 

cut the extra dirty parts off, peel it, then wash it down with a peroxide solution, put it aside and re-sanitize my workspace, then split the stem and tear it apart down the length, try to make as little cuts as possible as the scalpel can drag contaminants around. it's best to take your cuttings from the base of the stem, but if you are picking your fungus off of cow patties you are gonna want to target the flesh right where the top of the stem meets the cap.

 

Well, isn't that neat. I guess the only extra step is to wash it with peroxide.

 

pretty much, depends on the fungus also, if you have cyans you can just layer stem butts and damp cardboard without any sterile technique.

 

Are you talking about panaeolus cyanescens or psilocybe cyanenscens? Either way, I'd imagine it would only work outdoors.

 

Psilocybe Cyanescens, they kick ass. They dont fair well inside, saw some unpublished pics in stamet's shroom photo album of lab grown cyans that were fucked up.