Mexicana strain


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Posted by: thrice Aug 07 03, 09:56 AM GMT
Does anyone know of a vendor that sells mexicana syringes? The type that creates scerlota. Which type is it? A or b? Thanks.

Posted by: Millet Aug 07 03, 10:26 AM GMT
The Psilocybe mexiciana 'A' strain is the one that produces the largets amount of sclerotia of the three strains that are currently available.

It is available at www.sporeworks.com, www.micronmagick.com, www.sporebank.com, and www.shamanshop.com

Posted by: cerberus Aug 07 03, 11:20 AM GMT
QUOTE (thrice @ Aug 07 03, 10:56 AM GMT)
Does anyone know of a vendor that sells mexicana syringes? The type that creates scerlota.

What does sclerotia taste like? Should it be dried?

Cerberus

Posted by: Nanook Aug 07 03, 01:08 PM GMT
Tastes like shrooms... The texture is like eating raw nut meat. It can be eaten fresh or dried.

Posted by: cerberus Aug 07 03, 11:35 PM GMT
QUOTE (Nanook @ Aug 07 03, 02:08 PM GMT)
Tastes like shrooms... The texture is like eating raw nut meat. It can be eaten fresh or dried.

So you eat the sclerotia with the rye grass seed and all? Do people typically grow these strains to eat sclerotia, or is it rather used to inoculate spawn?

Cerberus

Posted by: Nanook Aug 07 03, 11:41 PM GMT
No, you brush the substrate off... The stones grow kinda like strange potatos... You dump out the substrate on a tray, and sift through it picking the stones out, brushing off any loose substrate from them. Then you wash em and give em a gentle scrub with a vegitable brush... It's simply solid growths of mycelia.

Posted by: Fungusmaximus Aug 08 03, 11:08 AM GMT

Here are some jalisco scleros.
two months at 100% colonization and about another month of being cased and fruiting. 1 quart jar of rgs.
I came up with an easy way to get all those tiny stones out of the last bits of sub.
I had a huge pile full of tiny scleros I couldnt just throw em away...

Sclerotia sink in water, everything else will float. Seeds and casing until fully saturated will both float.
So I dumped it all into a glass of water and collected the scleros off the bottom biggrin.gif
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here are the ones from the water
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and the larger stones.
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Posted by: Molester Aug 08 03, 11:41 AM GMT
Would you be able to fruit the mushrooms from a cloned stone huh.gif Or will that only produce stones?

Posted by: Nanook Aug 08 03, 12:03 PM GMT
Stone producing strains can be a little hard to fruit, but not impossible.

Cloning a stone will produce a viable culture, you can inoculate more jars, the mycelia will grow out, and you will get more stones after the culture matures smile.gif

Posted by: Molester Aug 08 03, 12:16 PM GMT
So uhhh... can I fruit mushrooms from the cloned stone? laugh.gif

Posted by: Fungusmaximus Aug 08 03, 04:30 PM GMT
yea! THey say to case stones after collection, and they will fruit.
Although Ive never done it, thats what Ive read, many times over.

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