Disclaimer: What are Your Intentions For Growing?
Do You Need To Grind Up Your Mushrooms?
Nope, you don't have to.
Especially if you are giving the mushrooms to a friend. It might be nice for them to see that they truly were mushrooms before they pulverize them as well.
Mushrooms that are dried and whole keep the same potency as those that are ground up. How you store them is a personal preference from what I have studied about this. I know lots of people have different opinions on this.
I've stored my mushrooms for a year, ground up, inside an airtight glass jar, with desiccant pouches to keep out any extra moisture. I have not seen any decrease in potency.
Secondly, do you seriously want to eat that desiccated cardboard-like mushroom? Ummmm... I'll pass!
Put the powder in a capsule. Put the powder in chocolate.
Put the powder in a small cup cover with lemon juice. This is called lemon tek. Let the mushrooms sit for 20 minutes. The lemon juice will buy into more phosphates, allowing more psilocybin to turn into psilocin (bottom line is that it makes the mushrooms stronger). Additionally the lemon tek supposedly starts to digest the mushroom and help decrease chances of it causing nausea.
I use lemon tek every time I have a psilocybin ceremony.
Thirdly, and I believe this is actually the most important part - you want to make your dosage consistent. You want to grind up your mushrooms, and mix everything together, to make the dosage of psilocybin consistent.
Not all mushrooms stems have the same amount of medicine, and not all caps have the same amount of medicine. Even if the same mushrooms are literally growing together, the two mushrooms will have differing amounts of psilocybin.
So the best way to get a consistent dose is to grind up all the mushrooms you have of one type (please don't mix different strains if you can help it), and then mix the mushroom powder very well.
How Do You Grind Your Mushrooms Into Powder?
To grind them up, I personally use a mortar and pestle. Let me explain.
When I ground up my first mushrooms, I had read in several places that they used a coffee grinder. I bought a nice coffee grinder that I was going to use specifically and only for psilocybin mushrooms.
The coffee grinder had great reviews. Lots of people said they used it to grind up spices as well. I thought this was going to go smoothly.
Goodness was I wrong.
I put the mushrooms in the little hamper thing where you usually put coffee beans. The mushrooms were too light to go down! So I had to unplug the grinder, and use a butter knife to jam the mushrooms down the thing. I was shocked how long it all took!
After I got enough of the mushrooms down the gullet of the grinder, suddenly a HUGE poof of mushroom powder went EVERYWHERE!!!
It
was leaking precious mushroom powder out all the crevices of this
thing! I couldn't believe it! So much of this poofed out into the air,
landing on me, my clothes, the counter, the coffee grinder...
everything!
The first time I used it, I put in 14 dried grams through the grinder and came out with only 12 grams. I was shocked that I had lost only 2 grams.
Enter mortar and pestle....
So read up on these babies, because you want a good one, and you want to make sure you season it right.
It's so simple! And easy!!
Put the mushrooms in the mortar. Load it up all the way! Those mushrooms grind down very easily and very quickly.
Use the pestle to start making the mushrooms into powder. It's quick and easy work.
This way, there is no mushroom powder on everything in the room! It's quick, easy, and mush more efficient and clean. Plus, there is not a huge loss of mushrooms.
Making 00 Capsules
So personally, I really love to use capsules. They are easy to swallow, I don't have to taste anything that I don't want to taste.
I'm not going to go into making capsules here. You can find out how to do that all over the internet.
When you are making capsules for psilocybin mushrooms, you can't make a bunch all at the same time. For instance, I have a capsule maker that allows me to make 50 capsules at the same time... mass producing them. You can't do that with psilocybin mushroom capsules.
You have to be precise in your measurements. You have to weight it out. I've linked below to all the stuff that I bought off Amazon. It does help me out if you are able to purchase these things from the links below.
Get a capsule filling kit. You are going to need to do this by hand, one at a time. This is the kit that I bought and really like.
Get a scale that can read up to 0.000 grams. I got this one from Amazon.
I only have experience with using 00 size capsules and wanted to share what I know about that. These are the capsules I get from amazon.
You can easily fit 0.1 - 0.25 grams into one capsule. 0.3 is really pushing the limits on the size of these capsules.
When I stuffed, and stuffed and stuffed, the most I could get into one capsule was about 0.34 grams. I was hoping for 0.5 grams, but I couldn't ever get close at all.
There are obviously capsules that are larger. But size 00 capsules are pretty large already. I recommend just making 0.25 grams per capsule. It makes it easy to get to the right macro dose.
If you are microdosing, you can easily do a 0.05-0.3 grams per capsule.
After you make your capsules, be sure to label the bottle or bag you store them in.
I will get different colored capsules for different dosages, so I don't ever mix them up on accident.
If you have questions about what your dose is, this is a good place to start to understand what your goals are, and how to find your dose.
What's My Dose? Dosing Chart for Psilocybin Mushrooms (Magic Mushrooms)
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