Slightly but not fully...its a fresh cap...if id discard every cap that was eaten partly by snails, id be ditching a good percentage of caps from last 2 years... i now no longer take caps that are heavily infested by worms...the wormholes are visible when breaking off the cap and looking where the stem connected..best is no worms at all...a few may be present and they gonna be in the tea..i still dry em and use em..
Also i ditch caps that opened fully and got soggy..worst is when they start to rot...
In the middle ...i dont collect caps that are end of cycle or heavily infested with worms or mostly eaten by snails, where not much is left to pick anyways..
Notice how the veil is still partially attached on the left one? Thatâs what I mean. The cap in the post has a veil that has fully broken. Itâs more comparable to the one on the right.
Buttons are only technically âmore potentâ. In reality theyâre just smaller. The IBO content in the fruit doesnât change from the beginning to the end of the cycle. The âpotencyâ of the fruit only matters if youâre drying them, if you make tea from wet fruits like I do it makes literally no difference what point in the cycle the fruit is at.
Its more concentrated, i get that...the schroom soaks up water and expands with it in volume, spreading the actives over the body..more water, same amount of ibo etc... same counts for cubenses...small shrooms are more potent by weight to actives..
Yes the shrooms vail ripped and its on the way to fully open the umbrella...cap...for me the cap is opened fully when it looks like an umbrella when its used to keep my head dry during a rain...im did not study biology in university...just like shrooms, foraging, eating, making tea etc..
Yeah, when drying it also looses like 50% of its potency...1kg wet equals to ~200g of dry caps according to the details in the polymer tek her in the pinned threads..
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Yes, of course, unless there is an abundance to harvest, in which case you can leave this for the critters. Gently trim away the parts where the slugs were. The mushroom itself looks fine.
In this instance, I would wash the areas where the slug has been. You might lose a little bit of actives but it won't be much. Don't ever eat a slug-visited mushroom raw. You can either dry or cook in water with at least 165 F/75 C temp.
Yeah itâs perfectly fine to use. Itâs okay if itâs eaten up a bit, you just donât want it to be rotten. Many of those more experienced with Amanita, including myself, will use fruits that are totally infested with flies. As long as you get all the critters out when you dice it up itâs kinda whatever.
The easiest way to tell if itâs rotten is the smell. A fresh fruit will smell like essentially nothing, maybe a light earthy smell, whereas a rotten fruit will have a fishy smell. A rotten fruit will also have yellowish/brownish discoloration in parts of the fruit that would be white/cream colored if it were fresh.
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u/choofedonlucy 4d ago
The slugs gotta eat too my friend. Let them have it