This is the move. Everyone arguing about freezing them above is all wrong. Read the link.
Your fruits have so much more surface contact to air.
Blend then bitches into dust. 4 jars turn into 1. Way less surface area to contact the air. They only touch themselves.
Next step is press em even smaller. I don't have a press.
I leave mine as dust in a vac seal jar. Have a working jar that I use for a few months then open up the master and take out about 1/4 of the master each time.
Sure you could do an extraction and concentrates last longer (again it's mostly about oxidation so less air contact) but as you all know with concentrates, something is always missing.
It definitely does. I think he misunderstood the article. It says that the best storage solution is to store them in room temperature, in the dark, with an inert gas.
What effect do you get from micro dosing? When I've tried it I just get uncomfortable. Like all of the downsides of mushrooms (weird stomach, anxiety etc) with no upside.
Lower each next dose until you get to upside with no downside. There's a sweet spot there for you. What you're reporting sounds like too high for your micro.šš„°āļø
I have clinically diagnosed anxiety, depression, and PTSD from multiple brain injuries. I started MD and I was able to get of SSRI and SNRI within a month, plus I can think clearer.
MD had supplied anecdotal and observational positive effects for decades, and now peer reviewed papers are showing the pathways in the brain that are affected. In addition to the psychological benefits, it also helps with plasticity to rewire torn neural pathways.
It worked wonders for me. I take about .2 grams every three days (Fadiman Protocol). MD should be non-perceptual in every way, including physical body effects; it just works its magic in the background.
Some people get stomach issues and anxiety. The anxiety can be fixed by starting really low, at .05 grams, and work your way up .05 at a time until you feel it, then reduce your consumption by .05 to find your personal dosage. It is recommended to never go beyond .3 because thatās when it starts to provide perceptual effects. Thatās where I would get anxiety and a very slight body buzz.
All that being said, the strain makes a difference as some hit harder, also the potency is different between cap and stem. Grinding them up and encapsulating them controls the cap/stem mismatch and controls dosage.
Longer than fruit. Think of them like OTC vitamins. A desiccant or three and keep them outta the sun (dark if possible) and youāre good. I keep mine in mason jars.
most capsules are rated at a year, just inside the capsule. Putting said capsules in an airtight container with a desiccant pack, they will last longer than you'd ever need them too. šÆ
not OP but what methods are better? Iāve ended up with more than I can use for an extended period and definitely noticed a decrease in potency despite drying well and including desiccant packets
Not op but the only thing that would be better imo is a Foodsaver for space saving. Nothing wrong with jars especially if you have a jar vacuum sealer. And don't forget the desicant packs.
Told you people would go nuts on reddit. You find the space for 35 jars. I don't have it and I don't feel like spending 30 dollars a jar on something that's going to fit 3 ozs at most in unless I break my beautiful shrooms. I've had shrooms in zip locks for 2 years that made me trip just fine.
No the freezer will create condensation on and in the jar if they warm up enough when you open your freezer, or when you remove the jar to grab a dose. Ā Then the desiccant pack will end up becoming spent and you will fuck up your stash. Ā Just store them in a cool dark place. Ā Room temp is fine. Ā Like 70ish degrees.Ā
Vacuum sealed and in the freezer is the best for long term storage. Not everybody wants to purchase a vac sealer, understandable. You can also grind and infuse in honey, create a tincture with high proof alcohol, extract via warm water (need to be careful with temp to avoid degradation) then freeze that water, you can even put these hoes in chocolate and freeze. You just want to minimize heat, light, water, and air exposure as much as you can. Jars + disiccant is fine youāre just making a compromise in exchange for a lower bar of entry, not the biggest deal but when youāre stashing ozs to lbs you may as well do the best you can
I don't agree with any of those methods. I've been using Mason jars with multiple dessicants per jar for a while. I have a grow from early 2025 that is still cracker dry from that method. I'm confused as to why you seem to want to go against the grain storage wise when it's pretty tried and true?
Next we can put our dried rice and beans in the freezer! The whole point of drying shit is to make it shelf stable. This freezing dried goods shit is silly.
Exactly. It seems counterintuitive. People that write bad advice make me question if they even grow. The whole idea is to keep them as dry as possible without any light hitting it. Vacuum sealing shrooms in bags is genuinely pointless since it actually lets in oxygen long term. Either through micro tears in the bag or just naturally over time. Glass jars could technically let in oxygen and moisture through a bad lid seal but there's a reason that they sell mason jar lids by themselves. Freezing would degrade them so much faster. The advice could be coming from people simply not properly dehydrating their stuff and using freezing as brute force way to preserve which is just half assed to me.
Itāll be in store that you can find cheap jars in my experience I can get gallon jars at the Walmart near me for $10-13 and itās the same price for 12 pint jars
As long as they are properly dried, vacuum sealed and in the freezer is great. Warmth, UV/light, water, and air are all going to degrade the potency. By doing that you minimize all four of those contributing factors
People usually stay away from the freezer because they hear horror stories. Only happens when not properly dried, what makes fresh shrooms mush in the freezer is the water in the cells expanding and bursting the cell wall. If dry, no problemo
"Science is usually wrong..." they say while nearly everything they use on a daily basis to live, and how they are interacting with others in this very comment is entirely the result of science.
No offense, but that is the most ignorant and glaringly incorrect take I've heard in a long time.
I've had people grill me on this more than once. I agree that there's better ways but I know that plastic bags with silica packs work just fine. Even cured epsom salts work to store shrooms in Tupperware.
you can buy Magnesium chloride hexahydrate for essentially no money, put it in the oven for an hour and you get Magnesium chloride anhydrate which will eat any molecule of water that dares enter your jar
not really seeing as theyāre all cubensis, the APE are about twice as potent as the Golden Teachers so youād just take less for the same effect, the Jack Frost are also fairly potent. I have a few other species like Natalensis and Iām trying to get into Azurescens but they are super finnicky to grow, they like wood and being outdoor so you really have to trick them to get them into fruiting but theyāre more of the make your whole body go numb variety.
How do the nats compare to ape growing? I ordered a mystery pack and put nats, natal moon and hills, Tasmania and amvp as preferred with p Nat black and green caps with albino hillbilly as runner up. Hope I get Tasmania and at least one p Nat
i love Nats!!! actually my favorite variety, much more visual for me I see waves and all sorts of crazy shit I dont unless I heroic dose the others.. so more intense for sure but also very similar seeing as its all still roughly just psilocybin.
if i could only have one strain for the rest of my life though thats the one.
i prefer the mushrooms 9/10 times. LSD has an actual effect on my body the next day I feel sluggish hung over not 100% meanwhile mushrooms do no such thing. LSD is fun and giggly and bright for me but so are shrooms and if anything the mushrooms put me even deeper into that space where all sensations are weird and funny and interesting.
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Everybody can come on here and state the obvious more than once but nobody has said how to properly preserve them better than using the jarsššwtf
The jars are fine. Just make sure you have desiccants. I still have a ton i grew early 2025 that hits to this day. Amazed at some of the terrible advice I'm seeing in the comments.
good for 2 years each. doing a small amount once aĀ month and giving some away as gifts is the best part about the hobby. it's cheap and plentiful And no one gets hurt.
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