ps from going in the four holes in the lid while the jar is being sterilized. If you poked your holes in the lid such that the sharp edges are pointing up, be careful not to rip or puncture the tin foil. If you need to, you can add a second or even a third piece of tin foil to make sure water will not drip into the holes in the lid. Step 8: Now the culture jars need to be sterilized. Place the jars in a large kitchen pot and add water so that water comes half way up the side of the jars. Bring the water to a slow boil and place the lid on the pot. From the time the water starts to boil, the jars need 1 hour to be (4 of 29) 5/1/2002 6:54:17 PM] How To Grow Magic Mushrooms The Magic Mushroom Growers Guide (page 2) sterilized. Water should not be bubbling and splashing all over the place. The jars should not be floating around in the water. The substrate in the culture jars has the right amount of water in it already. You do not want water leaking into the jars and changing the ratio. The jars should not sit flat on the bottom of the pan. Too much heat can transfer directly to the jars and cause a loss of moisture. You can place a wash cloth inside the pan and set the jars directly on the wash cloth to help prevent too much heat from transferring to the jars. Step 9: Let the jars cool slowly. Leave them covered in the pan that was used to sterilize them. Let them cool completely. The jars need to be at or close to room temperature in order to inoculate. The spores will be killed if the jars are not cool enough when they are inoculated. It will take several hours to cool sufficiently. You may hear sounds as the jars cool. This is normal. Step 10: Now comes the good part. Inoculation of the culture jars. Assuming you have a viable, sterile spore syringe, you are now in a position to inoculate the cultures and start the first phase of the growing cycle. The needle of the spore syringe must be sterile. If your fingers or anything other than the lid or contents of the culture jars comes in contact with it, assume it is no longer sterile. If there is any doubt about its condition, use a cigarette lighter to heat the entire needle. Heat it until it glows red. Let it cool for a few minutes and squirt some of the solution out of the syringe. Shake the syringe. Make sure the spores are mixed well within the syringe. This can be accomplished more easily if you pull the plunger back on the syringe to get a little air into the syringe. Remove the tin foil from each culture jar as you prepare to inoculate it. Insert the needle of the syringe as far as it will go into a hole in the lid of the culture jar and get the needle to press against the glass. Examine the next figure for a simple diagram of how things should look. Inject 1/4 cc of solution at a site under each hole in the lid. Adaptation-4 A total of 1 cc of solution for each jar. Adaptation-5 (5 of 29) 5/1/2002 6:54:17 PM] How To Grow Magic Mushrooms The to accomplish. Back to Method 3 of Terrarium Construction. table of contents. Adaptation-20: Providing a Moisture Reservoir in the Substrate A reservoir for moisture can be built into the cake while packing the jars with substrate material. Start with an empty jar and tamp 1/4 inch of substrate material in the bottom. Next, position a magic marker or some other object with a cylindrical shape and a diameter of about 3/4 inch in the center of the jar. Fill the jar as normal. Next, remove the object and fill the bore with damp vermiculite. Lastly, pack 1/4 inch of substrate material over the entire jar, sealing the damp vermiculite inside the cake. The damp vermiculite can be mixed separately from the substrate material. Use about 1 cup of vermiculite and 1/3 cup of water. This should produce enough damp vermiculite for a dozen 1/2 pint culture jars. After the cake has fruited, occasionally inject water into this reservoir. The easiest place to inject is the position of the cake that used to be at the center of the bottom of the jar. Just insert a syringe filled with sterile water and inject water until it is full. In case you are wondering, the substrate material can't be injected with water directly. The rice flour and vermiculite form a very tight seal and it is next to impossible to inject water. Even if you do (30 of 39) 5/1/2002 6:54:26 PM] How To Grow Magic Mushrooms The Magic Mushroom Growers Guide (page 4) manage to inject water, it doesn't spread through the cake. Having this reservoir filled with damp vermiculite gives the mycelium network access to a lot of moisture. The easiest way we have found to implement this adaptation is to cut the bottom off of a 10 cc syringe and press the bottom of the syringe into the wet vermiculite several times. This will load the syringe with wet vermiculite. Then place the syringe in the culture jar and pack the substrate around it. Use the syringe's plunger to hold the wet vermiculite stationary while you remove the syringe. Tamp an additional 1/4 inch of substrate material over the entire surface of the jar. Advantage: This adaptation will dramatically extend the longevity of the cake. The cake's yield are normally limited by the amount of moisture in the cake. This procedure allows you to replace moisture as it is consumed by mushroom growth. In general, you will double the total output of the cake compared to not implementing this adaptation. Disadvantages: It is a little bit of extra work to prepare the jars this way. Also, there is a need to be careful to use sterile water when injecting moisture during the growing phase. There is no way to check for contamination introduced inside the cake by injecting water. Back to preparation and colonization table of contents. Adaptation-21: Use of a Timer to Control Suspended Water Droplets and Stimulate Fruiting The ultra sonic humidifier can be placed on a timer to control the amount of suspended water nt a bunch of thallium around the house about like you want to be kicked in the teeth with a heavy pair of boots. A further bad aspect of this method is its high cost. 100 grams sell for $150, and the high molecular weight of the compound means that a lot of it has to be used to get a moderate amount of product. One pound of thallium(ni) nitrate is required for a 1-molar batch. This method can be found in Tetrahedron Letters No. 60, pages 5275-80 (1970). To produce a one mole batch, dissolve one mole of propenylbenzene in some methanol, and put it into a one-gallon glass jug. In a beaker, dissolve one mole (448 grams) of thallium(HI) nitrate trihydrate in methanol. Then pour the thallium solution into the jug with the propenylbenzene, and stir at room temperature for 5 minutes. The thallium(I) nitrate formed by the reaction comes out of solution. It is removed by filtration. The propenylbenzene has at this point been converted to a ketal. This is hydrolyzed to the phenylacetone by shaking the filtrate with about 2000 ml of 1 molar sulfuric acid solution in water for about 5 minutes. The phenylacetone is then extracted out with a couple of portions of tolulene. This extract is then washed with 5% NaOH solution, then distilled or purified by conversion to the bisulfite addition product. 12 Studies On The Production OfTMA-2 93 Production of TMA-2, MDA, etc. from the Corresponding Phenylacetone There are three good methods for converting the phenylacetone to the psychedelic amphetamine. Choice number one is to use reductive amination with a hydrogenation bomb with Raney nickel, ammonia and alcohol solvent. See Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 70, pages 12811-12 (1948). Also see Chem. Abstracts from 1954, column 2097. This gives a yield of about 80% if plenty of Raney nickel is used. The preferred conditions for use with MDA is a temperature of 80 C, and a hydrogen pressure of 50 atmospheres. The drawback to this method is the need for a shaker device for the bomb, and also a heater. The use of platinum as the catalyst in the bomb works great when making MDMA, but gives lousy results when making MDA. There may be a way around this, however, for serious experimenters. It has been found in experiments with phenylacetone that a mixture of ammonia and ammonium chloride produces good yields of amphetamine (50%) when used in a bomb with platinum catalyst. Methylenedioxyphenylacetone is quite likely to behave similarly, along with other phenylacetones. To use this variation, the following materials are placed in the 1.5 liter champagne bottle hydrogenation device described in Chapter 11 of Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture, Third Edition: .5 gram platinum in 20 ml distilled water. If this platinum is in the form of PtO2 instead of reduced platinum metal catalyst obtained with borohydride, the experimenter must now reduce the platinum by pressurizing the bottle with hydrogen and stirring fo
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and let the rice cakes slowly shift through the
fruiting temperature range. Note that everything else must be right.
The rice cake must have a fully developed mycelium network and
there must be light. The Ice-Pak should be placed between 1/4 and 1/2
inch from the rice cakes. A flat Ice-Pak will work, but if you have the
option, get one that is designed to slip into the center of a six-pak. It
will have circular indents molded into each side and it will conform to
the shape of the rice cakes better. If everything was ready, you should
see pin heads develop 3 or 4 days after you perform this adaptation. If
you don't see any develop after 3 or 4 days, you can repeat this
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operation again. The networks may not have been developed full
enough and the few days since the last attempt may have been enough
time to change this fact.
Advantage:
You can still initiate prolific flushes with the terrarium above the
normal temperature range. The optimum temperature for growing
mushrooms is higher than what is necessary to initiate new
mushrooms and is between 80 and 90 degrees F. This adaptation can
let the cultivator grow at the maximum rate, and still produce new
mushrooms on the cakes.
Disadvantages:
The Ice-Pak will lower the humidity in the terrarium. Mostly, this is
an issue when you have mushrooms on cakes that are part way
through the growing cycle and not ready to harvest. They will usually
survive the bad growing conditions for the six hours it takes the Ice-
Pak to initiate fruiting, but they will suffer for it. You need to have an
ultra sonic humidifier setup on your terrarium.
Nothing else will be
able to keep the humidity high enough. You can turn the humidity
control up a little, but you will have to continue to adjust it down as
the Ice-Pak loses its cool. If too much moisture forms on the cakes, it
will prevent the initiation of pin heads and that was the whole purpose
of this operation.
Back to the Growing Cycle.
table of contents.
Adaptation-17: Adding Moisture to the Rice Cake.
After a cake has produced several mushrooms you can add moisture
to it. Flame sterilize a 3/16 inch drill bit. Let it cool. Use it to drill a
hole at the center of the cake. You can do this by hand. You do not
need a drill. Do not go all the way through the cake, but drill a deep
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reservoir into the cake. Cut a plastic straw to 4 inches in length. Insert
the straw 1/2 inch into the hole. The straw should fit tightly in the
cake. Straws from McDonalds are larger than most and work well.
They seal well and hold more water. Fill the straw with water daily. A
10 cc. syringe works well to fill the straws with water. You should
wait to drill the hole until the cake has produced some mushrooms
because the inside of the rice and let the rice cakes slowly shift through the
fruiting temperature range. Note that everything else must be right.
The rice cake must have a fully developed mycelium network and
there must be light. The Ice-Pak should be placed between 1/4 and 1/2
inch from the rice cakes. A flat Ice-Pak will work, but if you have the
option, get one that is designed to slip into the center of a six-pak. It
will have circular indents molded into each side and it will conform to
the shape of the rice cakes better. If everything was ready, you should
see pin heads develop 3 or 4 days after you perform this adaptation. If
you don't see any develop after 3 or 4 days, you can repeat this
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operation again.
The networks may not have been developed full
enough and the few days since the last attempt may have been enough
time to change this fact.
Advantage:
You can still initiate prolific flushes with the terrarium above the
normal temperature range. The optimum temperature for growing
mushrooms is higher than what is necessary to initiate new
mushrooms and is between 80 and 90 degrees F. This adaptation can
let the cultivator grow at the maximum rate, and still produce new
mushrooms on the cakes.
Disadvantages:
The Ice-Pak will lower the humidity in the terrarium. Mostly, this is
an issue when you have mushrooms on cakes that are part way
through the growing cycle and not ready to harvest. They will usually
survive the bad growing conditions for the six hours it takes the Ice-
Pak to initiate fruiting, but they will suffer for it. You need to have an
ultra sonic humidifier setup on your terrarium. Nothing else will be
able to keep the humidity high enough. You can turn the humidity
control up a little, but you will have to continue to adjust it down as
the Ice-Pak loses its cool. If too much moisture forms on the cakes, it
will prevent the initiation of pin heads and that was the whole purpose
of this operation.
Back to the Growing Cycle.
table of contents.
Adaptation-17: Adding Moisture to the Rice Cake.
After a cake has produced several mushrooms you can add moisture
to it. Flame sterilize a 3/16 inch drill bit. Let it cool. Use it to drill a
hole at the center of the cake. You can do this by hand. You do not
need a drill. Do not go all the way through the cake, but drill a deep
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reservoir into the cake. Cut a plastic straw to 4 inches in length. Insert
the straw 1/2 inch into the hole. The straw should fit tightly in the
cake. Straws from McDonalds are larger than most and work well.
They seal well and hold more water. Fill the straw with water daily. A
10 cc. syringe works well to fill the straws with water. You should
wait to drill the hole until the cake has produced some mushrooms
because the inside of the rice and let the rice cakes slowly shift through the
fruiting temperature range. Note that everything else must be right.
The rice cake must have a fully developed mycelium network and
there must be light. The Ice-Pak should be placed between 1/4 and 1/2
inch from the rice cakes. A flat Ice-Pak will work, but if you have the
option, get one that is designed to slip into the center of a six-pak. It
will have circular indents molded into each side and it will conform to
the shape of the rice cakes better. If everything was ready, you should
see pin heads develop 3 or 4 days after you perform this adaptation. If
you don't see any develop after 3 or 4 days, you can repeat this
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operation again. The networks may not have been developed full
enough and the few days since the last attempt may have been enough
time to change this fact.
Advantage:
You can still initiate prolific flushes with the terrarium above the
normal temperature range. The optimum temperature for growing
mushrooms is higher than what is necessary to initiate new
mushrooms and is between 80 and 90 degrees F. This adaptation can
let the cultivator grow at the maximum rate, and still produce new
mushrooms on the cakes.
Disadvantages:
The Ice-Pak will lower the humidity in the terrarium. Mostly, this is
an issue when you have mushrooms on cakes that are part way
through the growing cycle and not ready to harvest. They will usually
survive the bad growing conditions for the six hours it takes the Ice-
Pak to initiate fruiting, but they will suffer for it. You need to have an
ultra sonic humidifier setup on your terrarium. Nothing else will be
able to keep the humidity high enough. You can turn the humidity
control up a little, but you will have to continue to adjust it down as
the Ice-Pak loses its cool. If too much moisture forms on the cakes, it
will prevent the initiation of pin heads and that was the whole purpose
of this operation.
Back to the Growing Cycle.
table of contents.
Adaptation-17: Adding Moisture to the Rice Cake.
After a cake has produced several mushrooms you can Ephedra Banned add moisture
to it. Flame sterilize a 3/16 inch drill bit. Let it cool. Use it to drill a
hole at the center of the cake. You can do this by hand. You do not
need a drill.
Do not go all the way through the cake, but drill a deep
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reservoir into the cake. Cut a plastic straw to 4 inches in length. Insert
the straw 1/2 inch into the hole. The straw should fit tightly in the
cake. Straws from McDonalds are larger than most and work well.
They seal well and hold more water. Fill the straw with water daily.
A
10 cc. syringe works well to fill the straws with water. You should
wait to drill the hole until the cake has produced some mushrooms
because the inside of the rice and let the rice cakes slowly shift through the
fruiting temperature range. Note that everything else must be right.
The rice cake must have a fully developed mycelium network and
there must be light.
The Ice-Pak should be placed between 1/4 and 1/2
inch from the rice cakes. A flat Ice-Pak will work, but if you have the
option, get one that is designed to slip into the center of a six-pak. It
will have circular indents molded into each side and it will conform to
the shape of the rice cakes better.
If everything was ready, you should
see pin heads develop 3 or 4 days after you perform this adaptation. If
you don't see any develop after 3 or 4 days, you can repeat this
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operation again. The networks may not have been developed full
enough and the few days since the last attempt may have been enough
time to change this fact.
Advantage:
You can still initiate prolific flushes with the terrarium above the
normal temperature range. The optimum temperature for growing
mushrooms is higher than what is necessary to initiate new
mushrooms and is between 80 and 90 degrees F. This adaptation can
let the cultivator grow at the maximum rate, and still produce new
mushrooms on the cakes.
Disadvantages:
The Ice-Pak will lower the humidity in the terrarium.
Mostly, this is
an issue when you have mushrooms on cakes that are part way
through the growing cycle and not ready to harvest. They will usually
survive the bad growing conditions for the six hours it takes the Ice-
Pak to initiate fruiting, but they will suffer for it. You need to have an
ultra sonic humidifier setup on your terrarium. Nothing else will be
able to keep the humidity high enough. You can turn the humidity
control up a little, but you will have to continue to adjust it down as
the Ice-Pak loses its cool. If too much moisture forms on the cakes, it
will prevent the initiation of pin heads and that was the whole purpose
of this operation.
Back to the Growing Cycle.
table of contents.
Adaptation-17: Adding Moisture to the Rice Cake.
After a cake has produced several mushrooms you can add moisture
to it. Flame sterilize a 3/16 inch drill bit. Let it cool. Use it to drill a
hole at the center of the cake. You can do this by hand. You do not
need a drill. Do not go all the way through the cake, but drill a deep
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reservoir into the cake. Cut a plastic straw to 4 inches in length. Insert
the straw 1/2 inch into the hole. The straw should fit tightly in the
cake. Straws from McDonalds are larger than most and work well.
They seal well and hold more water. Fill the straw with water daily. A
10 cc. syringe works well to fill the straws with water. You should
wait to drill the hole until the cake has produced some mushrooms
because the inside of the rice
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awaken dogs that were under anesthesia. This discovery led to the use of
amphetamines, in pill form, to treat
Stacker narcolepsy (Feldman et al., 1997).
Amphetamines were also rumored to have been used in Japan, Britain, Germany,
and the U.S. during World War II (Brecher 1972; Lovett, 1994; Feldman
et al., 1997).
U.S. and Japanese army personnel are said to have used amphetamines
to stay awake and alert while assigned to especially long periods on
duty (Feldman et al., 1997). Because of the use of amphetamines by Japanese
soldiers, Japan “suffered a
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postwar years” (Suwaki, 1991).
Amphetamine use became so common that college students in the 1950s
and 1960s used amphetamines to stay awake all night to study for exams.
Long-haul truckers named their routes after how much amphetamine was
needed to make the trip. To get halfway across the U.S., truckers used “St.
Louie,” and for a transcontinental truck run, “West Coast turnabouts” were
used (Feldman et al., 1997).
In the 1960s, California users of amphetamine began using speedballs,
which are a combination of amphetamine and heroin taken intravenously.
Physicians of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic in San Francisco tried to warn
the public of the dangers of amphetamines by coining the term “speed kills.”
Dr. D. Smith of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic said:
In the 1970s the Haight-Ashbury area, of San Francisco,
turned into one of the most violent areas of the city. It
was a direct result of the amphetamine epidemic. In
addition, we saw a great deal of amphetamine psychosis,
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from high doses of amphetamine producing paranoia,
auditory, and visual hallucinations. We started getting
a feel that the medical and the psychiatric system did
not know how to handle drug epidemics. For example,
I was also running the alcohol and drug abuse-screening
unit at San Francisco General Hospital where with the
diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia you treat with
long-term psychotropic medication. With amphetamine
psychosis you detoxify them and use a short-term
course of psychotropic medication and get them into
recove
The technology of ancient wine making (open fermentation in crocks
or vats) would only produce a six-percent alcohol content. This would be
quickly reduced to acetic acid (vinegar). Ancient wine was produced
exactly the same as modern vinegar. So, a stable vinegar solution was
probably the basis of ancient wine. Vinegar is, however, not intoxicating.
One explanation is that vinegar was used as a vehicle for carrying other
drugs. Dried drug plants such as poppy (opium), datura, henbane, etc.
being extracted with the vinegar.
(With the possible exception of opium
and ephedra, none of these other plants would really be pleasant in their
effects.) Vinegar would then preserve these drugs in solution. This would
allow bottling, transport and u
ity you can get. You
should be careful not to allow the inside temperature of the terrarium
to get above 80 degrees F. In order to effectively use this adaptation,
your terrarium will need to be in a cool location.
Advantage:
You will be able to generate an extra 5% of humidity over ambient by
using this adaptation.
Disadvantages:
You will increase the temperature inside your terrarium some by
doing this. You can minimize the temperature increase by using a
container to hold the water that is well insulated. You want the water
warm, but you don't want heat leaking any more than necessary into
the terrarium.
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Back to Method 2, Using a Fish Tank Bubblier.
table of contents.
Adaptation-14: Use of Angel Hair to Raise Humidity.
If you are using the fish tank bubblier system to create humidity in
your terrarium, you can place angel hair or anything else that will
slow the bubbles rise in the water container. Simply pack it into the
container. This will increase humidity by several percent.
Ideally, you
want to slow the bubbles but also split them into smaller bubbles.
Some plastic versions of steel wool for use washing dishes work well.
Steel wool would work well except that it will rust and get nasty.
Advantage:
You will be able to generate an extra 1% or 2% of humidity over
ambient by using this adaptation. The smaller the bubbles are and the
more time they spend in the water, the greater the benefit.
Disadvantages:
None.
Back to Method 2, Using a Fish Tank Bubblier
table of contents.
Adaptation-15: Supporting Extra Terrariums with the Ultra
Sonic Humidifier
First, build an extra Growing Chamber. Then on one of the 2 liter
coke bottles, poke an extra hole. Insert a grommet and make this
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bottle the last stage for drying the air. Even the most basic ultra sonic
humidifier can feed more than one terrarium with sufficient quantities
of humid air to keep everything in the ideal range for the fungus.
Advantage:
You get twice the growing area for your mushrooms. Your crops can
be twice as big. Alternatively, you can use one terrarium for older
cakes. Older cakes are significantly more likely to become
contaminated and pose a threat to the other cakes in the terrarium.
Moving older cakes to the second terrarium drastically reduces your
chances of a crop failure.
Disadvantages:
You need to build an extra Growing Chamber, and it takes up a little
space.
Back to construction of Ultra Sonic support system.
table of contents.
Adaptation-16: Use of an Ice-Pak to Initiate Fruiting.
You can keep the terrarium's temperature between 80 and 95 degrees
F. If you have a terrarium setup that uses an ultra sonic humidifier,
you can place a reusable, frozen Ice-Pak in the Terrarium. This will
cool everything down ity you can get. You
should be careful not to allow the inside temperature of the terrarium
to get above 80 degrees F. In order to effectively use this adaptation,
your terrarium will need to be in a cool location.
Advantage:
You will be able to generate an extra 5% of humidity over ambient by
using this adaptation.
Disadvantages:
You will increase the temperature inside your terrarium some by
doing this. You can minimize the temperature increase by using a
container to hold the water that is well insulated. You want the water
warm, but you don't want heat leaking any more than necessary into
the terrarium.
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Back to Method 2, Using a Fish Tank Bubblier.
table of contents.
Adaptation-14: Use of Angel Hair to Raise Humidity.
If you are using the fish tank bubblier system to create humidity in
your terrarium, you can place angel hair or anything else that will
slow the bubbles rise in the water container. Simply pack it into the
container. This will increase humidity by several percent. Ideally, you
want to slow the bubbles but also split them into smaller bubbles.
Some plastic versions of steel wool for use washing dishes work well.
Steel wool would work well except that it will rust and get nasty.
Advantage:
You will be able to generate an extra 1% or 2% of humidity over
ambient by using this adaptation. The smaller the bubbles are and the
more time they spend in the water, the greater the benefit.
Disadvantages:
None.
Back to Method 2, Using a Fish Tank Bubblier
table of contents.
Adaptation-15: Supporting Extra Terrariums with the Ultra
Sonic Humidifier
First, build an extra Growing Chamber.
Then on one of the 2 liter
coke bottles, poke an extra hole. Insert a grommet and make this
(25 of 39) 5/1/2002 6:54:26 PM]
How To Grow Magic Mushrooms The Magic Mushroom Growers Guide (page 4)
bottle the last stage for drying the air. Even the most basic ultra sonic
humidifier can feed more than one terrarium with sufficient quantities
of humid air to keep everything in the ideal range for the fungus.
Advantage:
You get twice the growing area for your mushrooms. Your crops can
be twice as big. Alternatively, you can use one terrarium for older
cakes. Older cakes are significantly more likely to become
contaminated and pose a threat to the other cakes in the terrarium.
Moving older cakes to the second terrarium drastically reduces your
chances of a crop failure.
Disadvantages:
You need to build an extra Growing Chamber, and it takes up a little
space.
Back to construction of Ultra Sonic support system.
table of contents.
Adaptation-16: Use of an Ice-Pak to Initiate Fruiting.
You can keep the terrarium's temperature between 80 and 95 degrees
F. If you have a terrarium setup that uses an ultra sonic humidifier,
you can place a reusable, frozen Ice-Pak in the Terrarium. This will
cool everything down ity you can get. You
should be careful not to allow the inside temperature of the terrarium
to get above 80 degrees F. In order to effectively use this adaptation,
your terrarium will need to be in a cool location.
Advantage:
You will be able to generate an extra 5% of humidity over ambient by
using this adaptation.
Disadvantages:
You will increase the temperature inside your terrarium some by
doing this. You can minimize the temperature increase by using a
container to hold the water that is well insulated.
You want the water
warm, but you don't want heat leaking any more than necessary into
the terrarium.
(24 of 39) [5/1/2002 6:54:26 PM
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Back to Method 2, Using a Fish Tank Bubblier.
table of contents.
Adaptation-14: Use of Angel Hair to Raise Humidity.
If you are using the fish tank bubblier system to create humidity in
your terrarium, you can place angel hair or anything else that will
slow the bubbles rise in the water container.
Simply pack it into the
container. This will increase humidity by several percent. Ideally, you
want to slow the bubbles but also split them into smaller bubbles.
Some plastic versions of steel wool for use washing dishes work well.
Steel wool would work well except that it will rust and get nasty.
Advantage:
You will be able to generate an extra 1% or 2% of humidity over
ambient by using this adaptation. The smaller the bubbles are and the
more time they spend in the water, the greater the benefit.
Disadvantages:
None.
Back to Method 2, Using a Fish High Protein Diet Tank Bubblier
table of contents.
Adaptation-15: Supporting Extra Terrariums with the Ultra
Sonic Humidifier
First, build an extra Growing Chamber. Then on one of the 2 liter
coke bottles, poke an extra hole. Insert a grommet and make this
(25 of 39) 5/1/2002 6:54:26 PM
How To Grow Magic Mushrooms The Magic Mushroom Growers Guide (page 4)
bottle the last stage for drying the air. Even the most basic ultra sonic
humidifier can feed more than one terrarium with sufficient quantities
of humid air to keep everything in the ideal range for the fungus.
Advantage:
You get twice the growing area for your mushrooms. Your crops can
be twice as big. Alternatively, you can use one terrarium for older
cakes.
Older cakes are significantly more likely to become
contaminated and pose a threat to the other cakes in the terrarium.
Moving older cakes to the second terrarium drastically reduces your
chances of a crop failure.
Disadvantages:
You need to build an extra Growing Chamber, and it takes up a little
space.
Back to construction of Ultra Sonic support system.
table of contents.
Adaptation-16: Use of an Ice-Pak to Initiate Fruiting.
You can keep the terrarium's temperature between 80 and 95 degrees
F. If you have a terrarium setup that uses an ultra sonic humidifier,
you can place a reusable, frozen Ice-Pak in the Terrarium. This will
cool everything down ity you can get. You
should be careful not to allow the inside temperature of the terrarium
to get above 80 degrees F. In order to effectively use this adaptation,
your terrarium will need to be in a cool location.
Advantage:
You will be able to generate an extra 5% of humidity over ambient by
using this adaptation.
Disadvantages:
You will increase the temperature inside your terrarium some by
doing this. You can minimize the temperature increase by using a
container to hold the water that is well insulated. You want the water
warm, but you don't want heat leaking any more than necessary into
the terrarium.
(24 of 39) 5/1/2002 6:54:26 PM
How To Grow Magic Mushrooms The Magic Mushroom Growers Guide (page 4)
Back to Method 2, Using a Fish Tank Bubblier.
table of contents.
Adaptation-14: Use of Angel Hair to Raise Humidity.
If you are using the fish tank bubblier system to create humidity in
your terrarium, you can place angel hair or anything else that will
slow the bubbles rise in the water container. Simply pack it into the
container. This will increase humidity by several percent. Ideally, you
want to slow the bubbles but also split them into smaller bubbles.
Some plastic versions of steel wool for use washing dishes work well.
Steel wool would work well except that it will rust and get nasty.
Advantage:
You will be able to generate an extra 1% or 2% of humidity over
ambient by using this adaptation. The smaller the bubbles are and the
more time they spend in the water, the greater the benefit.
Disadvantages:
None.
Back to Method 2, Using a Fish Tank Bubblier
table of contents.
Adaptation-15: Supporting Extra Terrariums with the Ultra
Sonic Humidifier
First, build an extra Growing Chamber. Then on one of the 2 liter
coke bottles, poke an extra hole. Insert a grommet and make this
(25 of 39) 5/1/2002 6:54:26 PM
How To Grow Magic Mushrooms The Magic Mushroom Growers Guide (page 4)
bottle the last stage for drying the air. Even the most basic ultra sonic
humidifier can feed more than one terrarium with sufficient quantities
of humid air to keep everything in the ideal range for the fungus.
Advantage:
You get twice the growing area for your mushrooms.
Your crops can
be twice as big. Alternatively, you can use one terrarium for older
cakes. Older cakes are significantly more likely to become
contaminated and pose a threat to the other cakes in the terrarium.
Moving older cakes to the second terrarium drastically reduces your
chances of a crop failure.
Disadvantages:
You need to build an extra Growing Chamber, and it takes up a little
space.
Back to construction of Ultra Sonic support system.
table of contents.
Adaptation-16: Use of an Ice-Pak to Initiate Fruiting.
You can keep the terrarium's temperature between 80 and 95 degrees
F. If you have a terrarium setup that uses an ultra sonic humidifier,
you can place a reusable, frozen Ice-Pak in the Terrarium.
This will
cool everything down
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