People use inoculated and colonized Uncle Benās bags to transfer to uncolonoized Uncle Benās. They break up the block of mycelium and use about a nickle sized piece in each new bag. They do it in a SAB
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Fantastic!! Thanks for that! Iāve got to make my own SABā¦but glad to hear itās (g2g) totally do-able. Thinking of just making a frame and draping it in plastic.
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Yeah itās easy.
Donāt even have to cut holes or anything. Just take a clear tote put it on the edge of a flat surface close to you where yoi can work your hands underneath it and then do it to it. Just make sure you spray everything inside of it and wear some gloves.
I cut two holes in mine, be careful if you use a knife, the plastic loves to Crack, or you can heat up a metal utensil and start the hole or even use like an old skool coffee metal can and heat the bottom and press it in gently. Do it near a fan though, donāt inhale the fumes haha.
Good luck, keep us updated 
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Genius!!
Now youāre just taking the fun out of it.
Thanks for the tips!! Many thanks!! 
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In 2020 I had a trip that led to me not taking a proper dose for over a year. It was really tough, not bad, but really tough. Fetal in the dark bathroom for a few hours kinda tough. The next day I felt free of a lot of emotional weight, but fuck I couldnāt remember if I closed the door I opened in my subconscious and was scared to go back in and find out. Itās hard to do a real dose again now because as soon as I look at the shrooms my mind instantly goes back to that night. Iāve since had a couple trips and they went fine but if the racing thoughts arenāt something you can get a grip on the only thing that will fix it is dealing with whatever issues are or taking a lot of time offā¦or more than likely, both. Set and Setting, if youāre having anxiety or depression in your day to day life, thatās what the shrooms will eventually shine a massive spotlight on.
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Maybe youāre going into it with unreasonable/un-meetable expectations. Or maybe youāre not in the greatest headspace before you even eat the shrooms. I wouldnāt eat anything if I was already feeling shitty, but thatās just me.
That happened to me the first few times I started eating them again, which was like November/December. I attribute it to it being winter here. Iām always pretty low-energy during the winter months. I havenāt felt like that when eating mushrooms since then, though.
Didnāt you say a while back that your house is kind of a mess? Iām not trying to fuck with you, but thereās no way I could trip in a messy-ass house. Itād drive me nuts. Our house is always pretty tidy anyway, but I always make sure to reeeeealllyyyy straighten up and get the whole house looking like a photo shoot before we eat anything. Clean the kitchen counters, get everything off the dining room tableā¦ Maybe Iām just a neat-freak haha.
Whatās funny is that, by the end of our trip, our kitchen/dining area is always fucking TRASHED haha. Mostly because of my friend Natalie, who we always trip with. Sheās always busting shit out and opening, like, whatever, random bags of vegan chips and vegan sausages that never get cooked and then she just forgets about it and leaves everything out on the kitchen counter and shit. She really makes a mess haha.
Anyway, yeah, maybe clean up your house and get your mind right BEFORE you eat anything. I dunno.
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1000% this. Any time Iām planning on tripping the first thing I do is clean everything. I want all the dishes put away, counters sparkling, no clutter, etc. All a messy house would do is remind me that Iām a procrastinator and send me off in a spiral of my shortcomings.
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Thank you man, yeah it was a mess because of a lot of furniture movement and transplanting - but it has been pretty tidy since ( I took em yesterday). My gf and I live together and we both have our own spaces but sheās always on me to keep it clean lol.
Itās sort of funny because the first time I took em I was actually under a lot of stress (and feeling shitty) and it had been a bad week, but the effect calmed me so much and put a lot of shit into perspective - since then Iāve been pretty calm and donāt feel in a bad place when I take them, or in general to be honest - but the effect turns into some super anxious/paranoid state and as it wears off I feel better.
Imma lay off for.a couple months and see whatās up, itās a shame cus I really enjoyed it the first time, but Iām in no rush.
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Were they the same variety? Iām finding that each of the different ones Iāve grown have different potency and effects. I didnāt like the Zstrain I grew too much, a bit intense and often got anxiety. The mazatat were more of a gentle effect on the mind, more mellow and body buzz.
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according to the person they are all the same variety (i dont grow yet) - and its supposed to be a hybrid. but im too new to even notice differences - as far as i know theyve all looked the same. i might change the source butā¦ dunno, my partner has had really good experiences with same dosage, and she even is smaller and skinnier (if body mass matters)
thanks!
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Any updates on your kit and freshly inoculated bag?
My kit and pound of spawn shipped today. Getting my stuff prepped.
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The kit still doesnāt look promising lol Iām still waiting to see if anything happens.
I inoculated the bag and left for work for 2 weeks so I will update on that when I get home.
Itās probably better this way lol that way Iām not always checking on it lol
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Well, āsome dayā Iāll catch up with you guys, but I just found this thread the other day and Iām only caught up to like July 2018 so far! 
Anyway, swung by the elephant sanctuary today as they had 25 giant rice sacks full of cannonballs awaiting me. Theyāre pretty worthless nutritionally for the gardens, being mostly just coconut fronds, but they make a great mulch and are known to frequently throw out a nice flush of P. cubensis so why not?
Hope to catch up to the modern era around here and participate moreā¦but donāt hold your breath, 4 years of posts to go through still!
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Elephant poop?!!? Nothing but grains is needed but go for it lol. Get some Thai elephant growing in that!
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Youād be amazed at the size & number of cubes that pop up in the dung piles around here! Unlike in the West, only the very best fighting buffalo ever get to taste āgrainā over here, and thatās only during the fighting season. I tend to go for the Copelandia cyanensis that come up on the local cow shits or occasionally sample the cubes on the buffalo shit (Asian buffalo, not N. Am!). When I first moved to Asia there were still restaurants with signboards announcing the availability of mushroom omelets and even one place called āThe Magic Mush Roomā on the beach!
I usually load the truck myself, so I get to pick the cannonballs already fully dusted w/sporesā¦but this time they wanted to collect & bag it themselves. Anyway, made sure to āmulchā the part of the garden near the house, where the automatic sprinklers go on twice a day. Put another 20 bags into the compost pile with the cow shit & straw. Iāll try to remember to shoot pics of the flushes when they come!
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Yeah, Iām sure itās no different than how mushrooms grow in cow shit. Except itās elephant shit. Which is fucking AWESOME haha.
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Oh your doing that for outdoors! I meant if you were growing them indoors, just the grain spawn is enough nutrient, no need for manure substrate.
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Those Shroomery guys are too hardcoreā¦lol. They love to over-complicate everything.
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Well it is a hobby/passion lol. Like the organic vs chemical debate lol. I understand if your doing it commercially or a perfectionist, but if bacterial spawn still produces a decent first flush 90% of the time, it doesnāt take much to get a personal stash for a good length of time.
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