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Thanks. I just got my gear for filling capsules. Going to fill some with Texas Yellow caps; john allen and creepers once theyâre completely dry. Iâm thinking about doing some of the John Allen ground up and mixed into a really nice jar of honey. Someone told me to do that on OG canât remember. That way you can micro dose by just taking a small spoonful if you feel it, then just back off on the amount in the spoon.
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Youâre tellin me! Iâve been following for a while and still havenât taken the leap. This bunch is wild. Lol.
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I find that size 0 capsules hold around 0.25g of ground mushroom powder, on average. That makes for very easy dosage and storage, and discrete transportation. 1 cap is enough for a day-brightening minidose or, if split between two people in a smoothie, a just barely perceptible microdose.
I grind mine by hand with a $30 edge/counter mounted grain mill like this:
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Hi folks, I wanted to share this database with people maybe you all are familiar already but I just came across it and itâs very comprehensive!
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Cheers man, that looks interesting 
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That sounds the perfect size for me and the misses, I use my coffee grinder to break mine up, the first batch of coffee grinds after doing the shrooms is always interesting and a bit like playing Russian roulette lol.
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So I am trying another brand of grain bags and dung substrate. midwest organics.
Lower cost.
I knocked up 2- 2.2 lb grain bags with 3CC of florida white f+ each bag
My 3 lb grain bag I knocked up with 7CC of penis envy 6 is not looking like it is going anywhere. The 3 CC I put in a liquid culture jar is not moving either.
Iâm going to leave them alone and see if they ever move.
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Are your sterlizing your own grains or buying them sterelized?
Got some agar pics. So the best way to photograph petri dishes is to set them in a light source or back light them. I didnât because my phone camera sucks so it doesnât make a difference. Hereâs some bad pics 3 are spores germinating from a swab streak 1 is an agar transfer and the other is a piece of colonized grain that I dropped on. They need to get cleaned up but 2 transfers or so and they will be E.R. clean
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Iâm buying them sterilized.
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I never had much success putting spores straight into grain bags. Once you have mycelium in a liquid culture its much hardier and Ive never had a problem using that to inoculate a grain bag.
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The only grain bags I have screwed up are from obvious errors on my part.
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@ColeLennon
Unless you already have one-
Look round for a good PC that can go to 15psi
By the time youâve ordered a few sterilized grain bags you could have paid for a cooker and enable yourself to cook endless amounts of grain (and agar and LC and of course food )for next to nothingâŚjust a idea.
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I donât really grow them enough to worry about it. Small tubs a few months in the winter. Keeps me in micro and macro doses. Appreciate it though. 
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Start growing some oysters if you got a little space -doesnt take much and the real bonus is the straw,bits of grain & mycelium you can recycle into some killer compost
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If I ever start growing some oyster or lions mane. Something gourmet. I definitely need to up my game and do my own bags. I have been adding my mycelium tubs to my outdoor 30 gallon pots of coco/peat/perlite to reuse for this years outdoor.
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Ive been trying to find melmac since I lost mine(forgot to swab) but an albino melmac wow or is that just a regular ape?
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