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Happy New Year! Psychedelic News Recap plus DMT Extraction Video now hosted on Patreon

First of all, I want to thank everyone that used any of my Amazon affiliate links for their holiday shopping, you guys are the best, and this really helped out, so please keep me in mind, whenever you are about to make a purchase of anything from amazon, if you click one of my links (doesn't matter which one) first...

Happy Thanksgiving: Surprising Storage Results with CO2 and other thoughts

Let me start off by wishing everyone who celebrates it, a happy Thanksgiving! In this brief video (above) I talk about the recent community testing events (TTBVIremains the undisputed potency champion, now with NINEconsecutive 1st place wins). There are some new insights gleaned from the latest testing data that I revi...

Awesome New Free Mushroom Dosing Calculator Plus Updates on Kits and News of Interest

I am happy to introduce the first free mushroom dosing calculator that I can fully endorse: https://sporelore.co/dose-calculatorYears ago I publicly expressed my disappointment with existing mushroom dosing calculators but I never got around to correcting that problem UNTIL NOW. To give credit where credit is due, the ...

New Mycology Vendor has GordoTEK kits, I put them to the test (Pan Cyan and Natalensis) RESULTS

Don't get me wrong, in general I'm a do-it-yourselfer and see the value in a person learning to do every step from scratch, but on the other hand, Iabsolutely recognize that for many people, gathering all ingredients, mixing, hydrating, and pressure cooking for hours, can be either a daunting task, a major chal...

Mushroom Storage: Science Based Best Practices Plus New Dosing Formula!

[Note: If you use any of my Amazon links it supports the channel!(“As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.”)]In the above video I show what to do with your cracker dry mushrooms after they come out of the dehydratorfor optimal alkaloid preservation! It turns out they still sell the Osterizer blende...

Patron Spotlight: Stealthy Spores, Sam Gandy, James W Jesso, ShroomShroom

Among our community here are a lot of talented people doing interesting things related to the field of psychedelics. As I learn about various projects from patrons I'd like to start sharing things to the rest of our community and if you'd like me to highlight something relevant that you are working on, please l...

Easiest Pan Cyan Grow TEK: No humidifier, no fan, no tent, no timers. Unmodified tote grow!

I am really pleased with this TEK and I hope you love it, this is the easiest way to grow Pan Cyans and I recommend it to all. I may put out a longer vid showing the making of the substrate and all other steps but I wanted to put out a short version right away (click or tap the play button on the vid above, this is my ...

Winter Solstice 2023 Cultivar Cup Results PLUS Live Zoom Call with GordoTEK tonight (Dec 20)

The Cultivar Cup results have just been published, and Doma (MagicMyco) has a zoom call scheduled for TONIGHT (December 20, 2023) with a live panel consisting of himself and any sponsors that want to participate. I will be participating in this zoom meeting, so its the perfect chance for anyone to ask questions live. I...

Island Cup: What can we learn from the latest community data collection?

There are so many Cups now its hard to keep track, even crazier that they all seemed to be happening within 30 days of one another (you organizers need to work on that, haha) but I'd be remiss if I didn't comment on the latest event, the first "Island Cup" with HPLC testing by Jordan Jacobs at TrypLabs....

Happy Thanksgiving!

The turkey art came up in an image search for "Psychedelic Thanksgiving", the more I soaked it in, the more psychedelic if felt to me, so I thought you might enjoy it too! 🦃😂🙏🍄👀Thanksgiving is definitely one of my favorite times of the year, I hope everyone is getting some rest and relaxation wit...

Results of the first Psychedelic Club of Denver Mushroom Competition

With four separate psychedelic "testing events" now (Cultivar Cup, Hyphae Cup, Island Cup, and Psychedelic Cup), some of which run twice a year, you can pretty much get anything you want tested in a public event like these now year round which is a "win" for growers, researchers, and anyone interested i...

Research on Pan Cyan Alkaloid Changes During Storage

[UPDATE: 7 month follow up data is available here].When I sent in my entry for the previous Cultivar Cup (June 2023) I included a lot of extra material so that MagicMycocould retest things after being left in storage for a while in hopes that we could try to determine the best way to store mushrooms.[FYI: the Winter Cu...

Psilocybe subtropicalis: My research and review

[Thanks and shout out to patron KnighthawkJosh for the cool art, other pictures in this post are mostly for illustration purposes only, some generated by AI]Psilocybe subtropicalishas been recommended to me by multiple people in the past, some of whom believe it is the most potent mushroom in the world or at least a co...

Congrats WINNERS of the Summer 2023 Cultivar Cup! (You guys took me down hard ;)

Wow, I didn't even place in the TOP 4?! 😂 Soundly beaten by the very people I gave spores to:😂 I'm super happy about this to be honest, I think some people were starting to think the Cultivar Cup was rigged for me to win, now you know the truth! 😇.It was really great to see so much participation in thi...

Extended state DMT at Imperial College London (DMTx)

The link is to a pre-print paper from the team at Imperial College London. This is one of the more exciting projects in modern psychedelic research. DMT is rather unique among psychedelic drugs: 1) when vaped or injected its deep immersive experience begins nearly instantaneously 2) there is little or no tolerance buil...

Just a quick final reminder: The Cultivar Cup Is OPEN for entries

As you can see in the vid, I no longer have a shortage of prints, so if you were waiting for one, hit me up ;) and a very big THANK YOU & SHOUT OUT to those who helped out when it was needed!Just wanted to let everyone know the Summer Solstice Cultivar Cup is OPEN NOW for any and all entries with a deadline of June 1st...

Beware of "nonsense" in the psychedelic community

Before I get into the actual topic of this post I want to send out a big THANK YOU to all of the long time supporters here as well as people that have just discovered my content, it has been a surprise to see so much interest recently. Sadly I have been having a hard time keeping up with all of the messages I receive o...

Yesterday was a very Good Friday

Sixty One years ago, on Good Friday (1962), a prominent religious figure, civil rights leader, theologian, and mystic, Howard Thurman (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s mentor) preached in Marsh Chapel on Boston University’s campus (¹):Full of striking verbal imagery including personalized accounts from the perspective...

New Video: Build Your Own Laminar Flow Hood for less than $100

Full flow hood build write up (including links to items used) is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/78502280If anyone is looking for the Mycocoil (foot operated induction sterilizer) shown in the video it is here. And here's an example of the silicone tipped tongs that you can pressure cook and use for mixing grai...

A majority of U.S. states will legalize psychedelics by 2034-7

Psychedelic Drug Legislative Reform and Legalization in the USJoshua S.Siegel,MD, PhD1; James E.Daily,JD2; Demetrius A.Perry,MA1JAMA Psychiatry. 2023;80(1):77-83. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.4101According to this recently published research, analytical models based on the precedent from cannabis reform are indicati...

Build it yourself laminar flow hood for less than $100! The mycology community will LOVE this!

[Video is here] I just built something the mycology community is going to LOVE. But let me just start off with this... I think building this is pretty easy and I've already built more than a dozen of them. It takes a couple of hours and requires minimal tools, but if anyone reading this wants to make and sell them ...

I just won the Winter '22 Cultivar Cup and I want to give you the winning spores! Merry Christmas!! [Bonus: TTBVI Origin Story]

Thank you everyone for making this a wonderful year for psychedelic research and progress. Things seem to be moving at an unprecedented and exciting pace with new legislation, formal and informal research, clinical trials, senate debates, whole states decriminalizing, wow, such an amazing time to be alive. Here's t...

Mini greenhouse (Martha) setup for growing exotic mushrooms

First just a quick update on significant legislative news since I haven't done that in a while. There are now over 100 US cities that have decriminalized one or more psychedelics including the largest city to date, San Francisco. But even bigger than that, the state of Colorado just votedTHIS WEEK to:define certain...

NEW WORLD RECORD: Most Potent Mushrooms Ever Tested

Dec 24, 2022 UPDATE: I have discovered that these test results were unreliable due to reasons described in both an update below as well as in a newer post here (I will never be too proud to issue a correction! There is still relative value in these results, the order of potency in this chart is accurate, and in fact th...

Bringing home the first Cultivar Cup! ;)

Click/tap the above link for the results of the Cup. Looks like the Estero sample tested at just over 3% combined psilocybin, psilocin, and baeocystin. This entry was a bit last minute, and not freshly grown, also the sample sat around at the lab for almost a month in a clear baggie with no oxygen absorbers or desiccan...

MANY UPDATES, the Cultivar Cup & an Answer to Question About Print Caps

I know I've been pretty quiet lately, but that does not mean the research or video making has stopped, so here are some updates:1) I promised a vid about thin layer chromatography for alkaloid analysis, which is a work in progress, I've been debating how much I want to put into one vid vs. putting out several s...

My Review: The GordoTEK Mountain Experience Event

First I want to thank everyone who participated both with me in person and those who were with us in spirit, participating remotely, and a special shout out to our trip sitter who travelled a long distance just to watch over us. This was my first time traveling within the US to use mushrooms in a state that has decrimi...

Comparison of Estero (Pan cyan) and Albino Penis Envy (Cubensis) mushrooms via Thin Layer Chromatography

I will create a video explaining how to do this type of analysis, but for now I just wanted to show everyone a comparison between these species. Albino Penis Envy (APE) is widely considered to be one of the most potent cubensis cultivars, it was heavily represented in the latest psilocybin cup (if you want to see my co...

Guide to Outdoor Mushroom Use

I wanted to put this short video out there before our planned June 11th 2022 outdoor mushroom event (its free, and for patrons and their guests only). This video will give you an understanding of one approach to using mushrooms outdoors, and it is this approach we will be using on the 11th. Backup of vid on Odysee is h...

Patrons ONLY (and their guests): Free, GordoTEK live event/experience/research experiment (June 11th 2022) NJ or remotely

Unrelated but I'll start by mentioning I posted a very short teaser vid today a clip from a larger video I'm working on related to mushroom bluing and selective breeding for potency. More on that in the future... (also on TikTok if you prefer that platform)What I really wanted to post about is this... 2022 has ...