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  1. Posted

    A petri dish is far different from an outdoor environment where a fungus can become weakened by the elements and succeptible to rot.

    You missed my point entirely. The petri dish was open and in the fridge where it is colder, damper and due to poor air exchange quite likely to rot. The generally low levels of nutrients in agar would give cubies much to fruit off yet they did - if they were outdoors and on a better nutrient base/substrate they will fruit better rather then worse.

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    Subs sometimes grow under pine trees - if there is other substrates around with pine needles then they will often fruit there. Ive noticed that subs growing in this habitat tend to have lighter, thinner caps. Often they are fairly weedy, but sometimes you get a few larger specimens.

    Subs grown off lignious substrates with more nutrients tend to be larger and they also tend to fruit more prolifically - and on pine bark and other mulches they are more likely to be bigger and the wavy varietion seems to appear more.

    its likely that this is more the phenotypes of the same mushroom genetics than different substrains. I was quite surprised how similar the subs from the Nightcap ranges near Nimbin were with the subs found commonly around melbourne.

    the subs from SA are probably the most unique genetically - they are yellow capped and microscopically they are quite different to the subs from the rest of Australia - including WA.

    Azures will readily fruit in Victoria - but the patch needs to be set up and in the ground early, and covering it with a plank of wood to let it set over the warmer periods, then covering it with basic garden mulch and pine bark works fine. The blue staining on azures is a lighter colour than noticed in subs but im not sure why this is (possibly because subs have greyish streaking on their stems and azures are milk white)??. Anyway, subs will fruit after cold snaps - the colder the better so you may not notice good fruiting until June - a few months after subs have already fruited.

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    Just to really annoy some of the members here - the best days in electronic music for mine were the acid days - liquidy sounding LFOs and and filter runs on tb-303s - cool scene, sort of irrerevant vibe and the music suited the drugs more in my opinion. Psytrance became all about how you looked. it became kinda trendiesd. I remember at one party that the majority of people dancing were spending lots of time seeing if other people were looking at them.

    Never sawa that in the acid days - it was all fun and anything goes.

    RIP Caspar Pound...

  4. Posted

    Ive been thinking obsessively about music for many years - have worked on a variety of projects like Spiders of zen and more recently Mood market. (the later on myspace - www.myspace.com/moodmarket).

    I have firmly decided that acid techno/house and the wobbliness of the LFOs and filters on the old Roland tc-303 are where its at. Recent styles like dubstep, etc seem to agree with their revisiting of the old wobblers sounds with some new quirks due to better bass generators and LFOs.

    I also loved the vibe and scene of the old acid days - it was all fun, naughtEness and a kind of irreverance that was never found in later genres.

    Im also not a huge fan of trance. I do like some of it, but it seems often riddled with cliches and psytrance in particular often seems to prescribe to these unconscious rules about the structure of tracks that ultimately stiffle its progression.

    So my new style is hoping to marry a mixture of early acid sounds using better, modern techniques, coupled with the vibe of the early 90s trip hop and the vibe of the ragga/dub stuff I listened to while in Belize smoken em plenty.

    This stuff will be up on myspace shortly under the name www.myspace.com/bubblekatt.

    i think its gonna work and I need some help

    i want to add some rapping and maybe even some reggae ragga singing to it. The rapping would be more of a british vibe than an american vibe. Im thinking roots manuva's cheeky humourous stuff rather than the seriousness of the US hip hop scene or the cliched aussie hip hop sound.

    Can you help?? cheers!!

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    'Our doctor has never raised any these. You are all very amazing people

    My advice is to take your wife's health and medical situation into your OWN hands. The doctors use arrogance and hubris to hide the fact that usually they have fairly sketchy understandings of rarer medical conditions and they are nearly never abreast with current developments in a given area.

    As an example I have a condition that is relatively rare (effects 1 in 200 people or so) -and the specialist I go to is a leader in his field - yet was totally unaware that another leader in the field had made 7 different discoveries about the condition that will result in significant improvements in treatments. And he is a leader in the field - imagine what the average uppety dead shit knows... Other than what Glaxo cline tells him...

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    In my experience quitting wasnt a big deal but i havent been a heavy smoker since 2001ish - and i quit because of a health concern. Before that I smoked for maybe five years but friends who were also smoking lost the plot a bit and that freaked me out.

    A close friend however - who is female - has found it a LOT harder to quit smoking. She pretty much gets consumed with two weeks of anxiety if she quits cold turkey. She has smoked damiana and a few other herbal replacements with ok results, but i think its just the smoking something vibe more than the damiana replacing the vibe of the smoke.

    My best advice is GABA - two days of that stuff and the post-smoke anxiety will ease.

    A good psychedelic experience can put the mind in a better place as well.

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    cubies will fruit off agar on a petri dish in the fridge - if they'll do that they will definately fruit outdoors in perth or melbourne. Fezza did it once by leaving a bucket over the cake if I remember correctly to keep the frost at bay...

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    Almost any, but with a preference for deciduous woods (those that lose their leaves over winter). The chip piles that local councils leave lying around from time to time is perfect because they are usually composed of several sorts, including deciduous woods. Pretty much any 'beauty bark' (garden mulch) seems to be a good place to start

    Not quite - subaeruginosa prefers native substrates like eucalyptus mulch but its also a huge fan of pinus radiata needles and pine bark.

    Whereas your american continental species grow pretty much exclusively on hardwood chips and debris - Ps.azurescens and Ps.cyanescens resisted fruiting or even colonising native Australian substrates - got a bit of growth on some pine bark and some rose clippings but that was it. WHen the smoking alder wood chips were spent so was the patch...

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    Also, for all you lovers of coke, coke is made by being mashed up by poor peoples feet in a bath of petrol/kero in the jungles of Columbia. That is before it goes through it's many cut stages THEN goes up some hombres arse THEN gets cut again

    LOL - true but in Panama and Costa Rica the purity is beyond anything your ever likely to see here so they can stamp all they could have stomped all they like mate :)

    In the carib its a whole different ball game - some of the shit they cut it with there is lethalish..

    Hepatitis C is passed from blood to blood contact only. Its generally lifelong and eventually leads to cirrhosis in a small % of sufferers.

  13. Posted

    well in my case they still arent really sure what is happening with my liver.

    I went oversease to central america last year and after returning i got pretty sick - first with a recurrance of an old ailment and then a crook guts that wouldnt go away for about a month.

    Then it seemed to be on the mend, so after some antibiotics had been finished, I got pretty drunk with a mate. The thing was I drank VERY little and got ABSOLUTELY smashed on little over six or so glasses of wine (my normal tolerance is quite high for alcohol).

    Next day i was yellow and my liver area felt swollen like a balloon and uncomfortable. Wernt to the doctors who immeidately diagnosede me with hep A - despite me having my injection for it.

    Serum tests came back negative. liver function tests normalised but the uncomfortable swollen feeling comes and goes along with fatigue and general malaise.

    I was sent to hospital for more tests - provisional diagnosis some other form of acite hep - hep e or something like that. they said they may never know.

    I used to be a big binge drinker in my youth - settled down a lot nowdays though.

    off to a specialist in two weeks.

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    tropicalis as far as i was aware was differentiated from Pan cyanescens based purely on two-spored basidia instead of the classic four-spored variety.

    A while back Teonan on the shroomery did a major study of collections of Panaeolus cyanescens from a variety of sources and found that the cystidia and basidia variability was massive - the differences in collections would have provided someone like Guzman with an excuse to break cyanescens up into 12 different entities. Im talking differences that were far more pronounced than between Ps cyanescens and azurescens, or more importantly the minor differences between US Ps.cyanescens and our own Ps.subaeruginosa (which are fairly minimal and could all be accounted within one species entity without proper spore compatibility studies).

    The point is minute cystidial variations do not equate to anything more than phenotype variants. Guzman has over delineated the Psilocybe group.

    Conclusion: I doubt that Pan Trop or Pan Cambo are actually anything more than phenotypes of Pan cyanescens.

    peace!

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    As far as I remember those huge orissas were grown on a SHIT load of SHIT. That is a massive dung substrate that produced those monsters rather than a big flush of average sizers. Dung can do that for any strain.

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    The issues you are likely to face depend on where you are caught - if you are at all.

    In WA and sometimes tassie the cops may actively try to catch prospective trippers picking or possessing mushrooms. On the other hand, in Victoria I think you'd be very unlucky to get caught. Subs are prettymuch everywhere at the right time of year and Im always amazed about the level of ignorance that the majority of Melbournians have about them.

  20. Posted

    Hi guys - since I got back from a recent trip my liver has been shot. Wasnt aware of it until I hit the piss one night and then turned yellow the next few days and got a swollen liver for like three weeks.

    A few sessions at the quack found the answer - hopefully nothing serious.

    But while my liver repairs itself slowly Im curious about what I should be avoiding other than the obvious alcohol and Kava? How can I work out what other joys are heavish on the old gut filter???

    thanks for any advice you learned people can provide! peace.

  21. Posted

    A friend used to be quite paranoid but generally didnt suffer from panic of any sort and didnt really seem that anxious either. It was just the way he thought about things - he was intimately aware of all the possibilities of each situation and tended to gravitiate to the more remote results.

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