ubza_1234

i'll see if she can have half the day off or something... its a family business ie her parents own it lol so its not that easy ;)

couldnt make it the 13th possibly? that would be better for me. edit: the missus has wanted to go for ages to one of our meets but always works on saturdays so it would be cool if we could make it sunday if possible

sounds good to me especially if we make it a Sunday. oh and I just realised, my misses is going away from the 4th -6th so she wouldn't be able to come anyway so I'd prefer the weekend after too if possible!

woo fucking hoo!!! sounds like a plan ;) just one minor request, can we make it 6th instead of the 5th? means my missus has the day off work and can come! :D

when you smoke it, its kinda hard to explain but when you have a flemmy throat and you cough and cough and cough, but get no were, this stuff seems to ball the mucous up so it can be coughed up easily. such a releif. usually takes about 30secs-2mins to kick in, but it really works. however, i used the same stuff from my collection of herbs about 4 months later and it had no effect at all. thus why i'm after some fresher stuff ;)

hey guys! after some coltsfoot, either the plant and/or the fresh or freshly dried plant material. anyone out there to help me? cheers

I haven't but have discovered only fresh dried leaf tends to work. I had some dried leaf that worked great when I first got it but after a few months did nothing when smoked. so I need some kinda freshish dried stuff. would also like to grow it if I can

fact is, the dude prob eats foods like that all the time. I'm pretty sure the body doesn't absorb fat THAT quickly, does it? surely a the average healthy person who generally eats well but gave this puppy a crack every few months would be fine ya?

so my latest project requires an annoyingly difficult to build thing; a copper coil, (electro magnet style) that is wound around a spherical mould so that it's inside is round. the wire will not be wrapped around the entire sphere, only a 40-60mm band around the ball so when removed, will be a ring shape. (sorta.) it needs to have an inside diameter of 120mm at it's largest point. it requires to be around 3-6 turns thick. the wire will be 0.4-0.6mm thick. super glue will be used to bind the wire. this does not sound too hard, but allow me to explain the problems. 1, the mould needs to be removable. this either means to use a sacrificial ball that can be destroyed to remove or a ball that is soft that can be deflated or squeezed or otherwise miss-shapen so that it can be removed. but must not be too soft or it will become miss shapen as the wire is wound onto this mould 2, finding a method of keeping the wire from sticking to the mould. it is not as easy as it sounds, as many lubricants will stick to the wire as it is being wound, preventing the super glue from binding that wire to it's surrounding wires. the wire needs to be right against the inside of the coil, with little to no layer between the wire and the air inside it. (i once wrapped it around a pvc pipe that was 1mm thick and this was completely unsuitably thick) 3, finding a supplier of a suitable mould and wire. i have estimated i will need a minimum of 300g of wire at a 0.04mm thickness, however 500g wound be best for room for error and fucking around. a ball 120mm is alot harder to find then one would think. especially one that fits with the first problem. 4, rotating the mould to accurately wind the wire on evenly. i have a few solutions, but they all lead to more questions! :S a Styrofoam ball would be ideal, however, the super glue would dissolve it, as well as many lubricants may dissolve it also. it would be good to paint it with something that would protect it from the super glue, then eaten away with a solvent (super glue has excellent solvent durability) but i don't know what is a suitable paint. a drill can be poked into this ball and set to a very low speed to accurately wind the coil. using a ball made of HDPE would be ideal as most glues do not stick to it, however, finding a ball exactly 120mm wide is quite difficult. it also needs to be solid enough to hold its shape with the wire around it. this would be a sacrificial mould and cut out. just then i built a coil from a small basket ball, coated in carnauba wax, with 100g of 0.4mm thick wire. but it was not enough wire, the wax was stuck to some strands of wire so it never bound to the coil, the coil was not wound accurately and there for tight enough so some wires lifted and finally it was only a 15mm wide band instead of 40mm or so. so anyway, what have you guys got? any advice for any aspect of this lil project would be greatly appreciated! i'm kinda stumped and been trying to work this bit out for months :S

ok guys so i am planning to catch up with a friend in newcastle and can only head down there for the weekend. i havent set a date cause i think it would be realy super cool if there is a bush doof goin down on that weekend i can take her to. to be honest will prob only be there for the sat night as i would arrive friday night, go to the doof with her, then leave on the sunday. because of this reason, i would hope it be not too far from newcastle. ALTERNATIVELY if someone coul give me a link to a site i can keep my finger on the pulse down that way i would be much obliged. :D

I posted this yonks ago, but ya. rainbow is coming up sure and fast and I just thought I'd let yal know I'm bringing my 2 way radio and setting it to channel36. so if anyone want to contact me to catch up, you now know how. I'm stupidly excited XP also if you got any ideas or tricks to remember for such an amazing event, this may be a good place to post it. cheers guys!

sparkle party? lol

change of plans, I'm using channel 13. hope I can catch up with you's!

hey! i'm still not getting notifications. is there someone o should pm about it? dunno if i should be bothering ppl on this topic or not :S

cool, just reset all those settings, so with any luck, my email should recieve noteifications! will see soon if ppl reply in this topic! cheers dude

opera is better anyway the only thing i dont like about it is that you cant view you tube on it. so any way i can get my email notifications working? i never get any email notifications now that this new upgrade is in effect. checked my email in the settings and it's correct :S

ya bro.been ages huh! make sure you come baz! :D

sweet :D

so the 4th of Feb is the date? :D we're sweet on that?

sounds good to me :D

first up my experience was amazing for the lowish dose i had and encouraged me to want to do higher at a later date, definitely. i'll start with my preperation, then go onto my experiences. PREPERATION Only the caps were harvested. because they are in such abundance, i also only take the most open caps that are droppin spores so that there will be more amanitas in the future. responsible picking guys ;) the way i pick them is such, i simply give the cap a few sharp taps and then the cap usually breaks off the stem quite easily. by doing this: * it knocks the spores from the gills, * all the spores that are trapped on the stem will go into the ground when the stem rots * the caps are supposed to be the strongest part of the shroom, specifically the flesh just under the red skin. * and they grow in such abundance that you can afford to only pick the caps, its not uncomon to come home with a feww kg's of mushies from a few hours picking. when picking, do not pick rotten caps. these will have soft edges, very brown edges etc. they will be smelly and taste yuky and its so simple to simply be a picky picker and not take crappy caps. they will vary in colour, and i believe this is due to bleaching from the sun. i've noticed that caps in bright sun seem they are always closer to yellow and sometimes even light pink when in the shade they are more red thru to orange. if you pick one of the sun bleached caps, scrape off a white wart of the cap, you will see it is red under that. it protected the cap from the sun in that spot, and so it is still red. i'm not sure what this does to potency but potency variations will be fixed later.. read on! pick as many as you can. the more the better! an electric hot plate was pre heated. i dont know the temp, but it was too hot to hold onto for a long time, but not too hot to touch for a few seconds. it was a lil over half way on my electric hot plate. baking paper was placed on the hot plate. the caps were placed on the baking paper, with the red side up. this was done because the strongest part of the cap is ment to be the skin just under the red flesh, so if the gills stick to the paper, its not big deal, but if the red flesh sticks to the paper, then you loose the strongest part. this process converts all the nasty shit to turn into loverly good stuff. it's well documented, so do a lil reasearch on it and check out the process, it's realy interesting. these should be left on the hot plate untill the entire cap is so dry and brittle that it should have no flex in it. it should break up easily in the fingers. then you know the nasties are all converted to goodies. this should take one day to dry like this for small caps and 2 days for larger ones. only dry one layer of fresh mushies at a time. however, if by the first day it is mostly dry but there are some soft spots, take them off, put down some fresh mushies and put the mostly dry mushies on top. it is crutial to dry them as dry as possible, not just to avoid nausea, but to make the next step possible. if you need to put them on for 3 days, then do it! realy, the longer the better, as long as the heat isnt turned up, causing them to burn. at this temp they wont burn, and it's safe to leave overnight un-supervised. once they are fully dry you can store them in my dry box. i posted how to build it in the Pharmacology & Chemistry forum. like most dried shrooms, these shrooms suck moisture out of the air like crazy and realy fast. you can dry them cracker dry and within a few hours they will be sofdt again so it is crutial to keep them dry. keeping baggies or my dry box should keep them super dry. once you got all your shrooms, dow would be a good time to weigh them if you want to see how much you have harvested. this is the important part. using a morta and pestle, crush and grind all the mushies into as fine a powder as possible. if the shrooms are not completely and utterly dried out, they will not grind into a fine powder. imagine trying to powderize rubber vs chalk. this is what its like if they are not fully dry. if a part of the shroom is not fully dry, it will not crush propperly and will require more drying. use only a morta and pesly, not a herb or coffee grinder. by using a morta and pestle, you will know that it is dried propperly. if it is all just wizzed up in a coffee grinder, you will never know and may get sick from incomplete drying. powderize the whole thing and put it into a jar. because the shrooms are so hydroscopic, remember to replace the lid each time so that it stays nice and dry between filling. keep a 30-50% air gap in the jar. shake the poop out of the jar. this will make a all the variations in potency balance out. shake it, roll it, stirr it, just get it all evenly mixed so each time you have some, it will be consistant and reliable in what you will expect. it's said that it varries in potency and alkaloid profile so it is nice to know what to expect. thats it! it looks like alot of work, but once you get into it, it's realy quite strait forward and easy. COOKING so how i ate the mushies. well, i heard a traditional methode of taking the mushies is to soak them in milk, and squeeze out the milk from the shrooms. to continue squeezing untill no more colour comes out. i had a much more palletable variation on this. i mesured out 5g, wich acording to erowid is between a common and light dose. i mixed this with a minimal amount of milk, enough to make a thin slurry. its stirred untill it stopped leaching colour then the whole thing is filtered thru a t-shirt. the shrooms are scraped up and repeated untill no more colour is leached into the milk. i was left about 80-100ml of milk. it was browny coloured and smelt odd, like a mix of mushrooms and malt. as in the stuff you put in milkshakes, malt. not a bad smell, just, well, odd and unexpected. this milk was poured into a bowl the size of a slice of bread. (this is important ;) ) about a teaspoon of melted butter is added to this along with: 1 finely chopped clove of garlic diced ham salt and pepper (lots of salt and pepper ) 3 eggs. this was whisked untill it's all mixed nicely. i was quite worried about that odd taste, thus the garlic, salt and pepper, meat etc. this was put in the microwave for 1.5mins. the edges were cooked and the center was not. using the whisk, i scraped off the edges and mashed them with the egg mix them put back in the microwave for another 1.5 mins. this was repeated untill when the egg was mixed and mashed with the liquid egg, there was just enough liquid egg to hold all the bits of egg together. this was put in the microwave for another 1.5 mins. this is now fully cooked and solidified. the edges were scraped with a knife and the knife was pushed under the egg too so it would come out easily. next step is simply put a piece of bread over the top of the bowl, turn upside down and the egg will fall out. put another piece of bread ontop and then munch that sucker ;) EXPERIENCE the setting was simply chiilin with some realy cool mates of mine. were all smokin weed, however i held back from it a lil to try and feel what the amanitas realy feel like. one friend was on shrooms for the first time and lovin it, the and another had a tab an my missus was just tokin it that night. realy good vibes all rounds. so i started eating this sucker down. the onset was more or less imediate. it would take say, about 60secs or so to feel the effect of each bite and after 3 bits i was feeling it. it was the strangest feeling ever to feel each bite. like, the same as if you have a hit of weed, 60secs later you feel that sucker, just like that. the feeling was mainly euphoria to start with. i felt a amazing no nausia what so ever. munchin away. the last 3 bites were a lil hard for me tho. after eating all that omlet sandwich so quickly eating any more made me gag a lil. so i stopped eating it for 10 mins then ate the last lil bit. it wasnt nausia as such, just my body was just sayin, wow there lil buddy, slow down a bit. after i waited a lil i could eat it no problem. within a few mins i was seeing patturns in the concrete and pool table cloth, similar to the types i get from subs. the effects felt alot like a mixture of acid with subs, although i have never done them together. it was not particularly sedating or speedy, in that sence, i felt prety much normal. i enjoyed walking around, especially because the concrete i was walkin on felt slightly squishy. perhaps i was just noticing the soft squishyness of my shoes, who knows but it was fun lol it was dificult to explain things and think of new things to talk about, however this was nothing too overpowering at this dose and have had much more problems with this on shrooms and acid. talking itself was easy and i didnt 'THINK' like a tripper the same way i do from weed, acid, shrooms etc e'g i didnt start sentances with wow man, wouldnt be cool if.... lol the whole thing however, trailed off as fast as it came on. the onset was maybe 30-60 secs for each bite, the onset was abot 5-10 mins, the peak lasted about 2-3 hours and i felt sober (although a lil stoned) after another 3 hours,, the whole thing more or less all over red rover in about 6ish hours. hang over included a lil groggy mentally, like slow thinking and that but then that could've been from the weed and tiredness. i was expecting something quite different. well, i went in not expecting much, but was expecting it to be quite different to subs when in actual fact there quite similar, although i didnt "think" like a tripper, at least at those doses. i do wish i had more, or at least just a second omlet to have later in the night to give me a booster as it realy did wear off alot quicker then i wanted, but all and all, it was realy friggin enjoyable. there you go, now get out there and pick! hahaha

ya that's exactly what I want! If its in good nick, I will easily pay $80 for one, and up to $150 if it is that big and soft and foldable/dismantleable. I'm so serious! lol been looking for months!

guys i've been looking everywhere for these chairs and they are nowhere to be seen! encased you don't know what a moon chair is, let me explain: Its basically a papasan chair with a metal frame so it can be easily dismantled or some also fold like a camping chairs. there are a few shops here and there that sell moon chairs, but they are usually small (i want 1m diameter or bigger, ideally enough room to squeeze 2 people onto) or lack the padding i've seen, on the style I want. I've tried every major camping store, ebay, gum tree. It seems the only way I'll get what I want is second hand, which is fine :D So has anyone else got any ideas on where I can find one? Also, if you have such a chair, and willing to part with it, I'm happy to pay any reasonable price. I'm also a pest controller, so I can offer those services if you live within an hour of melbourne. Like, I'm desperate for one of these chairs! Lol

some examples of what I'm looking for. Take a note of the size and padding. ebay.com/itm/Moon-Chairs-Every-Decor-Extra-Large-Size-/300456480448?pt=US_Chairs&var=&hash=item8bb2fcb4e0 amazon.com/Roundabout-Chair-Sage-32-44/dp/B0053N0Q0I/ref=sr_1_6?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1324350177&sr=1-6 These are alot over confy then the spinefex and oz trail ones. I mean I'll get one of those if I have to, but these look so good. Ps the shipping on these are just over $250 thus why I haven't considered them yet.

first of all, I ment to use dry acetone to produce a complete dry powder extract so that there is no acetone left in the final product. I found trying to dry vodka extracts need to by done extremely quickly or the water may react with the product. Also, acetone was my choice because the chemicals you speak of are in the same class as salvinorin, which is ridiculously soluble in acetone but insoluble in water and only a lil soluble in alcohol (compared to acetone) Finally, adding water to a solvent will reduce the soluability of some chemicals. E.g. Salvinorin is significantly less soluble in very wet acetone then dry acetone. Don't mind me, I'm just over thinking again :S