apparently even occurs in cold dcm; perhaps it has something to do with the hydroxyl moeity.
it quickly dissolves when the dcm warms, and not as quickly in hexane.
it quickly dissolves when the dcm warms, and not as quickly in hexane.
69ron said:This is important information.
I'm very surprised about it being able to be precipitated in cold DCM. That's a real shocker.
SWIM has all the required things for this test, even the mushrooms (kept frozen for many years, I hope they are still good), but doesn’t have the time to test it out right now. This is definitely on his to do list.
It sounds very simple.
Does anything other than the psilocin precipitate out?
benzyme said:not sure
swim considers that dcm is marginally miscible with water, but he dried the dcm over magnesium sulfate.
it's quite possible that simple tryptamine intermediates could be extracted as well.
filtering it from dcm is tricky, and evap leaves a green residue. swiy's best bet would be to use vm&p or bestine.
MagikVenom said:I bit off topic but.
Has any one noticed a difference in effects between mushrooms that have been frozen. I have frozen fresh mushrooms as well as a mushroom water tea and to me and a few others I know seem to get a more speedy edge to the trip. This was with wild cubes from Florida. I have kept both the tea and undried mushrooms frozen for over a year and seemed no potency loss. Just that slight speedy feel to the trip.
69ron said:Dried mushrooms that were steam treated after drying and then dried again seemed to maintain their potency far longer.
SWIM really hopes his frozen mushroom are ok. They were dried before freezing them. They are MANY YEARS OLD, I think they are 15 years old? I’m not sure.
soulman said:69ron said:Dried mushrooms that were steam treated after drying and then dried again seemed to maintain their potency far longer.
SWIM really hopes his frozen mushroom are ok. They were dried before freezing them. They are MANY YEARS OLD, I think they are 15 years old? I’m not sure.
What does steam treating dried mushroom do that makes them keep their potency?...Could you do this by placing them in a corrinder over a steamin pan?
Also, why you keepin them in the freezer for that long man. You really find them that hard to come by?
69ron said:soulman said:69ron said:Dried mushrooms that were steam treated after drying and then dried again seemed to maintain their potency far longer.
SWIM really hopes his frozen mushroom are ok. They were dried before freezing them. They are MANY YEARS OLD, I think they are 15 years old? I’m not sure.
What does steam treating dried mushroom do that makes them keep their potency?...Could you do this by placing them in a corrinder over a steamin pan?
Also, why you keepin them in the freezer for that long man. You really find them that hard to come by?
Yeah, just steam cook the dried mushroom like you’d cook any other vegetable. Cook for about 5 minute or until the mushrooms lose all their blue color. Break one open to be sure it’s lost it’s color all the way through and it’s done. Steaming inactivates enzymes present in the mushrooms that oxidize psilocin to an inactive blue substance. It’s also believed by some that it reverses the oxidation, but there is no proof of that. Some people think it hydrolyzes psilocybin to psilocin, again, no proof of that either. If the steaming converted the psilocybin to psilocin, it seems that the steamed mushrooms would not keep well, but they do, so I don't know if that happens.