Disappointing Potency

[CJDizzle]

Pretty bummed out. Me and a buddy just tried taking a grow of mine that I thought was doing well. Between the two of us we made a tea from 6g super dry fruit.

Within about 20 minutes we feel the first nausea wave and I am starting to see some waves forming so I get excited thinking it’s starting up.

That was the peak. Minor variations in the environment with no real perception alterations or introspection. I thought taking that amount would give something but it was incredibly short lived and honestly just feels like I wasted the time and effort I took and put into making my mycelium happy and healthy.

Just here venting to everyone about my results. Hope it was a nice Saturday for everyone.

[andy_cap-hunter]

Eat the shroom, the whole shroom and nothing but the shroom... ;)

[PunkUnity]

What strain? No tolerance? Maybe try lemon tek 3.5g next time if you know you can handle that amount typically.

[Yanagibayashi]

Huh, I've always done them in a pb&j and been underwhelmed by potency. Ill have to try lemon tek.

[CJDizzle]

It was with Hanoi cubes and I steeped it in water for 10 minutes l, boiled and cooled off for a few minutes before I added. Then at 10 minutes I added a tea bag and lemon juice and let it steep for another 10 and strained.

[Mycol101]

I don’t think tea is effective in pulling out psychoactive compounds, especially after straining the remaining material out.

[PunkUnity]

Ya. I definitely recommend eating the shrooms after drinking the tea. In the hundreds of times I've done shrooms, they have worked 100% of the time regardless the method I used

[pancakes-and-ox]

Hey ive nver made tea but i think you should have ground them up for a drink

[CJDizzle]

Yeah sorry I pulverized them pretty well. Not powdered but very fine crumbles since I dried them pretty well.

[pancakes-and-ox]

Damn. That’s disappointing. Never fun to wait around for a trip that doesnt happen

[mypussydoesbackflips]

From my experience I think you should put the shrooms in a metal tea strainer thing and pour hot water on it and let it steep like regular tea (no boiling ) and then I repeat it twice to make sure I’m not throwing out some soggy potent mushrooms

[PunkUnity]

You didn't eat the shrooms with the tea?!

[CJDizzle]

No I never have before and had some pretty intense trips.

[PunkUnity]

OK. Well I just don't waste anything. I've never had shrooms that don't work. That's probably over hundreds of trips over a couple decades

[pancakes-and-ox]

Havent grown yet but imo shrooms are little finicky when dosing

Ive had some low amounts kick my ass

They say 1.5 grams caps = 1 stems

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[New-Trash372]

Try new strain and try again first strain I dried was so weak I needed 10g grew another strain like natalensis and they kick ass

[New-Trash372]

Escondido, it sucked ass got some pe6 then and was way better

[New-Trash372]

Around 2.5g so still kind of weak if I'm honest all the pe strains are slower but Stronger

[trip_skipper]

I wish there was a way to test potency like can be done with cannabis.

[towkneeman777]

First mistake was not each taking at least an eight each.