I've read elsewhere that trans-4-mar can be synthesized with norephedrine (phenylpropanolamine) and a cyanate salt, whether sodium or potassium cyanate. I've tried that route a few times, but had trouble with the PPA synthesis. Supposedly the Akabori synthesis is the easiest way to go, but you...

To be fair, it took a lot of messing around. You have to have a good eye for what fungus is mushroom mycelium and what's actually mold. Also, the less you check on how your fungus is doing, the better off you are. Disturbing the substrate tends to spread mold spores, if any mold is growing on...

No problem. :) I dug up some pictures I took from that grow, since I knew I had them somewhere. I wish I'd have taken more, but that was a long time ago, so what can you do? Here's the jar I grew it in: And the two halves of the cake sprouting mushrooms. I had to cut the cake in half and...

I'm always up for a challenge, so I wanted to see if I could grow new mushrooms from some dried mushrooms that I found that were at least three years old. I didn't have high expectations for this, but I thought I'd give it a shot anyway. First, I took an old salsa jar, filled it with about a...

My favorite way? Drying them as much as possible, packing them in a pickle jar (or any suitable glass jar with a metal lid), and then tossing in a chemical hand warmer. Chemical hand warmers are made of powdered iron, and are nontoxic. It will quickly scavenge all the oxygen in the jar...

I've actually been mushroom hunting in western NY, with a friend that was experienced at it. We searched a lot in the area, but the only edible mushrooms we found were a polypore called dryad's saddle. They weren't hallucinogenic, but they were edible. We did get a whole basket of them...