http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3920207.stm
the last sentence is interesting
Psyche Deli had received a ruling from Customs and Excise saying that the sale of fresh psilocybe mushrooms was liable for VAT.
the hassle sellers have recieved has only been on certain patches, mainly in cities. I sincerely hope that this does not eventually cause a law that will stop the millennial long practice of collecting liberty caps on dartmoor. that would suck.
Could be time to quickly learn how to create a big bank of spores to keep yourselves amused…
Dr Werp’s Magic Kidson Nut/C asing Formula
and Layman’s Guide to legally mass producing Ecuadorian Cubensis mushrooms for peanuts in the UK.
(Disclaimer Dr Werp is not a real doctor)
e=mush2
Where:
e= Number of Ecuadorian Cubensis mushrooms produced.
m= Level of Mycological enthusiasm.
u= Underlying components (financial resources £50 up to >£200 x access to a town with a head shop, an organic foodstore, and a Wilkinsons).
s= Level of understanding of the term “Sterile Environment”. (S principle)
h= House (amount of space available therein x level of control over the temperature of house).
£60 cost for 60lb of fresh mushroom produced method.
Step One: Purchase an Ecuadorian Cubensis Mushroom Grow kit from the net or you local head shop (£20). Go to Wilkinson’s and buy a black square plastic box about twice as large as the plastic grow kit box with a lid to fit that is of the translucent/clear plastic., some of their smallest transparent food storage boxes (square), a squirty spray gardening bottle, lots of vermiculite, some new sponges, a bottle of bleach, and a couple of bags of wild bird seed and find some brown rice flour from a health food shop (total £20) .
Step Two: Follow the instructions on the grow kit regarding the water spray, bleach, plastic box etc. Your terrarium is the black box with its translucent lid which has some small holes drilled / pierced in it. Do not pick these mushrooms until they have spored and collect the spores in the following method: use l ight to try to get the mushrooms to spore over the pool of water which will coat the water with a dark film / use foil to collect spores which fall on the grow kit.
Collect about as many spores as would represent approximately the average application of caviar to one slice of toast, by skimming the water surface, and removing the spores which have coated the foil with water . Collect the spores in water in a jar or other suitable container remembering S principle. We will now refer to this as the Trillion Spore Suspension.
Step Three: Do what you feel is sensible with the mushrooms according to UK law.
Step Four: Using the formula of :
0.35% brown rice flour to 1% vermiculite which has all been sterilised by heating repeatedly to 150 degrees centigrade in an over plus a couple of spoonfulls full per incubation box of Wilkinson’s Wild Bird Seed (Nut) which has been boiled and then sterilised by heating repeatedly to 150 degrees centigrade in an oven.
And after letting what we will now refer to as the Substrate Matter cool down you will now make an Inoculation Sandwich. For this you will need to fill the small transparent food storage box by following Step Five.
Step Five; Remembering the S principle fill the boxes with an inch of dry vermiculite
Then spoon on an inch of Substrate Matter.
Stir the Trillion Spore Suspension and then pour enough into the box to make the contents a bit soggy. Fill the rest of the box with dry vermiculite (Casing). Put the lid on the box. Wrap the box in silver foil and put it somewhere warm and dark .
You have now created your Inoculation Sandwich . Leave it be for a whale, keep it warm and dark, and check it after a week or so.
Create as many Inoculation Sandwich boxes as possible. When they are at a stage where when you unwrap the silver foil you can see that fine white threads and a white spiky “mould” (mycelium) have formed over most of the surface you are nearly read for Step 6.
Go to Wilkinsons. Buy some really big black storage boxes and both black opaque and translucent box tops. Buy lots of the underlying components for the Substrate Matter. (all £20)
Make several Giant Incubation Sandwiches, which is the same as an Inoculation Sandwich but it is huge and this time using double the Nut. Put a small food storage box containing water in the corner to generate humidity. Insert pecies of the Colonised Substrate Matter from the small Inoculation Sandwich boxes into the Giant Incubation Sandwiches. Pour on some dry vermiculite Casing up to a couple of inches deep. Cover with black opaque top and leave somewhere warm until colonised as per step 5.
Step 6: Remove black opaque lid, replace with pierced translucent lid. Put a small food storage box containing water in the corner to generate humidity. Add two inches more Casing and treat as per Step Two remembering the importance of humidity and aeration etc. You now have a limitless and infinitely sustainable method for mass producing Ecuadorian Cubensis mushrooms, most Psilocybe mushrooms, and trillions of spores.
Step 7: Study Enthnomycolgy, and ensure that before the UK government changes the law on the sale of Cubensis grow kits, mushrooms, and spores, you understand the importance of having available a trillion trillion Cubensis spores, of all variety, for future microscopical research etc.
Step 8 : Do not abuse the mushroom.
so get busy 😉
