This post has a lot of data. Summary: to make significant progress towards recovering, I need your help to buy equipment that costs approximately US$92.52.
Steps to produce psilocybin
- Sterilize equipment
- Prepare “seed” from fruiting bodies or from spores
- Prepare substrate in container
- Add the “seed” to the substrate container
- Put seeded substrate container into colonizing chamber
- When substrate is fully colonized, add sterile water
- Put fully colonized substrate container into fruiting chamber
- Use spores and fruiting bodies to create new “seed”
- Harvest and preserve fruit bodies
Equipment cost and status
The equipment is generally arranged in chronological order of when I need it. I spent many hours converting all of my notes and documentation into the following table. (In the future, updating the table should take only a fraction of the time.) The table is not perfect because if I don’t post anything, then you won’t know my situation.
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Immediate needs
Because my spores were contaminated, I had to order spores from the internet. The spores and the vermiculite should arrive in a few days. When they arrive, I need to do Steps 3, 4 & 5 from the above list. I need to buy equipment to complete those steps, but I don’t have enough money.
My minimum needs
When cultivating mushrooms, risk of failure includes: contamination (this must be taken seriously), dehydration, rot from excess water, death from high temperature, and low yield from low temperature. More precautions reduces those risks. The following table lists the equipment I need, at a minimum, to be successful. For some items, I estimated the costs.
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Reducing the risk of failure
With a few more items or by using higher quality items, I can significantly reduce my risk of failure. If this attempt fails, then it wastes money and delays my recovery. The next table estimates some costs.
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Exchange rate, ATM fee, and PayPal fees
Some good news: the Mexican peso recently weakened versus the US dollar. However, PayPal charges me fees for multiple things and I must pay a fee at Mexican ATMs. Based on today’s rates and fees, I calculate the above amounts in US dollars as: US$37.33 to US$92.52.
This is my chance to recover. Please support my return to society. PayPal account: [email protected]
