Testing shrooms I pick...

I'm new to this, I have no help, so don't tell me to ask someone who does it because I live in a redneck beer drinking town.

If I take just a little chunk of a shroom I pick and eat it, just a little chunk, if it's a magic shroom will I feel enough to know I have the right thing? Also if it's poisonous will just a little chunk be harmful.

 

Bruise it, if it turns blue it's probably good... Also find pictures on the internet, or get a book on mushrooms...

 

You probably wont be able to tell if it's a magic shroom by it's taste (and just a chunk wont get you the LEAST bit trippy), and I recommend you don't do that.

But yeah, as Soulless said, just check and see if it bruises blue.

 

Give'em to me man, I'll test them out for you.

 

yep thats the way to do it!!

 

Yeah, test to see if it bruises blue. But also, take the cap off of one and place it on a sheet of white paper. Then cover it with a glass and leave it for about 20 minutes. Take the glass off and look at the piece of paper under the cap. If there is a bluish/purple-brown colored print, it is the good kind. But i may be wrong on the color. Someone please correct me if i am.


And if i may ask, where in tennesee to you live? Im right on the border with Tennesee in Virginia.

 

White shrooms orangish circle on the button with a blue/purple ring around the stem that grows on old decaying manure and you are in good shape. In all the times I used to go shroom hunting there was only one shroom that looked like the ones they get you fucked up the others on manure are totally different looking. If you are looking for other type of shrooms like the ones that grow in the woods I am clueless. Seeing you are in TN could be eitherway.

 

East Tennessee, about 40 miles Northeast of Knoxville.

 

dark purple-black is the color of the print you want.

 

Just for You to know there are loads of inactive, inedible and even poisonous mushrooms that bruise blue. So don't rely on bruising only.

You better use the full Stametsian rule for targeting psilocybin mushrooms:

If a gilled mushroom has purplish brown to black spores (You can check this by taking a sporeprint), AND the flesh bruises bluish, the mushroom in question is very likely a psilocybin-producing species.

But normally You should know what You are looking for before going out of Your house. That's why it's called mushroom hunting. Do some research on what psilocybin-active species grow in Your area, study these species well and then the chances You fail are close to none.