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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday July 04 2020, @05:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the for-science dept.

https://uproxx.com/life/diy-magic-mushrooms-uncle-ben/

There's a subreddit for just about everything, but if you're a legit Uncle Ben's fan who is also a serious Redditor (that's a lonely island), you might be disappointed to find that the subreddit r/UncleBens isn't so much a gathering of hardcore pre-cooked rice fans, as it is an online sub-community of DIY psilocybin cultivators who are using Uncle Ben's and other supermarket staples to grow magic mushrooms.

[...] What makes Uncle Bens the perfect vessel for psilocybin, according to the r/UncleBens crew, is that mushroom cultivation "requires a sterile, nutrient-rich environment in which their spores can grow," and since Uncle Ben's rice is pre-cooked, sterilized and vacuum-sealed, it provides the necessary environment for cultivation.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @07:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @07:32PM (#1016201)

    Not expensive bags. A spore syringe. You can poke right into the Uncle Ben's with the syringe, inject a tiny amount of spores, and cover it up with Nexcare micropore tape. Shake it up mid-way to colonize faster.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/unclebens/comments/el1d8q/part_2_inoculating_uncle_bens_for_colonization/ [reddit.com]

    Everything that happens after the rice bag is colonized is specific to your type of mushroom and should be researched somewhere else.