Posted 18 August 2006 - 05:52 AM

I asked a lot of people in the chat last night about this, and no one really had much information regarding it. I'll explain it, and then ask my questions to see if I can get a general consensus.



In 1989 Jochen Gartz published a paper (and later patented the process) about adding different tryptamine bases to the growing substrate for Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms.



In the first experiment, 25mg of tryptamine was added to 10g of sterilized manure/rice. After fruit, the mushrooms were checked (i guess) with chromotography, and they had a psilocin percentage of 3.3%. Compared to what Stamets lists as the average for P. cubensis, .60% psilocin, that's a huge increase in the psilocin content.



Later experiments showed that adding any tryptamine to the substrate would cause the mushrooms to produce the four hydroxy (4-HO) grouping of that original tryptamine. So for example, in his experiments, DPT was converted to 4-HO-DPT, and DiPT was converted to 4-HO-DiPT.



As far as I can find, there hasn't been any attempts to repeat this process. Anyone know anything about it, or even if it was valid?

