I haven't yet done the research into this nearly as much as I would like, as I haven't had much time since I've had this idea but I wanted to post the idea before I forgot it, which happens fairly often, I believe.
I noticed that the nutrients, temperature, and other variables of the liquid cultures of Ergot can greatly affect the alkaloid content it produces in a liquid culture medium. Everything from type of carbon source to pH, phosphate, arsinic, etc levels effect it. Even levels of oxygen can affect what types of alkaloids are formed.
I assume that it is pretty likley that one could go about turning the P. Cubensis mycelium, which generally produces very low, and fairly useless levels of alkaloids, into something that might be useful and rather interesting to play with, as well as alter the levels/ratio of psilocybin and psilocin + other alkaloids.
I will look into more information for this later, but I figure altering temperature, adding certain precursors and finding a high alkaloid strain should really make a big difference as well as amount of oxygen, etc. Really just trying out a lot of the things they've done to increase ergot alkaloids ought to help increase alkaloids, or at least lead one in the right direction -- assuming there is a similiar mechanism behind it. I'll update this more later on when/if I find more information about it.
and as for the possible question of: why not just grow mushrooms to be easy? I have no idea this interests me more.
I noticed that the nutrients, temperature, and other variables of the liquid cultures of Ergot can greatly affect the alkaloid content it produces in a liquid culture medium. Everything from type of carbon source to pH, phosphate, arsinic, etc levels effect it. Even levels of oxygen can affect what types of alkaloids are formed.
I assume that it is pretty likley that one could go about turning the P. Cubensis mycelium, which generally produces very low, and fairly useless levels of alkaloids, into something that might be useful and rather interesting to play with, as well as alter the levels/ratio of psilocybin and psilocin + other alkaloids.
I will look into more information for this later, but I figure altering temperature, adding certain precursors and finding a high alkaloid strain should really make a big difference as well as amount of oxygen, etc. Really just trying out a lot of the things they've done to increase ergot alkaloids ought to help increase alkaloids, or at least lead one in the right direction -- assuming there is a similiar mechanism behind it. I'll update this more later on when/if I find more information about it.
and as for the possible question of: why not just grow mushrooms to be easy? I have no idea this interests me more.