I tried this strain of mushroom for the name alone and have really struggled to enjoy strong and heavy doses. Not so much a bad trip as just poor visuals, poor body load, too much (fist-under-chin) thinking, and all in all hardly qualifying IMO as a psychedelic experience.

I don't know if it is how I have dried them...they were brittle and bone dry and not subject to excess heat during the drying process. I ingested them in a cup of tea...as I usually do with mushrooms. I have never ever had a bad trip on mushrooms but this strain, for me, felt a tad negative in its energy. Puzzling

I wondered what kind of plant teacher might be behind such a strain, or possibly just this particular batch delivered unto me.

I would say this kind of energy is the plant teacher behind this particular unfortunate batch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-LyFMCIpok

Anyone had positives with this strain?

do you mean syzygy? I just grew some syzygy. I have not tested them myself yet but I gave some to some friends and they said they were pretty potent.

Grew some syzygy at the beginning of the summer. I found it to be, on average, as potent as the Redboys and PESAs I grow.

Also - at least with the genetics I have - seemed to be slow colonizers compared to other races.

OP,

If it is just one experience that is making you think this, there are many other variables that could contribute to this different experience, including of course simple state of mind or biochemistry related things...

If you have used them several times, and also several other strains, within a close time period, and the experience from the Mckennai are significantly and consistancly different, then you have a reason to believe that its an actual trait of the strain.

Also consider bacterial contamination of the mushrooms or some kind of contam

How did you store them?

Lack of good storage might significantly reduce potency.

That link was just so out of left field but absolutely cracked me up.

An airtight container with 2 x 100g reasonably fresh silica gel packs...the already air-dried mushrooms were not on the packs but separated by a wire mesh. I have stored other strains this way.

I am not saying they did not work...I yawned a lot (I mean a lot); I felt I had energy (like a small dose of speed)...and I had trails from movement of hands (or whatever)...but to me it just did not feel properly psychedelic.

I like melting colour changing breathing walls...I like a body load that puts me right under my duvet in a fetal position, I just love to struggle with the power of a full on heavy dose.

Tell you what...I have a Thai batch underway...I will dry them and intake them using the same methods and amounts and report back in due course.

He's a darling, ain't he?