Ok So I have been all over the internet looking at articles on how to grow magic shrooms. they all seem to disagree on what materials I need. they all say: psilocybin spores, vermiculite, brown rice flour, 1/2 pint jars. but the rest is often disagreed or not included on different articles making it confusing.
I guess you are using a torch. The annealing process begins by reducing the temperature of the glass using the edges and end of the flame so the glass has as little stress in it as possible Then the ideal is use a controlled temperature source (kiln) that will hold at the high end and slowly drop - unlike stuff in the air where the hotter it is, the faster it cools - usually cracking. Vermiculite is a fairly high temp insulator that is available cheap at garden centers for making soil mixes. The most common use for torch workers is to put a quantity in a crock pot or an electric skillet. Neither of these get hot enough to truly anneal the glass in a short time, but by heating the vermiculite the flame annealed glass does not chill quite as fast. Eventually you will have to get a kiln as you make bigger beads or thicker glass in sculptures, etc.
