Psilocybe Cyanesense

Star Dog said:

I think the one we get in Northern Europe are ps semilanciata?

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Randall Skeffington said:

As it is, when I fail to find, I fill the demand.

I acquired two syringes of ps.Cyanesense and decided to cultivate these elusive mushrooms.

4x 5 pound bags with sawdust and a different hardwood for each bag, sterilized and inoculated to see which does better.

hardwood sawdust pellets (birch/maple) mixed with:
- 1x cherry chips
- 1x apple chips
- 1x hickory chips
- 1x mesquite and alder chips

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I have also prepared 10 gal pot with a 50/50 mix of pasteurized coco coir / perlite and the aforementioned hardwood sawdust. There are about 12 9” alder logs 2-4” in diameter that I cut and sterilized in the canner as well as boiled to collect some of their tannins which I used to soak the coir. They are buried in layers amongst the sawdust substrate and topped with a layer of blended hardwood chips mentioned above. Unfortunately alder chips are not available here but red alder trees abound. Local mulch suppliers only use cedar chips for some reason.
This pot has been inoculated with a syringe and while some may say that it won’t work I guess we will see.

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nothing fun yet I know but here’s to introducing these mushrooms to the local scene.

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canndo said:

I suggest you inoculate sterilized or pasteurized corrugated cardboard, let the cardboard become colonized and then lay it under your chips.

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Randall Skeffington said:

If these don’t colonize and I get more syringes or prints I will try inoculating grain and do the cardboard thing. So far I have not seen anything happening.
the syringes I got where very lightly yellow tinged and looked more like live culture than spore so I’m assuming some of the spores germed inside. They may not have been viable as well.
Either way I have plenty of time before the spring to get it figured out.

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SuBlimE420 said:

Your spawning directly onto the wood chips???
You following a tek or just shootin from the hip?

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Randall Skeffington said:

well I have read that people have spawned into grain, or onto cardboard or onto wood.

I went straight to small wood chips in hardwood sawdust both in an open but pasteurized environment and in sterilized bags. What should be the difference? Spores drop onto hardwood chips “in the wild”. However I am approaching the end of week two with no visible germination. However, the syringes I got had a yellow tinge and a bit of floating goop which could be germed spores but may have also been contamination.
I think this round may be a dud but I will continue my pursuit. I have also heard p. c. takes awhile to set itself up so I dunno.
If/when I get more spores of wavy caps I’ll try a different vendor. I will also try rye berries next time and go the conventional route.
There is not a lot of info on people cultivating these which is why I started a thread.


on another note. I planted a few red alder saplings into the wood pot. Perhaps the roots of the trees will provide something positive to the myceliums environment.

so to answer the question, I am shooting from the hip with as educated guesses as I can make.

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