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anyway hopefully this will help all you people out there trying to figure out which species of Psilocybe Cubensis to choose 

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Sorry to be picky but if you want to be accurate... there is only one species of Psilocybe cubensis and that is Psilocybe cubensis (though some would argue Psilocybe subcubensis is the same)

According to the Shroomery Glossary  Species  Fundamental unit of biological taxonomy. Generally spoken, two individuals belong to the same species if they can produce fertile offspring

and  Strain The equivalent of race in plants and animals. The same species may consist of strains that vary considerably in genetic make up, but all are sexually compatible 

Other than that thanks for the info

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PESA = PES Amazonian 

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Extremely Potent PESA Cubensis


Ready for some drama and controversy . This one has an interesting story behind it. A company out of Hawaii called Pacific Exotic Spora (PES) advertise this strain as a cubensis/azurescens hybrid. They even went so far as to claim it came from the mushroom master Paul Stamets himself. Well people, there has been a lot of azure/cub hybrid scams in the past, and to this day the experts such as P. Stamets have not published any information about being able to hybridize a p. azurescen with a p. cubensis. They are completly different species and this task would certainly be extremely difficult. I'm sure if anyone can do it, P. Stamets can, and hopefully one day he will. But until something is published, do not buy into it. This is nothing more then a very potent cubensis.



About a year ago when they started advertiseing this hybrid, a bunch of us pitched in to get a print of this (yes, that is how high there prices are and Workman grew it out and once again, a cub/azure hybrid was nothing more then a cubensis. Our grower here at T.H.E. has grown out all the cubs from PES, and found this the only one worth keeping. Another company, PF, sells the PES Hawaiin, which is a different strain, and some ppl have the PES Amazonian, this strain is niether of those. If it helps with any of the confusion, just call it PESA.. and the A does not stand for Amazonian. I think it originally stood for Azurescen.
PES (Pacific Exotic Spora)has been around for a while, and sells quite a few strains of cubs and panaeolus at a very very high price. We normally will not carry other strains that is unique to one company. But, since PES charges such a rediculous price for a print of this strain, we decided to go ahead and carry it and share with everyone because most ppl will enjoy the extreme potency.

Ok, enough of the controversial babble, now lets get down to the fact of this strain. Our grower -Clyde- finds this to be one of the most blueing cubensis he has ever worked with. After cutting these with a blade, they turn dark blue within 2-3 seconds!! Most cubs, take about 10-20 seconds to start turning dark blue. And everyone we know that has tried them found them to be extremely potent as well. Perhaps this is why PES started calling them cub/azure hybrids since the p. azurescen is the most potent mushroom in the world.
So yes, the PESA is a VERY potent cub, but potency is not everything. It produces some very light caps, although large caps compared to small stems, and does tend to abort a lot. As you will see in the pics below if you look real close. It is a semi-fast colonizer, and fruits nicely in cold temps. So this mushroom does not utilize all of the substrate very well, but the mushrooms it does produce are just extremely potent and its a real good strain to add to your collection. Like I said, it was the only one of the PES strains we liked enough to keep. And its one of our growers favorite strains, I think he is just impressed with the extreme speed of the blueing effect... so easily entertained (wink).


Ok, now for some pictures. These pictures are laid out in time progression as -Clyde- worked with this PESA strain. The best pictures are last.
This picture is from pure strain isolation, inoculating finch seed based, Hawks Magic Formula, cased with 50/50+ mix. As you can see, it didn't fruit much, and are rather ugly.
Early work with the PESA.

Ok, it gets better. These trays are multi-spore inoculation, on HMF cased with 50/50+ mix. They are starting to look much nicer.
A couple of trays of the PESA on HMF.

Now it gets much better. After working with the PESA for a while, it has been improved quite a bit.It really loves our compost as you will see. These 2 pictures are multi-spore inoculation, 2 pints of HMF mixed with 10lbs of our compost, cased with 50/50+ mix. Notice the large wide mouth 1/2 pint jar for comparison.
A beautiful flush of the PESA on our compost.Top view.
The same beautiful flush, close up side view.
This tray produced a MONSTER 2nd flush mushrooms. These caps are 5" -6" across !!! Monster 2nd Flush PESA's.
The spores of the PESA we are currently selling are from these above trays. Quality baby, as always. You should see these better results with these spores.

-Clyde- got a little creative, and wanted to see how well the PESA did outdoors. Northern Arizona temps in the fall drop down to 40F at night, about 65F daytime. -Clyde- put this PESA casing and a few other casings outdoors under some cover and just let them colonize and to their thing. Even in the cool temps, they still colonized rather rapidly, and fruited with the rain. This tray was done using the same multi-spore/HMF spawn/compost/50/50+ casing mix as the other above. The picture was taken when they were a little over mature, but still very nice.
A nice flush of PESA cubs outdoors

A sneak preview of some giant PESA pics to come. This one is 12" long and a cap diameter of over 6" across!


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hope this helps clear up some of the mistery around the pesa













 

shunter0038 said:

nice

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shroom239 said:

Thank you for taking the time to do this! I have been looking for a thread as such and stumbled upon yours by accident and am happy I did so. 

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not only is this thread totally irrelevant, inaccurate and six years old, but you bumped it AGAIN