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Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - Fall 2013, 2014 - Hardniess Zone 5a * 3
    #18969213 - 10/12/13 05:37 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I started this year's bed from a master culture I Isolated from some gill fragments a friend sent me last year.

The culture was started last November and went into rye a couple days after christmas 2012. I knocked up some wooden dowel plugs with the rye masters in February 2013 and set them in a cold spot in my house. They love the cold and tore the dowels apart in time to be tossed into some wood chips in the beginning of march.

In the beginning of march I soaked some oak chips in cold water with dish soap for 4 days and after draining them I mixed them with some forest floor compost after in a large black tote with holes drilled in it like a shotgun chamber. The substrate was not pasteurized. It was only soaked and drained and left to the elements outside for the spring.

In the beginning of June I dug a hole about 4 inches deeper than the chips and compost would reach and dumped them in.

I made a thin top layer about 2 inches of broken twigs and leaves and various forest debris.

I left the bed out there all summer to tend to itself until a few weeks ago. At that point I went up and spread a bag of organic potting soil over the area and covered it with more leaves and twigs leaving a 1 inch lip around the area between the chips and surface of the ground.

Since then I've been going out with a heavy spray bottle and soaking it down once a day with a quart of water.

Then last week it rained for 6 days and when it stopped I went out to check on the bed and mist it and it had moved into fruiting mode so I capped the bed with clear plastic bins that are about 8m inches high. This is the reason for the lip around the bed. To help keep the humidity up after misting everydayand still give the fruits room to grow.

These guys love cold and water! lol...

Here are the photos I have so far of the best cluster out there. There are a number of clusters,.... new pins everyday but this is the nicest ones and the farthest ahead.

The tub set up [The weights are to keep them from blowing over in the wind]




Colonizing compost/chip mix




Day 1 (Pins!) - 10/9/13 



Day 2 - 10/10/13




Day 3 - 10/12/13  



Day 4 - 10/12/13




Day 5 - 10/13/13



Day 7 - 10/15/13



Day 16 - 10/24/13


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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: ProfessorPinHead]
    #18969258 - 10/12/13 05:51 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

That's fantastic! Definitely keep us updated


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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: ProfessorPinHead]
    #18969265 - 10/12/13 05:53 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Awesome! Thanks for sharing. :popcorn:


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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: K1ngSp4de]
    #18970919 - 10/13/13 02:16 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Thanks! :smile:

I'll try and update the thread as much as I can.

With any luck they will keep going well into December.

They sure look happy out there in their cold wet habitat....


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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: ProfessorPinHead]
    #18970922 - 10/13/13 02:18 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

:bananadance:

That's awesome.

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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: FrankHorrigan]
    #18971121 - 10/13/13 05:05 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

:laugh: That looks brilliant. Keep us updated, I have my own patch in the making.


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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: Pestile]
    #18971277 - 10/13/13 07:20 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Nice! Congrats!


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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: aris]
    #18971562 - 10/13/13 09:52 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Awesome as always Professor :thumbup:


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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: Stromrider]
    #18971697 - 10/13/13 10:36 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Sweet!  I'm in zone 2-3 and it took 4 years for one of my beds to fruit the very first time.  Another took 2 years for the first fruits.

Once they get started though, they'll really take off.  Make sure they have a lot of room to spread out.

I should go take a pic of some of mine.  It's 18F here this morning and they're all frozen solid.  Most have already frozen and thawed so many times they're black.

Next year I have to remember to pick the bastards on time. :facepalm:
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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #18971703 - 10/13/13 10:37 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Damn RR letting azurescens go to waste! You suck! Tisk Tisk! :lol:


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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: Stromrider]
    #18971773 - 10/13/13 11:03 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Good job professor keep us informed. And RR don't forget to post a couple pics of your azure bed.


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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #18972253 - 10/13/13 01:51 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Thanks everyone! :smile:

Attached at the bottom of the post are a few more pix of some of the other fruits and pins I hadn't shown before.


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Once they get started though, they'll really take off.  Make sure they have a lot of room to spread out.


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Hey RR,

I will definitely be doing this. Shouldn't be a problem considering how aggressive this bed is. Little by little I will expand it out every year... :smile:


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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: ProfessorPinHead]
    #18972324 - 10/13/13 02:13 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Looking Awesome Professor :eek::grin::evil::eek::grin::evil::eek::grin::evil::eek::grin::evil:


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    #18972639 - 10/13/13 03:40 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: ProfessorPinHead]
    #18972667 - 10/13/13 03:46 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: saralove]
    #18986606 - 10/16/13 03:10 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

A little photo update. I never got a chance to post them yesterday,.



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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: ProfessorPinHead]
    #18986650 - 10/16/13 03:22 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

They are so lovely :inlove:
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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: ProfessorPinHead]
    #18986699 - 10/16/13 03:33 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Wow, that's cool. Good job.

I am in 5a too. It would be cool to have an outdoor bed that didn't die evey year.

Do you expect it to survive the winter?


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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: Khii Khwaay]
    #18987228 - 10/16/13 05:26 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I don't see why it won't survive the winter. I'll fill the bed in with fresh chips and cover it with potting soil  when it gets really cold to keep the snow off the myc.

I have another bed that survived the last two winters but is not in a very ideal place to fruit and all I have ever gotten out of it is aborted pins.

I hope to see this one survive many winters.

The fruits are so cool looking in person. They look like little orange  dum dum pops. :smile:

Something gives me the feeling eating a whole one wouldn't be a very good idea though . :hehehe:


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Re: Psilocybe azurescens outdoor bed - 2013 - Hardniess Zone 5a [Re: ProfessorPinHead]
    #18987283 - 10/16/13 05:38 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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