Anglerfish said:

Those are some really nice looking cubes. The midmost one looks like it lacks spore production.

In my experience 'blue meanies' is mostly used in Australia to describe Panaeolus (Copelandia) cyanescens.

Me, I'll always prefer "super blue paddy pumpers".

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Blue meanies has always been a reference to Panaeolus Cyanescens in my book and many others books evidently.
Where did you hear or come up with Blue meanies as a nickname for a type of cubensis?

LincolnCityTripper said:

Anglerfish said:

Those are some really nice looking cubes. The midmost one looks like it lacks spore production.

In my experience 'blue meanies' is mostly used in Australia to describe Panaeolus (Copelandia) cyanescens.

Me, I'll always prefer "super blue paddy pumpers".

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Blue meanies has always been a reference to Panaeolus Cyanescens in my book and many others books evidently.
Where did you hear or come up with Blue meanies as a nickname for a type of cubensis?

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LincolnCityTripper said:

Anglerfish said:

Those are some really nice looking cubes. The midmost one looks like it lacks spore production.

In my experience 'blue meanies' is mostly used in Australia to describe Panaeolus (Copelandia) cyanescens.

Me, I'll always prefer "super blue paddy pumpers".

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Blue meanies has always been a reference to Panaeolus Cyanescens in my book and many others books evidently.
Where did you hear or come up with Blue meanies as a nickname for a type of cubensis?

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bloodycarcass said:

ive never once heard of a cu emsis being referred to as blue meanie even here in ga.  its either cubensis, or pan cyans, pan cyans are what ive always heard were blue meanies.  qhat youre referring to is just the spores covering to outer edge, which you can see is purple, not blue.  much like how peiple confuses stropharia for cubes this are notorious for turing purple around the margin of the caps its just spores

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Hamra said:

Many people also seem to think that cultivated strains of cubes apply to wild cubes - not true - in the wild there are no strains - those are purely a result of domestication and selective propagation. That isnt to say that some specimens can be a lot stronger than others depeding on various environmental and genetic factors. More intense bluing can sometimes be an indicator of that, although the blueing effect is caused by the breakdown of psilocyn, so the more carefully you handle them and minimize it, the better... But presumably if theres more psilocin present, more will be breaking down.

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Doc9151 said:

Hamra said:

Many people also seem to think that cultivated strains of cubes apply to wild cubes - not true - in the wild there are no strains - those are purely a result of domestication and selective propagation. That isnt to say that some specimens can be a lot stronger than others depeding on various environmental and genetic factors. More intense bluing can sometimes be an indicator of that, although the blueing effect is caused by the breakdown of psilocyn, so the more carefully you handle them and minimize it, the better... But presumably if theres more psilocin present, more will be breaking down.

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That's not necessarily true, Wild cubensis picked from Texas east to the big bend in Florida is called psilocybe cubensis Gulf coast strain.  Tampa area is treasure coast,  palm city Florida has purple mystic, but they are all psilocybe cubensis.

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KinokoKomodo said:

i have no idea why anyone needs to start speculating about greed and foul play over a f*cking mushroom variety.

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Well, because there was a lot of that, especially in the early days of cubensis cultivation. Just look at B+, it was advertised as the bestest possible mushroom because it was supposedly a hybrid between cubensis and azurescens (and that just because in one test P. azurescens came out as 10X stronger than cubensis). Today, you can easily discover on the internet that that is a blatant lie. But 20 or 30 years ago, people who didn't know anything about mushrooms could easily fall for that, especially if they saw a picture of a "B+" with slightly pointy cap, similar to azurescenses.
With Blue meanie variety it was somewhat different, here they played on name association with Panaeolus cyanescens. People talked about how "blue meanies" were the strongest, meaning Panaeolus cyanescens, and the vendors wanted to cash in on that. They didn't come up with the name, just (ab)used it.
That said, your mushrooms are beautiful, and nobody is accusing you of scamming or anything, but the point is that those marketing gimmicks were very prevalent among spore vendors until just a couple of years ago, and the less reputable vendors are still using them today.
Enjoy you wild Florida blue meanies, they look beautiful and very tasty!