Psilocybe Caerulipes Thread

Been forever since I bumped this thread but I am back with a new approach. I was inspired by a reddit post where someone was able to grow caerulipes in a large jar. Its worth a look if niche mushroom cultivation interests you guys. I will include a snip if you don't care to click the link.

credit to reddit user u/Emergency-Method-625

link to post: https://www.reddit.com/r/druggardening/comments/nl6n9o/ps_caerulipes_fruited_indoors/

Now as for how it worked? not entirely sure. My first theory is the small amount of naturalized substrate. op stated it came from where they found the mushrooms. The other factor could be the spores sprinkled directly onto the substrate. Perhaps the large amount of genetic diversity and a bit of luck created a culture capable of fruiting inside.

I still do think substrate will play a big role in getting them to fruit. To try and emulate this I took a few wide mouth pints and placed about a half inch of birch duff in them and sterilized. The duff was basically a rotten birch log that had basically turned to dirt and a little bit of soil from the surrounding area. I inocculated each of the jars with a single small agar wedge, and they are nearing full colonization. Very healthy looking myc, I think scaling it down to a smaller amount of substrate has allowed for better consolidation. I still have never seen these mushrooms in real life but from what I can tell they are some really tiny bastards. Can't imagine they need a whole lot of substrate to fruit from.

I am planning on replacing the lid with a moist paper cloth to initiate fruiting. One jar I will place in a window sill that gets down to 50f at night and the other I think I will leave in the fridge over night, and take out during the day. My theory is that they may just need a bit of a cold shock to initiate fruiting. From the research I have done cross referencing inaturalist observations with historical weather data, it seems that the night time low dipping into the 50s is what initiates pinning. The daytime temps were all much higher than any other woodlover fruiting temps, some of them even observed with day time highs in the high 80f. It seems that the first signs of fall creeping in, a cold shock if you will, is the necessary factor for fruiting. This is all just a theory though, so anyone reading this in the future, just know this might have been a massive waste of time

I am also going to try spawning some grain to a 50/50 mix of coir and duff, I will post pics of that in a few weeks.

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