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Are they p. cubensis * 3
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I think these are psilocybe cubensis but it would be great if someone could dubble check as it is my first time hunting.

I found these speciments on a cattle fielt in northern Queensland. The caps are slightly slimy and wet and approximately 8-9 cm in diameter (the bigger one). The stems approximately 1 cm thick. The rest can be seen in the pictures. Pic 5 shows the base of the bigger mushroom with some slightly blue bruising and a little pin.

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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Peter_Lustig]
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:highfive: :inlove2:

Looks promising. Maybe some gill shots too next time.
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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Wedgie] * 1
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Thanks for the reminder:)





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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Peter_Lustig] * 1
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Yessir, P. cubensis. Nice finds and welcome to the shroomery!


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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Dandurn777]
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Dandurn777 said:
Yessir, P. cubensis. Nice finds and welcome to the shroomery!


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Nice first post. :thumbup:


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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Anglerfish]
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Haha thanks :smile:. Im very excited to get started

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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Peter_Lustig]
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Great pics, I'll make sure to keep a sharp eye out next season so I can get some easier strains to work with. These look like fine specimens.

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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: tultedspoon]
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Do you cultivate from wild spores?

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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Peter_Lustig]
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The joke around here is that I don't cultivate.

I have been trying to cultivate a wild Panaeolus species. On my 2nd official run of PF Tek jars now and I'm hoping I get better results.

Take prints of every shroom you can, once a print looks decent put it on another piece of foil and see if you can get more than 2 or 3 prints per cap. Keep them from drying out during the printing process. I like to put them inside an open cereal box. I put the shroom cap on the foil, and put that on top of a zip loc bag that slides into the open box. Keeps it from drying out fast and I can usually get a 2 solid prints from each cap if I remember. I've collected over 80 prints at this point so it's only a matter of time before I can figure out what this species needs. You got lucky finding cubes and should have an easy time.

You only need a small percentage of each print when you attempt your PF Tek jars. You should be able to have several several chances of getting the process down and getting fruits which you can then take a ton more prints of.

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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: tultedspoon] * 1
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If you’re starting from wild spores, you really should start with agar.


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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: tultedspoon]
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Sounds very interesting, do you know the exact panaeolus species? I took about 7 prints and will definitely try to cultivate them. I just hope they aren't too contaminated, as I'm traveling right now and made the prints in a car without perfect technique :uhoh:
I really hope the cultivated fruiting bodys come out as beautiful as I found them in the nature.
Are there any specific reasons why to use agar when working with wild spores?

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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Peter_Lustig] * 1
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Peter_Lustig said:
Sounds very interesting, do you know the exact panaeolus species? I took about 7 prints and will definitely try to cultivate them. I just hope they aren't too contaminated, as I'm traveling right now and made the prints in a car without perfect technique :uhoh:
I really hope the cultivated fruiting bodys come out as beautiful as I found them in the nature.
Are there any specific reasons why to use agar when working with wild spores?


Yes, agar gives you the opportunity to "clean" a contaminated print, by doing mycelium transfers from a contaminated agar plate
to a new one. Then repeat until no contam starts growing. And of course, with a healthy mycelium already growing, the colonization
of your bulk substrate will go much faster and be less prone to further contamination. Also, having a culture on agar gives you ready
mycelium for subsequent grows.

Mind you, I'm not experienced at all with cultivation. Check in the Cultivation forum, you'll find all information you need.


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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Anglerfish] * 1
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Anglerfish said:
Peter_Lustig said:
Sounds very interesting, do you know the exact panaeolus species? I took about 7 prints and will definitely try to cultivate them. I just hope they aren't too contaminated, as I'm traveling right now and made the prints in a car without perfect technique :uhoh:
I really hope the cultivated fruiting bodys come out as beautiful as I found them in the nature.
Are there any specific reasons why to use agar when working with wild spores?


Yes, agar gives you the opportunity to "clean" a contaminated print, by doing mycelium transfers from a contaminated agar plate
to a new one. Then repeat until no contam starts growing. And of course, with a healthy mycelium already growing, the colonization
of your bulk substrate will go much faster and be less prone to further contamination. Also, having a culture on agar gives you ready
mycelium for subsequent grows.

Mind you, I'm not experienced at all with cultivation. Check in the Cultivation forum, you'll find all information you need.



Angler nailed it. Agar just gives you an opportunity to clean up your culture. If you try to cultivate, you want things as clean as possible because most contaminants will outgrow your mycelium and take over the substrate. Wild prints are highly likely to have some kind of mold, bacteria, etc that will grow much faster than the mycelium (especially in the early phases of a grow). You can get everything you need to work on aseptic technique for under $200. Probably even less if you hit up garage sales or look around for deals. You just need a still air box (large see through plastic tote/container), some sterile, plastic Petri dishes, some kind of loop or something you can flame sterilize to swab spores, some isopropyl alcohol, wide mouth quart mason jars, and a pressure cooker to sterilize your substrate. There’s a few other ingredients you need to make the agar but overall it’s not that difficult. You can create massive amount of spawn and can easily grow cubes indoors. The cultivation forum has a lot of good information to help you out and people to answer any questions you have. I definitely wouldn’t just throw those spores to grain. All you’ll get is wasted time and contaminants growing out of control. Good luck!


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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Dandurn777]
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Yep, agar, and preferably cloning, is what appears to be the safest method to get good results.
All info available from the Trusted Cultivators. There are some pretty nice teks for growing various species.
P. cubensis is nearly foolproof to grow if you stick to the tried and tested methods. Panaeolus requires
more work and more attention, and is not a beginners genus.


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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Dandurn777] * 1
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Thanks very much for the tips. Im traveling right now. I'll get started with the agar when I'll be back home. It will actually be my second grow as I did a small monotub once. But it will be my first time working with spores (I bought ready lc the first time). Im really curious if i can observe any differences between the wild cubes and the purchased golden Teacher lc.

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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Anglerfish]
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Anglerfish said:
Yep, agar, and preferably cloning, is what appears to be the safest method to get good results.
All info available from the Trusted Cultivators. There are some pretty nice teks for growing various species.
P. cubensis is nearly foolproof to grow if you stick to the tried and tested methods. Panaeolus requires
more work and more attention, and is not a beginners genus.


With cloning, do you mean directly cloning a wild specimen from its tissue or cloning a good phenotype grown from the spores?

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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Peter_Lustig]
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Peter_Lustig said:
Anglerfish said:
Yep, agar, and preferably cloning, is what appears to be the safest method to get good results.
All info available from the Trusted Cultivators. There are some pretty nice teks for growing various species.
P. cubensis is nearly foolproof to grow if you stick to the tried and tested methods. Panaeolus requires
more work and more attention, and is not a beginners genus.


With cloning, do you mean directly cloning a wild specimen from its tissue or cloning a good phenotype grown from the spores?


He’s talking about cloning tissue from a wild specimen.


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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Peter_Lustig]
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Peter_Lustig said:
Anglerfish said:
Yep, agar, and preferably cloning, is what appears to be the safest method to get good results.
All info available from the Trusted Cultivators. There are some pretty nice teks for growing various species.
P. cubensis is nearly foolproof to grow if you stick to the tried and tested methods. Panaeolus requires
more work and more attention, and is not a beginners genus.


With cloning, do you mean directly cloning a wild specimen from its tissue or cloning a good phenotype grown from the spores?


Whatever you choose or have the possibility to do. If you're travelling I see how it would be difficult to clone from a wild find.
But as soon as you get some fruits from the spores you take back home, you should clone the fattest one.


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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Anglerfish] * 2
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Hi again, my latest finding gave me some motivation to go hunting again. This time with more time and area to search. I had some luck.
Could you guys maybe have another quick look to check if they all look good? :smile:

The ones in the pot are the same as on the cutting board, just after I cleaned them. So you can see some more bruising. From the 5 biggest ones I took spore prints, they are still in process.











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Re: Are they p. cubensis [Re: Peter_Lustig]
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Yes all Psilocybe Cubensis.


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