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Psilocybe subaeruginosa indoors.

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#782998 - 07/28/02 09:11 PM (21 years, 8 months ago)

Hey everyone
Well finally I have some pics to share of my efforts at cultivating Psilocybe Subaeruginosa (a potent wood loving mushroom very similar to Ps. Cyanescens and Ps. Azurescens, native here in New Zealand) so I decided I?d write up a bit of a grow log while I?m at it.

June 2001
Mycelium covered wood collected from an outdoor patch of shrooms. Placed in fish tank with leaves and put in shed, misted daily. (This was the early parts of the experiment - infact I carried out most of this grow project without any info whatsoever from the net etc.) No fruits developed. Tank left in shed and forgotten about.

September 2001
-Was bored so decided to check if any new mycelium had developed in the tank (despite it being dried up for a month or two). Everything was dry but there was still some mycelium lurking around in the bottom. Re-hydrated and left for another two weeks.
-Went back to original area where mycelum was collected (although season was over by this stage) and collected non-colonised wood. Broke this into chunks about the size of the last segment of a little finger. Placed chunks in a jam jar and crudely sterilised in a pot of boiling water for 10 mins (keeping in mind I knew nothing about mushroom cultivation other than common sense and a basic knowledge of fungi in general) Once the jar had cooled, I opened it up and tossed a couple of chunks of colonised wood into the jar (just by hand) and shook it up.
Tossed the jar in my closet and left it for a few weeks.

October 2001
Mycelium spreading. I saw a few spots of the green so I heated up my pocket knife and quarterised these areas. It never came back. Left jar to colonise in closet, checking occasionally.

December 01 / January 2002
Read some info on cultivation of Ps. Cyanescens (what I thought they were at the time) on the net.

April 2002
Realised shroom season was coming up soon so I decided I?d better do something about that jar of mycelium in the closet. Went to department store and bought a seed propagation dome. Painted the base and bottom 2 inches black. Went back to area and collected more wood.
Then I chopped up some corrugated cardboard (unsterilised) that had been sitting around in my closet into chunks of about 2in x 1in. Put a layer of this in the bottom of terranium and misted. Then I sprinkled a layer of 1:10 colonised:uncolonised woodchip about 1/2in thick and misted again. Then another layer of cardboard, then another of spawn, then a final layer of cardboard / uncolonised woodchip. Misted this and placed a chunk of log in there too just to make it look cool, and for the mycelium to colonise.

Days later, I noticed that the mycelium was really beginning to reach out for the cardboard and run through the holes in it (the mycelium with this strain of mushroom is VERY rhizomorphic, infact I saw no fluffy mycelium at all just rhizomorphic) Placed terranium in shed and misted 1-2 times daily.

May 2002
The top layer of substrate now had a healthy covering of mycelium, so I sprinkled a ?casing? layer of sterlilised woodchips on top of this and began putting the terranium in the fridge for 6-8 hours a day. After 2 weeks of refrigeration, many (at least 100) hyphal knots began to appear. I eased back on the misting as to not damage these, but they never made it to fruiting (about 10 pins developed but something went wrong) I gave the terranium a really good fanning / misting and put it back in the fridge. Within a week, more hyphal knots began to appear, this time I started misting / fanning 2-3 times daily. Slowly but surely, the pins began to develop and within 2 weeks of pins forming I harvested the first flush of 20 fully grown Psilocybe Subaeruginosa mushrooms.

June - July 2002
Continued misting daily / every second day. After the first flush, outdoor temperatures dropped considerably and the ?real? (outdoor) shroom season began, so I moved the terranium out to my shed so that it would be getting optimal temperatures hassle free. The terranium has continued to produce ever since, though the flushes are getting pretty small now (last flush I only harvested 3 shrooms) so I?m about to break it up and use it as spawn for more jars for next year.

Here are some pics. These are of the second flush, the lenght of time between the first pics and the last ones is about 1.5 weeks. They are slow growin but definatley worth it! In total I have harvested around 50 shrooms from this terranium, which I am more than happy with, as that is enough for 7-8 decent psychidellic / spiritual experiences!

If anyone is interested, I have prints of this species which I am willing to trade for decent sterile prints of any other species of shroom, particularly ?magic? ones but I?m also interested in getting some edibles.

The terranium....

Babies poppin up...about 5 days old, veils about to break

Day six...notice blue abort on top of the log

Day nine...coming along nicely...mycelium still growing too

Day twelve...and the babies are finally ripe!

As you can see these are definatley the wavy capped variety of Subaeruginosa...

Mmmm I?m getting hungry!

I would have more pics but I took these with my 35mm camera so its a bit iffy gettin em developed too often...specially if your pupils are the size of dinnerplates!

Edited by concretefeet (02/07/05 06:40 AM)

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