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OfflineLordByron
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Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions
      12/07/07 04:41 PM

Hey all,
First off please excuse me if these are not exactly super "advanced mycology" questions. As a long time lurker on this board, I was afraid questions about anything other than cubes on the basic forum would not be helpful. On to the point...

So I live in Washington and want my own outdoor Psilocybe cyanescens patch. I have found these mushrooms several times in wild but never in enough quantity or quality to suffice. So recently I acquired an autoclave, a culture incubator, and built a laminar flow hood (thanks in no small part to this thread). I then hunted down a few wild specimens and have cloned them onto several petri dishes of MEA. Why MEA? Because that’s what I ordered before I read the part of “growing gourmet…” where Stamets recommends MYA, PDYA, OMYA, or DFA. But this is still a little confusing to me because two pages earlier (P. 326 in my edition) he shows a picture of P. azurescens growing on MEA. So first question, did I fuck up? Should I have used DFA or something?

Regardless, I now have several dishes with a very smooth velvety mycelium growing on them. Now on to my second question, should I be looking for rhizomorphic growth? Is the lack of rhizomorphic growth due to the MEA or the fact that I have not sectored the culture enough times yet?

My plan now was to do one more round of sectoring either on to MEA again or DFA depend on what you guys say. From there I wanted to make up a bunch of half gallon jar masters, but I am not sure what medium would be best. I am considering rye grain, wood chips (maple), and card board. The final fruiting substrate will be likely a mostly maple wood chip matrix. So should I do a couple rye grain masters then use these to inoculate woodchip masters? Or should I go first to card board then to wood chip masters? Or straight to wood chip masters? Or some combination not listed?

Lastly, I decided to hedge my bets and very recently ordered several prints so if a terminally screw up one I will have other strains to go to. I ordered two other cyanescens strains as well as Psilocybe arcana (Hlavacek’s Psilocybe) and a wild strain of Psilocybe cyanofibrillosa. The arcana is supposedly a temperate mushroom from the Czech republic that I really have no idea whether I will be able to get it to grow outdoors in Washington, but am going to give it a go. The cyanofibrillosa is a species I have only ever found in terrible states of decay in the wild and I would really like to try. While I’m sure it will grow outdoors in Washington I’m not even sure it will even get me f’d up. Does anyone have any experience growing either of these two species?

Thank you very much for any assistance now and in the past.

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Edited by LordByron (12/07/07 04:43 PM)

Post Extras Print Post Remind Me! Notify Moderator
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions RogerRabbitT   12/07/07 07:22 PM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions tahoe   12/07/07 08:27 PM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions LordByron   12/16/07 02:14 PM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions tahoe   12/16/07 08:42 PM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions LordByron   12/18/07 10:11 AM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions tahoe   12/22/07 02:45 PM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions Topcorn   12/31/07 12:37 AM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions tahoe   12/31/07 12:06 PM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions Topcorn   01/02/08 12:31 AM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions tahoe   01/02/08 12:48 AM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions Topcorn   01/03/08 12:06 AM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions RogerRabbitT   01/03/08 09:10 AM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions LordByron   01/03/08 10:53 PM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions tahoe   01/03/08 11:01 PM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions Topcorn   01/03/08 11:56 PM
. * * Re: Several Psilocybe cyanescens questions LordByron   01/04/08 09:28 PM


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