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How to grow psychedelic mushrooms
How to grow psychedelic mushrooms for the first time
Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only, and is not a recommendation to break the law in any capacity. Spores online shop does not condone hallucinogenic (magic) mushroom growing in jurisdictions where it is currently illegal. How to grow psychedelic mushrooms in USA
Add spores to food and a growth medium, then wait for nature to turn straw into gold to begin the relatively easy process of growing mushrooms. Nevertheless, years of clandestine literature have shrouded the production of hallucinogenic mushrooms in mystery. In addition to being given a long list of lab supplies to purchase, new growers are confronted with a bewildering array of words. Furthermore, there are numerous viewpoints and approaches to growing them.
So we produced a growing manual for psychedelic mushrooms that is suitable for beginners. In order to ensure beginners’ success, we strive to reduce costs to a minimum and keep things straightforward.
How do you grow shrooms?
Most psychedelic mushroom cultivation methods share these core steps:
- Sterilization: A food source (rice, grain, manure, sawdust, popcorn kernels, bird seed, etc.) is first hydrated, loaded into Mason jars or Unicorn bags, and sterilized. Think of this as clearing a field before planting an orchard. Once competing organisms are gone, mushrooms can take hold easily.
- Inoculation: The sterilized mushroom food is inoculated with spores or a living mushroom sample. These clones produce uniform mushrooms, or fruit, and multi-spore cultures can create countless variations.
- Germination & colonization: The inoculation is given time to mature and colonize the food source, becoming a white and fluffy mycelial network—like roots, but for mushrooms—and eventually, mushrooms.
- Fruit block assembly: After colonization, a grower breaks up the inoculated food and mixes it into a substrate, or growing medium—commonly coco coir, vermiculite, or sphagnum. The substrate provides the structure and water that mushrooms need to mature. Once thoroughly combined, the mixture is sealed inside a plastic bin.
- Fruit block colonization: Inside a sealed bin, mycelium spread into the substrate. The goal is to establish a fruit block, in which the mycelium joins the food and substrate.
- Pinning: Once the block is fully colonized, primordia—aka “pins”—begin to form, indicating that it’s time to introduce fruiting conditions. These pins will eventually swell and rise from the fruit block as mushrooms.
- Fruiting: During fruiting, young mushrooms want high humidity levels and plenty of oxygen, circumstances referred to as “fruiting conditions.” As mushrooms grow, they consume oxygen and release carbon dioxide. Without the exchange of fresh air for CO2, mushrooms become susceptible to growth defects, dudding, and pathogens. If humidity levels drop too low, a substrate will eventually dry out and starve mushrooms of water.
What’s the easiest way to grow shrooms?
We developed a simple, inexpensive, and rapid method to grow mushrooms in tiny amounts that has a high success rate after experimenting with a variety of methods, including PF Cakes and monotubs. The Uncle Ben’s or Broke Boi TEK has been simplified in this case. With a few exceptions, all of the supplies you’ll need can be found in your neighborhood hardware or grocery shop. No expensive specialized equipment is required.
The method calls for using bags of pre-cooked, pre-sterilized brown rice—typically Uncle Ben’s or 90-Second Rice—as mushroom food. Inoculating the bags with a syringe of mushroom spore solution and modifying them for fresh air exchange.
After some time, the colonized rice is crumbled, combined with a moist coco-coir substrate (growth medium), and compressed into a cake.
Rice cups are simple to use, according to our research. The project can be started and completed inside the cup, and numerous cups can be grown at once. Others will probably perform well even if a few cups don’t. They’re also perfect for keeping a low-touch technique and preventing contamination because they’re pre-sterilized and vacuum-sealed.
It should be noted that while using this method reduces the possibility of contamination and labor costs, it produces smaller harvests because little cups of rice are used.
Despite the compromises, this method is an excellent way to start mushroom gardening and see whether the pastime is suited for you.
How long does it take to grow shrooms?
It only takes an afternoon to complete the preparation and immunization procedures. Colonization can begin two to eight weeks after vaccination, depending on the environment, a person’s genetic makeup, and the inoculation method used. Pins and fruits will begin to form in one to four weeks after the cups have been colonized and given birth.
It can take a mushroom one to three months to complete its whole growth cycle.
What type of shrooms should I grow?
The standard species of choice for novice and expert mushroom growers alike is Psilocybe cubensis, also known as “cubes.” The species is prized for its widespread accessibility, strong psychotropic effects, and simplicity of production.
Cubensis are saprophytic decomposer species that consume dead organic waste. Cubes are far less selective about their food sources than other hallucinogenic species are, and they can obtain nutrients from complete foods, dung, and decaying organic waste.
The cubensis subspecies accounts for the majority of commercially accessible hallucinogenic mushroom spores: Offshoots of the cubensis with names like Golden Teacher, Yeti, and Penis Envy were discovered by multi-spore inoculations or mutations found in the wild and eventually stabilized.
As you can see, we took care to steer clear of the word “strain.” This is due to the word being avoided by the mushroom community.
