Psilocybe Subaeruginosa grow

I thought id have a crack trying to let these buggers grow in a container. Since theyre apparently hard as fack to grow indoors ill be leaving my container outside. So basically what my plan is is to take the colonised wood chips i collected from a local patch and mix it into a container with more (uncolonised) woodchips and a few sticks and leaves to see what happens, my local patch is absolutely massive so i dont really care if this plan fails. So far i have put the colonized wood chips into the container with the uncolonized chips and with in a few days have already seem new mycelium growth. I will add pics as soon as im home. This is more of a journal to add more knowledge to the net as there arent many successful grows with this strain of shroom online ( 2 from what i can find)

This is about 5% of my local patch

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Haha excuse the pun

Heres a few pics of some jars and a bag of pine needles im trying to colonize, ive only put 1 small piece of colonozed wood chip in each jar and so far the 2 jars are already showing signs of colonization after only 2 days in the jar and the bag of pine needles i only just started, keep in mind the jars were sterilized and the pine needles are not, my reasoning for is due to research saying that Subaeruginosa doesnt always need sterilization im assuming this is bcoz the mycelium seems to be extremely aggressive and fast

Smokinr33 said:

Heres a few pics of some jars and a bag of pine needles im trying to colonize, ive only put 1 small piece of colonozed wood chip in each jar and so far the 2 jars are already showing signs of colonization after only 2 days in the jar and the bag of pine needles i only just started, keep in mind the jars were sterilized and the pine needles are not, my reasoning for is due to research saying that Subaeruginosa doesnt always need sterilization im assuming this is bcoz the mycelium seems to be extremely aggressive and fast

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i have noticed the same in psilocybe cyanescens, i initially germinated on a sterile substrate but realized that the spores were not sterile themselves. I thought "well fuck this, ill never get them growing". But then i noticed that the common contaminants found in BRF tek and PF cannot compete for a wood based substrate with a wood loving mycelium. The mycelium can then use the hardwood as a home base and fight contaminants in grains (if you have a mixed wood/grain substrate) from the comfort of the wood since the contaminant wont really try and eat hardwood anyway.

iHearAll said:

i have noticed the same in psilocybe cyanescens, i initially germinated on a sterile substrate but realized that the spores were not sterile themselves. I thought "well fuck this, ill never get them growing". But then i noticed that the common contaminants found in BRF tek and PF cannot compete for a wood based substrate with a wood loving mycelium. The mycelium can then use the hardwood as a home base and fight contaminants in grains (if you have a mixed wood/grain substrate) from the comfort of the wood since the contaminant wont really try and eat hardwood anyway.

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Ive been told cyannescens is almost identical to subaeruginosa. Do you have any pics im keen to see how it looks as ive got a few small spots of green in the jars but they sooooo slow growing

Smokinr33 said:

Ive been told cyannescens is almost identical to subaeruginosa. Do you have any pics im keen to see how it looks as ive got a few small spots of green in the jars but they sooooo slow growing

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the white clump in the larger jar was a BRF/oak chip cake that was contaminated with trichoderma. The trich went to spore and everything. Well, the Ps cyan ate it all so I emptied the BRF/OAK jar into a jar of damp aspen shavings (rabbit beddng). The little jar is a transfer i made from that same BRF/oak but instead of aspen shavings i used old dead bamboo that i split into shanks, crammed in the jar, and soaked for a few days prior.

bamboo

aspen

Did you sterilize the jars or nah

Smokinr33 said:

Did you sterilize the jars or nah

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nope, only the initial BRF

iHearAll said:

nope, only the initial BRF

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R those new pics or u already harvested em

Smokinr33 said:

R those new pics or u already harvested em

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New, I won't be harvesting until fall and/or spring unless I grow in the fridge .

iHearAll said:

New, I won't be harvesting until fall and/or spring unless I grow in the fridge .

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Oh i see well good luck and keep us posted

Heres some pics of a another container i started at same time as the jars. The stuff in it is saw dust similar to hamster bedding. The mycelium has absolutely gone nuts in this stuff, after 1 day ive seen a huge amount of growth, the colonized piece of wood chip o put in it was white with no mycelium reaching out abd after only 1 day its reaching all over. Oh and if anyones wonderong those sticks covering the piece of wood chip is weed stems lol

And finaly heres the big container with the big clumps of colonized chips i mentioned.

Very nice, I want to see what you grow.

More pics. I also put a casing layer of pine needles over all the wood chip as ive heard pine needles contain certain bacteria that ps. subaeruginosa needs to fruit but apparently grass contains it aswell

Quik update everythings coming alone pritty well the old shroom clusters arebreverting back into mycelium and already showing the white awesomeness thru the pine needles

Heres some new pics since last pics ive put the containee outside as its almost winter it looks like small pins have developed

You pictures... They lookin' fried, mayun.
What are You using for moisture and fae ?

Have You done this before ?