Psilocybin Production

Maintaining a Psilocybin Farm

Fresh inoculum can come from stock culture dishes kept under refrigeration. If these should become healthy strains of mycelium from the crop cultures can be used to inoculate sterilized agar media in the dishes. The crop culture jar is shaken violently to break up the mycelium. Then drops of the liquid are transferred to au-toclaved petri dishes of unused agar medium with a sterilized pipette and left to grow as before. If this reinoculation of stock cultures from existing crops is continued...

Psilocybian Species

Conocybe cyanopus Found from May I through September usually in dense I shade scattered among mosses and in wet soil around bogs, swamps, and ditches in the northwestern USA and as far east as Michigan. Carpophores grow well in sphagnum moss having a pH range of 7-8. Copelandia cyanescens Found from early summer through late autumn scattered, grouped, or clustered on cow dung or rich soil in Florida and other southern states. Spores germinate easily on all agar media. Optimum growth occurs on...

Finding Psilocybin Mushrooms

All it takes is one mushroom or a few spores. From this, one can quickly develop a culture that will continue to produce as much psilocybin as desired for years to come. Because the common San Ysidro mushroom Psilocybe cubensis (Singer), formerly Strophanti cubensis (Earl), is the most easily obtainable, most readily cultivated, most disease resistant, and psychoactively strongest species, the techniques in this book are geared to its use. There are, however, numerous other species which...