Cultivating Psilocybe
Growing your own Psilocybe caerulescens is cheap and easy. The key is to be prepared and to know what you’re doing ahead of time. This magic shrooms cultivation method, or tek, uses ½ pint off canning jars or drinking glasses, a substrate of vermiculite, brown rice flour, water, and Psilocybe Caerulescens spores.
By growing Psilocybe caerulescens indoors, you will be able to create and control conditions for the mushrooms to grow. You will also minimize risk of contamination. Always remember to wash your hands with antibacterial soap before and after working. Keep the place where you do the inoculation dry, and free from dust. Dirty hands and a dirty environment will attract unwanted microorganisms which can destroy your cultivation project.
For this method, you will need the following materials:
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Vermiculite – it is made from the naturally-occurring mineral, mica. It’s available in different grades but for Psilocybe caerulescens cultivation, the middle grade is the most suitable.
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Brown Rice Flour (BRF) – This is available in health food shops. It’s best to keep it cool and dry because it can easily turn rancid due to its husk content.
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Water – It’s not enough to simply use tap water. When preparing the substrate, remember to use “drinking quality water.”
For this method, you will need the following materials:
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Spore Syringe – You can purchase 10cc-12cc suspension of mushrooms spores from the internet. The color of the suspension will vary based on the amount of spores in the solution but it’s usually translucent to slightly violet.
Jars – The jars should have 240mL capacities. The only required is they shouldn’t have narrow necks so you can easily slide the cake out of it once its’ colonized. Bigger jars take longer to fully colonize.
Procedure :
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Put the required amount of vermiculite for all the jars in a bowl. Pour water slowly while stirring with a spoon. Make sure you don’t overwater the vermiculite and you’re only putting in as much water as it can absorb.
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Place the required amount of BRF into the wet vermiculite and mix it in with the spoon. The goal is to uniformly coat the wet vermiculite with a layer of BRF.
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Fill the mixture in jars up to ½ inch beneath the brim. Keep it airy and loose to provide optimum conditions for the mycelium to grow.
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Fill up the jar with vermiculite to the top to hinder airborne contaminants from reaching the underlying substrate.
Take a 12cm wide strip of aluminum foil, and fold it in the middle. Put the foil over the opening of the jar. If you’re using jars with lids, poke 4 holes at the very edge of each lid with a small nail and hammer and screw the lid on. The holes should be slightly bigger than the diameter of the syringe needle.
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Take a piece of foil measuring 5Ă—5 inches and put it over the first two layers leaving the edges of the foil reaching down since it has to be lifted again during the inoculation. So now you have 3 layers of foil over the opening. The top layer can be lifted during the inoculation.
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Sterilize the big jar using a pressure cooker. Steam the jars for 45 minutes in a pot with the lid on. Use approximately 2 inches of water at the bottom.
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Take the jars out and let them cool.
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