(September 30, 2012 at 5:17 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote:(September 30, 2012 at 5:06 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: I used to grow them
Purely out of curiosity... how?
Well,
Start with half pint canning jars, combine brown rice flour, vermiculite, and water in the right combination and fill jars up to almost the top then top off with just vermiculite (To present a dead zone so contaminants will get caught within the vermiculite layer). Innoculate with spore syringe filled with psilocybe cubensis spores then place in cool dark place for about a week until mycelium grows (rhizomorphic potentiates pinhead formation) then allow jars to be in the light of your room. Within a week pinheads should form. Birth the cake out of the jar and place into growing tank on top of the canning lid.
I had a 10 gallon fish tank with a plexi insert that fit in there at a 45 degree angle. This was to allow me to humidify with a spray bottle without actually spraying the cakes. Within two weeks many mushrooms will grow and you should gently harvest them to allow space for new growth. At the end of the two weeks the first flush will have concluded and you might get a few more after that, but it would be best to just birth new cakes and place them inside for a new first flush.
I grew using the psylocybe fanaticus tek or PF tek for short. The guy who made it used to mail out spores from Seattle but the feds busted him a while ago. If you're interested in the specifics you can go here for the tek: http://www.fungifun.org/English/Pftek
I used a steamer to sterilize my substrate, and used upside-down canning lids to top off my jars, but the rest is almost exactly what I was doing to grow them.
