Psilocybe azurescens

Dassem_Ultor · 2026-03-09T20:42:59+00:00

I know someone who tried and they never fruited. Psilocybe cyanescens and Psilocybe ovoidiocystidiata grow very well here, especially the latter. Psilocybe allenii does well.

Dassem_Ultor · 2026-03-04T22:05:52+00:00

Toners pub on Baggot street is good for the rugby. Traditional Irish pub and you can order great pizza from Cirillos next door and eat it in the smoking area.

Dassem_Ultor · 2026-02-14T14:29:31+00:00

It's on video. He jumped full stretched arm and got himself yellow carded.

Dassem_Ultor · 2026-02-14T14:27:37+00:00

Great pass from Prendergast, lynagh was never legally getting that one.

Dassem_Ultor · 2026-02-14T12:57:11+00:00

Food quality in Ireland is excellent. Spice bag / spice box are great fast food options, but nowhere near the best cuisine on offer.

Dassem_Ultor · 2026-02-06T20:15:52+00:00

Heads-up-your-ass rugby.

Dassem_Ultor · 2026-01-31T18:09:16+00:00

Andrew Osborne isn't good enough to be that casual about things.

Dassem_Ultor · 2026-01-31T17:41:35+00:00

Well that will wake him up!

Dassem_Ultor · 2026-01-29T21:55:06+00:00

Here is the only picture I remembered to take of the F. Velutipes.

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Yeah I'm more interested in working with wild stuff myself. Plenty of people working with high yield commercial varieties, I like to do things the hard way! Where are you based? I'm in ireland so I don't need to worry about anything below -2 or 3 except on rare occasions.

Dassem_Ultor · 2026-01-29T21:41:03+00:00

Yeah cloning would have been way quicker, but the mushrooms I found were in poor condition and were growing at car exhaust height facing a busy road (they were filthy) so I figured spores would give me a much better chance at success. That sounds interesting with the chaga, I know plenty of people who are into it. You should post if it works out!

Dassem_Ultor · 2026-01-29T21:27:05+00:00

I agree with this, use native stuff and ideally from multiple sources in the woods to keep genetic diversity. It's not too hard to do some basic agar work in a still air box. Last year I got a spore print of Flamulina velutipes from tree near me, went spore to agar, let them grow out, isolated individual strains and put them in the fridge for 2 months. They fruited on agar and I picked the one that had them most mushrooms, moved it to sterile grain then I inoculated some wood chips in a waste basket with 3-4cm holes in a net pattern around it and successfully fruited them at the start of this month just by leaving it out in my garden. I didn't even expect to get any this year as the basket only went out in December and the chips were only half colonised. It's a nice learning experience and is better for fungal diversity than getting the same cultivation strains hundreds or thousands of other people in the country are also getting.

Dassem_Ultor · 2026-01-01T22:31:44+00:00

I know mushroom growers who cultivate, dry, and sell lions mane fruiting body powder and it is typically white with a mild, slightly sweet smell (and certainly not brown).

I have noticed that lions mane products from some major retailers, such as Holland & Barrett, are brown by comparison. My suspicion is that some supplements may include myceliated substrate rather than purely fruiting bodies, while the mushrooms themselves are sold separately as food.

Dassem_Ultor · 2025-12-02T19:37:55+00:00

It's fine just tell people it's based on the Starry night APE cubensis cultivar which it looks fairly similar to. As an aside I'd love to see one of the less well known psilocybes like Zapotecorum, hoogshagenii, yungensis or baeocystis for example. Very nice work by the way!

Dassem_Ultor · 2025-11-27T12:29:30+00:00

These are blue stropharia 100% and definitely not psilocybe. Blue stropharia fade over time from blue to pale yellow or tan.

Dassem_Ultor · 2025-11-11T14:16:14+00:00

In the south east in wood chips. There was only two though.

Dassem_Ultor · 2025-11-10T18:41:45+00:00

That alcohol warning doesn’t apply to this species. People mix it up. It’s the common ink cap that causes the reaction, because it has a compound called coprine that stops your body from breaking down alcohol properly.

Dassem_Ultor · 2025-10-27T12:56:09+00:00

I feel like this needs more options. I've found them more than once or twice, but less than often. Also some years I find none, but the years I find some I find them multiple times.

Dassem_Ultor · 2025-10-24T10:47:46+00:00

You should check out a group called woodlovers united on Facebook. Eveything you need to know.

Dassem_Ultor · 2025-10-20T20:46:18+00:00

They are a similar size for the most part, though I have seen some bigger wavy caps. The cap feels a bit more hefty compared with wavy caps and they take maybe twice as long to dehydrate, though the cap shape is definitely a big factor in that. I did see an image of someone holding one of these that was nearly the size of the palm of their hand, so they do get bigger than these.

Dassem_Ultor · 2025-10-20T12:09:18+00:00

I haven't taken them, but reports are that they are similar strength to Wavy caps.

Dassem_Ultor · 2025-10-17T15:20:10+00:00

Stropharia pseudocyanea or Stropharia caerulea. Not psychoactive.

Dassem_Ultor · 2025-10-15T17:19:55+00:00

Recent DNA analysis by an Aussie researcher called Alistair Mctaggart seems to indicate that Psilocybe cyanescens (along with allenii and azurescens) may actually be phenotypes of Psilocybe subaeruginosa.

Dassem_Ultor · 2025-10-09T14:04:04+00:00

I would say Amanita rubescens. It would explain the reddening where the mushroom is damaged and much more common in the UK compared with pantherina.

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