Strain
Costa Rican
- Species
- Psilocybe cubensis
- Also called
- Costa Rica, Costa Rica (CR)
Default cube: grain 75–80°F sealed, fruit 70–75°F, 90–95% RH.
Photos

Wild Psilocybe cubensis from Guanacaste, Costa Rica. A regional species photo, not Costa Rican.Photo: Dennis B, CC BY-SA 3.0 (listed by Mushroom Observer as "Creative Commons Wikipedia Compatible v3.0"), via Mushroom Observer Add a note

Psilocybe cubensis spores at 1000x, from a spore print labeled "Costa Rica" (the photographer's label, not independently verified).Photo: Alan Rockefeller, CC BY-SA 3.0 (listed by Mushroom Observer as "Creative Commons Wikipedia Compatible v3.0"), via Mushroom Observer Add a note
Summary
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Summarized from public grow logs, paraphrased. Sources:
Growing Costa Rican
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At a glance
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Grows on
- Dung (manure-loving, like cubensis)
- Lineage and origin
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- Traits
- beginner-friendly
- Similar strains
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Timeline
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- Days to
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- To harvest
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- Flushes
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Climate
A starting point gathered from growers' notes, not a measurement.
- Colonizing
- 75–80 °F
- 70–75 °F, 90–95%
- Fresh air ()
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- Light
- Indirect 6500K 12/12 or a bright room.
Substrate and casing
- Substrate
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What it looks like
- Phenotype
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- When to pick ()
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Common problems
- Reported
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Grow reports (0)
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Three fields is enough: setup, days to pins, and how it went.
Recipes growers used
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Notes from growers
Tips, corrections and “same thing happened to me” for Costa Rican as a whole.