Strain
Ecuador
- Species
- Psilocybe cubensis
- Lineage
- Traced to wild cubensis collected in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
- Also called
- EQ, EQ Ecuador
Novice-friendly; consistent flushes, few aborts.
Photos
Wild Psilocybe cubensis from Canandé Reserve, Esmeraldas, Ecuador. A regional species photo, not Ecuador.Photo: Miku, 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 Ecuador
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At a glance
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Grows on
- Dung (manure-loving, like cubensis)
- Lineage and origin
- Traced to wild cubensis collected in the Ecuadorian Amazon.From commercial strain descriptions; not independently verified.
- Traits
- beginner-friendly, consistent fruiting
- Similar strains
- Ajax, Albino A+, Albino Louisiana, Albino Penis Envy
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
- Dung, Straw, Various grains
- 2 BRF cakes (PF-tek)
- Bark (wood, from the grower's front yard); grown from a PF cake cased into it
- Cased with coir/verm
- Any old casing method but used the bark (from the front yard); the cake was cased in the bark
What it looks like
- Phenotype
- average looking cube which often produces larger than average fruits; caps can be quite huge with very dark prints
- Average looking cube which often produces larger than average fruits; caps can be quite huge with very dark prints
- Long thick meaty stalks with large dark caramel caps; fruits often average five inches; later flush fruits reach eight inches or more; caps average 2-3 inches
- When to pick ()
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Common problems
- Reported
- Novice-friendly; consistent flushes, few aborts.
- Spawn was one fully colonized 1/2 pint PF cake that had contaminated only on top; the verm layer was cut off and the cake was cased in the bark.
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 Ecuador as a whole.