Strain
Elephant Dung
- Species
- Psilocybe cubensis
Elephant Dung is a Psilocybe cubensis cultivar. Its page starts from the growing conditions below; members' grow reports and photos fill in the rest.
Photos
Wild Psilocybe cubensis from Wedza District, Zimbabwe, growing from African elephant dung. A regional species photo, not Elephant Dung.Photo: Robert van der Horst, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Add a note
Summary
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Growing Elephant Dung
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At a glance
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Grows on
- Dung (manure-loving, like cubensis)
- Lineage and origin
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- Traits
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- 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
Typical range for the species, not tested on this strain.
- Colonizing
- 75–80 °F
- 70–75 °F, 90–95%
- Fresh air ()
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- Light
- indirect 6500K 12/12, or indirect sunlight
Substrate and casing
- Substrate
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What it looks like
- Phenotype
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- When to pick ()
- Pick at veil tear with a firm fruit; gills pale blue, not navy
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 Elephant Dung as a whole.