Strain
Enigma
- Species
- Psilocybe cubensis
- Lineage
- Blob mutant, clone-only
- Also called
- Enigma mutant, Enigma blob
A mutant that grows as brain-like blobs instead of caps and stems. It does not form normal fruit or spores, so it spreads only as clones and liquid culture, and the runs are long.
Photos
Psilocybe cubensis, cultivated indoors, three harvested clusters (the photographer's label: Enigma, 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
Psilocybe cubensis, cultivated indoors, a fully grown coral-like cluster (the photographer's label: Enigma, 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
Psilocybe cubensis 'Enigma', cultivated indoors (strain name as recorded by the photographer on Mushroom Observer, 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
Suggest an editWhat growers agree on
- Clone-only: grow it from liquid culture or plates.
- 6 to 8 weeks from pins or spawn to harvest.
- High humidity with little fresh air, then leave it alone.
- Harvest when the edges turn blue and the blobs soften slightly; they rot within about a week after that.
- Contamination risk climbs every week of the long run (wet bubble, and mould hiding inside blobs), so clean spawn matters more than usual.
- Usually one flush.
Where they disagree
- Misting
- Misting bruises the blobs, according to some; others dunk mid-fruit without trouble.
- Second flush
- Most say it almost never happens; one grower saw regrowth after about 7 days.
- Casing
- Don't case, versus a thin coir-verm-gypsum top dressing.
- Container
- Wide shallow tubs versus small 6 qt bins.
- Speed outlier
- One clone line took about 5 months.
Summarized from public grow logs, paraphrased. Sources:
Growing Enigma
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At a glance
- Difficulty
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- Grows on
- Dung (manure-loving, like cubensis)
- Lineage and origin
- Blob mutant, clone-only
- 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
- Colonizing
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- Light
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Substrate and casing
- Substrate
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What it looks like
- Phenotype
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Common problems
- Reported
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From public grow logs
How a Enigma grow tends to run
Medians of what growers wrote down. Some count days from spawn, some from the start of fruiting, so treat these as rough guides.
Spawn
Day 0
Grain goes into bulk
Colonized
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No numbers reported yet
First pins
11.4 d
range 8.8–14 d, 2 reports
First flush
135 g wet
range 70–200 g, 2 reports
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 Enigma as a whole.