Strain
Golden Teacher
- Species
- Psilocybe cubensis
- Lineage
- Passed among growers since the late twentieth century; its exact origin is debated.
- Also called
- GT
Golden Teacher is a Psilocybe cubensis cultivar (Passed among growers since the late twentieth century; its exact origin is debated.). Its page starts from the growing conditions below; members' grow reports and photos fill in the rest.
Photos
Psilocybe cubensis, pinning on a casing surface (the photographer's label: Golden Teacher, not independently verified).Photo: Mädi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Add a note
Psilocybe cubensis, cultivated in a tub, mature flush (the photographer's label: Golden Teacher, 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 (the photographer's label: Golden Teacher, not independently verified).Photo: Mädi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Add a note
Summary
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Growing Golden Teacher
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At a glance
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Grows on
- Dung (manure-loving, like cubensis)
- Lineage and origin
- Passed among growers since the late twentieth century; its exact origin is debated.From commercial strain descriptions; not independently verified.
- Traits
- beginner-friendly
- Similar strains
- Albino A+, Albino Louisiana, Albino Penis Envy, Aztec God
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
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What it looks like
- Phenotype
- Dense fruits; classic gold/caramel cap.
- Some can grow to be quite large; some may display a nipple on top of the cap and, per a grower, the occasional 'wart'
- Very thick meaty stems, dark red caps, extreme bluing (dark blue or black when bruised); mature fruits over five inches with caps often two inches; later flushes peak at nine inches
- 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 Golden Teacher as a whole.