Strain
Panaeolus cyanescens
- Species
- Panaeolus cyanescens
- Also called
- Pan cyan, Copelandia
Different species and more demanding than cubes.
Photos
Panaeolus cyanescens mycelium colonizing wheat grain in jars.Photo: Mädi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Add a note
Panaeolus cyanescens cultures on agar plates.Photo: Mädi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Add a note
Panaeolus cyanescens, the species this page covers.Photo: Prankster239 / Photohound, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Add a note
Summary
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Growing Panaeolus cyanescens
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At a glance
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Grows on
- Dung (manure-loving, like cubensis)
- Lineage and origin
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- Traits
- demanding
- 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
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- Colonizing
- 78–82 °F
- 72–75 °F, 85–95%
- Fresh air ()
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- Light
- Indirect 6500K 12/12 or a bright room.
Substrate and casing
- Substrate
- 4 pint jars of 1:1:1 verm, ground WBS and hpoo compost
- Sterilised horsepoo / straw / vermiculite in a bag (inoculated with rye spawn prepared from agar wedges; bag dumped into the tub when fully colonised)
- Thin layer of mixture of coir/verm/chalk/oystershell; per advice the casing layer is NOT misted - fruits grow from a drying surface
What it looks like
- Phenotype
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- When to pick ()
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Common problems
- Reported
- Different species and more demanding than cubes.
- Poster asked why the mycelium was dark grey; OP replied it looked contaminated/overly wet.
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 Panaeolus cyanescens as a whole.