Strain
Psilocybe azurescens
- Species
- Psilocybe azurescens
- Also called
- Flying Saucer
Cultivated almost exclusively as outdoor woodchip beds: colonized spawn mixed into pasteurized hardwood chips (alder, beech, oak) at ~1kg spawn per 10-20kg wet chips, layered 20-30cm deep, fruiting the following autumn.
Photos
Psilocybe azurescens, cap and gills.Photo: zaca, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Add a note
Psilocybe azurescens, wild (Pacific County, Washington).Photo: Dan K., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Add a note
Psilocybe azurescens — wild species photo (identification as recorded by the photographer, not a cultured specimen).Photo: shroom360, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Add a note
Summary
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Growing Psilocybe azurescens
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At a glance
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Grows on
- Wood (wood-loving, like azurescens)
- Lineage and origin
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Timeline
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- Flushes
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Climate
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- Colonizing
- 75–80 °F
- 50–59 °F, 90–95%
- Fresh air ()
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- Light
- Established in shaded, moist outdoor locations; relies on natural seasonal light.
Substrate and casing
- Substrate
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What it looks like
- Phenotype
- Cap 3-10cm, conic to convex expanding to broadly convex/flattened, persistent broad umbo; chestnut to ochraceous-brown to caramel, often pitted with dark blue bruised zones; hygrophanous.
- When to pick ()
- Fruits in autumn as temperatures cool; colonization-to-first-fruiting can take 6-12+ months from bed establishment.
Common problems
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