Strain
Red Boy
- Species
- Psilocybe cubensis
- Lineage
- Claimed original wild red-spored cube collected 1982
- Also called
- Redboy, Red Spore
Red Boy is a Psilocybe cubensis cultivar (Claimed original wild red-spored cube collected 1982). Its page starts from the growing conditions below; members' grow reports and photos fill in the rest.
Photos
Psilocybe cubensis, cultivated, underside of a young cap with the partial veil still intact (the photographer's label: Redboy, 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, caps opening (the photographer's label: Redboy, 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 on straw and manure, mature flush (the photographer's label: Redboy, 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
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Summarized from public grow logs, paraphrased. Sources:
Growing Red Boy
Member reports come first, then public grow-log threads, then catalog suggestions. Each line says which.
At a glance
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Grows on
- Dung (manure-loving, like cubensis)
- Lineage and origin
- Claimed original wild red-spored cube collected 1982
- Traits
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- Similar strains
- Blue Magnolia Rust, Cuban, Psilocybe tampanensis
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
- Red (burgundy) spores, supposedly darker than PF Redspore; per a grower it bruises green (most cubes bruise blue)
- Red caps and red spore print, per the thread questions (attributed to genetic mutation or recessive genes)
- Red spores reportedly darker than PF Redspore; bruises green
- 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 Red Boy as a whole.