Strain
Tidal Wave
- Species
- Psilocybe cubensis
- Lineage
- Penis Envy × B+
- Also called
- TW, Tidalwave, PE x B+, Penis Envy x B+
A Penis Envy × B+ cross that colonizes fast and fruits in mixed forms. Blobs in the first flush are common and genetic.
Photos
Psilocybe cubensis, cultivated, young fruits pushing against the tub wall. Species photo, not Tidal Wave.Photo: LordToran, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Add a note
Psilocybe cubensis, wild (Veracruz, Mexico). Species photo, not Tidal Wave.Photo: Alan Rockefeller, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Add a note
Summary
Suggest an editWhat growers agree on
- Fast, aggressive colonizer that takes after the B+ side.
- Pins usually 5 to 16 days after spawning or starting fruiting in shoeboxes and tubs; stalls show up mostly in all-in-one bags.
- Mixed forms are normal: Penis Envy-like, B+-like and blobs in the same tub, drifting toward B+ in later flushes.
- First-flush blobs are genetic, not contamination; the second flush is often blob-free.
- A surface that looks dry is the top reason for no pins, even in automated bins.
- Dense carpets are common, so pick fruit by fruit.
- Trichoderma means the tub goes in the bin.
Where they disagree
- Casing
- One grower got strong Penis Envy-type flushes from a casing; another got a tough overlay.
- Blobs
- Casing plus a few extra days of consolidation is said to cut down blobs. Nobody has tested it properly.
- Yields
- Reported yields vary hugely, and most are single anecdotes.
- FAE
- Low fresh air got blamed for leggy fruit, yet removing the fan fixed one bin. Surface moisture seems to matter more than fan settings.
Summarized from public grow logs, paraphrased. Sources:
Growing Tidal Wave
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At a glance
- Difficulty
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- Grows on
- Dung (manure-loving, like cubensis)
- Lineage and origin
- Penis Envy × B+
- Traits
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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
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What it looks like
- Phenotype
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Common problems
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From public grow logs
How a Tidal Wave 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
9.5 d
range 2.5–25 d, 4 reports
First pins
11.5 d
range 5–30 d, 4 reports
First flush
589 g wet
range 550–627 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 Tidal Wave as a whole.