Growing Procedure

Psilocybe serbica, a little known mushroom native to Europe, can be cultivated using the following steps:

Step 1: Preparing the Substrate

• Mix 2 parts vermiculite, 2 parts brown rice flour, and 1 part water in a large bowl.
• Fill wide-mouth glass jars with the substrate mixture, leaving about 3 cm (1 inch) of space at the top.
• Cover the jars with tin foil to prevent water from getting in.
• Sterilize the jars in a pressure cooker or Instant Pot for 30 minutes to kill any competing organisms.
• Allow the jars to cool down before proceeding to the next step.

Step 2: Inoculation

• Clean the area where you’ll be working with isopropyl alcohol to maintain sterility.
• Using a sterilized spore syringe, inject approximately 2 CCs of spore solution into each jar.
• Seal the jars and cover the top with tin foil.
• Repeat this process for each jar, ensuring cleanliness between each inoculation.

Step 3: Incubation

• Set up an incubator to create ideal conditions for the spawn run.
• Place the inoculated jars in the incubator, or if you have a suitable dark and warm spot in your house, use that instead.
• Check the jars every few days for signs of contamination and monitor the growth of white mycelium.

Step 4: Fruiting

• Once the jars are fully colonized with white mycelium, it’s time to initiate fruiting.
• Create a fruiting chamber by using a clear container that allows some airflow and maintains high humidity (>80%).
• Place the colonized jars inside the fruiting chamber and provide low levels of indirect light.
• Maintain fruiting parameter
• Spray the substrate with filtered or distilled water to keep it moist.
• Over time, mushrooms will start to grow from the colonized substrate.
• Harvest the mushrooms when they reach the desired size and maturity.

It’s important to prioritize safety and legality when engaging in any cultivation activities. Ensure you comply with local laws and regulations regarding the cultivation and use of psilocybin-containing mushrooms.

Growing

Agar Culture Media: MEA, MYPA, MYA, PDYA
Cropping Cycle:
Containers for fruiting:
Biological efficiencies:
Substrates:

Growing Characteristics

Natural Habitat

Summer to fall

Deciduous forests, spruce forests, forest meadows, rare in Western and Central Europe, from September to December.

Psilocybe serbica grows mainly in clumps, on well-decomposed conifers and deciduous trees, and together with Urtica spp. or rubus spp. on twigs, compost, plant debris, in woods, especially in moist places along streams, forest paths, and roadsides. It has not been reported to be synanthropic.

Preferred substrates are hardwood mulch made from oak, eucalyptus, Douglas fir, and alder. Fruiting occurs in cool weather, generally late September through January. The species can be easily grown on agar, grain seed, and cellulosic material, including wood chips and sawdust.

Dosis

There is an urgent warning against food experiments with Psilocybe serbica. Collecting, possessing and selling drug mushrooms is illegal in many countries around the world.

Depending on the particular strain, growth method, and age at harvest, psilocybe mushrooms can come in rather different potencies. It is recommended to weigh the actual mushrooms, better then counting them. 10% of the mushrooms mass is left, when dried. Take a look at Properties, to find out how potent they are.

Effect

Due to the presumed main ingredient, psilocybin, the same effect can be expected as with other types of well-known hallucinogenic mushrooms. At this point, it is convenient to refer to the description of the effects of Psilocybe cumbensis.

Duration:

5-6 hours

Smell

-neutral

-musty

Taste

-mild

Flesh

-brownish

-bluish

other names

Psilocybe bohemica, Böhmischer Kahlkopf,Psilocybe serbica f. sternberkiana (Borov.) Borov., Oborník & Noordel, Psilocybe bohemica Sebek 1983, Serbischer Kahlkopf

Kingdom	Fungi