Organic Psilocybin Factories
Denmark-based biology company Octarine began producing psilocybin via a brewer's yeast called Saccharomyces cerevisiae. While producing less than previous strains of bacteria and yeast this has proven to be the cheapest method. While losing about half of the...
Pyrophilic (fire lovers) funguses resides inside organisms for years
Looking at a burned area you will notice a couple things. Some nice new green growth coming from the ashes... and mushrooms. Everywhere mushrooms. How did they get there? Where did they start? Were they there the whole time? Finding DNA from pyrophilous fungi inside...
Recycling and resource management in cultivation
You’re about to pull the last fruit off of a dying cake, it has produced well (or not) and you are ecstatic! (Or not) You look around at all your beautiful harvest in your dehydrator, and then pan your eyes to the corner of the room. You see tons of mycology supplies:...
Vancouver company makes first legal harvest of psilocybe cubensis
Numinus is a publicly traded company that was granted a license to cultivate psilocybin-containing species of mushrooms using spores and to extract psilocybin. Numinus harvested its first flush of magic mushrooms on October 22, 2020. Numinus is dedicated to the study...
HEAT DEGRADATION AND STORAGE
DOES HEAT DEGRADE PSILOCYBIN? WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO STORE MUSHROOMS? ITW.NEWS has been searching for answers to these questions and are thrilled to say we finally have answers! We were planning to run our own experiments on Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms and their...
Save Your Spores For Years!! & Create a Spore Library!
PSILOCYBE CUBENSIS ANALYSIS
OVERVIEW: Psilocybe cubensis is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose principal active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin. Commonly called magic mushrooms, “little flowers”, or gold caps, it belongs to the Hymenogastraceae family of fungi and was previously known...