Think of it this way, if cubensis=beer than pan cyan=hard liquoir
Panaeolus strains are indeed tropical and dungloving. You must use poo or worm castings, i havent tried straw and i wouldnt.
I have much experience with growing panaeolus cyanescens, and copelandia cyanescens, which seem to be the same thing. and they are indeed an order of magnitude more potent that any cubensis species, and even much stronger than the famous psilocybe cyanescens and azurescens (wood loving species)
Its by far the most potent psilocybin mushroom we know of yet, and the experience it provides for me is very clean and mystical, very visual and dmt like.
and the ideal growth conditions for them are much more hot/tropical. i believe there is a species of panoleus cyan native to florida though, but the common mushrooms in europe are , not pans cyan, but other panoleaus.
There are a few strains of pan, that contain psilocybin, but in less quantities than cubensis, and they are considered weed mushrooms that can pop up in any culture at random, even when seemingly no spores are introduced. These are very similiar to many lawn mushrooms, little skinny guys.
They require similiar growth conditions to cubensis, the main difference being a casing layer is required instead of optional. They tend to like heat and humidity more than cubes, and also i find i have much higher sucess rate if i put the end substrate in jars to begin with, and innoculate it with the spores right off the bat.
1 gram of pan cyan is easily equal to 5 grams cubensis, this is no joke
They are often confused with psilocybe cyanescens and azurescnes, but they couldnt be more different. afaik, the only way to get a good source of psilo cyan is to live in the right area and find or start a patch, because indoor cultivation is doomed to fail.
Psilo cyan is supposed to be about two times the potency of psilo cubensis. I havent done them, i have heard the trip is more robust and visual than cubensis, but many accounts say they have similiar potency to cubes.
All this said, theres nothing wrong with cubensis, they are beautiful and amazing, i think you would be making a mistake if you ommited them from your list for cultivation. I love the cube strains Wollongong, Pesa, and SA. Wollys being the favorite
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