Cultivation
P. cyanescens, like many other psilocybin containing mushrooms, is sometimes cultivated.
Due to the fruiting requirements of the species, it is challenging but possible to get P. cyanescens to produce fruits indoors. Outdoor cultivation in an appropriate climate is relatively easy. Yield per pound of substrate is low when compared to other psilocybin containing mushrooms for both indoor and outdoor cultivation. The combination of poor yield and difficulty may explain why P. cyanescens is grown less frequently than some other psilocybin containing mushrooms.
P. cyanescens mycelium is much easier to grow than actual fruits are, can be grown indoors, and is robust enough that it can be transplanted in order to start new patches. Mycelium can also be propagated via stem butt transplantation.
Many of the cultivation techniques used with other members of the genus Psilocybe can be used to grow P. cyanescens as well.
Cultivated P. cyanescens contain approximately the same concentration of psilocin and psilocybin as natural examples do.
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