Psilocybin Mushroom Handbook: Easy Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation

by L.G. Nicholas, Kerry Ogamé

Here is a practical step-by-step guide to cultivating four species of psilocybin-containing mushrooms, indoors and outside. Anyone with a clean kitchen, some basic equipment, and a closet shelf or shady flowerbed will be able to grow a bumper crop. This Handbook also includes an introduction to mushroom biology, a guide for supplies, and advice on discreetly integrating psychedelic mushrooms into outdoor gardens.

Hand-drawn illustrations and full-color and black-&-white photographs provide the reader with steps in the cultivation process and exact identification of desired species.

The four species detailed include two species that have previously had very little Psilocybe mexicana (a tiny mushroom used for millennia by indigenous Mexican shamans) and Psilocybe azurescens (a newly described species native to the Pacific Northwest and easily grown outdoors on woodchips).

This innovative book also offers a wealth of information about the use of psilocybin-containing mushrooms in both traditional and modern contexts. Contributing ethnobotanist Kathleen Harrison highlights the history, ritual and mythology of sacred Psilocybe mushrooms used in indigenous shamanic settings. The book’s authors offer insights into how these principles might be put into practice by the modern voyager, to provide, safe, healing and fruitful journeys.

Genres: Reference, Science, Nonfiction, Gardening

224 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2005

Reviews

[Carlton Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clear, concise, direct and sequential in its instruction. Its tells you what you need to do, to grow magic mushrooms from spores. Its easy to go from book to experiment in real time, as its instructional! i have been using this to start my learning journey. If there was one critique it would be around better defining the conditions for the grain after soaking / autoclaving and what constitutes the best state (for culture) of the slightly water impregnated grain.

[Philip Westcott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good for beginners

Basic information to help get someone growing mushrooms. Explains life cycles and scientific classification of some of the psychadelic and edible varieties

[Siddiq Khan · Rating 3 out of 5]

An updated version of Terrance Mckenna´s book, but still outdated, very limited in scope, and containing significant misinformation liable to cause frustration. My conclusion, following many others, is that books of this nature on this subject are best avoided.

[Justin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing introduction into the world of mycology, I'm thirsty for more, would like to grow some of the basidiomides that glow in the dark!