I've always wanted to give P.baeocystis a grow myself, as well as P.azurescens, a relative of P.cyanescens. As well as to compare our native english Psilocybe cyanescens with the US strain, subtype or whatever it is. P.cyanescens is quite extraordinarily potent, I'd say the most potent of our native british species. Whilst they have a very high ratio of psilocin to psilocybin, which means they do not store too well, I've found cyans to be potent as fucking hell. Whilst The Hadean Bitch (former housemate, a disgrace to autistic people everywhere. Rapid-cycling bipolar with psychotic features, a dirty little fucking borderline PD slag too [If you ever meet someone with borderline PD, RUN LIKE HELL and never look back, cut off all contact and make sure they don't know where you live. BPD are filth, vermin, trash, who shouldn't be allowed to live. Pure, unmitigated evil. This one was a dangerous, highly manipulative,compulsive liar and a thief, used people until she'd bled them dry then made false rape accusations to get them out the way. Made out she was being raped, battered, verbally and physically, as well as sexually abused by her own family.I don't believe a word of it, bar being screamed at and given a thick ear on a regular basis, I believe that much because I cannot in honesty say that if I'd have realized soon enough what she was, that I'd not have cut her throat in her sleep, she was just pure evil. Even got engaged to a guy, to get a ring, so she could sell it and move to the UK ilegally, after I offered her, a friend a the time having shown nothing of her true colours, then accused him of raping her to get him out of the way so she could carry on with her plans. She eventually tried kicking my door in as I woke from sleep, tried to fillet me with a katana, only to make the big mistake of not realizing I slept with a S&W revolver in my bedside cabinet, and that with my own blade, I was a better swordsman than she is and quickly disarmed her, with the revolver pointed right between her eyes,and a right hook in the face fhat flattened her. All because I demanded she wait while I put clothes on and had a few minutes to wake up properly before she could come into my bedroom and feed the pet fish I allowed her to keep to make her feel at home here.
But we found, or rather I found, a HUGE patch of cyans, taught her how to tell them apart from deadly, amatoxic Galerinas, we scrounged 2 free empty happymeal crates, explaining the situation to the girl at the counter, as it was far from home we had to take the shrooms back. They were damp given the weather and we spent a couple of hours cleaning them by wiping off the crap with paper towels, but before we'd even nearly finished me and the bitch from hades both noticed each other's eyes were dilated like dinnerplates, and that the walls were twisting and melting and breathing out funny colours. Neither of us had taken a single mushroom, but had absorbed enough psilocin/psilocybin through our fingertips to end up at at least a ++ and 1/2-+ on the Shulgin scale, and by the time we were done we were both gigglig like little schoolgirls uncontrollably, and absolutely fucking WANKERED on the psilocybin/psilocin and had started properly tripping our arses off.
Tried 5-6 grams. freshly dried over KOH in my lab desiccator, and fucking bugger ME, that hit me as hard as ever I'd tripped shrooms of the psilocybin sort (kept my Amanitas for myself,as I have to harvest as many sacks full as I can yearly to ensure having enough fly agaric around to cook dinner with, as I use it a LOT as a seasoning in the kitchen.)
Fucking potent little buggers, Psilocybe cyanescens, although cyans have a very high psilocin to psilocybin ratio (in favour of psilocin) making them not an ideal species for storage.
I'd love to grow Weraroa too. A weird looking, gillled gasteroid fungus. How very strange. How potent are they compared to Cubensis or Cyanescens?
Psilocybe baeocystis is one I'd very much like to try. Apparently the species is very potent indeed.
And, although I don't know how I could get hold of any, and being in a family of obligate mycorrhizal mushrooms, it'd not be practical to grow, but I'd at least love to TRY nonda gegwants nyimbil, from the highlands of papua new guinea, binomial name Boletus manicus, which the indigenous tribesmen eat, particularly during times of highly emotionally charged actions being taken. The genus Boletus is not known for psychedelics otherwise, but they have been analyzed, and found to contain trace quantities of an indolic compound they could not identify due to the tiny amounts present.
That IMO, suggests that whatever it is they detected, if it's the active substance or one of them, is as potent, nearly as, or more potent than LSD, and means that it cannot be psilocybin or psilocin, and that we've something new there that is just begging for identification and research. And then developing analogs of the actives. It'd be fascinating if we found either a natural lysergamide psychedelic that isn't simple LSA, or better still an entirely novel backbone to develop a set of analogs from (I.e like we have lysergamides, tryptamines, psychedelic amphetamines, phenethylamines, cathinones and potentially quinazolinediones. AFAIK benzothiophene analogs of simple tryptamines like DMT are active as well. But aside from cathinone analogs and the quinazolinediones such as modified versions of ketanserin where the sidechain is modified to be something like an NBOMe, and I'd guess other N-benzyl derivatives might be 5HT2a agonists. And the benzothiophene analogs of extant tryptamines have yet to be thoroughly explored)
An entirely new indolic backbone would be really damn neat though.
I visited their forum and found this thread with a similar question:
