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Golden Teacher
Psilocybe cubensis, Golden Teacher
Golden Teacher fruits at 22 °C and 90% humidity with moderate fresh air and 12 h light. About 32 days from start to fruit.
Common cubensis strain. Reference conditions for research and education only.
Grow parameters
- Colonization 16 days, 25 °C, 92% humidity
Dark, still. Do not add fresh air early.
- Pinning 6 days, 22 °C, 95% humidity
- Fruiting 10 days, 22 °C, 90% humidity
Light recipe
Dark while it colonizes, then 12 h a day of cool white with some blue.
Light details
P. cubensis needs light to start pins, and blue light works for that. Colonization is dark. Pinning and fruiting get 12 hours a day at 20% white (92 lux on this chamber) with 80% blue.
WS2812 blue is roughly 465 to 475 nm. The RGB mix is an approximation, not a measured spectrum.
| Phase | Hours on | White | RGB mix |
|---|---|---|---|
| colonization | 0 h on | white 0% | RGB 0 / 0 / 0 |
| fruiting | 12 h on | white 20% | RGB 0 / 0 / 80 |
| pinning | 12 h on | white 20% | RGB 0 / 0 / 80 |
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- PNW Spore. US vendor of spore prints and syringes, sold for microscopy.
- Sporeworks. Long-running US spore catalog, sold for microscopy.
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH). US government overview of psilocybin, its effects, and current research.
- Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. Peer-reviewed psilocybin studies from Johns Hopkins Medicine.