Tub of cultivated Psilocybe cubensis fruiting bodies with tan caps and thick white stems, labeled Penis Envy by the grower
Photo: Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalistCultivated P. cubensis the grower labeled Penis Envy.

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Penis Envy

Psilocybe cubensis, Penis Envy

Penis Envy fruits at 22 °C and 90% humidity with moderate fresh air and 12 h light. About 50 days from start to fruit.

Slower cubensis. Same climate band as Golden Teacher with longer stage timers.

Grow parameters

  1. Colonization 24 days, 25 °C, 92% humidity
  2. Pinning 10 days, 22 °C, 95% humidity
  3. Fruiting 16 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.

Photoperiod and mix for this chamber
PhaseHours onWhiteRGB mix
colonization0 h onwhite 0%RGB 0 / 0 / 0
fruiting12 h onwhite 20%RGB 0 / 0 / 80
pinning12 h onwhite 20%RGB 0 / 0 / 80

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