Hello,

Thank you for promoting me to full membership so quickly. Now that I have the ability to post, I wanted to share some of my mushroom grows for the shroom lovers here. All of the images show the same species - Psilocybe cubensis. Will be updating the thread when I grow something interesting.

Enjoy!

Wow!

Awesome looking Enigma!! Have you got a Tidal Wave print handy?

They all look nice. Welcome to the Nexus.

Thank you both for commenting.



In fact the variety shown in the last picture is not Enigma. It is called "Omni", and is a mutation of Melmak OG. Unfortunately I do not have a TW print.

Right on man. I'm in the T1 agar stage of my first Melmac grow I love the look of that stuff.

Are the non APE albinos a TAT variant?

Good luck with your Melmak grow! They are definitely in my top five favorite varieties. Pretty potent, too.

Here is the variant list from my pics:
1. Ghost Rider (TAT)
2. Melmak R.
3. Avery's Albinos (Albino Cambodians)
4. PE6 (allegedly a cross between texas cubensis and PE)
5. Avery's
6. Melmak R.
7. Yeti (TAT)
8. Melmak R.
9. Omni (Melmak OG mutation)

Whoa!
Those are some mad skills you have there!
I want to know how to do that…

I have never heard of any of these.

Melmac is Homestead Penis Envy. Back in the day, Homestead Book Co sold grow kits. Also it is the home planet of Alf.

Does the R stand for revert?

Is Omni a spore producing mutation, or is it like Enigma (clone/culture only)?

True Melmac is a PE mutation with translucent spores, they grow to be gigantic and have the attributes of albino mushrooms. I have some Melmac spore solution that I haven't tried yet but am hopeful as the spores cannot be seen without UV lighting.

Thank you. Once you figure out the basics it gets quite simple really. If you are interested I could point you to the TEKs that I have used or maybe post a detailed write-up in the future.


Let me tell you what I know

TAT is an albino mutation that stems from unstable Golden Teacher genetics. It was discovered, isolated and stabilized about 4 years ago by Jik Fibs. During one of the early TAT grows interesting phenotype popped up - small, dense fruits with wavy caps. This is how Ghost was born The one in my picture is Ghost Rider, an isolation by Austin Rider. Yeti is a TAT mutation as well.

Now melmac... This one's history is quite mysterious and there seems to be a lot of misinformation surrounding it, like claims that it comes from Terence Mckenna's private collection


Tony is correct here. Melmac is the original Penis Envy. It was created in the late 1970s, when an amateur mycologist from the PNW named Rich Gee got lucky cloning a mutant cubensis. It was called "Rain Magic #1" back then. When they closed down the shop a guy who calls himself "Alf Longstroke" saved the genetics and renamed it Melmac. The particular isolation from my picture is Melmak Reverted, created by Myco Clay.

Avery's Albinos are an albino mutation of Pilocybe cubensis Cambodia. They were isolated by a guy who goes by "Albinous White". He named them after his daughter, Avery.

PE6 was created by RogerRabbit, a shroomery veteran. He was attempting to create a PE that drops spores. It is said to be a cross between Psilocybe cubensis Texas and Penis Envy but it did not really exhibit any PE traits in my experience.

I am unsure who discovered Omni. All I know is that it is a mutation of Melmak OG.


Unlike Engima, Omni often produces "normal" mushrooms which carry spores. Actually, it produces fins, blobs, brains, corals, regular fruitbodies... Hence the name - Omni. Truly fascinating genetics. Here are some more pics of it:

Melmac spores are purple/black like any other cube. Being PE genetics, they don't drop spores heavily so need swabbed for collection.

There are albino/luciestic melmac crosses.

I've been trying to stabilize a mutation of Koh Samui for 2 years now. I have been using a single mycelium culture for 4 years, it took 2 years to make it consistent and reliable and now for the last 2 years I get the occasional mutant tub. When they mutate they take longer to grow and look gnarly and the color of the caps changes noticeably and the effects take on albino attributes. I have tried cloning the mutants to no success, isolating further also has not worked (I have even isolated too far to a monoculture before, they don't produce fruits). It seems there is a genetic break down that occurs after so many g2g generations and that is where the mutation occurs. I am going to continue my work as I feel it is worth it for this unique mushroom variety. Wish me luck.

My Melmac spores are definitely translucent. A funny note is my AA+ drop purple spores but are leucistc as well. The downside to clandestine mycology is a lot of people have come up with varieties over the years and mislabeled them so even though I got my spores from a trusted source I will never know what they are until I grow them out, they could be APE or APER for all I know. I know I recieved them as Melmac.

And yes that is correct, good old snippy RR created PE6 and the characteristics are hit and miss as he doubled the gene pool upon creation where as many varieties shrunk the gene pool resulting in a stable appearance. PE6 is just an unstable variety like KSSS, when you get lucky it's like you hit the jackpot, the main difference is with some varieties there is no "jackpot" to be had.

Holy cow!! I am fascinated by this Omni!! Very cool!!!

Too right, this thread is super interesting - and more than a little inspiring

Recently I have been mostly growing the Yeti variety. Here are some pictures

Lookin good there LL, I love the variety!

Very cool Leo!! Thank you for posting!!

Most definitely a wonderful sight. You and Tony6strings are inspiring

That said, I'll share when fruits begin to show (just inoculated Sunday).

Question for both of you: do you have a preference between use of agar or liquid culture?

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Liquid culture is more prone to contamination. It works best for mass production when you need to inoculate a lot of grain. With agar you can see most contaminants so you can toss the agar before inoculating (and wasting) grain.