Panaeolus Cyanescens (PANCYAN)

The universal wind teacher

Aeolus is the Greek God of the winds and he can create violent storms just like the Panaeolus in a ceremony. These mushrooms are much more powerful then the Golden teachers and have less of a body drain.

Pan is the all pervasive and all including aspect of this mushroom.

There are 5 winds (Vayus) known in Yoga and the Panaeolus includes them all in a ceremony.

All these 5 Winds are being cleansed by the Panaeolus Cyanescens - hence, it is the Universal Wind Teacher.

One of the first things in yoga you learn is that life energy and breathe are tied together. In the more advanced methods like rebirthing you will know without a doubt that life energy and breath link together.
Well the universal wind teacher goes even a step further in power and basically lets you merge with the winds itself.

Potency wise, these are the single most powerful mushroom on the planet.

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Strains:

The jamaican strain is the easiest to grow and seems to produce an even pinset with an abundance of uniformly sized and shaped fruits - favorate

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To grow these require 28C temperature or higher and high humidity.
Below you see how you can be succesful. It requires some prior knowledge found in the gowing room 1 page

Panaeolus Cyanescens Jamaica

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- Put spores on petri dish, no need to zigzag the plate, just dip in the middle. Use MEA or:

Put them in a heated propagator or incubator @ 27 C

Make sure the plates are not directly touching the bottom surface, so put them on a rack or use a sealed container that is not flat on the bottom but is lifted a bit.
This way the plates do not get burned by the heated propagator and stay evenly warm. Also no condensation and contamination problems if you leave them inside a sealed box.

Transfer until clean fast growth. Do not wait for rhizomorphic growth as these pancyans remain more Tomentose (fluffy). However the thick fluffy growing mycelium will overgrow when mixed in substrate, so you want the flat fast growing mycelium.
You can sector them:

The thick white mycelium was incubated at 27C while the thin outisde was incubated at 22C. It grows much slower and thinner in colder temperatures.

When you have a fast growing mycelium that looks healthy, put it in a liquid culture (LC) made from:

It seems the Hawaii strain tends to float on top of the liquid culture if not stirred, which in turn makes it more difficult to create many inocculation points in the grain.

- Transfer LC into grain jar @ 77F (25C)

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- The Grain should be cold soaked for 24 hours and than strain for 12 hours.

- Soak rye for 24 hours and millet for 8 hous - add a bit of feed gypsum.

- Fill jars 3/4, then autoclave for 2 hours. (so no cooking)

- Add the LC to the jars, mix and let it sit @ 28 C (Best results is using the GLS80, 2000ml bottles from DURAN and fill them to 60% and shake well after inocculation)

- 30% white, shake jars. (after shaking it is normal that about 1/4 of the jars will stall. Do not use them.)

- 100% white, time for mixing. Use 25% grain spawn and 75% Substrate.

Pasteurize @ 140F for 12 hours (submerge in water with sous vide and bags slightly open on top sticking out of the water so it can breathe)

When it is finished and still around 120F, put it in a air tight monotub with microppose or polyfill openings and let it cool for 48 hours (best in a room that is already warm). The substrate needs fresh air as it needs oxygen for the good bacteria that grow in symbiosis with the PanCyan - the so called thermophilic Actinobacillus.

After 48 hours Mix the grain with substrate in the monotub with the top air vents open (filtered off course) and make the mix 7cm thick.
Do not compress the substrate, make it as airy as possible because Panaeolus has a hard time getting through solid material.

This is also the reason why panaeolus normally prefers cow manure as it acts more like a liquid culture compared to horse manure. But the big problem with cow manure these days is that the cows are not eating grass anymore but corn and grain. This does not work so well. Or you need cow manure from grass fed cows (the best).
But making horse manure more fluffy / airy with some vermiculite works just fine as well.

Colonization conditions:

Temperature: 28C
Humidity: 95%

What really helps is using a seed germination mat or a grow room with a higher temperature

A look inside a 120 liter monotub filled with Panaeolus Hawaii mycelium. Ready to be cased.

- After consolidation (when most of the soil is white) put a very thin casing layer on top at filed capacity.

Do not get the sphagum moss but make sure it is peat moss - cheap stuff but get rid of the wood chunks.. Sphagum peat moss is also ok. Basically you want the sand and not the moss.

Monotub cased

- Wait 12 hours after casing and then open the lower air holes and start the ultrasonic fogger and computer fan to start FC (fruiting condition)

FC:

Temperature: 26C
Humidity 90% (this is mostly achieved by the casing layer)

To help create pins inside a monotub, a computer fan with a fog generator really helps. Alsodaylight LED on a timer helps.

The idea is to evaporate the small water droplets on the surface first by using the fan for 1 minute. Evaporation helkps create premordia (pins)
Then remoisturise the monotub.
Best is to stop everything before the mushrooms start to release spores , otherwise your filters will clog up with spores and the mushroom caps get too moist.

The most successful grower of PanCyans, Jakeoncid419 has made a great message board on shroomery: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/25925194