Before You Grow…
What Every New Cultivator Should Understand First. Most people who fail at their first grow do not fail because they lacked a piece of equipment. They fail…
Psycology: how to grow mushrooms, from the people who grow them
Psycology is a cultivation-first psychedelic magazine: free step-by-step psilocybin mushroom growing guides, teks, Psilocybe cubensis strain profiles, contamination identification, harm reduction and the law by country and US state. Read or listen. 18+, educational.
Start here
- The Grow Guide: the six stages, from culture to harvest, explained.
- The Tek Ladder: every tek in the order to learn it.
- The kit list and six free calculators.
- The law map: UK, USA, Australia and sixty more places.
- The species library: Golden Teacher to Penis Envy.
- Harm reduction and contamination identification.
Featured
How to Store Your Cultures
A Guide to Short- and Long-Term Preservation. Whether you're holding onto a favorite genetic for a few weeks or archiving it for years, how you store your…
Semi-Solid Liquid Culture
One gram of agar per litre turns a liquid culture into something you can actually read. Germinate spores, pick a single colony, and see contamination…
How AI Is Poisoning Mycology
From misidentified mushrooms to drained data centers, AI is creeping into every corner of mycology, and it is leaving the field worse off: less safe, less…
What a First Grow Actually Costs in 2026
Three itemised budgets, priced in pounds, dollars and Australian dollars, against the four-hundred-pound starter bundles. Most of what you spend, you spend…
How We Got Here: A Short History of the Hobby
From Exprimenting to Shroomery to Discord. What we gained, and what we lost along the way.
The Decriminalization Map, 2026
Where personal cultivation sits with the law this year, from Oregon and Colorado to the quiet reforms nobody reported. A living, sourced tracker.
Reading Your Grow
A field guide to the question every grower asks at 2am: is that white fuzz my mycelium, or is it the thing that ends the grow?
Set, Setting, and the Grow Room
Long before the trip, there is the tending. On patience, attention, and what six weeks of watching a living thing does to the person doing the watching.
Latest
What Psilocybin Does to the Brain
The default mode network, the loosening of the self, and why the science keeps arriving at the same strange place the growers already described.
PF Tek vs Monotub: Which First Grow?
The oldest beginner method against the modern workhorse. One teaches you the fundamentals in miniature; the other gives you a harvest worth the wait.
Isolate vs. Working Strain: What the Terms Actually Mean
Most growers use "isolate" and "strain" like they're the same thing, but a strain name just marks lineage while an isolate is a single, genetically fixed…
Sections
The writers
- Whathefungi, Breeding & cultivation (Australia)
- Mushrealm ACS, The bag grow king (USA)
- Telly Monster Myco, Bag grows & operations (USA)
- Michael0gical, Teks, guides & agar (USA)
- Yoshi, Writer
- Blu, Founder & editor (UK)