Description
P Natalensis Spores!
Comes with 10cc of P Natalensis spores, an 18g needle to get your spores onto the slides, and an alcohol wipe so you can ensure that your microscope is super clean.
I’ve been waiting to get a suitable supply of these for yonks, so I’m pretty stoked to have them up on the website finally. I’ve often had people asking me if the Natal SS were these, to which I have always replied “nope”. There’s a few super-irritatingly named Cubensis phenotypes, because for some fuck-unknown reason, whoever made them decided to call them names similar (or the same as) other species of mushroom. Blue Meanies – that’s a common name for Panaeolus Cyanescens but someone also named a Cubensis variant that. I was gonna sell the Cubensis “Blue Meanies” a few years back but decided not to because there would be obvious confusion with them – Natal SS ain’t quite as badly named as that but I do get Reddit messages about whether they’re cubes or not from time to time.
Natalensis (or just “Nats” if you like) – Space Spaghetti, innit. If you nip over to iNaturalist you will find a tiny bit of information about these but it ain’t much. They’re from a region in South Africa called “KwaZulu-Natal” (hence Natalensis), and they’re quite closely related to Psilocybe Cubensis according to the chaps in the lab who do genetic sequencing, but with a few differences. Various places online seem to reckon they’re really good at resisting contamination (more so than Cubensis), which is interesting. I wonder what the specific genetic bits are that have created that difference? There’s a bit more information available over at Leafie, where the author (Sam Gandy) seems to have had a good dig through the Shroomery and the short version is that people are well into them, they’re ridiculously popular. Probably worth collecting a syringe and keeping it safe somewhere in the hope that the law will change someday.
Recently there’s been a big hullabaloo about whether P nats have ever actually been P nats, or whether they’re actually P ochraceocentrata. Either way, they’re still what they’ve always been, which is Pretty Fuckin’ Good. I wrote a bit about it in a blog post I did a while back, which you can read if you click these words!
Ideally, keep these P Natalensis spores refrigerated, where they will happily last a couple of years. Magic mushroom spores are tough like that – don’t let them freeze though! Failing that, you can keep them in a nice dark cupboard where they’ll be just fine for at least six months. They’re pretty simple to store. You can even use them multiple times, just replace the needle cap back on (don’t remove the needle as that’s one more chance for contaminants to get in there), and the next time you go to use them, heat the needle up with a lighter until it glows red. Simple! You could even put them back into the supplied bag if that’s your jam.
These P Natalensis spore syringes have been produced in the UK using a flowhood in order to make sure that what you see under the microscope is exactly what’s supposed to be there and nothing else – just premium P Natalensis spores!
Handy dos and don’ts:
DO:
- Keep it somewhere cool and dark, it’ll keep for 6 months+
- Keep it in the fridge maybe, it’ll last for years there
- Enjoy microscopy, it’s a great hobby
- Read/watch a variety of microscopy techniques across sites like Reddit and YouTube, knowledge is power
- Be really clean when you’re handling it, it’s critical
DON’T:
- Drink it. You can, it won’t hurt you, it’s just very expensive pop at that point
- Try and grow anything with it, unless you live somewhere where that is legal
- Store it anywhere dusty, dirty, or hot
- Try and do your microscopy in a drafty, dusty room
For a bit more detailed of an explanation on exactly what to do, click here!
Product Information: contains mushroom spores, distilled sterilised water, in a sterile syringe
