Description
P Ovoid Spores!
Comes with 10cc of P Ovoid 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.
This one’s a funky little American export – Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata is the proper name, but I’m gonna “Ovoid” typing that ever again! That’s your complimentary Dad Joke, delivered free of charge straight into your eyeholes courtesy of Orangutan Trading Co. This species of mushroom was first recorded by a guy called Richard V Gaines (I sincerely hope he was a gym fan with an amazing surname like that), in Pennsylvania, but you can also find them over in Germany and Switzerland. best thing is they appear to be spreading to new areas; funny how that seems to keep happening, ain’t it? They’ve got a “mebranous annulus” which sounds painful but is actually the leftover part of the veil that sits on the stipe of the mushroom. We’re going full science today baby, the MycoPunks team would be proud of me!
Ovoid. It means egg-like, yeah? However, the spores of these are rhomboid (like a pissed-up rectangle for those of you that finished school ages ago) so I have no idea why they’re called Ovoid. You’d think that the “cystidiata” bit would shed some light on it but I’ve been Googling the shit out of it and I can’t find any proper definition (feel free to let me know if you know) so I’m just gonna assume someone in the naming department was having a weird day. Doesn’t look like an egg, doesn’t smell like eggs, didn’t come out of the back end of a chicken, let’s call it egg-like anyway. Shambles. They’re pretty rad little mushrooms though, they are wood lovers, so out in the wild you’d often find them in mulch beds and places like that. They’re basically the mushroom equivalent of an old jazz mag, happiest just hanging about in some cool dark area of a forest.
Ideally, keep these P Ovoid 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 Ovoid spore syringes has 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 Ovoid 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
