Description
P Tampanensis Spores!
Comes with 10cc of P Tampanensis 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.
“Psilocybe Tampanensis”, or just “Tamps” if you’re their buddy. Like P Natalensis comes from somewhere called (for short) Natal, these originally come from Tampa over in Florida, like the good ol’ Florida Wild spores. Because they’re not the result of someone crossing various strains and suchlike, they’ve just got a normal name like the mushroom equivalent of a “John” or a “David”. Dependable, not flashy. Good ol’ Tamps.
The origin of this is also a bit of a mad one – apparently a mycologist named Steven H Pollock went off mushroom hunting in Tampa, and found a type of mushroom he didn’t recognise growing out of a sand dune. He pocketed it, cloned it, and produced a culture of it, and that’s basically the way that everyone else, since then, has had access to these spores. I mean, what the fuck, right? That’s some lightning-in-a-bottle sorta thing right there.
What’s cool about these is that Mr Pollock identified that they could produce sclerotia (sexy word), which are sold in Amsterdam and other places as “magic truffles”. His Wikipedia page is fuckin’ wild, seriously go and have a look: he became the biggest (naughty) mushroom vendor in the world, and was one of the first to find out that brown rice was great for mycelium. Later, he got a patent granted for the way that he was able to produce the sclerotia, then got in a spot of bother for writing loads of illegal prescriptions. After this, he went and got himself shot in the head – when the cops came they found over 1500 jars of magic mushrooms that he was growing. What a utterly bizarre tale, that’s about as rock and roll as it gets, even down to the unfortunate death.
Ideally, keep these P Tampanensis 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 Tampanensis 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 Tamanensis spores!
