Burma Mushrooms, Strain of Psilocybe Cubensis
These mushrooms are quick and dependable fruiters, primarily cultivated from spores.
Writer and mushroom aficionado John W. Allen was the first to identify this cultivar when given to him by a Burmese student on a trip to Myanmar several decades ago (the same region to provide us with KSSS and Pink Buffalo).
As a result, all Burma mushrooms now available can be traced back to this one specimen.
Burma Mushroom
Effects
The caps are polychromatic shades of brown, light at the rim & darker on the top. Many report swift growth with Burma mycelium, perhaps making this strain ideal for mycologists looking to get from start to finish as quickly as possible.
It will be up to you to test out different strains of cubensis mushrooms and see if you notice a pattern of distinct effects for particular strains. This is a hot topic in the mycology community, and the jury is out on whether or not a Psilocybe is a Psilocybe…or are there subtle subjective differences?
Ingesting Psilocybe mushrooms causes changes in mood, thought-pattern, and perception of reality. Some unwanted sensations may also occur, such as excessive yawning, nausea, and vomiting (with high doses).
In addition, Psilocybin has therapeutic potential and is currently the focus of much scientific research for depression, anxiety, and PTSD. The scientific community at large is slowly chipping away at decades-old and outdated legislation surrounding psychedelics like mushrooms, LSD, and MDMA.
Also on the menu? Spiritual insight. The visuals on a Psilocybin trip have similarities to psychedelics like ayahuasca and 2C-E and less to ones like LSD or 2C-B.
The visuals are bright, multicolored, glossy with soft edges, abstract, organic feeling, large and slow, smooth, and often intense. But, first, let’s talk about 8A and 8B – two visual geometry classes often seen by those under the influence of a psychedelic, such as magic mushrooms.
8B geometry is best described as innately readable geometric representations that communicate the inner mechanics underlying all neurological processes. During this experience, the structure, organization, and programming within and behind an individual’s conscious experience are seen and felt deeply.
The experience manifests as the organization and structure behind one’s conscious thought processes at lower dosages. It is often visualized in the form of a complex, fast-moving, multisensory network with geometric representations of abstract concepts.
With higher amounts, 8A visuals retain the lower-level effects but expand to include the experience of perceiving the architecture behind subconscious neurological processes (which are generally outside human understanding). These visuals are often interpreted to include concepts such as the structure of one’s neurology, perspectives, emotions, memories, and overall cognitive functions.
One may see the very nature of reality and human consciousness through their experience. Nuggets of knowledge are often felt and understood to be a profound unveiling of an unshakable truth at the time but later found to be either indescribable or conversely nonsensical and delusional. However, genuine lessons or coherent messages are sometimes interpreted through these experiences.
People who experience this generally perceive it as the universe’s inner workings, reality, or consciousness. This information is seen through visual geometric data and is physically felt in an incomprehensible level of detail via complex cognitive and tactile sensations.
Burma Shrooms vs Cambodian Shrooms
There’s a lot of debate surrounding whether psilocybin strains mean much of anything beyond the physical appearance of the mushroom. To be clear, these are the differentiators between mushroom strains that matter in a scientific sense:
Fruiting Body Size: Some strains are more likely to grow into behemoths; others may produce small and stubby mushrooms.
Cap Color: The color can range from white (albino) to tan/dark brown or black.
Gill Production: Strains like Penis Envy have virtually zero exposed gills, giving them their hallmark appearance.
Flush Capacity: Most strains will give 3/4 flushes, but some can go for 10+.
Colonization Speed: Some strains will reach complete colonization up to 20% faster.
Resistance to Infection: Contamination is a mycologists’ worst enemy. Some strains offer less susceptibility to mold & bacteria.
All magic mushroom strains contain a blend of alkaloids like psilocybin, psilocin, baeocystin, and others. Some species are often reported to be euphoric, visual, reflective, etc.
Science would say that the strain of mushroom you choose has little to no impact on the experience, other than your attitude towards said strain. Classic wisdom repeats ‘set & setting,’ the two essential elements to consider when planning a mushroom voyage. Set is your mindset going into the trip, and setting being the environment (and with whom) you’ll be taking the fungus.
Aside from arguments about potency, Cambodians (collected from Angkor Wat, also by John Allen) are similar to Burmas in having quick colonization and guaranteed solid flushes, with the bonus of excellent contamination resistance.
Grow
How to Grow Burma Shrooms
Well-loved by mycologists for its resiliency + high potency, and large, meaty fruits, the Burma cubensis spores also demonstrate lightning-fast colonization. However, burmas are not picky, and any common growing technique should produce decent results.
The PF Tek (easy but small yields), monotubs (large harvests and relatively straightforward), and agar to substrate (a bit more advanced) are the most used home-cultivation techniques.
Regardless of your chosen method, you will need to work with ‘spawn’ the substance on which the mycelium will grow. Spawn comes before substrate. Good choices for spawn include:
- Wheat Grain
- Oats
- Wheat grain
- Bird Seed
- Rye Grain
- Brown Rice Flour
For substrate, many opt for coco coir (husks of coconuts) which has been compressed – add water and viola, Mother Nature’s soil substitute.
Each spawn has pros and cons. Rye holds moisture better than any other grain – offering a bigger harvest (as mushrooms are 90% water). Oats and popcorn are less dense than rye, making them easier to sterilize and less vulnerable to contamination. It is prudent to assess the ins & outs of each type of spawn before making a decision.
PF Tek
The PF Tek is great for beginners, as it’s easy to do and offers excellent yields. Begin by filling half-pint mason jars with your spawn of choice (and preferably utilizing the ‘self-healing lid tek’). Then, sterilize the spawn jars using a pressure cooker.
Once sterilized, inoculate the jars using your Burma spore syringes. If you don’t have a flow hood or a clean room, you’ll have to do your best to sanitize a small space to perform this work. Even one microbe entering your jars could spell the apocalypse for your project. Lysol is your friend.
After inoculation, you should begin to see the luminous, healthy white, and rhizomorphic growth of the mycelium – the foundation of a mushroom network. When you see mushrooms in nature, these are offshoots of a vast underground network of mycelium. For example, the largest organism on Earth is a vast swathe of Aspen trees in the Pacific Northwest connected by long mycelial strands (hyphae).
Once the jars are fully colonized, you set them upside down into the fruiting chamber, a tub filled with perlite (to retain humidity) with small squares of foil on which to place the ‘cakes.’ Fortunately, once mycelium is established, it is much less susceptible to contamination.
Mushrooms love two things – humidity and fresh air. So if you keep these essentials provided consistently, before long, you’ll see pins (baby mushrooms) on your cakes, which in a few days will be fully mature ‘shrooms.
After inoculation, you should begin to see the luminous, healthy white, and rhizomorphic growth of the mycelium – the foundation of a mushroom network. When you see mushrooms in nature, these are offshoots of a vast underground network of mycelium. For example, the largest organism on Earth is a vast swathe of Aspen trees in the Pacific Northwest connected by long mycelial strands (hyphae).
Once the jars are fully colonized, you set them upside down into the fruiting chamber, a tub filled with perlite (to retain humidity) with small squares of foil on which to place the ‘cakes.’ Fortunately, once mycelium is established, it is much less susceptible to contamination.
Mushrooms love two things – humidity and fresh air. So if you keep these essentials provided consistently, before long, you’ll see pins (baby mushrooms) on your cakes, which in a few days will be fully mature ‘shrooms.
Monotubs
Monotubs can produce massive yields with minimal effort. Like the PF Tek at first, except quart or half-gallon mason jars are preferred. Fill the jars with your spawn of choice, sterilize, and inoculate.
Break up the spawn into small chunks and spread over the substrate (coco coir, vermiculite, etc.) in a ‘monotub,’ a large rubber tub (often with holes cut out at specific points and stuffed with polyfill). The idea is to allow air to flow in and out of the tub without opening it to fan/mist – and potentially introducing contaminants.
While the PF Tek yields perhaps an ounce or two of mushrooms (when dried), monotubs can quickly produce several ounces or pounds in just a couple of months.
While the PF Tek yields perhaps an ounce or two of mushrooms (when dried), monotubs can quickly produce several ounces or pounds in just a couple of months.
Agar
Agar is a foundational tool in microbiology across the globe. Agar-containing Petri dishes create the perfect habitat where fungi can thrive.
Created from red algae and often used in Asian desserts and a popular gelatin alternative & thickener for fruit preserves, soups, and ice cream, ‘agar’ refers to any culture media (a substrate with all vitamins and nutrients necessary to grow an array of microorganisms).
Early culture media included boiled potato slices and gelatin. Advanced mycologists use this method due to the required equipment, skills, and experience. Agar plates can be inoculated with Burma spore syringes, tissue cultures (clones), or spore prints.
Once inoculated, an agar plate takes about ten days to colonize fully, at which time one can observe any contaminants (often appearing as ‘cloudiness’). Therefore, the first agar plate is never used to inoculate spawn. Instead, the best portions of the first agar plate are taken and put into a new Petri dish. Rinse and repeat. Once the strain has been ‘perfected,’ so to speak, it is then added to spawn.
Rule of thumb advises using at least half an agar plate to colonize a spawn jar. Since colonization takes longer than with a liquid culture (spore syringe), using any less than this can cause problems due to the extra-long colonization time. The most common practice is using an entire agar plate to colonize one spawn jar and then using that spawn jar to inoculate multiple other spawn jars.
From this point on, this technique is identical to monotubs in procedure.
Once inoculated, an agar plate takes about ten days to colonize fully, at which time one can observe any contaminants (often appearing as ‘cloudiness’). Therefore, the first agar plate is never used to inoculate spawn. Instead, the best portions of the first agar plate are taken and put into a new Petri dish. Rinse and repeat. Once the strain has been ‘perfected,’ so to speak, it is then added to spawn.
Rule of thumb advises using at least half an agar plate to colonize a spawn jar. Since colonization takes longer than with a liquid culture (spore syringe), using any less than this can cause problems due to the extra-long colonization time. The most common practice is using an entire agar plate to colonize one spawn jar and then using that spawn jar to inoculate multiple other spawn jars.
From this point on, this technique is identical to monotubs in procedure.
Albino Burma Shrooms
All magic mushroom strains contain a blend of alkaloids like psilocybin, psilocin, baeocystin, and others. Some species are often reported to be euphoric, visual, reflective, etc.
Science would say that the strain of mushroom you choose has little to no impact on the experience, other than your attitude towards said strain. Classic wisdom repeats ‘set & setting,’ the two essential elements to consider when planning a mushroom voyage. Set is your mindset going into the trip, and setting being the environment (and with whom) you’ll be taking the fungus.
Aside from arguments about potency, Cambodians (collected from Angkor Wat, also by John Allen) are similar to Burmas in having quick colonization and guaranteed solid flushes, with the bonus of excellent contamination resistance.
Magic Mushroom Burma Shroom Spores Online
Buying things online is tricky, whether blue jeans or magic mushroom spores. So how do you know what you’re getting is of quality and will work for your needs?
Of course, buying unregulated products like Psilocybin spores requires a bit more caution and due diligence than does a pair of jeans. Look for websites with standard marks of online legitimacy, such as about us and contact pages, reviews, a FAQ, and familiar payment platforms.
Buying psilocybin spores is legal (mostly). How? Magic mushroom spores don’t contain psilocybin – so, since spores do not contain any active psychoactive compounds, they can legally be bought/sold in almost all states. California, Georgia, and Idaho have, unfortunately, created legislation specifically to ban the sale of Psilocybin mushroom spores (except for researchers/research institutions in California). Let’s be thankful we don’t live in Indonesia, where getting caught with magic mushrooms spores is punishable by the death penalty.
Psychedelic culture, although beginning to step into the mainstream, remains underground. Before ordering, consider posting on Reddit or The Shroomery to see if anyone is familiar with the site.
Last resort – reach out to their customer service. Send an email to the site and make a connection before you buy to help determine the vendor’s legitimacy.
Psilocybin Circus, Kaleido Shrooms, and United Spores of America sit high on our list of preferred vendors, as they use pharmaceutical-grade distilled water in their spore syringes, make everything in clean rooms, and work with seasoned mycologists to ensure best practices from spore to syringe.
Magic Mushroom Burma Shroom Spores Online
The name Psilocybe has the Ancient Greek roots psilos and kubê, translating to ‘bare head.’ Psilocybe cubensis is the most popular genus and species of psychoactive mushrooms in the world – although there are hundreds of other species, such as:
- Psilocybe semilanceata (Liberty Caps)
- Psilocybe azurescens (Flying Saucers, Blue Angels, Blue Runners, Azzies)
- Psilocybin tampanensis (truffles, sclerotia, philosopher’s stone)
- Panaeolus cinctulus (Banded Mottlegill)
- Psilocybe zapotecorum
- Psilocybe cyanescens (Wavy Cap)
- Psilocybe caerulescens (Landslide Mushrooms, Derrumbes)
- Psilocybe mexicana (Teonanacatl, Pajaritos, Flesh of the Gods)
- Psilocybe caerulipes (Blue Foot Mushroom)
- Psilocybe stuntzii (Blue Ringer Mushroom, Stuntz's Blue Legs)
- Psilocybe weilii (named after Andrew Weil)
- Psilocybe pelliculosa
- Amanita muscaria (Fly Agaric, Fly Amanita)
The two primary alkaloids responsible for magic mushrooms’ psychoactive effects are psilocybin and psilocin. The former serves as a prodrug for the latter, with psilocin activating human serotonin receptors. The concentrations of psilocin/psilocybin determined by HPLC are between 0.14–0.42% and 0.37–1.30% (dry weight) in the whole mushroom, 0.17–0.78% and 0.44–1.35% in the cap, and 0.09 and 0.30%/0.05–1.27% in the stem.
Many sub-alkaloids have been identified (in varying levels among different species), such as baeocystin and norbaeocystin. It is likely that similar to other holistic approaches to medicine, a ‘full spectrum’ effect may exist that gives different strains different results.
They’ve been used as a sacrament in virtually every region of the world in which they can be found — including South America, North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. While used for thousands of years, Terence and Dennis McKenna made Psilocybe cubensis particularly famous in the US when they published Psilocybin: The Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide in the 1970s upon their return from the Amazon rainforest. Having deduced new methods for growing Psilocybe mushrooms, they assured their audience that Psilocybe cubensis were amongst the easiest psilocybin-containing mushrooms to cultivate.
Medical research on magic mushrooms has seen a lot of breakthroughs in the last three years, too, showing substantial benefits in addiction, depression, anxiety, cluster headaches, and more.
Suppose you intend on taking a psychedelic mushroom voyage for the first time. In that case, we encourage you to check out Erowid, a comprehensive online ‘harm reduction’ resource with everything you’d ever want to know.
Always
Know Your Dose
2g or less for your first time is prudent.
Know Your Mushrooms
Be wary of wildcrafted Psilocybin mushrooms unless you’re 100% sure about the species you/the person is picking. There are deadly lookalikes.
Know the Timeline
Don’t have anything to do for 6-8 hours, preferably the day after.
Have a Trip Sitter
A trip sitter is someone you trust who remains sober throughout your experience and can help to reassure you if you experience any ‘turbulence,’ so to speak.
Also, make sure to check any potential interactions between psychedelics and prescription medication. For example, SSRIs are a typical class of drugs that are not suggested to combine with psychedelics.