Guides & How-Tos

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From First Slide to Full Harvest

Step-by-step how-tos and in-depth guides — for microscopy, taxonomy, and growing gourmet & medicinal mushrooms at home.

Everything in one place — practical how-tos for handling spores and cultures, plus deep-dive strain, species, and grow guides across our whole catalog.

Brand new to spores? Begin with mushroom spore basics.

Step by Step

How-To Guides

How to Use a Mushroom Spore Syringe →

Rehydrate, handle, and prepare a spore syringe for microscopy.

How to Use a Gourmet Liquid Culture Syringe →

Work cleanly with a living gourmet liquid culture, start to finish.

How to Study Spores Under a Microscope →

Set up a slide, choose magnification, and know what to look for.

How to Use a Spore Print →

Rehydrate a print for the microscope or to draw into a syringe.

Go Deeper

Guide Collections

Gourmet & Medicinal Grow Guides →

Step-by-step guides for oysters, lion's mane, reishi, shiitake, and more.

Cubensis Strain Guides →

Traits, spores, and history of the classic Psilocybe cubensis strains.

Exotic & Wood-Lover Species Guides →

Azurescens, Pan Cyan, Wavy Caps, and other rare species.

Amanita Muscaria →

The Fly Agaric — biology, folklore, and the facts about its toxicity.

A quick note. Our psilocybe strain and species guides are for education, microscopy, and taxonomy; gourmet and medicinal grow guides are full cultivation walkthroughs. Psilocybe spores ship to every U.S. state except Georgia and Idaho — please confirm the laws where you live.

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