How do I clone a Panaeolus cyanescens mushroom?
Pan. cyanescens is a small mushroom. It grows very tall, but cap size is small. The stems range in size up to 120 mm tall, and the caps are typically less then 25 mm in diameter. When thinking Pan. cyanescens, or cambodginiensis, think small. Don’t even try to compare sizes with cubensis. They never get that big. When cloning shrooms, you want to take a piece of the shroom, not the whole thing. It is best with the fragile small Pan.’s to cut into the thin stem and take only a portion of cut stem interior, or cut a small section of the stem, if you have trouble getting inside. The new growth will occur at the cut ends in the latter scenario, or from the entire exposed inner tissue. Inner tissue is always better, then outer tissue. It’s morphology is suited towards growth, more so then the exterior tissue. It’s also cleaner. When cloning, you never want to have the entire cap present. Spores could be present, and then you don’t have a clone.
