News.

Back tonight (24th Aug 2025)

Hi mushroom lovers. We will be reopening around midnight tonight after a brief three weeks off, sorting the place out for the busy season ahead.

We will update this news page over the coming days with more about the new changes, new products and so on. Right now we are heads down getting the product pages and terms pages cleaned up.

Dispatch, replacements, the 3ml change and a promo (2nd June 2025)

A few important updates to talk about.

Faster dispatch

We have improved our dispatch times. Orders containing only spores have moved from 0 to 7 days to same day dispatch. Grow kit orders are now down to 3 working days, having been at 0 to 7 working days only a month ago. The grow kit dispatch promise applies to orders placed after 1st June.

If we ever break our dispatch promise, we will always make up for it. Being held to our promises is what keeps us on our toes. There is nothing like having to work doubly hard making extra spore syringes because we had to give a customer freebie syringes for being a day late.

Replacements

This is something we have improved too. As long as a customer has not been reckless with a grow kit, we will replace it even if they have used it and it has become contaminated, within 6 weeks of dispatch.

We do have a few tricks up our sleeve to stop people abusing our generosity, because if we did not we could go out of business. For the genuine customers who are not trying to freeload, we have your back for 6 weeks. For the rest, we are not daft. Even the most cutting-edge AI video tools will not be able to fake the video proof we ask for, and that proof process also renders the kit completely useless if it was not already.

Moving out, and fewer products on show for now

This month we are moving our remaining equipment and stock out of the unit, as the lease reaches the end of its 5 years. We are going to be very busy shifting it all, so we have hidden a lot of products from the shop to make the month a little easier. We have kept what we think are the most important ones. Once the month is over, everything goes back on show.

Goodbye to the 3ml spore syringe

A more permanent change is the removal of our 3ml Psilocybe cubensis spore syringes. The reason is simple. Keeping our huge range of strains in two different volumes was becoming too much work. Dropping the 3ml cuts that work in half, and it is a better deal for you. One 12ml syringe is GBP 15, which is less than two 3ml syringes would cost at GBP 16. If we had kept the 3ml and dropped the 12ml, that would have felt unfair to customers, so the choice was easy. Customers over profit.

So have the 3ml ones on us

We are sitting on a lot of 3ml syringes, so we are giving them away. For every customer who spends at least GBP 15 in the shop, we will add at least one 3ml Psilocybe cubensis spore syringe of our choice. Bigger orders could see a few of them. We will look at how much you spend to decide how generous to be.

Dozens more products added (6th May 2025)

Alongside more spore strains and species, we have stocked the shop with a load of genuinely useful kit. Most of it is here now, and there is plenty more to come.

• AgarPots
• DIY PF-Tek
• Kilner jars
• Syringes
• Vials
• Contamination control chemicals
• Fertilisers
• Peptone
• Agar agar
• Unicorn bags
• Dextrose
• Rye grain
• Vermiculite
• Perlite

Product photos are still a work in progress, but every one of these is available to buy right now. Have a look through the categories page to see them all, or head to the shop to see everything.

Bye-bye MycoBox, hello InocuBox (and Ps. Tampanensis) (24th April 2025)

We have just launched our brand-new Cyspec InocuBox grow kit, the successor to the Cylocybe Special MycoBox grow kit. The rest of the range, the InocuTub, InocuPot and InocuBag, will follow over the coming days and weeks.

These are the biggest changes here since we launched the MonoBox grow kit back in 2021, and a big deal for us in our never-ending pursuit of the best grow kits you can find in the UK. The whole Inocu series is a real jump in quality, value, speed and cleanliness, with no jump in price.

Before we go, today we added the fascinating Psilocybe Tampanensis spores to the shop (a personal favourite for the microscope), along with stock of various new Psilocybe cubensis spores such as Lizard King and more, ready to be made up into syringes over the coming days.

New spore products and faster dispatch (13th April 2025)

Within a couple of hours we will be updating our spore offering. We are talking Psilocybe Azurescens, Psilocybe Cyanescens, Panaeolus Cyanescens, and more Psilocybe cubensis like Red Boy and Tidal Wave. We are even adding a lovely sclerotia or truffle type that some of you may have heard of, Psilocybe Mexicana, with a personal favourite called Tampanensis (which takes me back to younger microscopy days) coming within a week or two.

Today is a good day for us, and this is what we are all about. Exciting spores. Oh, and no biggie, but soon we plan to change the way we do things quite drastically. How does “same day dispatch or your money back” sound? It has a nice ring to it. That is what the new Cylocybe is going to be, and we will bring it in very soon.

Positivity (8th March 2025)

Since reopening last month we have been busy battling the usual bumps that come after a long break, but this past week has felt the happiest it has at Cylocybe in four or five years. It feels fun again. Our new premises is where it is at. More space, cleaner, warmer, and good vibes.

We have learned so much over this past year off, personally and professionally. Can we tell you something though? We felt utterly miserable running Cylocybe for years. Anyone who knows us knows how we felt about it. But it was not Cylocybe that made us miserable. It was not the customers, and it was not the hard work. It was everything around it.

Being locked into a 5-year lease for a unit we only took on to stop a neighbour shouting at us about delivery lorries is a good example of us putting someone else’s interests ahead of our own, at the cost of years working in a miserable unit on a miserable industrial park. That decision was one of the worst we have made, professionally and personally, and it is hard to describe the toll it took. But that whole situation is behind us now, and we can finally see the positivity.

We would also like to mention a recent change on the site. We used to have a system that hid certain products from new customers, meant to slow new orders down a little and reward loyalty. That code started causing bugs, slowed the shop, stopped search engines seeing our content (oops), and confused a few people. Having ADHD, I have new ideas constantly. I love building and testing things. Some are good, some are bad, and some just need more work. Some of you message us saying we are forever trying things and then reverting them. Very true. That is just who we are. Anyway, we have switched that feature off for now, so all products are available to all customers.