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Some strains are showy. This one is showy and stubbornly hard-working. Hillbilly Pumpkin takes the famously scrappy Hillbilly line and dresses it in autumn colours — squat, thick-set fruits with caps in a warm burnt-orange that genuinely earns the name. Set against the usual caramels and chestnuts of the cubensis world, a flush of these looks like someone's decorated the tub for October.
Underneath the colouring, it's pure Hillbilly: fast, rhizomatic mycelium that sprints across a substrate, and a general refusal to be fussed. Hillbilly built its reputation on tolerating conditions that would make a more delicate strain sulk, and the Pumpkin isolation carries that resilience with it. Expect plenty of fruits rather than a handful of giants — this one goes for numbers and density over headline-grabbing individuals.
A little history: the parent Hillbilly strain is generally traced to wild-collected spores from the American South — Arkansas and the surrounding Ozarks are the usual attribution, hence the affectionately backhanded name. The Pumpkin variant came later, out of hobbyist isolation work by growers who spotted an unusually orange phenotype and selected for it over successive generations. Hillbilly was a popular member of a mycology forum and named his strain after himself.
Storage: Keep your spores refrigerated, not frozen, from the moment you receive them. Pop them in the fridge straight away, and they’ll happily keep for a couple of months and in perfect conditions, even for years.
Remember: All our products are sold for microscopy purposes ONLY; do not try to grow mushrooms with any of our products; that would be illegal and very naughty. While I have your attention on this matter, it is very surprising to learn how many naughty people there are out there. No judging, but I cannot answer any questions about growing mushrooms. It doesn’t matter if you live somewhere where growing is legal; I still won’t answer any questions – please don’t ask. However, if you do ask me naughty questions, I will unfortunately have to add you to my banned list, and you will be unable to enjoy any of my lovely products. I will also inform Santa about your naughty behaviour and ask him to put you on his naughty list – that’s now Christmas stuffed. So please, no naughty questions.
Don’t Forget:
Keep them in a cool, dark place; about 5’c is nice
Keep the product in a clean and tidy place
Don’t let the product get hot
Don’t let them freeze
Don’t let them become dusty or dirty
Some strains are showy. This one is showy and stubbornly hard-working. Hillbilly Pumpkin takes the famously scrappy Hillbilly line and dresses it in autumn colours — squat, thick-set fruits with caps in a warm burnt-orange that genuinely earns the name. Set against the usual caramels and chestnuts of the cubensis world, a flush of these looks like someone's decorated the tub for October.
Underneath the colouring, it's pure Hillbilly: fast, rhizomatic mycelium that sprints across a substrate, and a general refusal to be fussed. Hillbilly built its reputation on tolerating conditions that would make a more delicate strain sulk, and the Pumpkin isolation carries that resilience with it. Expect plenty of fruits rather than a handful of giants — this one goes for numbers and density over headline-grabbing individuals.
A little history: the parent Hillbilly strain is generally traced to wild-collected spores from the American South — Arkansas and the surrounding Ozarks are the usual attribution, hence the affectionately backhanded name. The Pumpkin variant came later, out of hobbyist isolation work by growers who spotted an unusually orange phenotype and selected for it over successive generations. Hillbilly was a popular member of a mycology forum and named his strain after himself.
Storage: Keep your spores refrigerated, not frozen, from the moment you receive them. Pop them in the fridge straight away, and they’ll happily keep for a couple of months and in perfect conditions, even for years.
Remember: All our products are sold for microscopy purposes ONLY; do not try to grow mushrooms with any of our products; that would be illegal and very naughty. While I have your attention on this matter, it is very surprising to learn how many naughty people there are out there. No judging, but I cannot answer any questions about growing mushrooms. It doesn’t matter if you live somewhere where growing is legal; I still won’t answer any questions – please don’t ask. However, if you do ask me naughty questions, I will unfortunately have to add you to my banned list, and you will be unable to enjoy any of my lovely products. I will also inform Santa about your naughty behaviour and ask him to put you on his naughty list – that’s now Christmas stuffed. So please, no naughty questions.
Don’t Forget:
Keep them in a cool, dark place; about 5’c is nice
Keep the product in a clean and tidy place
Don’t let the product get hot
Don’t let them freeze
Don’t let them become dusty or dirty