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 MrAbstraction
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 PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos 
#8960239 - 09/20/08 06:12 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hey All;
So, in the last two years of going out in the fall looking for actives I've found exactly 1 Psilocybe azurescens and I had to travel to the Oregon coast for that. My other hunts were mostly conducted on the east side (Kirkland, Redmond, bellevue) and were fruitless.
This year is going to be different!  I live in Seattle proper now, and have started scoping out spots in my neighborhood to check back on as the season progresses. I took a nice damp walk today and took a few shots of what I think are potential habitats. I understand that wood chips do not always equal a glorious patch, but I was hoping to get some thumbs up or down on if these are the types of beds I should be looking for...
Habitat 1;
Habitat 2;
Habitat 3;
Habitat 4;
Habitat 5;
Habitat 6;
Thanks Shroomery;
Mr.A
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shpongolia
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: MrAbstraction]
#8960265 - 09/20/08 06:16 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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those all look like cedar woodchips :/
but im not a cyan master so you could have some potentiality there
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Theylikethatshit
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: shpongolia]
#8960435 - 09/20/08 06:55 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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In my opinion they dont look to promising but you never know.
Chek your spots when people start finding them.
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I'd say try and find more of a "mixed" variety of woodchip patches. You can't go wrong there. Alder woodchips look almost the same color as cyanescens caps (caramel) when they're both wet. Parks, recreation areas, near apartments, and trails that woodchips have been laid are the best areas to look, because most often they put down alder
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: tyler_0_durden]
#8961386 - 09/21/08 12:23 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hmm, i think I'll take some pics of where I'm planning on looking. It'll have to wait till tomorrow though. I think they're the right kind of chips. They're big white chips. They used them to fill in a swingset area in a park. Really soft to walk on. They used the same chips around trees in the park.
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: JamesChappy]
#8961579 - 09/21/08 01:33 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Right on, I'll take another walk tomorrow.
Thanks for the replies;
Mr.A
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: JamesChappy]
#8962581 - 09/21/08 09:03 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
JamesChappy said:
Hmm, i think I'll take some pics of where I'm planning on looking. It'll have to wait till tomorrow though. I think they're the right kind of chips. They're big white chips. They used them to fill in a swingset area in a park. Really soft to walk on. They used the same chips around trees in the park.
Ive heard they use chemicals to kill fungi in the chips used for playgrounds, idk might just be a rumor.
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MrAbstraction
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Hey again;
Today's walk was much more fun (and less damp). Here's what I came up with;
Habitat Shots;
1; 2; 3; 4;
 5;
Shroom Shots;
1; 2; 3;] 4; 5;
I picked some of these, i don't think they're active or really interesting, just testing out my pickin' skills;
1; 1a;
I feel much more confident about the spots I found today. Any idea what #4 in the shroom shots might be?
Mr.A
Edited by MrAbstraction (09/21/08 12:07 PM)
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Quote:
Theylikethatshit said:
Ive heard they use chemicals to kill fungi in the chips used for playgrounds, idk might just be a rumor.
BASTARDS!
Well I'll keep that spot on the backburner. Actually, I should mention that I have found galerinas on what looks to be the same kind of wood chips in the same park. The galerinas I found were under conifer trees in the woodchips that were used to circle the trunk. I also wanna say I found one galerina IN the playground bark already, but now I can't quite remember if it was in the playground or just right by the playground... time to doublecheck and take pics of the habitat.
I'm also VERY close to some major blackberry bushes, I'll have to check the trees near them for alders. WhyTF do cyans like blackberries anyway? Is it because they hold in humidity or something?
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: MrAbstraction]
#8964298 - 09/21/08 03:10 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Habitats 2,4 and 5 from today are the chips you want. 2 looks good, maybe a little too fresh to grow much this year but worth looking in, 4 looks a little old but still good enough to check  . 5 looks like it might be too decomposed to support much growth.
mushroom #4/5 looks like Coprinopsis lagopus. not sure on the others, maybe Hypholoma dispersum or Psathyrellas, both decent indicator species of the 'right' chips.
good idea getting your homework done before they start growing, I suspect you will have a good season...
good luck 
Edited by spores (09/21/08 03:19 PM)
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: spores]
#8964330 - 09/21/08 03:16 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Just go to apartment complexes or condos where you see nice landscaping. If they have bare dirt exposed, turn around and go somewhere else. It should take about ten minutes to find all you can pick. You're about a month early still.
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: MrAbstraction]
#8964930 - 09/21/08 05:39 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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2 looks like a pretty good habitat, as long as its not bark
check it in a few weeks
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: MrAbstraction]
#8964947 - 09/21/08 05:44 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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You should have ten times more potential spots to have a good chance of finding something.
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: scout24]
#8990980 - 09/26/08 06:28 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Anyone know if this is an indicator species or if this habitat looks like it would support cyans?
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: redpanda]
#8991076 - 09/26/08 06:54 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ive seen those before,
near where I pick cyans.
Not from woodchips though
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: redpanda]
#8991190 - 09/26/08 07:18 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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That could be Coprinopsis lagopus.
Looks like good habitat.
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: RogerRabbit]
#8991192 - 09/26/08 07:19 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
RogerRabbit said:
Just go to apartment complexes or condos where you see nice landscaping. If they have bare dirt exposed, turn around and go somewhere else. It should take about ten minutes to find all you can pick. You're about a month early still.
RR
When you say apartment complexes, does there have to be alder chips or do you tend to find them in other substrate as well?
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: redpanda]
#8991397 - 09/26/08 08:22 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Those are Inky caps, mature ones. I also see those near the habitat I'm scouting out for cyans. I HAVEN'T found any cyans there yet, but I'm told it's a prime spot. Check my pics on page 12 or 11 for some younger Inky caps with some older ones.
*edited for clarity on which mushrooms I was saying were inky caps.
Edited by JamesChappy (09/26/08 11:10 PM)
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Re: PNW Potential Cyan Habitat Photos [Re: JamesChappy]
#8991419 - 09/26/08 08:30 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Those mushrooms in the picture above your post are cyans
they get inky-looking sometimes... not sure what it is, it might just be maturity
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Quote:
Theylikethatshit said:
2 looks like a pretty good habitat, as long as its not bark
check it in a few weeks
Yea, 2, was the only one that loked really nice. Word of advice, those habitat pics you have of big fat bark looking chips, cyans DO NOT grow out of that substrate.
Idealy cyans like alderwood chips as you have heard plenty of time by now, But I don't think you know what that substrate looks like. When it is wet, alderwood chips will appear nicely brown, and when dry they appear lightish brown or grayish-white.
typically, one is very very hard-pressed to find active mushrooms in dark colored substrate. I have been picking for two years and have never found cyans growing in any dark woodchips, but thats just my experience.
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