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 cyanophilus
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 Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: scout24]
#11333614 - 10/27/09 05:24 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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nice porcini! found some myself in Aptos...
  
Left 30 pins to mature.
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quadracer
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: cyanophilus]
#11333836 - 10/27/09 05:52 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Nice little buttons! Cooked one up today and the taste/smell is completely intoxicating.
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cyanophilus
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: quadracer]
#11335024 - 10/27/09 08:42 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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also found Agaricus semotus, and Suillus pungens...
  
call me crazy, but im going to try eating the pungens lol
the semotus are small but plentiful and they smell like anise
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Don’t just keep ones head down and ones pace steady, look behind to make sure there’s no trail of destruction. Consider that the things below ones feet in physicality, are actually above ones head in importance. Remember that we are not the only ones alive, and are definitely not depended upon to continue living. We are an expendable creature in the eyes of the earth. Thus, we must treat ourselves like we are guests. Accommodations must be made for life all over the planet. The power of life is incredibly diverse, intelligent, and intricate in its adaptability. Lets not give nature a reason to consume us in turn.
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 scout24
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: cyanophilus]
#11335389 - 10/27/09 09:35 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
cyanophilus said:
call me crazy, but im going to try eating the pungens lol
I'd like to hear how this turns out. 
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OregonBluesGil
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: scout24]
#11339500 - 10/28/09 02:27 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Why has this thread fallen to page four,Come on guys weres the finds,I know I'm trying
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Fahkface
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: OregonBluesGil]
#11339543 - 10/28/09 02:33 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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I could throw in some German finds, but I guess I'd play against the sense of this thread then...
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notapillow
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: Fahkface]
#11339563 - 10/28/09 02:35 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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good going one and all
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auweia
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: OregonBluesGil]
#11339622 - 10/28/09 02:44 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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it's drying out severely right now...dry east and north winds....most of my patches have stopped cold, even pins, seem like frozen in time
but you know what? It's still very early in the season. Most years it's tough to find much before Halloween in the Bay Area anyway, so it could still be smashing bang up year
the fact that we've had two heavy rains helps wake up the mycelium.....so it's still sitting there, waiting for the right time
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OregonBluesGil said:
Why has this thread fallen to page four,Come on guys weres the finds,I know I'm trying
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: OregonBluesGil]
#11339769 - 10/28/09 03:05 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Fahkface
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#11339810 - 10/28/09 03:10 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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NICE
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quadracer
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: Fahkface]
#11339868 - 10/28/09 03:17 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Nice! Are they leaning towards sunlight?
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CureCat
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: OregonBluesGil]
#11340129 - 10/28/09 03:47 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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I've been finding them, for sure. No photos though... sorry about that.
Yes, everything is drying up just as quick as it came up. Bummer. I've got my fingers crossed for more rain soon.
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CaliforniaLove
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: CureCat]
#11340233 - 10/28/09 04:03 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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hey guys this is my first year at shroomery but i am in the SF bay area! when does the season around here typically end?
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auweia
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: CaliforniaLove]
#11341137 - 10/28/09 06:25 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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in a normal year in the Bay Area, the season usually starts about now, peaks around Christmas, and winds down around March
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hey guys this is my first year at shroomery but i am in the SF bay area! when does the season around here typically end?
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quadracer
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: auweia]
#11341707 - 10/28/09 07:59 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
auweia said:
in a normal year in the Bay Area, the season usually starts about now, peaks around Christmas, and winds down around March
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CaliforniaLove said:
hey guys this is my first year at shroomery but i am in the SF bay area! when does the season around here typically end?
Funny how that works out. I found B. edulis in March, while finding Cantharellus californicus now, which is usually backwards (they can pop up whenever they want as far as I'm concerned). But in between a lot of patience.
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: quadracer]
#11343010 - 10/28/09 11:22 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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A couple quick videos I made:
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scout24
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#11343081 - 10/28/09 11:42 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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The video is a nice compliment to the photos. Awesome find.
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CureCat
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 Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#11345847 - 10/29/09 01:53 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Aren't you glad we didn't stop hunting the South Bay last season?
Fucking christ.
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auweia
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: CureCat]
#11347960 - 10/29/09 07:13 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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tough to explain with so many factors, but congrats on that patch...not many that big in one place.
had it stayed wet recently those would have gotten bigger and touched each other, probably. But I think at this point those are beyond the point of no return. I can see them starting to shrivel, and enough of that and the plant gives up on it's fruits
nothing will happen and they'll just continue to dry out, but the next time it rains is critical, cause those will turn pretty quickly. Within a day or two they'll start getting darker and that's bacteria because the plant is no longer defending it and growing it
it's hard to tell without some experience really when the plant gives up on it..sometimes they will leap back after a rain, but I think Alan and Curecat know enough already..this is mostly for others
the mycelium growing it underneath the ground is sensing all this dry air (via the fruits), and it's just making it go back into it's cave for awhile
from what I can see of this patch, I don't think they'll get any bigger unless there's a sprinkler near by..they would if it kept raining tho. I know Alan and Curecat knows they'll get nearly 4 inches across given the right conditions.
but I kinda don't think it's going to happen this time around
that's one of those cases where you can't pick at optimal maturity...not much anybody can do about it in the wild
I know of hundreds of pins right now in the same situation, but the beauty of mushrooms, is they can really recover nicely and start all over again, multiple times during a season
on a side note, there was one statement Alan made recently, and I don't know where , forgot which thread about some species, if they fruit at the same time. Alan said something to the effect of 'they fruit at the same time'
not these, and quite a few others as well. Actives around the SF Bay Area definitely do NOT fruit at the same time. They might in some other areas like the PNW where you get a more consistent temp/season/rainfall, but not in the SF BAY AREA
in fact, come to think of it, the SF Bay Area is one of the few areas where I couldn't imagine a more wide distributed fruiting season than anywhere on earth, because San Francisco is right in the middle of the PNW and the desert southwest and because of the topography has multiple microclimates during all seasons
you can get situations where 5 meters can make the difference between fruiting and not fruiting with the same mycelium. We probably have more strains or sub species than many places, compounding the problem (of trying to figure out when it fruits)
I've seen some strains of straight up p cyanescens fruit for the first time in March, some strains have fruited already this year...twice. For Alan and his patch in the south bay, this is the first major fruting, but for me and another spot of p cyanescens, this is already the second fruiting this year
October 10, 2009
two weeks later, october 24, 2009 (and the even larger areas nearby have barely started pinning)
the exact same place as october 10th (I bet you're asking - how do you tweak it so it does that 2 weeks later)..>>> by leaving as many baby/immature ones as possible, only picking the ones beyond maturity, covering up exposed mycelium with more chips nearby, making it happy (basically respecting the plant, and it's surroundings, not abusing it, keeping it a secret from others who would abuse it)
all three of these photos are in a public place, really accessible to anyone, if they knew where it was
but they don't, and I ain't talking... 
but that place is watered by a certain city in the Bay Area, and is in a colder, more shady microclimate
many of my spots haven't even started yet, but they will, later, next month...even more in December, given enough rainfall
it's tempting to say with Alans magnificent find, that 'OK, that was San Francisco big event for the year, seasons over, you can all go home now"...LOL
nobody here has any idea how far it's gone.....hehe...including me...and I just have a short clue...lol
it ain't so, not even close....
It's just beginning...has barely even started yet
Edited by auweia (10/29/09 09:59 PM)
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quadracer
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: CureCat]
#11348013 - 10/29/09 07:21 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Got skunked on Porcinis today, but did well with Chanterelles:
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