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 FleshTemple
Teononcatl
 
Registered: 12/19/02
Posts: 67
Loc: Santa Cruz Mountains
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 Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: auweia]
#11570110 - 12/02/09 12:44 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Where is the rain at? And where the hell are you guys making these incredible finds? Does anyone know if the Santa Cruz Mountains/Santa Cruz area have any potential for Cyans?
Im heading out to search for a few hours today, probably Woodside area. How do I connect with people in the area who want to join forces for identification forays?
Great finds, and so hopping to post some pics up for you guys soon.
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cyanophilus
ectosporium
Registered: 06/08/09
Posts: 1,135
Loc: Bay Area, CA
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: FleshTemple]
#11570168 - 12/02/09 12:55 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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I know 3 places that cyans grow in santa cruz, but it took me a few years of hunting to even find 1 of the places, you would have better immediate luck in the SF area.
right now is extremely dry, the cyans here are all dried up as of the past week.
if you want to go for a hunt sometime, shoot me a  but keep in mind I will not take you hunting for psilocybes
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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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Immunity
Aspiring Badass
Registered: 10/21/09
Posts: 76
Loc: Can't remember...
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: cyanophilus]
#11574720 - 12/03/09 01:16 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm hoping for some rain too! I've been hunting vigilantly in the Santa Cruz area this season, but no luck with any magical finds yet. But I remain optimistic!
And I agree that we need rain. I seem to remember someone saying something about the season being late for us. I'm really hoping things will start poppin' when we get some consistent moisture. Whenever we've gotten any precipitation this season, fruiting seems to happen in the blink of an eye for many species. I feel like it has finally gotten cold enough, now we just need the wetness. That's pure conjecture though, I could be way off on that one.  .
I wish you luck FleshTemple! And everyone else, keeping making those awesome finds! Don't know what I would do without the inspiration!  
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quadracer
Porcini Hunter
Registered: 12/14/08
Posts: 440
Loc: Here, Now
Last seen: 28 days, 15 hours
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: Immunity]
#11576620 - 12/03/09 11:54 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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December Chanterelles!!!
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cyanophilus
ectosporium
Registered: 06/08/09
Posts: 1,135
Loc: Bay Area, CA
Last seen: 22 days, 11 hours
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: quadracer]
#11579466 - 12/03/09 06:38 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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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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 auweia
mountain biking
Registered: 12/03/05
Posts: 2,404
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: cyanophilus]
#11580322 - 12/03/09 08:46 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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from a new office park near San Francisco two weeks ago.The same area as the monster strain. Haven't seen a nice contrast like that for awhile
it's watered, but only sometimes...but it was enough for this
the brains behind this operation - downtown San Francisco
oyster pins from yesterday, also watered, but only sometimes. It is this cold current temps, preceding next weeks rains, that causes this. It's a slow process and can take weeks. Without rain, the cold will cause them to pin (primordia formation) and sit there for weeks, underground, where you mostly can't see it
the early rains from all the way back in October helped set this up, wake up the mycelium into active state, then the weeks of cold form primordia, ready to pin
thousands of spots are like this right now, mostly underground, waiting for the water to fall..Actually, it's probably in the millions of spots in the San Francisco Bay Area alone, we just don't know about most of them...haha
and when that finally happens, both of these places will flush some more, and previously empty spots will suddenly flush
everything you've seen so far regarding actives have been early spots (mostly due to artificial watering). Actives can't usually make it as far as edibles out in the woods That's because the substrate is much thinner and usually less protected than the heavy duff way out in the forest for edibles. the actives are therefore more vulnerable to dry air than the edibles in the heavy duff - deep forest. For most northern hemisphere species, there are usually at least two distinct flushes, but there's a ton of variables, usually all weather related. Everything from micro climates, to the size of the mycelium, to how deep the substrate is can affect when and where it decides to fruit (this is also why mushrooms hunters, no matter how much experience they have, like me, still have to hunt)
that's why, during the last three drought years, many spots have been found deep in bushes, and not out in the open, like during wet years
This season for actives in the San Francisco Bay Area is definitely NOT over yet...not even close
we won't know for sure until late January, early February, if, by that time it has stopped raining altogether and we're going into a 4th year of drought
but see, the weather people here have been peeing their pants about next weeks rain
we'll see, but as of right now, it's still to early to tell 
except for maybe some of the edibles out in the forests, the main course is yet to come...It should be obvious if you live around San Francisco....Yeah, I know, patience...What, you didn't think patience involve months and months?...hahaha
I can certainly say that, after 30 years of hunting actives, there is absolutely NOTHING inherently *special* about actives in the way they grow in relation to any other wood chip inhabiting species (I can show you tons of nearby stropharicae - same genera - that do the same exact thing, at the same exact time)...basically, they are just like any other wood chip 'Joe Schmoe mushroom' out there (they just have that extra crystalline psychedelic embedded in their genetic structure, and nobody has ever explained why - and it certainly doesn't benefit the plant) Explain that one, and you've solved one of the great mysteries of mankind
(except for the new p subaeriginascens that appeared in the San Francisco area some 6 years ago....we're not sure exactly what the hell that is)...haha
and remember, as always....most of this stuff you never see.....the only thing we really do see is the fruits, the reproductive part of it
what we call 'mushrooms'
Edited by auweia (12/03/09 11:05 PM)
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burtonRebel
Mac Dre
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Posts: 858
Last seen: 10 months, 6 days
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: auweia]
#11580749 - 12/03/09 09:59 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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i had a dentist appointment this morning and decided on finishing the day off right with some mushroom hunting.
        
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Fahkface
Over-Fiend
Registered: 12/11/06
Posts: 4,821
Loc: In your Mind, Pedro! In y...
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: burtonRebel]
#11581536 - 12/04/09 12:52 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
the brains behind this operation - downtown San Francisco
Dude, I've never permitted you to use a picture of my face!
You could have asked, first!
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auweia
mountain biking
Registered: 12/03/05
Posts: 2,404
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: burtonRebel]
#11582943 - 12/04/09 08:59 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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the Brain that Wouldn't Die
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052646/
It's Alive!
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auweia
mountain biking
Registered: 12/03/05
Posts: 2,404
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: auweia]
#11587145 - 12/04/09 09:00 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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p friscosa (psilocybe cyanofriscana)
two weeks ago in the East Bay...a teaser of things to come
I've known about this area for 5 years...What's really trippy is that it's in the middle of a large residential area, continuously covered by more wood chips..last year, this patch was nearly 400 meter away. The original spot 500 meters away has all but gone due to the mycelium ate all of it, but 500 meters away they put in a pile of new chips last year)...In other words, what this shows me, is that these San Francisco cyans can easily cover distances of 500 meters or more simply by blowing spores in the wind
this photo is the new spot, 500 meters away...they just covered the original spot with more wood chips just seven days ago...haha ( it will take another year for that one to come back)
BOTH spots are shady all day..the wall on the right is facing north, so it never gets any direct sunlight...it is NOT artificially watered, but it's permanently shady enough to allow this
oh yeah, before I forget...this photo IS in a public area...it's right next to a sidewalk...you just have to bend down and look a little harder
but that's just a preview, because it hasn't really rained yet....but it's coming
This ain't like the PNW thread at all....most of my spots have never been raped, and it's going to stay that way
I'll stay in my home town of San Francisco, thank you
Edited by auweia (12/04/09 09:26 PM)
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arohydro
Oxy
Registered: 09/22/09
Posts: 11
Loc: California
Last seen: 2 years, 2 months
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: FleshTemple]
#11587823 - 12/04/09 11:12 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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I haven't had much luck with the hunting. Only one spot has shown any promise and most of my finds there were either dead or torn apart. How do you guys go about finding your areas? It's not as though I haven't done any research; on the contrary, the locations I pick seem to be suspiciously barren.
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Alan Rockefeller
Mycologist
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: arohydro]
#11588304 - 12/05/09 01:42 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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How do you guys go about finding your areas?
Many, many hours of looking.
Once you look under and around ten thousand bushes that have wood chip landscaping, you will have some spots.
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burtonRebel
Mac Dre
Registered: 12/02/06
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: arohydro]
#11589879 - 12/05/09 11:43 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
arohydro said:
I haven't had much luck with the hunting. Only one spot has shown any promise and most of my finds there were either dead or torn apart. How do you guys go about finding your areas? It's not as though I haven't done any research; on the contrary, the locations I pick seem to be suspiciously barren.
be glad you found 1!! i know of people that have been hunting for years with 0 finds
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psilynut
aka Patchraper
Registered: 10/22/09
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: burtonRebel]
#11590372 - 12/05/09 01:08 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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It took me 15 hunting trips last season and about 10 so far this season before I lucked out and found 1 Small patch and 1 big one. I'm pretty sure they've been found many times already.
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dummy
I am you and what I see is me
Registered: 09/29/08
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: psilynut]
#11590600 - 12/05/09 01:53 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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wtf is up with my patch? the mecylium is everywhere! very dense and white. but not one pin...
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auweia
mountain biking
Registered: 12/03/05
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: dummy]
#11590815 - 12/05/09 02:28 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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wait till next weekend...and the week after
I think a whole lotta people are ready for this. I for one, have my snorkling gear ready
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dummy said:
wtf is up with my patch? the mecylium is everywhere! very dense and white. but not one pin...
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OverdoseLiving
Get 2 Give
Registered: 03/22/09
Posts: 2,489
Loc: The Shroomery
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: auweia]
#11590830 - 12/05/09 02:28 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
auweia said:
p friscosa (psilocybe cyanofriscana)
two weeks ago in the East Bay...a teaser of things to come
I've known about this area for 5 years...What's really trippy is that it's in the middle of a large residential area, continuously covered by more wood chips..last year, this patch was nearly 400 meter away. The original spot 500 meters away has all but gone due to the mycelium ate all of it, but 500 meters away they put in a pile of new chips last year)...In other words, what this shows me, is that these San Francisco cyans can easily cover distances of 500 meters or more simply by blowing spores in the wind
this photo is the new spot, 500 meters away...they just covered the original spot with more wood chips just seven days ago...haha ( it will take another year for that one to come back)
BOTH spots are shady all day..the wall on the right is facing north, so it never gets any direct sunlight...it is NOT artificially watered, but it's permanently shady enough to allow this
oh yeah, before I forget...this photo IS in a public area...it's right next to a sidewalk...you just have to bend down and look a little harder
but that's just a preview, because it hasn't really rained yet....but it's coming
This ain't like the PNW thread at all....most of my spots have never been raped, and it's going to stay that way
I'll stay in my home town of San Francisco, thank you
Friscosas are a Mysterious MushrooM.
I really enjoy reading all your posts on theM.
They caught My interest 4 or so years ago reading about you and taho's and whoevers Mysterious finds. Then I as actually able to find a couple big patches in Stanislause county last year and that really set My interest off for these MushrooMs.
I spawned a patch just to years ago and let Me tell you, this MushrooM can do aMazing things:). Unfortunately My first big patch didnt fruit this year do to it being COVERED IN DIRT! by soMe landscapers, like 3 feet of that shit. But it is ok My new patch More than Made up for it...
I think I May actually hold the world record for largest docuMented friscosa patch, if that title did actually exist.
Ill be getting pics up in a few days..
PS: Friscosas are the shit.
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Edited by OverdoseLiving (12/05/09 05:02 PM)
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cyanophilus
ectosporium
Registered: 06/08/09
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: OverdoseLiving]
#11590914 - 12/05/09 02:39 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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the mssf fair wasnt too bad, I brought some gymns there for display, bought some tubaeformis and magnivelare, time to go for a hunt.
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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.
-Me
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OverdoseLiving
Get 2 Give
Registered: 03/22/09
Posts: 2,489
Loc: The Shroomery
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: cyanophilus]
#11591650 - 12/05/09 04:40 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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WoW it is cold and windy outside.
I snapped up some more pictures though.
I couldnt stay out long though w/o gloves.
Im really glad that both the Umbonate and nonbonate variety of friscosas showed up in there own individual spots in my new patch.
At first I was kind of wondering if perhaps some azurs showed up, but IDK. The gills looked a bit different on them when I first checked it out yesterday, but after looking at more IDK.
I'm curious to see what you guys have to say later.
I was also thinking perhaps friscosas are some kind of hybrid or cross and in the cases of these nippled and non-nipplied mushrooms in the same patch ( if the LC comes from multispore or something) then maybe its a genetic difference passed down from there not so far parent species?)
What if friscosas are a cross, but not that stable of a cross?
Like a Cyan or Azure?
Sorry for the ramble, these mushrooms just really interest me.. I cant believe them!
I was thinking of taking gill samples to my college lab to see if I could use the microscope, but IDK if I could do that.
Edited by OverdoseLiving (12/05/09 04:51 PM)
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burtonRebel
Mac Dre
Registered: 12/02/06
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: OverdoseLiving]
#11595408 - 12/06/09 10:12 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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how was the forray and fungus fair?
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