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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: CureCat]
#11669329 - 12/17/09 02:38 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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I saw another 40+ mature cyanescens the past few days throughout santa cruz county, no camera this time.
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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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cjb028
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: cyanophilus]
#11671286 - 12/17/09 07:03 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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^^^^
awesome to hear. just finished my finals and going hunting tomorrow!
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burtonRebel
Mac Dre
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: cjb028]
#11672729 - 12/17/09 11:16 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Great. If you find anything let us know and post pics.
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"hey man wanna smoke some weed?"
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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]
#11673501 - 12/18/09 06:01 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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secret garden, SF
Edited by auweia (12/18/09 06:09 AM)
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dicky21
Registered: 10/22/09
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Loc: UK 
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: auweia]
#11674203 - 12/18/09 09:10 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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hmmmmm any chance you could get me a key cut to your secret garden 
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burtonRebel
Mac Dre
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: dicky21]
#11674330 - 12/18/09 09:43 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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I need to make myself a secret garden one of these days...
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"hey man wanna smoke some weed?"
"Naw man, i smoke fools like you on the basketball court"
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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]
#11674791 - 12/18/09 11:21 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Perretxiko
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: auweia]
#11674929 - 12/18/09 11:48 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hey all...I get exited just looking at these postings  soul food/brain food just skulking waiting to be stumbled upon (or inadvertently crushed  ) I love that 3rd pic from the right with that little fncker poking his long little neck out the the freakin log or whatever that is - that's just f'n AWESOME
(sorry 4 the french I'm new to the forum, I read the guidelines and saw nothing on profanity, no intention to offend just had to express my enthusiasm...and yes I do know that is not called a neck)
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cyanophilus
ectosporium
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: Perretxiko]
#11675424 - 12/18/09 01:06 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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enthusiastic profanity is allowed.
mushrooms? fuck yeah!
were all adults here.
but name calling/flaming/directed profanity is not allowed.
now go find some fuckin' mushrooms 
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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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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]
#11675850 - 12/18/09 02:26 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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here's a few fucking more from Golden Gate Park this morning. lots of new pins in some places. Just starting to pick up in non-watered areas. more rain next week
  
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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]
#11677942 - 12/18/09 08:48 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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hey by the way, even though I've been hunting in San Francisco longer than many here have been alive...In terms of Golden Gate Park - that is a special exception to the norm - a permanent test case, if you will..
The park is big enough, one of the largest city parks in the USA, big enough for them to hide - on the other hand, there's literally thousands of people hunting, so competition in that park is permanently fierce, and has been so for over 20 years, far longer than this message board and the Shroomery has existed
despite all that, psilocybe cyanescens continues to exist, and thrive, in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco...but it changes every year
so much so, that even the oldest of us, the most experienced,STILL, to this day, 2009,
still have to hunt, just like everybody else
They can't stop it. It isn't possible. In fact, one of the spots I picked today was just 30 seconds ahead of the SF city owned powerglide lawn mower..> she was staring me straight down while just about to mow an area I just picked a few seconds before...haha
she saw me picking too, and she wasn't smiling...lol
that would be this photo
but to let you and the public know, Golden Gate Park is big enough, where it isn't possible for a single person, like me, to possibly say "I picked the whole thing"
Nope, it ain't gonna happen...I left ALL of the pins out there for next week...Most of the other pros do the same
It's time to get off your ass and start hunting...find out for yourself how hard it is
P.S...GGP hasn't been my primary hunting grounds for over 20 years....sheeesh...I just do a cursory check once in awhile, and there you go
Edited by auweia (12/18/09 09:42 PM)
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psilynut
aka Patchraper
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: auweia]
#11678538 - 12/18/09 10:31 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yep, Ive been finding them every fucking time I go there. Found me some biguns today!Kicked myself in the balls twice for leaving my camera at home.[image]http://www.shroomery.org/forums/thumbs/09-51/120408810-thumb_55_011.jpg [/image] 
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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: psilynut]
#11679074 - 12/19/09 01:54 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Over the last years, I've noticed a dramatic increase of mushroom hunting people in my town!
Seems to have become some kind of trend.
I wouldn't criticize this development when the people that hunt around here, wouldn't be such ignorant kids.
It's not on me to judge weather the people are generally interested in mushrooms and know what they're picking, or just be some kids, that know they can trip for free on what they find there.
But what's on me to criticize about these "ignorant" people is the fact that most of them are guided by greed (not necessarily in a commercial way, but greed that makes you stop thinking about what you're doing) and rape every patch they stumble upon.
They might not know better (though I think it's a logical conclusion, that ripping apart grown things can't be too good), but as we know: ignorance is no excuse in law!
Personally I stay away from areas that I know are highly frequented by hunting kids. When I see them picking "the wrong" way, I tell them about their failures. Generally they seem to understand what I'm saying, but if they do it that way, after I told them, is another thing. It doesn't seem so, since the parks keep on being one big conglomerate of raped patches.
Very sad
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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: Fahkface]
#11679608 - 12/19/09 07:59 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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yeah, Golden Gate Park is one continuous raped patch. The gardeners do it too, for a different reason. And yet they continue to thrive in that park. Raping patches would kill it over time, but some gets transplanted, and carrying around mushrooms also spreads it. The gardeners themselves spread it all the time, without ever knowing it. On a side note, the city parks have been dumping more chips than ever before in 20 years I've seen it, probably because of drought. It's one of those ironic things, we get drought, they dump more chips to help the plants retain moisture. More drought, more chips...But we do get rain eventually, cause it's not Death Valley
There's a new documentary on DVD called Botany of Desire
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1421383/
It's a good companion piece to Know Your Mushrooms because it covers plants that manage to use humans to spread themselves > apples, marijuana, tulips
No, we don't use those plants, it's actually the other way around. They're using us to spread themselves. It's the same thing with mushrooms. Those teenagers I see in GGP all the time in groups of 10 doing the 'psilocybe stoop' might think they're getting away with something, but they just managed to drop 10 billion spores over half the park, without ever realizing it - touche
because of that, Golden gate Park will always be a place you can get some mushrooms if your work at it, but it will never be virgin territory. There will never be large untouched spots in that park - ever
That's why even the old timers like me still have to hunt and it will be that way for the rest of our lives. The only exception is if you have a nice big backyard on private property. For all the rest of us, we have to hunt, and if you hunt the right way and help the plant spread itself, it will like you.
For those virgin spots, for those untouched spots you have all your own, you have to leave the park and travel
like 30 miles of biking, all day long, while spreading spores the whole way....which is what I'm about to do...hehe
Edited by auweia (12/19/09 08:28 AM)
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cacharstar
Strange is good...
Registered: 11/13/08
Posts: 3,033
Loc: The West Coast
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: auweia]
#11679701 - 12/19/09 08:29 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
auweia said:
yeah, Golden Gate Park is one continuous raped patch. The gardeners do it too, for a different reason. And yet they continue to thrive in that park. Raping patches would kill it over time, but some gets transplanted, and carrying around mushrooms also spreads it. The gardeners themselves spread it all the time, without ever knowing it. On a side note, the city parks have been dumping more chips than ever before in 20 years I've seen it, probably because of drought. It's one of those ironic things, we get drought, they dump more chips to help the plants retain moisture. More drought, more chips...But we do get rain eventually, cause it's not Death Valley
There's a new documentary on DVD called Botany of Desire
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1421383/
It's a good companion piece to Know Your Mushrooms because it covers plants that manage to use humans to spread themselves > apples, marijuana, tulips
No, we don't use those plants, it's actually the other way around. They're using us to spread themselves. It's the same thing with mushrooms. Those teenagers I see in GGP all the time in groups of 10 doing the 'psilocybe stoop' might think they're getting away with something, but they just managed to drop 10 billion spores over half the park, without ever realizing it - touche
because of that, Golden gate Park will always be a place you can get some mushrooms if your work at it, but it will never be virgin territory. There will never be large untouched spots in that park - ever
For those virgin spots, for those untouched spots you have all your own, you have to leave the park and travel
like 30 miles of biking, all day long, while spreading spores the whole way....which is what I'm about to do...hehe
By any chance do you bike through the park with a red headband on? Every time I am in the park some guy seems to be at every patch I know of with a bike and he is like darn when he sees me. But then he will be a the next spot and I will be like damm. Next spot... More then likely it is not you but I get this feeling that We pass quite often!!!!
And on the subject of packs of teens stooped over in the search position. They never seem to go that far into the park. It's like they get to hippie hill and get too stoned to venture further...
fine with me!!!!
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psilynut
aka Patchraper
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: cacharstar]
#11679849 - 12/19/09 09:03 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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MMMMMM, If I were to find them growing directly out of woodchips I would probably cut them but im not sure. !0 years of cultivating has shown me that cutting causes dead overlay,infection, and inhibits fruiting later on, but im not really sure. Since all the mushrooms (aside from the first 2)I have found so far are growing in tall grass next to chips but not on them I pluck them. Maybe im swrewing up the park for everyone, but I would really appreciate it if someone could maybe elaborate on this a little more, in a non I own this town,and the park, and im gunna school all the dumb kids sorta way.
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burtonRebel
Mac Dre
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: cacharstar]
#11679866 - 12/19/09 09:07 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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thats exactly how i feel fahkfac. although i have been involved in this hobby only a fraction of the time you have been involved in it, it grew out of genuine interest and passion of mushrooms. I started, not by specifically looking for active mushrooms, but looking at all mushrooms and learning about them. i also didnt walk around ggp spying on mushroom hunters, and later raping their patches. i think that for such a pure substance, there is a lot of shady activity surrounding their existence. i have literally been casing an area to see what the chances of mushroom growth would be later in the season, while 2 or 3 other people followed me around obviously intrigued by what i was doing.I make it common practice to bend down and make it look like im checking out inocybes or something. its annoying to have so many brought to this hobby purely as opportunity to make monetary gain, but every year, i find mushrooms.
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"hey man wanna smoke some weed?"
"Naw man, i smoke fools like you on the basketball court"
Edited by burtonRebel (12/19/09 10:25 AM)
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burtonRebel
Mac Dre
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: psilynut]
#11679894 - 12/19/09 09:13 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
psilynut said:
I have found so far are growing in tall grass next to chips but not on them I pluck them. Maybe im swrewing up the park for everyone, but I would really appreciate it if someone could maybe elaborate on this a little more, in a non I own this town,and the park, and im gunna school all the dumb kids sorta way.
its a pretty noob question. there are tons of resources on this site that say "cut the stems". indoor and outdoor cultivation of any type of plant or organism always varies becuase of the control factor.
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"hey man wanna smoke some weed?"
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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: psilynut]
#11679902 - 12/19/09 09:14 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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The topic of cutting or twisting / ripping etc. has been going on for a long time now.
Personally I cut, because ripping out the fruits most likely results in a bad damage of the mycelium.
Sure you can be gentle and twist the stems off the ground, but you stand in front of about 5000 fruits, this would take days!
In all the years, I hunt I have never seen a single patch being attacked by any bacteria (though you probably wouldn't see it) or molds, after I harvested.
There's absolutely no factor, that would make me rip out wood loving species, except from long grass.
When it comes to Cubes, Pans or other species, that are good to simply pluck out of the ground (such as Amanita muscaria), cutting would probably result in worse results, than plucking, but with species like these you don't have the problem of ripping apart whole areas of mycelium!
Cubes and Pans don't really count, because they won't last for long anyway
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psilynut
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: Fahkface]
#11680184 - 12/19/09 10:11 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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The very first thing I tried to do was clone some of the mushrooms i found on peroxided agar. I couldn't make it work because the shrooms had a nasty fungus growing on them. At first I thought I had made some mistake ,or maybe spores were germinating on the flesh, but when I got a magnifying glass and looked closer the fungus was all over the shrooms, I assume as a parasite. So maybe you just never looked hard enough. Now the last little patch I found did not have this, They were also much larger, and had a healthier mushroom smell.
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