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auweia said:
something of a major announcement and i finally got permission to post the info, without the other screen name for reason I have no idea why, but here goes

people might recall the discovery of p subaeruginascens/p ovoidiocystidiata here in san francisco in the last 5 years although there appears to be a couple of different types and the name still probably needs to be worked out a bit

I discovered one patch in San francisco, now shared with another member who discovered it on his own, and this patch is pictured on wiki here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_subaeruginascens

same patch/photo from 2008, wider angle



this is also the exact same SF patch a year later, fruiting in February in 2009



since then, this original SF patch has run out of food and I covered it with another layer of Scotts sierra Red chips last spring, but I also have done many transplants, I don't have any control over any of the areas and none are irrigated, but the mycelium still survives in most places

The thinking has been with this new species that it is a SPRING fruiter and all indications have been that way, with occasional fall fruiting. this is also mostly true for the Ohio p oviodiocystidiata, which is either related or the same, at least with some of the subspecies

apparently this is not totally true because 2 years ago i sent some spores to a friend in Switzerland, and for those who might remember, it's preferred to keep the screen name out of this (it's not related to this forum)

Now, this friend in Switzerland had a much better means of controlling an out door patch and keeping it well irrigated at all times. The spores were grown and spent an entire year indoors in incubation while my friend tried different techniques to try to get it to fruit indoors, like p cubensis, to no avail

then last year he put it outside in regular hard wood chips, it sat there for nearly a year and started fruiting for the first time in April/May/June in switzerland

quote from the friend in europe I got today in email

"I just want to let you know, that your San Francisco Psilocybe find  (subaeruginascens or
ovoid or whatever...) is doing GREAT in Switzerland.

First fruiting during May / June 2010. Then it stopped and started fruiting again
by the end of August. Massive fruiting between September 25 and October 14
and it is still going on. The attached photos are from October 7. 2010"

this is basically the very first time a completely successful growth from spores has happened with this San Francisco species, altho one other person has done it in Washington, but that one seemed less controlled

anyway, the fact is that this time around the biggest fruiting ever is happening right now, in October, in Switzerland

this is literally a piece of San Francisco fruiting right now in Switzerland, and here are the pics











As for the original San francisco patch, it's now covered in a fresh layer of mulch and the mycelium is doing great..it's only watered occasionally...most transplants around the bay area are not watered so we have to depend on the weather for the right conditions to happen again, and now we know it could almost happen at any time

the notion of a definite 'season' with this new species has now sort of gone out the window, and obviously we're going to need lots more time to really get a handle on this species and what it can do

but nevertheless, now you know this species is surviving and expanding

PS, notice the greenish/olive tint in some of those. the largest caps are fully mature and will not get wavy/undulate around the caps, unlike some other subspecies

edit-update, this friend in Switzerland has also said that he has gotten proper p ovoidiocystidiata spores from Ohio and has fruited those and finds significant differences between the San francisco species and the Ohio species, but i don't know yet what those are

the san francisco species, first named as p subaeruginascens has a fruiting cycle twice as long as p cyanescens, a full month and longer, where p cyans matures in two weeks...this is already unusual for a wood chip species by itself, as I believe that would make it the longest fruiting cycle. Furthermore, the original thought that is is subtropical related from japan or java is even more bizarre because most tropical species need to fruit in a matter of days, not weeks, because the higher temps would dry them out. And yet, this species cannot seem to be connected with any consistent normal temperature drop like p cyanescens can. It's now looking like this species will fruit any time it damn well wants to, thank you very much

the san francisco species is also now being spread further around europe where other people have been successful in fruitng it, so i imagine it's just a matter of time before more testing and comparisons get done

in a way it's sort of out of my hands now, because I'm totally dependent on public places I can't control, and can't get the same results in the wild depending on the weather, especially with a new species as difficult as this...I don't have a back yard...wish I did

bu p subaeruginascens isn't going away, and there definitely will be more, somewhere in the future

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bukujutsu said:

Anyone have a guess as to what species the ganoderma are? What's the first mushroom?

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auweia said:

covert intelligence gathering by the central fungus agency
operation San Francisco Bay Area - October 31, 2010

Halloween - Joe Friday reporting

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