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 bignugs
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 Re: P Weraroa  [Re: NickNZ]
#16473181 - 07/03/12 02:40 AM (10 months, 16 days ago) |
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Are these active? Found them along with a couple goldies in some woodchip today.
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Re: P Weraroa [Re: bignugs]
#16473438 - 07/03/12 04:19 AM (10 months, 16 days ago) |
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Any better pics? I can't tell much from those photos.
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bignugs
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Re: P Weraroa [Re: TimmiT]
#16473574 - 07/03/12 05:11 AM (10 months, 16 days ago) |
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thats the only other 1 I took, bad lighting sorry.
I just grabbed them because I thought they looked potent haha. Probly just nothing though
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Re: P Weraroa [Re: bignugs]
#16476451 - 07/03/12 08:05 PM (10 months, 15 days ago) |
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Planning on going mushie hunting in the next couple of days in a certain bike park on the west coast of the northern north island.
I've heard good things about it in the past but it's not an environment I'm used to hunting in yet. It's mainly pine trees and red dirt/clay, anyone able to give any tips/advice as to where/what I should be looking for in this kind of environment to increase my chances of a good haul?
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Re: P Weraroa [Re: nucrus]
#16476479 - 07/03/12 08:13 PM (10 months, 15 days ago) |
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Lock your car up good over there, better still get dropped of and picked up later!
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greencavefloat
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Re: P Weraroa [Re: Bluing]
#16478517 - 07/04/12 03:36 AM (10 months, 15 days ago) |
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Quote:
Bluing said:
....and on the way to work today, I decided to stop at a promising looking place that I have never visited before.
Unfortunately I didn't have the camera with me at the time, to show them in situ, but they were on woodchip interestingly enough - and in a big clump. Have seen similar photos and wondered how that happens. They are in beautiful condition.
 
Awesome awesome looking fruits there. Shame about not having the camera - would lurve to see some more habitat shots of this one
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ozsultan
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Those look like Psilocybe Weraroa with hilariously short stems. I'm no TI though.
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Re: P Weraroa [Re: sum0]
#16482864 - 07/05/12 12:42 AM (10 months, 14 days ago) |
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Finally managed to get an alright haul, aside from the 1-3 i've picked other times.
Pretty stoked, left a bunch of pins there so can hopefully go back in a few days and get them too.
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Also, I found a small patch that was in a very public obvious place so I covered them with leaves. I harvested a couple of them and they have very short stems. Are the short stems a correlation to growing beneath leave litter? Are there any other factors that will inhibit the growth of a stem?
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Usually its just patch specific yellowbus.
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End of the season? [Re: inski]
#16493953 - 07/07/12 07:24 AM (10 months, 12 days ago) |
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I found these yesterday in a spot I had my eye on for a while - I had thought that it might have finished (this being my first season, having stumbled on a wee patch a month ago and then started looking around in earnest once I knew what to look for). I couldn't get to it just after the rains that we had in the previous week though. So I was happy when I saw 3-5 dozen caps that looked not too old in a very public spot. I waited until yesterday to get them - and when I got there, almost all of them had gone - some other lucky people had already got there. I suspect that they were the "Gardeners" in flouro vests who I walked past 100m up the road, who appeared to be picking up rubbish. When I saw then I thought to myself "Now that's the way to go, no suspicion and someone looking in the leaves for things and picking them up". So, while most of the caps had been picked, they were kind enough to leave a couple of dozen crappy old specimens. They also actually made a good job tidying up the garden, so maybe they really were contractors - who knows. At least I got some good butts for propagation on cardboard, if nothing else. I spore printed the lot (just to be sure of ID), and as you can see, 3/4 were beyond putting out many spores, and they didn't weight much.
With their sad state, is there any reason NOT to use these for ingestion (dried, then in a tea)? Is there a risk of bacterial infection and sickness?
Hopefully I'll never have to go back there again as I intend to have at least one private patch established this coming Spring, and will continue to spread them in less-obtrusive spots than along a main arterial route!
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Trimmed:
Pre-spore printing:
 
Spore prints (apologies for the crap lighting) - you can see that 2/3 or more really are past it:
 
Drying (finally found a use for that ineffective paper stand thingy!):
Thanks to everyone here who replied to my ID requests - you have not only made it possible for me to extend my entheogenic garden, you've also made it possible for several other people to do the same - once I pass some inoculated cardboard onto them to start their own patches!
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mr extreme
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Good find, They will be sweet dried out and served in tea as long as there is no mould growing on the fungus you need not worry about getting sick but looking at your picks they seem fine.
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awakenthesuffering
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some pictures of finds haven't had chance to upload, i didn't pick the subs
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Hi all, first time poster, long time reader of the forums. I really appreciate all of the information that you've all provided me in the past few years.
So, I was out hunting around my house today, and chanced upon a pretty significant flush of what I think are subs. However, these mushrooms are older than I've ever had the chance to pick before (at least in any quantity). I've so far been unable to spore print them, but I'm hoping they'll still drop a few if I leave them overnight. I've included a couple of pictures, and would really appreciate an ID on them, before I feel fully safe to eat them.
They were growing in a pretty sunny spot, out of grass edged with radiata wood chips. I think the warm dry weather in the past few days is responsible for them looking kinda sunburnt, but I just wanted to make sure. they bruise blue-black, but because of how dry they were when I picked them, it doesn't seem to be as apparent as normal.
I've also included a picture of the subsectoids I came across a few days earlier, which have proven to be insanely potent, 5 very small caps had me tripping balls and a half.
Anyway, I hope someone can reassure me that these subs are edible (or not). I'll keep them sitting overnight and hopefully get SOME kind of spore print to help IDing.
Here they are...
  
I can't figure out how to thumbnail these images, if a mod could help, it'd be appreciated
Peace all.
Edited by siu3d (07/10/12 01:07 AM)
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30276
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Hey, could some kind person please tell me if these are magics? Most of my friends think they are but I noticed the gills are quite orange looking instead of darker looking??
Also, I've had these mushrooms for about 3 or so days and have kept them in the fridge in a paper bag (haven't dried them) and I noticed they were starting to go limp. I plan to eat them in two days. would it be best to take them out of the fridge and just sit them in my bedroom. I'm trying to work out the best way to preserve them as I don't have equipment to dry them out. Any response really appreciated. Mushroom noobie
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Re: End of the season? [Re: 30276]
#16507154 - 07/10/12 01:30 AM (10 months, 9 days ago) |
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looks like you have 3 subs in there. keep only the ones that have turned blue!
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Re: End of the season? [Re: 30276]
#16507161 - 07/10/12 01:32 AM (10 months, 9 days ago) |
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the season is still going...
last weeks finds.
found shit tons of these this season
Environment: Woodchips
Spore print: purple/black
pretty sure they are subaegerosa
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siu3d
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I agree, I see 3 subs, and possibly a wereroa in the right side. Not too sure of that though, its a bit too small to tell properly.
Don't eat the ones that have stayed white/red/tan though, they're most definitely not yummy
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Re: End of the season? [Re: siu3d]
#16508005 - 07/10/12 06:44 AM (10 months, 9 days ago) |
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30276, I found that if you take macro (close up) shots with a flash, you can actually see the purpling of the spores on the gills, like here. You should also spore print them, and then you can really see the spore colour. If any have spores that are rusty (paler) brown, throw those out - you want ones that have darker purple/brown spore prints and bruise blue.
Keep the stems with each cap, so that you know which is which in case some are not Psilocybes.
Also, try putting the base of the stem butts into wet corrugated cardboard and have a crack at growing your own! This thread looks promising
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Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police."
- Gore Vidal, "The State of the Union" (1975)
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