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I'm starting to get the impression I flat out suck at mushroom hunting. Temperatures have been absolutely perfect for the past week in my area (15 max day, 10 min night and raining intermittently like crazy). I take my first chance to go traipsing across every cow field in my farm crazy area and for 2 hours all I have to show is the spotting of a single milk white capped pin.
Am I doing something wrong? I haven't reliably found a good sheep field, but other than being cows fields or just grassland they're not bog, they're occasionally southern facing and they seem to get all the other important Liberty Cap hits. I'd think I'd at least be seeing lookalikes? I suppose your first hunts are the hardest, but still.
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 Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: cab]
#8895551 - 09/08/08 09:10 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Don't worry about it just yet. I still don't think the season has fully begun as I was hunting in a known patch for libs today and only managed to find three specimens.
Keep at it and good luck. 
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: Asht0n]
#8895953 - 09/08/08 11:10 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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the season hasent begun, went to one of the best spots in the uk today, and found like 8 dry ones. wont be shrooms for atleast another 2 weeks imo
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: Jack86]
#8896473 - 09/08/08 12:53 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I've had a somewhat loopy day today. Ended up in a field fully tripping and stoned and partially drunk picking shrooms and escaping the ever watchful gaze of society.
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: Jack86]
#8896541 - 09/08/08 01:13 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Jack86 said:
the season hasent begun, went to one of the best spots in the uk today, and found like 8 dry ones. wont be shrooms for atleast another 2 weeks imo
lol so all the posts from the last 2 weeks showing that they have started popping are bullshit?
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: Asht0n]
#8896757 - 09/08/08 02:01 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Asht0n said:
Don't worry about it just yet. I still don't think the season has fully begun as I was hunting in a known patch for libs today and only managed to find three specimens.
Keep at it and good luck.
I suppose, if nothing else, during these little excursions I'm seeing more of the gorgeous countryside of my area than I have in the past two years of living here, and stomping about for multiple hours has got to be decent exercise. I am getting something out of it, although I wish that something was something I could eat 
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: cab]
#8901639 - 09/09/08 10:30 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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cab said:
Am I doing something wrong?
Yes. You need to know a spot. I searched every year for roughly 8-10 years and never found more than 15. That was hundreds of hours of hunting at the correct time and location.
Then I started asking old hippies etc if they could help me. Now I have a few decent spots that yield loads but the only problem is I have to drive 100+ miles to each one! 
I had one locally but the government spayed it with some fungicide as it got too well known. It barely yields 1 or 2 now. 
My advice is ask hippies for locations. Warning I got loads of bullshit locations or ones that just don't fruit anymore told to me too.
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: Ego Death]
#8901655 - 09/09/08 10:36 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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i'm going picking tomorrow (or the next non-rainy day) after college, i'll post a report on how i do. it's been pissing it down here for the last 5 days, and pretty cold, so i'm hoping the field will be chocka
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: haymaker]
#8901851 - 09/09/08 11:23 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Anyone found any yet round Leicestershire area? My local spot is ruined, the fence broke last year just before the season so the horses havn't been in it and it's been left to overgrow since, until the owners cut the grass about 3 weeks ago to dump some haybails. The grass has gone really light green almost florecent and doesn't look too healthy
So now I'm going to have to trapse round for hours finding a new spot, so just wondering if any have been popping up locally so I can start looking. I just cant wait much longer!!!!
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: skinup]
#8903181 - 09/09/08 04:17 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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m also searching around the Leicestershire area but havnt found any yet dude. It's my first year searching so I don't know any well known spots. But there are plent of feilds with cows greasing in. I've found alot of mushies that rnt libs so I'm really hopefull, let me know if have any luck and il do the same!
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: arn18]
#8905501 - 09/10/08 03:22 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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yes mate sounds good to me. Bradgate parks a good place to go for them, but half of Leicester knows about it so you gotta be quick and go early mornings.
I went on a quick hunt yesterday but didnt find anything different to you. I did find 1 lib last week growing on its own on the school playing field, which is strange because it's the wrong type of grass, and its not fertilized etc. but I just stumbled on it while I was playing football. So they are out round here, just not in force.
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: koraks]
#8905584 - 09/10/08 04:18 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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i want to go hunting but its just been too damn wet at the moment, i drove past my local spot yesterday and half the field was under water
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: berbonber]
#8906945 - 09/10/08 12:03 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I don't know if I can be bothered to trek up to braggy park, but if it comes to it and I can't find any then I will have to.
I'm going to go hunting tomorow morning as it is my day off work, what time do you guys think is best time to get up? Or should I just not bother and leave it for a couple of weeks?
Also the feilds that I will be searching are cow feilds does this make much difference as everyone else seems to be finding them in sheep feilds??? 
Good look to all you hunters out there!
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: arn18]
#8907786 - 09/10/08 02:41 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Just got back from my field, lots of little pins, although the grass is a bit long, i'm gonna give it a week and go back.
i usually get a dry Oz. at a time there 
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: haymaker]
#8907849 - 09/10/08 02:55 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Good luck, Mate. 
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: arn18]
#8908136 - 09/10/08 04:03 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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My fields don't have any cattle or sheep in but all of them have horses in fields nearby 
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: Ego Death]
#8910902 - 09/11/08 03:28 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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^ Horses are fine, but they probably need to be in your actual field
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: skinup]
#8910914 - 09/11/08 03:38 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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I just came back from a good three hour hunt and nothing, which is kinda dissapointing but il keep my chin up cause there's always next time.
Anyone else had any major hauls yet? Just to make me abut jelous lol. Cheers guys X
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 Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: arn18]
#8911808 - 09/11/08 09:32 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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keep looking mate. best to wait a week or 2 anyway then they will definately be about and lots of them!!! 
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Re: UK Mushroom thread [Re: skinup]
#8911842 - 09/11/08 09:38 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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you dont even need to go into cow/sheep fields i go to my local cricket pitch or golf course and theres normally loads, i went today but there was only one or two but in a week im going back with an ASDA bag 
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