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Blek
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Cyanescen finds
#6147419 - 10/08/06 06:55 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hola gang...
These pics were taken around the 20th of September. It's the earliest I've ever found cyanescens and this patch was booming. There were already overmature and rotting cyans when I showed up which leads me to believe the patch had been fruiting already for a couple of weeks. Here's the pics..
Found in the of Suburbia in a patch I found last year. All of the cyans were found along this edgeline. It has a perfect moist, shady microclimate with moderately long grass and horsetails for the cyans to grow up through. The cyans were creeping out into the open of the yard, but won't spread too far out into the open until the rains come.
Peering through the blackberries
And some pins for the next visit to the patch!
I'll post some more pics when the rains come and the patch is blowing up!
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Shroomgobbler
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Re: Cyanescen finds [Re: Blek]
#6147430 - 10/08/06 06:58 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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nice, thats the kind of patch you get all for yourself and no one else is going to get to it. i'm jealous.
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ranke
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Beautiful. I wish oregon was fruiting already. Are you in the pnw?
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Dr. uarewotueat
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Re: Cyanescen finds [Re: ranke]
#6147533 - 10/08/06 07:22 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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they look yummy! jealous we dont have anything like that over here
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Blek
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Re: Cyanescen finds [Re: ranke]
#6147544 - 10/08/06 07:25 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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ranke said: Beautiful. I wish oregon was fruiting already. Are you in the pnw?
Yeah these are from the Puget Sound region.
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psiclops
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Re: Cyanescen finds [Re: Blek]
#6147732 - 10/08/06 08:10 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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There will be nothing there next time you look.
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PsilocybinMind
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Re: Cyanescen finds [Re: psiclops]
#6147751 - 10/08/06 08:13 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Nice find and pics!
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Theylikethatshit
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Sweet find im in the puget sound also but I havent had any luck yet its still to dry in my areas. U pick in Seattle?
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hoopershroomer
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wow, thats a great find, camoflauge that patch in any way you can and itll be yours the whole season! imagine that....
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thetonebone72
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Nice finds indeed! Seems an unlikely habitat though. Where are the woodchips?
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Blek
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Nice finds indeed! Seems an unlikely habitat though. Where are the woodchips?
New suburban housing developments are usually built on a freshly devastated/clearcut area, which is the type of environment where cyanescens flourish. You rarely find cyanescens or most other psilocybes deep in a forest, but rather in the human path of destruction. The grass that composes these suburban lawns comes in on trucks from a nearby turf farm. Something in a fertilizer they use causes the mushrooms to flourish in these lawns. Last year a certain neighborhood was producing pounds of Panaleous Subbalteatus throughout the summer and pounds of Psilocybe Cyanescens in the fall from the same lawn(s)! This year, the 2nd year after the housing development was put in, I found no Pan Subbs, but still plentiful cyanescens.
Read some of Paul Stamets writing, especially Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World" and "Mycelium Running." He talks about finding mushrooms in housing developments and similarily devastated areas such as municipal buildings, universities, churches.
Well kept lawns and landscaped areas are a likely place to find psilocybes.
Something is to be said for the way psilocybin mushrooms flourish in the areas that humans are devastating... Mama gaia's way of sending a message perhaps?
Edited by Blek (10/08/06 08:55 PM)
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ranke
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Re: Cyanescen finds [Re: Blek]
#6148180 - 10/08/06 09:36 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ahh you're farther north so it's probably a little cooler.
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Re: Cyanescen finds [Re: ranke]
#6149094 - 10/09/06 02:54 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Great finds, fresh cyans with blackberry juice on top, enjoy
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eris
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Re: Cyanescen finds [Re: Blek]
#6149096 - 10/09/06 02:57 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Nice finds Blek
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Psilygirl
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Re: Cyanescen finds [Re: eris]
#6151480 - 10/09/06 07:36 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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nice finds
And I agree with Stamets and you about actives popping up around human habitation... something bigger is at work there
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Re: Cyanescen finds [Re: Psilygirl]
#6155268 - 10/10/06 05:52 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Psilygirl said: nice finds
And I agree with Stamets and you about actives popping up around human habitation... something bigger is at work there
wow, that is something that i never understood, but never thought of it that way...perhaps it really is a message, because it seems odd that cyans grow so much in man made enviornments but very rarely(to my knowledge) in forests and such. there is something defenitely significant about that, but there has to be a logical explanation for it, or is there??
what a baffling yet interesting concept
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shroomdreams
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you know i'm in the puget sound and haven't found anything! not even any inky caps nothin! are you up north or something or am i just fuckin retarded.. the season is just beginning though
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BlueFos
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I wouldnt feel retarded just yet_
So far this year i really havent seen much as far as mushrooms go and especially no cyans although some of my friends claim to be finding fully matured ones at their patches in almost the same general area as mine.
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OOISI
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Quote:
hoopershroomer said:
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Psilygirl said: nice finds
And I agree with Stamets and you about actives popping up around human habitation... something bigger is at work there
wow, that is something that i never understood, but never thought of it that way...perhaps it really is a message, because it seems odd that cyans grow so much in man made enviornments but very rarely(to my knowledge) in forests and such. there is something defenitely significant about that, but there has to be a logical explanation for it, or is there??
what a baffling yet interesting concept
This is like the third time i replied to something of yours today, but anyway its for anyone that needs it, heres just a small general explanation.
Nature doesnt make woodchips like humans, human made woodchips have very good surface area to volume ratio (depending on size) allowing mycelium to more effectiently leech the masses of nutes locked in wood.Humans produce these in such mass quantites compared to nature also. Areas where people have planted lots of trees and shrubs the water retention, shade, decreased temps and extra humidity are all very beneficial. This would be the same in forests but there would be less nutrient enriched substrate available. Since city areas have such good spots and many would fruit there probably would be more dense concentrations of spores in these areas, which would most likely spread to other nearby favourable substrates in the city and germinate. Forests have dense plants and more shaded cooler etc but theres less nutrient enriched substrate whi.. Plus its no doubt harder to find em in a confusing forest than an easily navigatable city suburbs, making one assume the forest is much less active.
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Edited by OOISI (10/11/06 04:33 AM)
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