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Subhunter
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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: Subhunter]
#18560338 - 07/15/13 02:53 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Some happy finds today, checked out the spot on the east coast found some freshies, only 3 mature. But... More pins! I do have lots of photos but can't post from iPhone and rarely get to a computer so if anybody cares to see them I can email them to someone to put up? Anyway hopefully this warmer spurt and rain gives it one last kick
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mushroom_spider


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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: Subhunter]
#18565176 - 07/16/13 03:11 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Indeed, I have my hopes up after the recent rain and warmer overnight temps. The weekend could hopefully produce a bit of late-season magic.
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Subhunter
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Anyone finding much? Been in Victoria for the last week and had a look around mt beauty towards falls creek and found enough for a fun night. Looking forward to having one last hunt whilst on holidays for the next two weeks.
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psychfan
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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: Subhunter]
#18632543 - 07/30/13 05:51 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Me and a mate got 26 grams of subs dry last week, Have a search im sure there would be a few about in the right places
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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: psychfan]
#18636772 - 07/30/13 11:13 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Still a couple around, I only found five today but three were really stunning samples. It got me thinking that weather conditions have been favourable for them, but as it is so late in the season most patches have used up the majority of the available nutrients and are on their last flush. Just a guess though.
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Quote:
mushroom_spider said: Still a couple around, I only found five today but three were really stunning samples. It got me thinking that weather conditions have been favourable for them, but as it is so late in the season most patches have used up the majority of the available nutrients and are on their last flush. Just a guess though.

I reckon you be right young padawan 
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mushroom_spider


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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: obtuse]
#18640375 - 07/31/13 05:09 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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obtuse said:
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mushroom_spider said: Still a couple around, I only found five today but three were really stunning samples. It got me thinking that weather conditions have been favourable for them, but as it is so late in the season most patches have used up the majority of the available nutrients and are on their last flush. Just a guess though.

I reckon you be right young padawan 

Learning from you and the other experts!
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blessed

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Hello My friends
Well it seems to be over for this year  The season was not great due to the poor weather conditions, but like people say, one should accept the bad with the good. I've learned more about the nature of mushrooms and this knowledge will help me in the years to come, so it's not all bad.
I hope you all had good success though, and even if you didn't find as much as you were hoping for, that you still did ok and got to enjoy the magic contained in these amazing little guys 
On a personal note, some may remember that last year i struggled with shrooms, basically, magic mushrooms for me were/are my anti-depressants (was very depressed at the time), it was my desire for these anti-depressants that caused me to make some foolish decisions. because of these decisions, i've brought trouble upon myself and lost a few patches. oh well, live and learn. but in a strange twist, the person now typing is no longer that same loser he was last year, im now a better loser  basically mushrooms helped me, and if i ever should have to stand in court, i will make this point known 
I now don't need shrooms, (like i did last year), and it's a great feeling 
To all reading this post, i hope that the rest of this year goes well for you. Until next time, all the best for you and remember seize the day!!!! (for life is short) If any of my post this year were dumb, im sorry, i am truly a loser, but thanks to my God , im getting better
Goodbye my friends
Here's some shots of mushrooms i've taken since my last post (i'll upload more over the next week or so)
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Tas75
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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: blessed]
#18669024 - 08/06/13 03:58 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Not all over down south yet. There is a patch I walk past everyday on my way to lunch and they're currently flushing again quite well. Probably their last hoorah, though.
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blessed


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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: Tas75]
#18676301 - 08/08/13 01:41 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hello Tas75
As i am only relatively new to shrooms (this is my second year), it's seem that mushrooms are indeed mysterious in their ways. Makes me ask;
Why they're still growing there (south) but not here (north)? Why they drop thousand and thousands of spores but, and i say this more for the bush variety, they only grow in small numbers? Why Tasmania isn't the the best place for them to grow? (I thought we lived in mushroom heaven?) (compared to other states we hunters don't seem to do so well in comparison, i know that there is a greater population in Victoria, but i mean, where they grow and why)
And finally, why Psilocybe subaeruginosa don't grow in the quantity of Galerina maginata? (This i don't understand)
Im still a noob learning about magic mushrooms, and these are some of the questions that enter my mind, im sure as the years pass, answers will come.
It seemed that the biggest reasons for this years seemingly poor(er) numbers is that, when the temps were right, there was no rain, when the rains came, it was the wrong temps. Here's a link i remember seeing in the Victoria/Melbourne thread on this winter (i saw another but don't remember where); http://www.theage.com.au/environment/weather/summer-of-record-heat-extends-into-may-20130501-2irue.html
I was still trying to find them only about a week ago, but at this late stage of the season, it's too disheartening spending hours and hours, day after day, looking for something that isn't there. My advice to all is, when you are in the midst (early to middle part) of any shroom season, look like crazy, look look look, and when you've done that, look more!!!!!!, as that is the best time to find them and new patches, in my opinion.
 btw Obtuse, congratulations on becoming a trusted Identifier
Edited by blessed (08/08/13 09:44 PM)
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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: blessed]
#18676332 - 08/08/13 02:03 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Edited by blessed (08/08/13 09:38 PM)
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Tas75
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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: blessed]
#18676492 - 08/08/13 03:57 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hi blessed,
Some of your questions I don't have answers to, such as why they drop so many millions of spores yet grow relatively few fruiting bodies.
Different geographic regions have different fungal floras. A valley near Hobart has so many Psilocybe subaeruginosa in it that I could probably pick a few kilos in just one day. However, another valley nearby that has similar climate, vegetation, etc... is almost barren. They obviously prefer one over the other, but who can say why?
On your point about Galerina marginata, I don't know about up north, but down here I see Galerina seldom, and many, many times more subs than Galerina. In fact I have only seen two good populations of Galerina in the last few years, both in the Derwent valley.
Keep in mind that microclimates are just as important when looking for fungi. I try not to generalise to State level, it's often very different in terms of season when you compare, for example, the Huon Valley and the Derwent Valley. Also I spend a fair bit of time in the far northeast, and I've seen precious few subs there the last few autumns, while it's been going off down here. Speaking of which, I wonder if last night's frost will be the end of the patch I was mentioning... I didn't look at it today.
I think a lot of it is local knowledge. Find the patches and commit to notes or memory. I have a mamory bank of many patches of different mushrooms, maybe that's why chantarelles, saffron milk caps, slippery jacks, or subs seen plentiful to me, 'cause I know where to go look for them. Also, after some time of looking for them as a student, I started to see subs everywhere... it's kind of funny how your pattern recognition and ideal habitat recognition seem to eventually just click...
Anyway enough rambling, better luck next year!
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frogman84
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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: Tas75]
#18681618 - 08/09/13 05:13 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hey guys,
New to hunting but have been reading all the tassie threads and they are awesome.I came late to the season this year but from next year on will be right into it.
Am i right to think this guy is P. Subaeruginosa? I am currently getting spore print but just thought i'd share that i did find this today, in the 'Bay of small silicon particles' five mins out of hobart
It was in an area of damp grass and tree debris...

 http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s196/83shug/IMG_1604x.jpg
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frogman84
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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: frogman84]
#18681623 - 08/09/13 05:20 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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For some reason third pic didn't go in last post...
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obtuse
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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: frogman84]
#18681750 - 08/09/13 07:02 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah Man, Thats Psilocybe subaeruginosa all right 
Just goes to show given the right conditions...
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frogman84
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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: frogman84]
#18682011 - 08/09/13 08:51 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thanks dude! i have had the spore print developing and def looks purple in hue.
Having about 5 hunts in the last week, of a few hours each, i have definitely started to get a feel for both the characteristic traits of subs and the sorts of habitats to spend time looking around.
I would never eat anything until confirmed, but out of all the mushrooms i came across, this one definitely stood out as likely Subaeruginosa, which was a cool feeling that came from researching a ton on here.
Long story short thanks for all your sharing guys, and though being waay from competent as a hunter, i love learning about this area of biology.
I collected a bunch of inactives just to check them out online and see if i can identify them, and that is just as interesting as finding actives.
Makes you appreciate the environment and its wonders, and my future walks through bushlands will be forever changed... possibly will turn out to be a good metaphor for normal life now i can find a wee bit of Psilocibin provided by nature:)
Thanks Obtuse
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blessed

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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: frogman84]
#18684551 - 08/09/13 08:14 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Tas75 said: Hi blessed,
Some of your questions I don't have answers to, such as why they drop so many millions of spores yet grow relatively few fruiting bodies.
Different geographic regions have different fungal floras. A valley near Hobart has so many Psilocybe subaeruginosa in it that I could probably pick a few kilos in just one day. However, another valley nearby that has similar climate, vegetation, etc... is almost barren. They obviously prefer one over the other, but who can say why?
On your point about Galerina marginata, I don't know about up north, but down here I see Galerina seldom, and many, many times more subs than Galerina. In fact I have only seen two good populations of Galerina in the last few years, both in the Derwent valley.
Keep in mind that microclimates are just as important when looking for fungi. I try not to generalise to State level, it's often very different in terms of season when you compare, for example, the Huon Valley and the Derwent Valley. Also I spend a fair bit of time in the far northeast, and I've seen precious few subs there the last few autumns, while it's been going off down here. Speaking of which, I wonder if last night's frost will be the end of the patch I was mentioning... I didn't look at it today.
I think a lot of it is local knowledge. Find the patches and commit to notes or memory. I have a mamory bank of many patches of different mushrooms, maybe that's why chantarelles, saffron milk caps, slippery jacks, or subs seen plentiful to me, 'cause I know where to go look for them. Also, after some time of looking for them as a student, I started to see subs everywhere... it's kind of funny how your pattern recognition and ideal habitat recognition seem to eventually just click...
Anyway enough rambling, better luck next year!
Thanks Tas75 for your helpful advice  
I find it interesting that you say that you see more subs then impostors down south, where here it (seems) to be the other way around. Could there be subtle differences from the two areas that cause this to happen. Valley full of subs?????, maybe im in living in the wrong place 
I know that my understanding on habitats, climate (micro and not so micro), the water table (thanks Obtuse ), is still not that great, and for those reason i am yet to have "clicked". I'm thinking that until next season, i should study each of these factors in depth. I encourage all new to this web site and hunting, to do so too On bringing up other states, if im not wrong, Melbourne does so well, because most of the finds are found in woodchips. They seem to use woodchips over there like crazy!!!!
But on the other side, i see a positive to not having shrooms in abundance, i now know, it can (it did) have a negative affect on ones life to have enough to enjoy every few weeks, it (as it did for me last year) kept me in a constant state of thinking "when can i do them again?" this had / has a negative effect on other areas of my life. I take it most on here (if not all of you) don't see shrooms as i do, and couldn't really care for having them or not. Still,i say this to share with you all my experiences, and hopefully it will help someone else. im happy to share with you all the good and the bad.
(They'll grow anywhere!!)
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 ... (And finally, Psilocybe subaeruginosa)
 Hope you have a great weekend. Until next year, Bye
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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: blessed]
#18684647 - 08/09/13 08:39 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Cool worm. I have found the same thing before too. The green Hygrocybe is pretty awesome as well.
-------------------- "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination" ~ John Lennon
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Subhunter
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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: TimmiT]
#18686282 - 08/10/13 08:50 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Great words blessed, it can be easy to be overcome with an excitement for mushrooms, my best advice is research your hunting grounds, fungi maps actually is quite handy when venturing into an unknown area, they have plenty of data of finds of subs and locations.. And.. Limit your use, for one the affects lessen over continued use like most drugs, I think at most once a week max and then still I would find myself hving to up dosage to get the desired effect, not having a trip for a month then hving some before getting on a plane was... Interesting.
In other news the only subs I've been finding are in chip beds and only maybe 2or 3 and looking average by the time I get to them, pretty much just chucking them in a card box box with what's left of my unsuccessful indoor grow. I still have faith, because well there are a lot of spores in there so eventually.. Along with several other boxes of colonised chip bark I'm going to make my own bed in the wilderness somewhere. I did have subs pop up this year but they would abort before getting very big at all. Pulled the fisrst few out, then left the last couple to see what would happen, they rotted down and only one other popped up, I ate it I didn't sterilise as such or do anything real proper, basically collected gumtree stick and leaf matter from one spot, as well as some from another spot, some from a chip bark spot and stem butts collected over the last year. I did case it..In a month or so I'll get it all together and find a nice spot to lay it down, add all this years spore prints and wait..
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blessed

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Re: * Tasmania season 2013 * [Re: Subhunter]
#18987821 - 10/16/13 07:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hello all
It's been over for awhile, but i am now noticing mushrooms that grow in warmer conditions. If it's not a problem? i'd like to upload pictures of what i find. Here's a few shots of a recent find (wasn't looking).

 (Anyone know what species?)
I hope that things are going good for you.
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