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mufasathelion
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How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms?
#18736368 - 08/21/13 08:15 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Since Psilocybin season is approaching just a couple of weeks until, I hope shrooms will be growing everywhere I tend to look for a green grass field where maybe some psilocybe semilanceata will be growing. However, since they are illegal here where I live, I wonder how do I walk around on a green field, so randomly people could wonder what I may be up to?
Has anybody had to deal with such a situation?
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: mufasathelion]
#18736427 - 08/21/13 08:39 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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You could get a large basket and hide the libs under some agaricus mushrooms which are also relevant in fields and stuff.
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: TheShroomingAtheis]
#18736502 - 08/21/13 09:06 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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If you are in England then i think it's probably a common problem.
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Untitled]
#18736615 - 08/21/13 09:40 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Carry a camera and take photos? Join a mycological society and pick eatable mushrooms too Ask permission before going on someone's land Find a good field and go ninja at midnight Grow your own indoors Find fields not in direct line of sight of roads or farm houses Make friends with farmers Buy your own pasture Search only public land or road sides
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: mufasathelion]
#18736633 - 08/21/13 09:47 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Don't act like you're trying to avoid suspicion. Take heed of private property and avoid trespassing. Carry a camera and take pictures. If anyone asks what you're doing, be polite and say you're taking pictures of mushrooms and maybe also that you're collecting for identification purposes. Dish out series of latin names and talk like a geek.
Also, dress like a proper mushroom hunter:
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Anglerfish]
#18736712 - 08/21/13 10:07 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Anglerfish said: Don't act like you're trying to avoid suspicion. Take heed of private property and avoid trespassing. Carry a camera and take pictures. If anyone asks what you're doing, be polite and say you're taking pictures of mushrooms and maybe also that you're collecting for identification purposes. Dish out series of latin names and talk like a geek.
Also, dress like a proper mushroom hunter:

hahaa i agree with the above - the latin names always confound and confuse!
Years ago one farmer of a lib. cap field came up to me and me and my friends were open about looking for mushrooms...all different types including libs..
He said "Is it those little ones you're looking for? I get hippies turn up camping here in the autumn"....I smiled to contain my laughter and agreed the 'little ones' are nice aswell as other edibles to make a nice risotto!
Some farmers are friendly....but since the foot and mouth crisis in the UK many farmers are not so happy about strangers wondering their land.
I've often knocked on the door of a farmhouse and asked to walk the fields looking for mushrooms...most are okay with it if you ask first.
Dress for the occassion as suggested...no tie-dye poncho's!
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: purplepixie]
#18736754 - 08/21/13 10:22 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Don't dress like this guy
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: purplepixie]
#18736762 - 08/21/13 10:24 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Taking a camera helps. Most people don't know what active mushrooms look like, so you probably don't need to conceal them. They'll just think you're picking brown mushrooms, and there are a lot of those in this world. Asking people if you can pick mushrooms in their field if it's private property. They'll probably say yes, especially if you take a camera and a backpack. Don't worry about people looking at you funny--they might think you're weird, but they're generally too polite to say anything.
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Ganzig]
#18736768 - 08/21/13 10:26 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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LOL!
Altho'..he might scare a farmer away!
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: purplepixie]
#18736812 - 08/21/13 10:40 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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This camera approach seems like a very good idea, a couple of days back I took a walk through some local green fields and a small not so forest like area looking for some amanita muscaria as the season is closing up to the high point of the season, and also just checking if there maybe was any psilocybe semilanceata around yet as their high point of the season is also closing up, which there was none of yet btw.
I felt sortof weird just walking around looking down at the ground looking for fungi, I`ll bring a camera and a backpack next time, it will feel and look more natural for other...
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: mufasathelion]
#18736982 - 08/21/13 11:16 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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last year i was in 1 of my favorite fields, and saw a bobby walking in my direction, i shit it n dusted over the moors n hid behind a wall for a few hours, was scary as hell.
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: bolton-liberty-cap]
#18736993 - 08/21/13 11:19 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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bolton-liberty-cap said: last year i was in 1 of my favorite fields, and saw a bobby walking in my direction, i shit it n dusted over the moors n hid behind a wall for a few hours, was scary as hell.
Explain bobby, explain i shit it n dusted over the moors n hid behind a wall,
I`ll wait a couple weeks, probably 2 or 3 and in the start of September as the Autumn is just around the corner I expect to go looking for some amanita muscaria and psilocybin semilanceata. Can`t wait!!
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: mufasathelion]
#18737193 - 08/21/13 12:14 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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mufasathelion said:
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bolton-liberty-cap said: last year i was in 1 of my favorite fields, and saw a bobby walking in my direction, i shit it n dusted over the moors n hid behind a wall for a few hours, was scary as hell.
Explain bobby, explain i shit it n dusted over the moors n hid behind a wall,
I`ll wait a couple weeks, probably 2 or 3 and in the start of September as the Autumn is just around the corner I expect to go looking for some amanita muscaria and psilocybin semilanceata. Can`t wait!! 
He means he saw a policeman so he ran over the moors (some hills in the UK) and hid
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: teenagehippie]
#18737282 - 08/21/13 12:34 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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^^ what he said lol
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: bolton-liberty-cap]
#18737516 - 08/21/13 01:34 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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He's cheeky cunt.
I was caught by police last season, because I jumped the fence to someone's garden. It was stupid and blues caught me with shrooms in my hand, but they were cool and told me to get the fuck out of there asap. I promptly returned for shrooms and left. After that I don't trespass someone's house, only closed fields and never had problems, also wear usual clothing for someone hiking (hoodie, cargo shorts etc) and you don't make suspicions. Couple days ago I encountered farmer when wandering around, but he was cool and said I can stay on his field.
From experience stay out of fields that have cattle at the moment, pick shroom in something that you can get rid off quickly, wear clothes for hiking and if you get caught stay cool, because police most often have better things to do than catching hiker with fairies. I think if you try too hard to be discreet then it's fastest way to be called on the police.
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: DoomSquirrel]
#18738674 - 08/21/13 05:07 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Lol how did you end up in someones garden?
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: TheShroomingAtheis]
#18738701 - 08/21/13 05:11 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: DoomSquirrel]
#18738738 - 08/21/13 05:17 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Sadly not from where i am , The piggies really having nothing better to do over here they'll get any little reason to fine or charge you, it's ridiculous...
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Psychotria]
#18738892 - 08/21/13 05:56 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Get a dog
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Oeric McKenna]
#18741359 - 08/22/13 09:24 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Could someone supplement me with a clothing list and how one would start such a picking trip. I just take a walk to the closest green field with a backpack on my back and start wondering about. Do I wear jeans, shorts, do I bring a basket, camera, notebook, backpack? How do you folks do it? How would someone who lives in a big city approach this?
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: mufasathelion]
#18742992 - 08/22/13 03:31 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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You may be overthinking this.
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: fry day]
#18743176 - 08/22/13 04:16 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Get a metal detector.
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Hashfinger]
#18743207 - 08/22/13 04:24 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quoting doomsquirrel, dunno how to actually use the quote button but , " I think if you try too hard to be discreet then it's fastest way to be called on the police." thats true, i just walk onto a packed field full of people and pick them and get a few people thinking im a bit weird but they dont mind, ive had old aged people coming up to me and chatting and stuff
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Hashfinger]
#18743214 - 08/22/13 04:25 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Oh yeah and no one really cares whether you wonder about fields. They'll get pissed for wanderers trespassing, but they don't care what you wonder about. Wonder bread.
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Untitled]
#18743586 - 08/22/13 05:57 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Untitled said: Lol how did you end up in someones garden?
There were tons of libs in there; the urge of getting them overrode common sense. I am not picking shrooms from gardens anymore.
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: DoomSquirrel]
#18743605 - 08/22/13 06:00 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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DoomSquirrel said:
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Untitled said: Lol how did you end up in someones garden?
There were tons of libs in there; the urge of getting them overrode common sense. I am not picking shrooms from gardens anymore.
That urge can be so unavoidable... I've reached through fences to get a few weilii caps, there was a dog that got pissed and came rushing towards me. Luckily I got the caps before he got to the fence
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Hashfinger]
#18743692 - 08/22/13 06:20 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hashfinger said: Get a metal detector.
LOL. Actually a brilliant idea. Perfect decoy for scrutinizing the ground.
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Untitled]
#18743731 - 08/22/13 06:29 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Untitled said:
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Hashfinger said: Get a metal detector.
LOL. Actually a brilliant idea. Perfect decoy for scrutinizing the ground.
You never know, you might find some other interesting objects too!
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Hashfinger]
#18745474 - 08/23/13 02:52 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Keep these ideas coming. I have been finding it difficult to venture into possibly good hunting spots. For some odd reason people want to be outside and active while I'm hunting
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: smurfbury]
#18745758 - 08/23/13 05:48 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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It's really not that hard your just worrying too much just be sly always keep lookout everytime or have people spotting for you much better, if someone goes by, pretend your looking for your soccer ball or something, i manage to go picking acacias in bicycle/jogging tracks(i'm from aus) and if i get caught picking native plants that's a fine for me but i've never encountered having porks show up, and this is all by myself. And if doesn't help look for spots where people don't show up there are plenty. My 2cents
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Psychotria]
#18745785 - 08/23/13 06:05 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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By picking plants do you mean uprooting them?
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Untitled]
#18745829 - 08/23/13 06:33 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Harvesting acacia leaves and bark
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Psychotria]
#18745852 - 08/23/13 06:46 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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So essentially the same as picking fruit? What a stupid law lol. Almost impossible to enforce as well.
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Re: How do you discreetly wonder about on a green field looking for shrooms? [Re: Untitled]
#18748472 - 08/23/13 06:53 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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very stupid law and few years ago over here they tried banning hundreds of plants of most the acacia species too and every other psychoactive plant thats known on the internet, but that's so stupid how can they ban a native plant?!?!...
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