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Snowday
scrommin


Registered: 10/31/10
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First year hunting in Vancouver, BC!!
#18805931 - 09/06/13 12:32 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Greetings!
I just moved to Vancouver BC and am enrolled at UBC.
I am from a place in Washington, about an hour or so south of the border.
Judging by the very similar climate, I am getting excited to hunt this fall.
I have hunted 3 years consecutive in my hometown, and two of years found very small patches of what appeared to cyanescens, but were much too immature to be told apart from stuntzii or other PNW psilocybes (I would have left them to mature, but it was a well known spot and someone else would have gotten to them if I didn't grab them right away, I was careful to leave the spot in tip-top shape though!!)
Both spots I found in a park in old barky ground with rhododendrons growing there, lifting up the bush revealed the mushrooms.
I am in no way asking specific places to hunt!! But I do have a few questions.
I always get antsy to hunt, and i looked around today for a couple hours out of boredom and didn't find anything, is it too early to hunt in BC? I found late october/early november to be the most promising in my town.
Are there any sort of... common habitats for Cyans in Vancouver? I hear a lot about alderwoods, is it just bark made from them/decomposing alderwood that attracts cyans? What other habitats should I be looking out for?
Are Cyan's the most common around these parts? what else should I keep an eye out for and where?
I've heard that liberty caps do populate this area, and that they love pasture-like settings, are there any areas around BC that resemble this? some sort of countryside farmland?
Thanks!
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 P. coconuscens
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Coen
Boxer of Spain


Registered: 11/28/12
Posts: 549
Loc: Canada, PNW
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Re: First year hunting in Vancouver, BC!! [Re: Snowday]
#18928360 - 10/03/13 09:53 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hey Snowday,
I'm still quite a noob about all this. I hunted for the first time last year and I live in Van and have explored UBC pretty extensively -- botanical gardens, endowment lands, landscaping everywhere -- without any luck. I was looking for wood-loving psilocybe exclusively -- haven't really been interested in the smaller ones in the fields (though that habitat definitely exists around here -- head south to Richmond or further into Delta, Surrey, Langley, etc.)
From reading these forums a bunch, the generalization seems to be that BC has fewer cyans (and similar) because we don't have all of the urban wood chip mulch that Seattle and surrounding areas have been using in their landscaping for the last however many decades. Almost all the landscapers seem to use bark mulch here and cyans don't like that.
Also, you're right, from what I gather, the season tends to be later: Late Nov - early Jan. Though it probably depends on the rain and the temperature more than anything ...
I only had one find: a solitary Psilocybe allenii, kindly identified by the good folks on shroomery! (http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/17415382) It was quite potent. I found it right around Christmas (there was even a bit of snow on the ground) just as I was ready to give up for the season. Right in pretty much the most public outdoor place in the city (if that gives you any ideas).
I know there are hunters on this forum who have had more success finding them here though. And I certainly won't be giving up!
best of luck
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