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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: Byrain]
    #19395372 - 01/09/14 07:01 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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You don't use a stage micrometer to make measurements, you use it to calibrate your reticle (Or software).



How is what I'm trying to get at? I don't have a reticle so I'll probably be using Piximètre.


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: maynardjameskeenan]
    #19395377 - 01/09/14 07:01 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I created this for my friends. I consider you one of them.


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: The Lightning]
    #19395433 - 01/09/14 07:11 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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I created this for my friends. I consider you one of them.



This is exceedingly helpful, thank you sir :hatsoff:

Will I still be able to make out structures (ie. cystidia, Basidia) without dye?


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: maynardjameskeenan]
    #19395440 - 01/09/14 07:12 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I've never used Piximètre, someone else certainly knows.

@The Lightning, does that actually contain a section on calibrating your scope for Piximètre?  I'm not seeing it.

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Will I still be able to make out structures (ie. cystidia, Basidia) without dye?




Yes, thin!!! sections are key.


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: Byrain]
    #19395494 - 01/09/14 07:23 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Will I still be able to make out structures (ie. cystidia, Basidia) without dye?




HI. Normally, we use the term "stain(s)" instead of dye, unless dye is being used as the stain. The best stain you can find easily might be Congo Red. It's in the link. If you're waiting for Congo Red, KOH is an awesome rehydration liquid that allows enough visibility most of the time to make observations of cystidia. I really recommend KOH and Congo Red in separate, amber dropper bottles. Check out that *ink.

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@The Lightning, does that actually contain a section on calibrating your scope for Piximètre?  I'm not seeing it.




Not yet. Alan, if you would like to add that to the document, please let me know. If Alan doesn't add it, someone else feeling the need can provide the instructions without cost and I will add them.


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: The Lightning] * 1
    #19396113 - 01/09/14 09:45 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Did anyone consider Hypholoma for this?


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: inski]
    #19396293 - 01/09/14 10:32 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Did you have a species in mind? I can't seem to find one that resembles it yet.


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: inski]
    #19396846 - 01/10/14 12:37 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Did anyone consider Hypholoma for this?



I could see that. I dont think it is a Psilocybe species myself.


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: nomadbrad]
    #19397306 - 01/10/14 04:45 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Did you have a species in mind? I can't seem to find one that resembles it yet.




H. olivaceotinctum might be a suggestion, considering the habitat.


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Re: Psilocybe silvatic [Re: Anglerfish]
    #19397855 - 01/10/14 08:37 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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H. olivaceotin
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Did you have a species in mind? I can't seem to find one that resembles it yet.




H. olivaceotinctum might be a suggestion, considering the habitat.





The habitat was a bog that drains every year and it's surrounded by a diverse hardwood forest consisting of mostly maples, cotton woods, alders and oaks.  The few conifers that are there are dying or already dead.  :confused:


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Re: Psilocybe silvatic [Re: nomadbrad]
    #19397926 - 01/10/14 09:02 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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The habitat was a bog




That kind of heightens the chance for one of the smaller Hypholoma species, I guess.


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Re: Psilocybe silvatic [Re: Anglerfish]
    #19399050 - 01/10/14 01:18 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

yeah it's very possible. it's time,  I need a scope haha


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: nomadbrad]
    #19399517 - 01/10/14 02:47 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Did you have a species in mind? I can't seem to find one that resembles it yet.



No, I don't know the Hypholoma in that part of the world, it's best to determine genus first then look at the species known from that area.

Look for chrysocystidia in the hymenium and a subcellular layer below the pileipellis, if these are present then Hypholoma is likely.


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: inski]
    #19400365 - 01/10/14 05:33 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

:notsureif:
I can't tell if this is a spore or not...


Can I temporarily substitute food coloring for stain?


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: maynardjameskeenan]
    #19400391 - 01/10/14 05:41 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

The somewhat circular, brown objects are spores. Some of them appear crushed in the above pic.

When viewing brown colored spores, you should be able to get away with just using water. Try this: Take a single gill (nothing more) - and place it on a slide. Add two drops of water. Let it sit for a few seconds then grab some tweezers and remove the gill from the slide entirely. Hopefully some spores will still be on the slide. Add one more drop of water before placing a cover slip onto the area where the gill was.

Then view for spores.


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: maynardjameskeenan]
    #19401101 - 01/10/14 08:49 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Stains are entirely optional for standard microscopy, they become necessary only when trying to view obscure features like the spore nuclei in Entomophthora species or maybe to get good pictures of tiny hyaline Clitocybe spores...  How are you hydrating your slides?  Your section looks kind of thick, make it thinner, as thin as you can make it and then some.  Small sections are easier to make thin than big ones, it takes time to perfect so try not to get discouraged. :smile:


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: Byrain]
    #19401921 - 01/11/14 12:40 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Funny this summer I worked a 2 month contract with this lady, who during the year teaches entry biology or someshit in this college . Well after I got to know her a bit I find out she teaches microscope basics !! :wtf:
And shes stoked Im into mycology. So I'm like " YES this is my chance to learn this shit once and for all". So I brought my scope to work and she was going to give me a lesson but it turned out everything I subconsciously learned over the last year reading posts had actually sunk in and she was quite impressed.Because i have been really unsure if I was doing it right and I was. :smile:
I went for a quick walk at lunch, found a few specimens. Set up my scope,pulled out a fresh razor blade, cut the mushroom in half and sliced a thin slice of gill,dropped it on a fresh slide, dropped a bit of water on it and we were viewing spores in 2 minutes.
She was like, what the fuck , you seem to know what your doing already!! :lol: She said I was more with it then any noob she'd taught , so thanks dudes , its all because of you. I havent been in a class room since 1997 so Ive been a bit put off by it.
I need to do it more though, I still am super green. I am in the same boat as Maynard and am married with rug rats so time is hard to come by.
I need to figure out how to take pics somehow and I would like to be able to measure spores.


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: psylosymonreturns]
    #19401932 - 01/11/14 12:44 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Oh and how about H marginatum.


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: psylosymonreturns]
    #19401956 - 01/11/14 12:51 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Funny this summer I worked a 2 month contract with this lady, who during the year teaches entry biology or someshit in this college . Well after I got to know her a bit I find out she teaches microscope basics !! :wtf:
And shes stoked Im into mycology. So I'm like " YES this is my chance to learn this shit once and for all". So I brought my scope to work and she was going to give me a lesson but it turned out everything I subconsciously learned over the last year reading posts had actually sunk in and she was quite impressed.Because i have been really unsure if I was doing it right and I was. :smile:
I went for a quick walk at lunch, found a few specimens. Set up my scope,pulled out a fresh razor blade, cut the mushroom in half and sliced a thin slice of gill,dropped it on a fresh slide, dropped a bit of water on it and we were viewing spores in 2 minutes.
She was like, what the fuck , you seem to know what your doing already!! :lol: She said I was more with it then any noob she'd taught , so thanks dudes , its all because of you. I havent been in a class room since 1997 so Ive been a bit put off by it.
I need to do it more though, I still am super green. I am in the same boat as Maynard and am married with rug rats so time is hard to come by.
I need to figure out how to take pics somehow and I would like to be able to measure spores.



:congrats::heart:


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Re: Psilocybe silvatica [Re: psylosymonreturns]
    #19402372 - 01/11/14 04:44 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Oh and how about H marginatum.




Stems look off, they should be silky-fibrillose.
Caps should be conical to bell shaped, and with a obvious white margin.

I also never saw H. marginatum striate like that.

Although nothing is impossible, I don't think it is very likely.


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