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OregonBluesGil
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Re: Hayward, California [Re: DavidR]
#20868615 - 11/21/14 12:19 AM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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Cyans and Allenii are fruiting quite well here in Humboldt, Though some of the Allenii were invaded with lil bugs, but not to many! Great season so far!
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DavidR
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Re: Hayward, California [Re: DavidR]
#20868637 - 11/21/14 12:32 AM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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At the previously spoken of 'nice little irrigated place' in Emeryville, an interesting cluster of pins has sprung up in the last few days. Definitely Psilocybe, but not sure about the species. (The top two photos are two days apart.) Altogether distinct from all the P. allenii pins nearby, two examples of which, a foot away, are given in the last photo. If I had to guess at this point, I'd say P. cyanescens.


Edited by DavidR (11/21/14 12:40 AM)
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Re: Hayward, California [Re: DavidR]
#20871024 - 11/21/14 03:29 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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Psilocybe allenii--Milpitas Ca.





 It Looks like cyanescens were 30 feet away from the allenii patches and some other orange mushroom was growing side by the patch
I left about 100 pins/mushrooms to continue growing and sprinkled almost 2 bags of sawdust over the patches
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Beautiful
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mrgoodkat
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Hello good people! It's been rainy lately where I live, after reading the field guide and this thread I'm getting really excited for my first ever mushroom hunt. With no experience and not really knowing where to begin I'd love a bit of advice to get me started on the right track and hopefully a successful harvest. I live in contra Costa county, Pittsburg/ bay point area and was wondering if I should look into some locally accessible areas,but reading the thread it seems the east bay has great success and wouldn't mind driving down there. I'm not familiar at all with the easy bay and would appreciate any areas I should look out for to help me with researching the area. I'm told all I'd really need is newspaper to store the harvest and scissors to cut them, I hear to be mindful of not over picking patches and to watch out for mold and bugs. Other than that any other tips or recommendations? Would greatly appreciate any feedback, thanks! Namaste
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Joust
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Re: Hayward, California [Re: DavidR]
#20872382 - 11/21/14 08:41 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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DavidR said: Decided to visit the last mentioned P. allenii patch before the rain this morning to try to pop off some nice photos. But was surprised to find many of the caps split on the edges...caused by either swelling from the rain or munching by bugs or both...not very picturesque. I therefore changed my plans and harvested all the split mushrooms, leaving a remaining three dozen to try their luck into next week.


Nice pics, you should take more!
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DavidR
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Re: Hayward, California [Re: Joust]
#20872750 - 11/21/14 10:13 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thank you! Here are a couple from today. They're just for you.

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DavidR
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Re: Offical Bay Area Actives 2014 [Re: mrgoodkat]
#20872971 - 11/21/14 11:09 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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mrgoodkat said: Hello good people! It's been rainy lately where I live, after reading the field guide and this thread I'm getting really excited for my first ever mushroom hunt. With no experience and not really knowing where to begin I'd love a bit of advice to get me started on the right track and hopefully a successful harvest. I live in contra Costa county, Pittsburg/ bay point area and was wondering if I should look into some locally accessible areas,but reading the thread it seems the east bay has great success and wouldn't mind driving down there. I'm not familiar at all with the easy bay and would appreciate any areas I should look out for to help me with researching the area. I'm told all I'd really need is newspaper to store the harvest and scissors to cut them, I hear to be mindful of not over picking patches and to watch out for mold and bugs. Other than that any other tips or recommendations? Would greatly appreciate any feedback, thanks! Namaste
The absolutely best thing is for you to read the entire 2012 and 2013 Bay area threads.
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spacecadetCID said: Super beautiful my friend! I walked over the hayward hills and didn't return lucky today 
stay outa the hills
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Joust
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Re: Hayward, California [Re: DavidR]
#20874967 - 11/22/14 02:43 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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DavidR said: Thank you! Here are a couple from today. They're just for you.


 
looking really good!
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Re: Hayward, California [Re: Joust]
#20880232 - 11/23/14 05:11 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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First find of this season! In SF, irrigated wood chips in a park.
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openmind
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Edited by openmind (12/18/14 01:00 AM)
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deathcapcubensis
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Re: Hayward, California [Re: openmind]
#20880955 - 11/23/14 07:24 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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This is my shout out to all the guys/gals that were posting when I was really active on this forum!! Where are all the old school hunters at.....from a time when these shroomery pages were orange!
I was a very active hunter in the bay area almost a decade ago.... I have found stuntzii, cyanofibrillosa, cyans...and an unidentified psilocybe while hunting the east bay and SF back in the day....unfortunately I moved out to the 530 area....butte county and lost my mojo....I tried to go hunting a few times but found nothing...although a friend of mine who went to Chico State claims to have found a patch of cyans near campus once ...and I belive him...hes sort of an outdoorsy mountain man type and know his shit...although he doesn't hunt acgtives or anything. Anyway how many of you out there have found them in the 530? Or know of anyone that has?? It would be great to hear some encouraging words.
Edited by deathcapcubensis (11/23/14 07:26 PM)
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psilocybe allenii, oaktown, ca. 11/23/14
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deathcapcubensis said: Anyway how many of you out there have found them in the 530? Or know of anyone that has?? It would be great to hear some encouraging words.
Check the range maps for Psilocybe cyanescens, P. allenii and P. ovoideocystidiata on mushroomobserver.org.
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deathcapcubensis
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I don't rely on that shit anymore...as I said I have found blue ringers which supposedly don't grow this far south....on none other than UC berkely campus....there was a lot of controversy over here on the shroomery until I posted pics of them on a local newspaper....so I don't thibk these are very accurate....you hace to consider micro climates (if that's even a thing)....what Im trying to say is that a small part of terrain may hold more moisture and keep the right temps and be a perfect little micro environment for them to pop up even though the surrounding area doesn't have a decent climate for the fungi
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deathcapcubensis
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But thanks....its a useful link!!
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DavidR
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deathcapcubensis said: But thanks....its a useful link!!
You should hunt out there hardcore for a week. If they're there, you should find some within a week.
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deathcapcubensis
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Re: Hayward, California [Re: DavidR]
#20881589 - 11/23/14 09:45 PM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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youre right ^^ but I gotta work ya know.... they have been found though but probably much more rare up here than down in the bay...it seems that landscaping isn't mulched with new woodchis too often up here which is a major setback...I will go out this week though
Edited by deathcapcubensis (11/23/14 09:47 PM)
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deathcapcubensis
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Why does it seem these P. Alleni seem to have been growing much more aggressively and robustly than P Cyans lately? It seems when I first started hunting a decade ago , cyans were more common....then it seemed over the years cyans have been thinning out while P. Alleni have taken their place...anyone know whatsup?
I think that they may just be an evolved cyanescens....since they are microscopically so similar if not nearly identical....they seem to have mutated into a species with less of a undulated cap...these genes perhaps coincide with more vigour than the regular cyans we used to see...therefore they sort of are outbreeding the old wavy caps due to stronger genetics...they've got more fight in em so to speak...just a thought.
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