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isic
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** THE OFFICIAL COLORADO ACTIVES THREAD **
#21952493 - 07/16/15 03:33 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Place: Denver, Colorado
Habitat: School field in long grass
Time: July 16, 2015 1pm





I have been wanting to find these for a while now, but all I have ever come across were foes... In fact I started to believe that maybe I was unable to distinguish the two apart and was maybe finding both... until today! After finding foes for many years, I can tell you that when you get a sub in your hand, you can tell instantly!!!
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Re: 1st legit Pan subb haul! [Re: isic]
#21952535 - 07/16/15 03:43 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Get me a print Have a nice trip man
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Re: 1st legit Pan subb haul! [Re: isic]
#21952549 - 07/16/15 03:45 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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That is some serious bluing! I'd save a few to get 100% identification, it could be something interesting.
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The prints are in the works right now and I'm not sure I plan on eating them... (I have cubes) I just love the hunt. With mushrooms I feel the saying "the journey is greater than the destination" really is true. I always love looking for and finding mushrooms more than actually experimenting with them. With that said... I STILL LOVE TO TRIP!
One of the most satisfying and rewarding hobbies around! Days like this, I feel like a million bucks!
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Re: 1st legit Pan subb haul! [Re: Anglerfish]
#21952597 - 07/16/15 03:54 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Anglerfish said: That is some serious bluing! I'd save a few to get 100% identification, it could be something interesting.
I hear ya and I'll have prints soon, but I am 99.9% sure that these are Panaeolus cinctulus. I have found a bunch of mushrooms I thought were subbs, but could never be too sure... but when I found these, it was like lightning striking me... I fucking knew it! LOL!
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Re: 1st legit Pan subb haul! [Re: isic]
#21953558 - 07/16/15 08:04 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Wow that bluing looks nice! In Denver you say? This is a big deal man, tons of people have picked subbs around here, and I've never seen pics of any that turned such a vivid blue. We truly are having an unusually good season in Colorado. I'm just south of you, if you know what I mean. Guess I need to start looking a little harder! How moist and maintained was the field? Were there any creeks or rivers nearby (within a mile or two?)
If you get a positive from a TI, you have to try them man. Do it for me. :P I think you could also lay claim to the Official Colorado Actives thread if you so choose.
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In fact I started to believe that maybe I was unable to distinguish the two apart and was maybe finding both... until today! After finding foes for many years, I can tell you that when you get a sub in your hand, you can tell instantly!!!
I feel the same way, your find has brought me a lot of hope and encouragement! Hopefully this will be the year.
-------------------- "You decadent pig. Where the fuck do you get the nerve to go around telling those wops that I'm crazy? You worthless cocksucker. My Italian tour is already arranged for next spring & I'm going to do the whole goddamn trip wearing a bright red field marshal's uniform & accompanied by six speed-freak bodyguards bristling with Mace bombs & when I start talking about American writers & the name Tom Wolfe comes up, by god, you're going to wish you were born a fucking iguana!" - Hunter S. Thompson, 03/03/71 Letter to Tom Wolfe.
Edited by EnergyTurtle (07/16/15 08:29 PM)
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EnergyTurtle said: Wow that bluing looks nice! In Denver you say? This is a big deal man, tons of people have picked subbs around here, and I've never seen pics of any that turned such a vivid blue. We truly are having an unusually good season in Colorado. I'm just south of you, if you know what I mean. Guess I need to start looking a little harder! How moist and maintained was the field?
If you get a positive from a TI, you have to try them man. Do it for me. :P I think you could also lay claim to the Official Colorado Actives thread if you so choose.
Yeah, I have never found subbs in Denver before today, but this field is clearly watered frequently with sprinklers. The grass does not appear to be mowed often... maybe every 2 weeks if I had to guess. It was pretty long. 6 to 8 inches long in some places. I also noticed that the grass is not collected as there was old grass clippings from the last time it was mowed. I also found a bunch of possible conocybe mushrooms in the same area.
I was pretty excited when I pulled the first mushroom up and saw how blue it was. I knew then I was gonna spend at least another hour searching for more.
How would I go about laying claim to the official Colorado Actives thread? That is something I would be interested in doing.
If you live in Colorado, send me a PM sometime
I might try these to see what kind of effect they bring.
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Re: 1st legit Pan subb haul! [Re: isic]
#21953674 - 07/16/15 08:35 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Nice, keep an eye on the conocybes as C. cyanopus is another one of the few active species that can produce psilocin in our climate. They're really rare, I read a thread from a few years ago where everyone practically flipped their lids over a guys cyanopus score. It's probably too late in the season for those though.
I'll definitely send you a pm sometime, from the sound of things I'm looking in the wrong types of field. I have a few in mind now that I'm going to check out tomorrow. I'd be giddy as a schoolgirl about a find like this. 
If it's still possible to change the title of the first post in this thread, you could change it to something like "Official Colorado Actives Thread", and if a mod or admin disagrees they'll usually let you know and you can change the title back.
If you decide to try them, you can always go with a concentrated tincture (use Everclear) if you want to avoid eating a lot of mushroom mass. No telling how potent these are though, they look like pretty high quality subbs.
-------------------- "You decadent pig. Where the fuck do you get the nerve to go around telling those wops that I'm crazy? You worthless cocksucker. My Italian tour is already arranged for next spring & I'm going to do the whole goddamn trip wearing a bright red field marshal's uniform & accompanied by six speed-freak bodyguards bristling with Mace bombs & when I start talking about American writers & the name Tom Wolfe comes up, by god, you're going to wish you were born a fucking iguana!" - Hunter S. Thompson, 03/03/71 Letter to Tom Wolfe.
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Yeah, definitely not cyanopus. I will be going back first thing in the morning (because that's when I was most successful with cubes down in Texas) to see if I can find some more subbs.
I hope the morning dew brings up a few more, but I might have more success the next time it rains.
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Re: 1st legit Pan subb haul! [Re: isic]
#21954489 - 07/17/15 12:27 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Here is the spore print of the biggest specimen I found.
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Re: 1st legit Pan subb haul! [Re: isic]
#21954958 - 07/17/15 07:02 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's hard to tell the exact color on the foil in that pic, but it looks like a good subb print. Subbs usually lay a thicker deposit of spores, but these likely dropped a good majority of their spores by the time you got them home.
How was the weather when you found these? I went looking yesterday as well, but I found exactly zero panaeolus mushrooms, not even the foes that usually grow all over the place in my local cemetery. Just two stinkhorns, some horny puffballs, and some tiny translucent Conocybe-type mushrooms. I was there a few days ago and there were foes out the yin yang, but yesterday we had very low moisture and no clouds until late in the afternoon. I did see some heavy looking storms up north of us, did you guys get any of that?
-------------------- "You decadent pig. Where the fuck do you get the nerve to go around telling those wops that I'm crazy? You worthless cocksucker. My Italian tour is already arranged for next spring & I'm going to do the whole goddamn trip wearing a bright red field marshal's uniform & accompanied by six speed-freak bodyguards bristling with Mace bombs & when I start talking about American writers & the name Tom Wolfe comes up, by god, you're going to wish you were born a fucking iguana!" - Hunter S. Thompson, 03/03/71 Letter to Tom Wolfe.
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I know it's hard to tell in the pic, but that spore print is super jet black. With the bluing and spore print, I am positive that these are subbs.
The weather yesterday was really hot and dry. About 90 degrees. We did get some clouds, but no rain. And the clouds came after I had already picked my haul. But the night before I found them, we had a good rain storm that lasted an hour or so. I really think the rain is what brought those subbs up.
I went back first thing this morning and I didn't find a single specimen even though the grass was really wet. I looked for about an hour, but no luck. I did find some of those small white conocybes and some really small puffballs, but no subbs and no foes. I also have not seen any foes that usually scatter my lawn.
We are supposed to get rain this weekend, so I hope my chances will be better come the beginning of next week.
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Re: 1st legit Pan subb haul! [Re: isic] 1
#21955187 - 07/17/15 08:42 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Wow. PM me. I agree the tall, wet, infrequently mowed (lawn) grass is the best place to look for active pans. All it takes is a bad scalping by the mowers, and a hot day or two, and it can ruin a spot. CO weather lately has been actually wet and somewhat cloudy.
I have found C. cyanopus once, a small flush of perhaps 15-20, they never came back.
I notice that the active pans in my part of CO do come back in the same spots. As the sun starts to lean towards the equator in teh late summer and fall, spots start getting more shade.
And I agree, the hunt is part of it. I walk at least 25 miles a week.
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Re: 1st legit Pan subb haul! [Re: Gilzman]
#21955277 - 07/17/15 09:15 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I went back first thing this morning and I didn't find a single specimen even though the grass was really wet. I looked for about an hour, but no luck. I did find some of those small white conocybes and some really small puffballs, but no subbs and no foes. I also have not seen any foes that usually scatter my lawn
I noticed that you picked those around 1pm, and honestly they still look pretty fresh. I have a theory that maybe the morning isn't the best time to look for pans around here. I almost always have better luck in the early afternoon. The "morning chill" lasts a bit longer here than it does in other parts of the country, so perhaps we should be picking a little later in the day than most do. If it's not too far away, you should check the spot again a little later when the heat starts to set in. Hopefully you can score some more, if you have a nice lawn you could always try to get a culture growing in your yard. I think there's some teks for that on this site.
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I have found C. cyanopus once, a small flush of perhaps 15-20, they never came back.
I notice that the active pans in my part of CO do come back in the same spots. As the sun starts to lean towards the equator in teh late summer and fall, spots start getting more shade.
Nice, do you have much experience consuming the active subbs from around here? I'm wondering about the dosage, with the bluing in the samples above I'm guessing that potency of CO subbs is probably quite variable.
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Bingo, I went back around 11:30 am today and found 4 more subbs! I decided to walk around the school to see what I could find and I thought I found the mother load, but they were just foes.
I really think that between 10am and noon, might be the right time to harvest subbs. the grass was much warmer and I could feel that it was much more humid closer to the ground, than it was this morning. Seems to be perfect after the sun had been on it for a few hours, but I think a good rain storm will do the trick for a massive haul.
Man, I can't wait for the late summer/early fall rains!
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Re: 1st legit Pan subb haul! [Re: isic]
#21956918 - 07/17/15 04:40 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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No success with my subb hunt today, but I found a pretty decent spot to check in the future. I may have found two tiny subbs but I didn't even bother with them, they were so pathetic.
The foes were popping all over this field though, much larger and stouter than I have ever seen before. I also found a few of the usual-sized foes, some mica caps, lots of agaricus, and a few puffballs here and there.
The field matches your description pretty closely; watered every day, looks like it's mowed about once every two weeks. You can definitely feel a humidity difference just standing in the field (compared to everywhere else), the heat and humidity rise from the moist grass and make a little micro environment that's perfect for mushrooms. I checked a nearby cemetery, and the difference was astonishing. I found virtually no LBMs there, only mica caps and agaricus.
I went out about the same time as you, hunted a handful of parks from around 11:00am to 4:00pm. Found fuck all as far as subb patches go though. Tomorrow's another day. :P
Glad to hear you were able to score a few more, you oughta make a jug of slurry to encourage more to grow, not sure how effective that would be but it's worth a shot. Put a few spore-ripe caps in a jug of water with a sprinkle of good soil and nutrients, and pour it out over the spot where you found them.
-------------------- "You decadent pig. Where the fuck do you get the nerve to go around telling those wops that I'm crazy? You worthless cocksucker. My Italian tour is already arranged for next spring & I'm going to do the whole goddamn trip wearing a bright red field marshal's uniform & accompanied by six speed-freak bodyguards bristling with Mace bombs & when I start talking about American writers & the name Tom Wolfe comes up, by god, you're going to wish you were born a fucking iguana!" - Hunter S. Thompson, 03/03/71 Letter to Tom Wolfe.
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Sweet little treat dude.
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Re: 1st legit Pan subb haul! [Re: Lepkaun]
#21958044 - 07/17/15 08:58 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I should have posted this first thing, but this definitely belongs in this thread:
Score 1 for the Colorado pickers, finally. :P
-------------------- "You decadent pig. Where the fuck do you get the nerve to go around telling those wops that I'm crazy? You worthless cocksucker. My Italian tour is already arranged for next spring & I'm going to do the whole goddamn trip wearing a bright red field marshal's uniform & accompanied by six speed-freak bodyguards bristling with Mace bombs & when I start talking about American writers & the name Tom Wolfe comes up, by god, you're going to wish you were born a fucking iguana!" - Hunter S. Thompson, 03/03/71 Letter to Tom Wolfe.
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wicked haul
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Re: 1st legit Pan subb haul! [Re: Blazer420]
#21958319 - 07/17/15 09:52 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I found huge Foes, all dark brown spores. They were in a known good spot that will hopefully change when the conditions are right. Other than that, too hot and dry.
Down to the last of my guys it seems. Might as well go for broke?
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