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Jake McBaked
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: Adden] 1
#22719530 - 12/31/15 02:18 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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So, I have a couple pictures from this season i took and never got around to posting on here. Since today is the last day of 2015 I figured now is my last chance to get them on here













I would like to reiterate these pictures are not from today, they are from mid-late november. Its been a great season and a great year. Hopefully 2016 will be filled with even more mushrooms than this year.
Edited by Jake McBaked (12/31/15 02:26 AM)
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: sprinkles]
#22720053 - 12/31/15 08:55 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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sprinkles said: I think they're just mad we dont scrape road kill off the road for dinner.
What's this we? I've been guilty of this
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: Mr Piggy]
#22720234 - 12/31/15 09:46 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Those are some pretty mushrooms Jake! Thanks for sharing. They are definitely some of the best ones I've seen this year
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: SkagitHunter]
#22723062 - 01/01/16 12:11 AM (8 years, 30 days ago) |
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Happy New Year EveryOne!!!
Thank You for All your Help and Inspirations
 Without it I/We all would not of had the magical success that 2015 brought.
PS... the season is not over jus yet....
There are 2 new pins coming up in my flower pot patch!!  Got to love em 
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: Mushrello]
#22723385 - 01/01/16 02:37 AM (8 years, 30 days ago) |
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lol @ those craigslist degens
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: AstaCrazyBull]
#22723570 - 01/01/16 04:38 AM (8 years, 30 days ago) |
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sprinkles said: Ive never been anywhere but here so im just making stupid assumptions.
I've lived from Virginia to Hawaii. I'll definitely stay in the pnw. That's an easy one for me. 
....I been from TooCan to SiAm I Don't no you and don't give a damm. And you Want to call me "Boy"?.... Any body remember an old salty sailors ramblings that went something along those lines?
Too all you "Fools" Have a Stellar 2016!! I love you all!! https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiT1YD4y4jKAhVV72MKHahyCLUQFggiMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Frsbunlimited%2Fsets%2Fcuts&usg=AFQjCNE2OOc6WXUsBY2uSj90C3L7E5hRMA&sig2=_1Vlzh7I02JGqKDplb-59g
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what are you rambling on about now? Rambly McRamblerson. hold that thought, i go back to bed. ,,,
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: sprinkles]
#22725594 - 01/01/16 08:36 PM (8 years, 29 days ago) |
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The grass I inoculated seems to have taken off with the azzie mycelium, I just hope I can keep it alive and growing long enough to get it into the ground. I was thinking about transferring both to a sterile cooler for more space and temperature control I pretty much jumped into this project drunk and without foresight. Literally threw some spore water onto some grass in a pot and stuck it in a cabinet so even getting this far is a surprise. Any suggestions or previous experiences you old shroomers can share? Theres not much on the internet about using dune grass for cultivation it seems like everybody uses wood chips.
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: dexterj]
#22725784 - 01/01/16 09:57 PM (8 years, 29 days ago) |
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I might suggest introducing local Flora and seeing what works and what doesn't. That way when you move to outdoors it will adapt more readily. I would imagine it going through the grass pretty fast. maybe even take the top layer with dirt and roots of local field grass and put it in the pot next to what you have and see what happens. Then add a few different types of wood chunks/chips next to that. If you want to insure you still have some mycilium. you could move some to a plate of agar for back up.
*Strictly, just my opinion from similar exp*
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randallsbook said: If you want to insure you still have some mycilium. you could move some to a plate of agar for back up.
*Strictly, just my opinion from similar exp*
That's a good idea, I have heard that azures do quite well with the agar plates. That grass right there is about as "local" as it gets as I grabbed it right from where the specimens were collected, and was sure to get a healthy amount of lignious (right word?) sandy soil for that half and half mix they seem to grow out of naturally. I'm assuming i should continue to keep the temp between 39F and 49F? Ideally I'd love to hook up some fellow mycology enthusiasts in my neighborhood so just keeping this stuff alive and spreading is what I'm about, I'm also all about this wood chip idea I've checked that thread from last year where the dude was using a 50/50 mix of chips and cardboard and that's some of the thickest myc I've ever seen. Man people weren't lying when they said that p. azurescens has the slowest colonization time EVARRRRRR.. It's been like two weeks and all I've got is a little fuzzles.
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: dexterj]
#22727653 - 01/02/16 11:35 AM (8 years, 29 days ago) |
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They're going to burn through the grass quick. It's how my first take home attempt failed. The straw is good for them as far as using chutes to travel through. Explosive growth will be seen in very woody soil. A member here just dug up wood rich dirt, threw myc in, and let gallon ziploc bags sit in an airy room. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it a week later; neither could he/she.
My best advice is try and get them to jump to wood chips or something stronger. They seem to get very airy myc when they're about done with the grass even if gas exchange is fine.
You'll see this out picking, too, if you've ever lifted a giant mat of dune grass. They seem to use it to move around and they don't fruit at a mycelial nexus where it's the strongest like you'd think; I noticed they tend to fruit after the mycelium travels far enough to find something better. Your myc needs that "something better" and learn how to eat it.
If I had the resources, I'd go grab a bunch of woody soil/sand, alder chips and a gallon bag or so of grass. Use the grass more for helping the myc travel, not as a major food source, they move on quickly despite it not being completely decomposed.
This is just what I've experienced in the wild and observed in experiments by others and am by no means an expert.
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: Adden]
#22727857 - 01/02/16 12:27 PM (8 years, 29 days ago) |
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Dys said: They're going to burn through the grass quick. It's how my first take home attempt failed. The straw is good for them as far as using chutes to travel through. Explosive growth will be seen in very woody soil. A member here just dug up wood rich dirt, threw myc in, and let gallon ziploc bags sit in an airy room. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it a week later; neither could he/she.
My best advice is try and get them to jump to wood chips or something stronger. They seem to get very airy myc when they're about done with the grass even if gas exchange is fine.
You'll see this out picking, too, if you've ever lifted a giant mat of dune grass. They seem to use it to move around and they don't fruit at a mycelial nexus where it's the strongest like you'd think; I noticed they tend to fruit after the mycelium travels far enough to find something better. Your myc needs that "something better" and learn how to eat it.
If I had the resources, I'd go grab a bunch of woody soil/sand, alder chips and a gallon bag or so of grass. Use the grass more for helping the myc travel, not as a major food source, they move on quickly despite it not being completely decomposed.
This is just what I've experienced in the wild and observed in experiments by others and am by no means an expert.
I value your opinion pretty highly Dys, you're one of the members I've seen commonly posting azzies in various environments for a good decent while and pay good close attention to the parameters in which different types like to grow, not to say that there's not people with more knowledge or experience on which to rest but YOU are the one I have taken notice to. I have moved the grass over to a cooler and added some more honey/spore water to help it take off in it's new environment. The grass has mush more gas exchange and space which I noticed seems important. My plan is solidifying into using the grass to spread the myc really quickly and will be easy for transfers to various woodchip substrates including the 50/50 chip/cardboard mix I saw that seemed to work magically. Which gives me some time to get my sterilization gear together again. As long as I can keep it alive just long enough for the freezes to stop so I can put it in the ground in a nice little spot by the beach.
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: dexterj]
#22728021 - 01/02/16 01:07 PM (8 years, 29 days ago) |
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Another thing I noticed is azures appear to be more meticulous and finicky as for where they want to go and what they want to do. Indecisive but calculating I guess is the best way to put it. Psilo cyans tend to take more of a brute force approach; as if they take anything in their path and continue on as if they're going to figure the rest out later.
Azure myc appeared to be more calculating, but when it came time to fruit they would pop in abundance but with varying fruit sizes. Cyans would be more scattered and fruit along where it was best, but pop out beastly fruits. Whereas a small area of azures would be a mixed bag of giant matures and decreasing in size; but you could use them as a reference point for where they'd hop to next.
Those thick, fat and dense mats of grass are very good at keeping heat in as the myc and bacteria promote a warm environment and trap it. There was a frost in Nov that I figured killed everything, but then a few weeks later I found the longest stems I'd seen all season come through that protective layer. The only stronger fruits I'd seen fruited through two inches of sand on top of the grass mats.
Edited by Adden (01/02/16 01:20 PM)
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: Adden]
#22728316 - 01/02/16 02:22 PM (8 years, 29 days ago) |
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Dys, your observations are spot on but you're lacking the collected field data to make them anything more than just observations. You're a good observer and could go far with it if you had a solid biology/ecology framework to base it on.
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: dexterj]
#22728317 - 01/02/16 02:22 PM (8 years, 29 days ago) |
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dexterj said:
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randallsbook said: If you want to insure you still have some mycilium. you could move some to a plate of agar for back up.
*Strictly, just my opinion from similar exp*
That's a good idea, I have heard that azures do quite well with the agar plates. That grass right there is about as "local" as it gets as I grabbed it right from where the specimens were collected, and was sure to get a healthy amount of lignious (right word?) sandy soil for that half and half mix they seem to grow out of naturally. I'm assuming i should continue to keep the temp between 39F and 49F? Ideally I'd love to hook up some fellow mycology enthusiasts in my neighborhood so just keeping this stuff alive and spreading is what I'm about, I'm also all about this wood chip idea I've checked that thread from last year where the dude was using a 50/50 mix of chips and cardboard and that's some of the thickest myc I've ever seen. Man people weren't lying when they said that p. azurescens has the slowest colonization time EVARRRRRR.. It's been like two weeks and all I've got is a little fuzzles.
When i said Local i was meaning to were you plan to have your grow. Cardboard is allways good(Thats what i use)I suggested Agar because 1. It is pretty much the best way to get and keep some clean myc. 2. I didn't feel like hearing the anti cardboard shit from the to good for cardboad people. Honestly. I never use Agar anymore. I prefer gorilla style techniques which involve just grabbing shit and putting it in buckets,tubs,totes,tarps,ect....And giveing it cardboard and what ever is on hand. If I fail,Oh well theres plenty out there. I pretty much give everything away anyway. It's more about just doing something alone with out being bothered with my daily stresses of life such as GF,Customers,Needyfreinds,and just pushy people in general. Messing with drty wood chips and cardboard and crawling around the muddy bushes is right were I'm at peace.
I guess I'm thinking out loud w/fingers. Hope you all have a great rest of the weekend. P.S. I Posted on another thread. I'm boxing up some of my dust collectors. It's gettin out of hand hoarder style.
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passifloracaerulea said: Dys, your observations are spot on but you're lacking the collected field data to make them anything more than just observations. You're a good observer and could go far with it if you had a solid biology/ecology framework to base it on.
I know.. and it sucks.. I've been doing the best I can trying to get that part up to speed. I noticed this when trying to explain the most simplest of terms. It's like I can get from point A to Z, but everything in between is like playing connect the dots the best I can.
...a little help? I'm still waiting on some books from Amazon that I wish I had gotten much, much earlier but never figured I'd make it this far.
I'd have figured the search engine and cultivation forums to have been some help but it appears the place is so cube heavy that it's hard to get an answer; then in cases like this I feel like the blind leading the blind.. but then seems as if that I don't at least try to help someone in the right direction they get stuck like I did when I first started researching.
I was nearly done with 2 years of a biology degree and had a traumatic event happen which pretty much wiped those years right out of my memory. It is a shortcoming I want to fix. Pretty much all my cultivation memories got fucked too.
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: Adden]
#22728511 - 01/02/16 03:03 PM (8 years, 29 days ago) |
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And here's another observation that I couldn't put into a biological framework.
I noticed the rain will wick down to the base of dune grass, but the fruits come out where the blades bend and start to slowly let go of water droplets. Also it seems the fruits need to wiggle around a bit to stimulate further fruiting and perpetuating the organism. Giving them so much as a day in light winds has shown me it may potentially be a pinning trigger? Or they fruit on the outskirts so they can have more room to wiggle around and drop spores? It's as if they want that rain to ping the mycelium and also some wiggling. That's gotta send some kind of message to it that things are well and good.
The meatier most mature fruits always sprout and decay in the center as the water wicks down, but those at the outlying edges are prettier, tastier, more colorful and more potent.
It's a mycelial mat deep underneath it all that I'm not seeing is my best uneducated guess.
I really don't want to give out misinformation to anyone. Guidance would be helpful, both on this and the above posts if someone could chime in please.
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: Adden]
#22728538 - 01/02/16 03:10 PM (8 years, 29 days ago) |
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I've been ghost spectating these PNW outdoor threads for about 8 years now and I have to say the PNW picker's community is fucking awesome! So many of my foraging purist buddies look down their noses at these sorts of communities but I've found nothing but support and great minds to absorb collected knowledge from. Far more scientific than the toothless spunions that like to spew false info like farts in an outhouse. Every single one of you give yourself a pat on the back and a fat bong rip because your awesome!
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Re: OFFICIAL PNW Fall 2015/16 ACTIVES Thread [Re: dexterj]
#22729777 - 01/02/16 08:56 PM (8 years, 28 days ago) |
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I haven't found any mushrooms... like, all year.
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