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tahoe
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22614082 - 12/04/15 05:59 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Found a new spot today. Not sure what they are. Maybe Allenii but they look different. Could be a result of the cold weather. The mycelium seemed different also
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: tahoe] 2
#22614307 - 12/04/15 07:05 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Going out spawning. It's something everyone should be doing.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: tahoe]
#22614439 - 12/04/15 07:35 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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tahoe said: Going out spawning. It's something everyone should be doing.
Are you throwing grain out on wild wood chips?
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: tahoe]
#22614461 - 12/04/15 07:39 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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tahoe said: Going out spawning. It's something everyone should be doing.

A great suprise today , I noticed that My cultivated Allenii patch has produced some fat ass clusters . Some aren't mature enough for my liking so Monday will be harvest. I've got to find a way to upload pictures. A few looked like they froze and began to abort so They were covered with leaves.
Gonna be spawning Azurescens next.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: JayZ Morgan]
#22614589 - 12/04/15 08:10 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Will Azurs really fruit this far south?
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DavidReishi
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: tahoe]
#22615004 - 12/04/15 09:36 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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tahoe said: Going out spawning. It's something everyone should be doing.
I can't say I really understand the point. Just to have more and more mushrooms? For me, it's all about the hunt and the thrill of finding wild Psilocybes. Hunting and cultivating are widely different things, and I'd fear that mixing the two would spoil my motivation to hunt...at least in the manner that I practice it now. I messed with agar dishes, rye berries, and had a laminar flow hood when I was 15 years old, and yeah it was neat. But twenty odd years later I can say without a doubt that hunting wild mushrooms is way more fun.
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Are you throwing grain out on wild wood chips?
Is that Bad?
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22615097 - 12/04/15 09:57 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
DavidReishi said:
For me, it's all about the hunt and the thrill of finding wild Psilocybes.
As well as the satisfaction of succeeding at something so arduous.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22616522 - 12/05/15 11:06 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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DavidReishi said:
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tahoe said: Going out spawning. It's something everyone should be doing.
I can't say I really understand the point. Just to have more and more mushrooms? For me, it's all about the hunt and the thrill of finding wild Psilocybes. Hunting and cultivating are widely different things, and I'd fear that mixing the two would spoil my motivation to hunt...at least in the manner that I practice it now. I messed with agar dishes, rye berries, and had a laminar flow hood when I was 15 years old, and yeah it was neat. But twenty odd years later I can say without a doubt that hunting wild mushrooms is way more fun.
The more spawn you spread, the more mushrooms grow. The more mushrooms that grow the more spores that are spread. The more spores that are spread the more mushrooms that grow. Brilliant.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: afrogus]
#22616648 - 12/05/15 11:43 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Here is a cultivated Allenii patch in the first year of fruiting.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: afrogus]
#22616669 - 12/05/15 11:50 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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afrogus said:
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DavidReishi said:
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tahoe said: Going out spawning. It's something everyone should be doing.
I can't say I really understand the point. Just to have more and more mushrooms? For me, it's all about the hunt and the thrill of finding wild Psilocybes. Hunting and cultivating are widely different things, and I'd fear that mixing the two would spoil my motivation to hunt...at least in the manner that I practice it now. I messed with agar dishes, rye berries, and had a laminar flow hood when I was 15 years old, and yeah it was neat. But twenty odd years later I can say without a doubt that hunting wild mushrooms is way more fun.
The more spawn you spread, the more mushrooms grow. The more mushrooms that grow the more spores that are spread. The more spores that are spread the more mushrooms that grow. Brilliant.
Sounds nice but I doubt it works like that in reality. I'd bet that in a place like the Bay Area cultivated patches don't add to the indigenous spore load substantially at all. Also, I'd bet that the quantity of wild patches isn't as much a function of the local spore load as it is of ideal conditions for germination and growth.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: JayZ Morgan]
#22616755 - 12/05/15 12:22 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Here is a cultivated Allenii patch in the first year of fruiting.
Nice...almost makes my mouth water. Which brings me back to my initial point. That, for me, it'd be playing with fire...I'd want to spawn more and more and MOAR! Then I'd be like, "Hunting who?" Successful hunting, at least sustained successful hunting, requires an unearthly amount of determination. Cultivating patches would, I'd fear, kill that in me.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22617338 - 12/05/15 03:25 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have only lived in the Bay Area for a few months but it has been a blessing getting to spend time hunting,gathering and drying once again. I'm originally from the Caribbean and hunting cubensis and copelandia really was an intimate way to connect with nature. For the year and a half that I loves in the east coast I couldn't stop dreaming of hunting and finding beautys. My spot in the South Bay is relatively close to my home >1 mile and only a few homeless are close to the area and apparently nobody knows what they are or nobody thinks that this area is fruiting. I visit every week once or twice and treat it with love, it has loved me back with at least 2 zips since my first find on 11/19. Thank you for sharing all of the knowledge and you rbeautiful finds. Allenii is a very particular strain quite strong in my opinion I tried them for the first time a week ago when I had around 11-12g freshly picked it had me crying and feeling very down for a while and visuals were very interestingly similar to DmT in the beginning. It did give a sense of hopelessness for some time but after a some time and a lot of suffering the pain went away and I feel more present like I set in my intentions originally. I had originally tried a very minuscule 0.35g dry dose for a music event and found them to be very easy to handle and even a little visually enhancing but quite strong for the amount consumed . Would be interested in hearing other people's experiences with these. I want to mention that I don't do mushrooms more than once or twice a year in this point of my life maybe that has to do with the experience.
These are from 11/29 150g fresh

These are from today 12/5 306g fresh
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: Cubespr]
#22617640 - 12/05/15 04:37 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wow! Just found a huge spot while looking for a spot to spawn. Just now, downtown sf.
This spot is huge. This is just one section.

Something else for Alan or whomever might have seen this before. Some sort of bacteria or something attacking bruised Allenii. I thought it might be dog shit at first. It's that yellowish green stuff.

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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: tahoe]
#22618971 - 12/05/15 09:33 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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After lurking here for the past year, I have the pleasure of making my first post - with my first success!

Here a little closer:

Just one little shroom in the brambles by the road, I easily could have missed it, but thanks to the lessons I've learned here I had my eye out for 'indicator' shrooms and a couple of what I think were galerina below my little friend caught my eye and led me to it. Unfortunately I neglected to get a pic of them in the field, but I took some comparison shots when I got home, which is which?

You can see how much the color has changed in just a few hours. The top sides look similar to my eye, but check out:

(The suspected galerina is on the right in both shots.)
And another shot of the mushroom of interest:

There was just the one, no sign of any pins, either. But so, so happy to have finally found *something*! I'm spore printing the suspected galerinas - I took a peek and it looked rusty. I found these within the first hour I was out today, then I kept looking for another five hours in what seemed like some great, wood chippy habitats around SF but only found Leratiomyces ceres here and there at best. Finding the one cyan(?) early on made it really hard to stop looking...
Many thanks to everyone who shares their knowledge here - I think any success would have taken me many, many more hours of searching without what I've learned from all of you.
To all the other noobs, I say keep looking! One thing I like doing is keeping track of what I find on a google map - nice woodchips, indicator shrooms, places I've ruled out, etc., and I map out new places to hunt, too. Today my map gets its first gold star.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: tahoe]
#22619326 - 12/05/15 11:02 PM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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On a whim today I decided to drag my gf off to a distant city where SpacecadetCID and I hunted together for a day last season. We had found two fat-ass patches of P. allenii there...respectively at two neighboring places of business. I received quite a surprise today when I found that both patches have already been active this season:
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As can seen in the last pic above, the nice fresh youngsters in the other pics were not the first up this season. I was relentless in clipping all but a dozen or so pins, for I won't be able to make it over there too soon and, plus, I wanted to clear the board as much as possible for the upcoming explosion.
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Here the scene was similar to the last, except that, this location being irrigated more often, the first generation of fruits had rotted to hell. SpacecadetCID no longer lives locally, but I consider these patches as still belonging to us equally and informed him before the season started that he'd receive half the fruits. The last pic shows just how fair I am...the pile on the left is for me and the pile on the right is SpacecadetCID's. Lol, j/k.
Bonus)  
Yesterday I thought I found a patch of Galerina autumnalis a few yards from one of this year's allenii finds, but in fact it turned out to be non-poisonous Tubaria furfuracea. Well today, by a remarkable coincidence, I found a few yards from the second allenii patch above a patch of precisely what I thought I found yesterday...Galerina autumnalis.
Throwback) 
A pic from last year of SpacecadetCID's gf taking a shot of the trunk of my car containing the allenii we found at the above two locations.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22619576 - 12/06/15 12:21 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's great to see these new finds from new faces!
Cubespr - Awesome allenii finds in the South Bay!...I plan on going down there myself soon when it gets a little wetter. Two ounces in two weeks from a single spot ain't bad at all! BTW, last year, on the day following my first ever find, I decided to trip off the allenii I found. First I lemon-tekked less than .1 gram...which gave me a slight change in feeling. About an hour after which, I took around .15 gram, which gave me a noticeable change in perception and a definite body-load. Ninety minutes later I lemon-tekked 1 gram and forty minutes later blasted off on a fast and furious ride...replete with vivid hallucinations and unimaginable mental turmoil. What amazed me as much as the strength of the trip itself was the fact that, from beginning to end, it last only two and a half hours.
Tofurky - Nice single specimen cyan find! And lovely clear camera work by both you and Cubespr. Oftentimes, when one finds a patch of Psilocybes, there'll be one or a few over-mature specimens in the midst of a full flush of younger specimens...as if the patch had first sent up a small advance-party to reconnoiter air conditions. I say this because in all likelihood your single cyan is about to be followed by a full company or battalion of little ones. So make sure to keep a close watch...and don't hesitate, especially if you see signs of any pins, to douse the spot with ample water, regardless of any rain. The pinning stage is the stage at which a patch is most receptive to receiving water...and by watering it at that stage you can multiply the number of pins literally ten-fold.
On another note, it was great reading about your digital mapping...for it's exactly what I'm doing. After using a paper map to cover lots of urban ground during the recent dry weather, I'm now taking all the potential spots I found (i.e. woodchip beds that actively receive irrigation) and loading 'em onto google maps. My plan is to use the latter to organize my frequent hunting at all these potential spots now that the moisture's finally arrived.
Tahoe - Why would you be looking for places to spawn in downtown San Francisco?
Edited by DavidReishi (12/06/15 01:09 AM)
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi]
#22620586 - 12/06/15 10:58 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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A little update on my cat, Keeks, who I found while mushroom hunting.

She's doin' great. But on one of the next rainy days I'm planning to go to the courthouse to file a small-claims lawsuit against the veterinarian. That's right...wanna know what the idiot did? He's the leading doctor and the owner of the clinic...and the most forgetful and absent-minded person I've ever seen. While removing Kiki's eye, he took it upon himself, without receiving our consent, to spay her. Something we would've definitely said no to had he asked. We're gunna sue for $7,500...the max for a small-claim.
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Re: The Official SF Bay Area Actives Thread 2015 [Re: DavidReishi] 1
#22620608 - 12/06/15 11:04 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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DavidReishi said: A little update on my cat, Keeks, who I found while mushroom hunting.

She's doin' great. But on one of the next rainy days I'm planning to go to the courthouse to file a small-claims lawsuit against the veterinarian. That's right...wanna know what the idiot did? He's the leading doctor and the owner of the clinic...and the most forgetful and absent-minded person I've ever seen. While removing Kiki's eye, he took it upon himself, without receiving our consent, to spay her. Something we would've definitely said no to had he asked. We're gunna sue for $7,500...the max for a small-claim.
you have a beatiful cat! good luck at your court trial. cant believe someone could forget something like that?!
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Alan Rockefeller said:
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tahoe said: Going out spawning. It's something everyone should be doing.
Are you throwing grain out on wild wood chips?
Yes.
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DavidReishi said:
Tahoe - Why would you be looking for places to spawn in downtown San Francisco?
why not? I do it so people like you can find new patches. Just following in the footsteps of the hippies of the late sixties. And who knows. Maybe one day you will be thanking me after you find some azurescens. I bring spawn most of the time when I am hunting. Then I bury a few handfuls of spawn in spots that look suitable.
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Edited by tahoe (12/06/15 12:14 PM)
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