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nexxone
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Puget Sound Help/questions
#22373715 - 10/13/15 02:28 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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okay ima try to keep this short
i am having a hard time making any finds, i am almost sure i am looking in the right habitats, yesterday i spent the entire day looking with a friend who doesnt usually get motivated and we came up empty handed wich was a bummer cuz hes easily discoraged. we went to herrings park along marginal way in west seattle at one point cuz ive been eyeing this park for a long time and just been waiting for the season to pop off to look, we didnt find anything. very prime habitat i am sure but we found nothing lol. We checked several other parks around the area they didnt seem as prime as the previous mentioned park.
Also this is by no means a QQ thread just wanted to give a quick summery that ive been putting in the miles and the research that is nessisary, and want to try decipher what i could be doing wrong with feedback/opinions/exp.
So my main questions are: 1. When you go looking for cyans, how deep are you looking? i usually walk very slow and just looking down back and forth, i however rarely really get down and in some plants and look. sometimes i will but i dont have any previous patches or know where any patches are
2. When i am looking i am seeing a lot of the same kind of mushrooms wich elads me to believe i am looking in a consistant habitat but i am not finding any actives so i think my habitat must be wrong somehow, i have not ID'd any of the mushrooms i see cuz i just know they are not active so i never took the time. Are there any other species that might indicate cyans are present? plants/muchrooms
3. okay so i know the red barks are bad, not sure about the very dark brown ones. but i have been looking in light woodchips, grey/tan colored. the red and dark bark/chips are easy to tell apart from the grey/tan lighter woodchips. are there any types of light woodchips to stay away from?
thats all i can think to ask at the moment, i plan to look again today so hopefully someone can give me some magical advise by then.
Please feel free to PM me any tips you have as well if you rather not post them
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Coen
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Re: Puget Sound Help/questions [Re: nexxone]
#22373833 - 10/13/15 02:52 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've noticed that Leratiomyces ceres (a distinctive red mushroom) like the same habitats as cyans.
I think it's primarily a question of persistence. You have to compulsively check the same wood chip patches over and over again. Chances are that at least one of the 10 or so patches near where you live will have cyans in it. But the chances that mature, easily visible cyans will just happen to be there on the one or two days you go looking aren't that great. Then once you find three or four patches you're good to go: you can just compulsively check those ones 
Also, if you're looking near Seattle you may have hella competition and other hunters may be cleaning everything up before you even get there...
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Mr Piggy
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Re: Puget Sound Help/questions [Re: Coen]
#22373854 - 10/13/15 02:59 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I look in the lighter chips, doug fir and alder if you got some good wood peeping peepers. I also tend to see the white on the stem before I see the cap.
Keep looking even if you don't find anything, it took me a few years before I found some, but then I started seeing them everywhere. It's easy to get discouraged, but you just get better with time. You WILL find them in Seattle.
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nexxone
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Re: Puget Sound Help/questions [Re: Mr Piggy]
#22374137 - 10/13/15 04:04 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm actually just south of seattle in the burien/SeaTac area. And that really helps with that red mushroom, I do see those while I'm looking so that's a good sign.
That's also insightful how u describe the persistence I understand now if I don't find them in a certain park woodchips they could be there just not up yet, I might have to look into testing mycelium like someone had come up with.
Any more insight is appreciated. I would really like to get a few specimens for some quality prints and transplant a bit of spawn to woodchips more local
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