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koods
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Yeah, it was a little blue button in a field of brown and red.
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Re: ovoid season [Re: koods]
#22502463 - 11/09/15 08:12 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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too bad you cant like preserve or mummify the thing so it could look like that forever. its so precious. you could name it. little button blue or something.
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canid
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Probably could with one or another casting resin.
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Re: ovoid season [Re: canid]
#22503415 - 11/10/15 02:54 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I got some yesterday guys season is prime in the valley
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Thayendanegea
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Nice!!!
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shroom_spearo
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I've done some looking but I had a thought... the water here is brackish (tidewater) I though perhaps that might be a reason. I havent gone up the eastern shore. temps here have been really warm for the past week
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Nice Godsblunts.
The fall season is just very late here. Temps and r**n look good for continued sporadic fall fruitings over the next week or two.
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shroom_spearo said: I've done some looking but I had a thought... the water here is brackish (tidewater) I though perhaps that might be a reason. I havent gone up the eastern shore. temps here have been really warm for the past week
I really don't think they grow where tidewater is present...at least, I haven't found them there yet. Stevo lives on the Eastern shore but I think he is cultivating them.
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shroom_spearo
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yea. think ill take a run up to rmond next week and take look around.
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Those that are getting rained on are green as fuck. Pins incoming as well.
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Re: ovoid season *DELETED* [Re: Peteza34]
#22505596 - 11/10/15 03:13 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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shroom_spearo
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Re: ovoid season [Re: stevo]
#22505890 - 11/10/15 04:23 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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thats pretty neat.... having your own little patch. we just dont have the right types of trees here perhaps ill have better luck farther up north... but I would be very curious to see If I could start a patch here....
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koods
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Sure you do. Sweetgum, sassafras and oak are all very prevalent in your area.
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MickeySpliff
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I have come back to the shroomry after many years, and was surprised to learn about the ovoids. I had always wished the east coast had a Psilocybe mushroom that grew on wood mulch. I dont want to wait until spring to locate areas these might grow, and have been searching many areas near creeks. Today I spent the day along the James river in Richmond looking in large log and wood debris piles that accumulate against the islands during floods. A lot of these areas have water running under the log and debris jams. You have to be careful when walking on it not to fall through. I didn't find any ovoids, but if you dug into the wood debris there is a lot of white, ropey and fanning mycelium. I took a paper grocery bag full of colonized wood debris home. I will place it outdoors and watch it. I might case it with some sandy creek soil.
Do the log jams I described sound like a good place? There are plenty of box elder, various other maples, pawpaws, hackberry, sycamore ect, and I have also seen some knotweed. There is not a lot of grass or cover in general in these huge debris piles. The sediment is mucky in the area I searched today, but found some debris on a sandy base.
I have found many Gymnopilus this year, so I hope I can soon find some ovoids. I would love to transfer a patch close to home. I know ovoids have been found north, west and south of me, they should be here too.
Edited by MickeySpliff (11/19/15 03:29 PM)
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Re: ovoid season *DELETED* [Re: koods]
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koods
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Re: ovoid season [Re: stevo]
#22506589 - 11/10/15 06:55 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I cannot stress this enough: mix your mulch with an equal volume of fresh grass clippings. The grass fills in the spaces nicely and will speed up the colonization rate immensely. After a week or two, all the grass will have been colonized and you really increase the surface area of myc. Maintain the mulch by spreading a fresh layer of clipping on top of everything. It keeps the mulch moist and helps propagate stuff along the surface.
Well chopped dried leaves and grass, like what would come out of your lawnmower, works too. I think the physical structure of grass helps the myc cover a lot more ground than it could if it has to rely on wood chips alone.
Other good material to mix in with the mulch are seed husks type things - those spiky sweetgum balls, the tops of acorns, corn cobs, bamboo debris
Allow leaves to cover the mulch over the winter. It locks in moisture and generates some heat that helps the myc grow even in freezing temps.
This is a few days worth of growth
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koods
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Re: ovoid season [Re: stevo]
#22507132 - 11/10/15 09:13 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Do you have both pin cap color phenotypes?
Those would be an interesting submission to the psilocybe researcher to see the difference between the cream caps and the black caps.
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MickeySpliff
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Re: ovoid season [Re: stevo]
#22507968 - 11/11/15 04:19 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Ive been researching temperatures for fruiting. I have seen at least one east coast report of 70 days and 40 at night. Reports in California and Europe mention that ovoids fruit in the summer with temperatures in the 90's. For some reason though they seem to only fruit in spring and fall on the east coast of the US. Interesting species.
I will try mixing my wood debris from the river with grass clippings, though what I gathered is nearly completely colonized. I'll also mulch with leaves and grass.
The early reports of ovoids only mentioned the rare fall fruiting. It is good that it might be more common than first reported. I wonder if some strains are more likely to fruit in the fall than others...it would be a good quality to select for. Hope I can find some before the cold brings the season to an end.
Edited by MickeySpliff (11/19/15 03:31 PM)
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