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Wedontallbornshark
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Possible contamination of a wild patch
#23368746 - 06/21/16 11:47 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Not sure if this the right section to post this but was hoping to get some advice from more experienced people
Picked all these guys from a patch that was very fruitful last year. About half way into the season I discovered council workers spraying something on to the entire patch, so I didnt touch the patch for the rest of the season, just in case. The workers were spraying something from one of those backpack fertilizers and there ute had a big tank on the back of it. I was never able to identify exactly what it was that they were spraying, but I assume round up or something similar as the patch is right in the middle of a wood chip mulch garden right next to a car park in a forest reserve
I returned this year to discover that the patch has only seemed to grow even more this year. It's hard to tell from the pictures but this patch seems to have a slighter yellow hue to them compared to the subs that I normally pick that have a more golden hue.
Apart from that I can't notice much of a difference. I've read that most councils use dye in their sprays so they can tell where they have and havn't sprayed. I checked over as much as the patch as I could and I didnt notice anything out of the ordinary, The yellow hue isnt pronounced enough for it to seem like they have been sprayed with a yellow dye.
 Ones on the left are the shrooms in question, ones on the right are from my other patch that I know to be good, for comparison sake
 Heres how they looked after just being picked, the gills seem to be alot lighter in color than the subs im used too. Also the stem on the left shroom here was abit crusty and harder than the stems of most shrooms I picked, is this a sign of something? Several of the other shrooms from the questionable patch had the same
 After overnight spore printing. The golden one on the left is from my good patch, notice how all the other shrooms have more of a slight yellow to them
 Shrooms on the left here are from the patch in question, again the gills appear much lighter than those on the right from my good patch
 Spore prints, top half are from the questionable patch, bottom half is my usual patch. My camera doesn't do it justice, but the color appeared to be pretty much the same to me. However the questionable patch definitely dropped way less spores overnight compared to my good patch shrooms
So taking all this into consideration, do you think these shrooms are fit for consumption and I should use this patch again? Or is this patch too much of a risk to safely use?
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Dim ethyl
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They look alright to me...But I'd be interested to hear other peoples opinions on this subject. Just today I found a new patch. the subs there are a lighter yellow then I've ever seen before, I just presumed they were a different phenotype
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Filterhead462
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Re: Possible contamination of a wild patch [Re: Dim ethyl]
#23371797 - 06/22/16 10:42 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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The light caps look like they have just been in the sun, i have found subs that look like the ones in you photo But then again i csnnot say for certain they are subs from you pictures, if they have a white stem and blue bruising is evident its most likely that they are As for the council sparying shit, i have only ever seen them spray a green liquid which is quite obvious of you come across it
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Wedontallbornshark
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Re: Possible contamination of a wild patch [Re: Filterhead462]
#23402839 - 07/02/16 12:52 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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bumping this
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Wedontallbornshark
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Just in case anyone comes across this thread, I would just like to make a little update
A couple of weeks after posting this, I witnessed someone from the council spraying this patch with one of those chemical sprayer backpacks. I wasn't able to get a good look at whether it left much of trace after it had rained, but the year after that very few shrooms grew back in that patch.
The year after that none have grown at all. I did catch a whole bunch of people pulling stems out of the ground instead of cutting them, but this patch used to be huge and has now vanished over the course of two years.
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