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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: rarest]
#23587445 - 08/28/16 04:19 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I live just out of bude, struggling finding any kind of fungi at the moment been looking in cow and sheep fields especially, even just after rain. I saw to fungi in my field today which weren't magics I think the temperature is too high at the moment and we haven't had enough rain. Either that or I'm looking in the wrong fields.
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: Itzcallumboy]
#23589076 - 08/29/16 04:39 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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for the lib cap don't waste ur time in cow fields... unless it already had libs on befor they arrived, but usually the cows, lib mycelium and treggy marsh land or saturated fields don't go down to well, everything gets crushed , so they know not to choose such fields .... ime so far ive had the best luck in horse fields that have there pastures rotated so they get a chance to grow etc , love abandoned or horses that havnt been on their field for a few years - again that's if they already there , not every pasture has them, so that's why you have to keep looking until you find your spot.
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Edited by PsyMindz86 (08/29/16 04:40 AM)
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: PsyMindz86]
#23589299 - 08/29/16 08:17 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Alright folks!
I've read through all this wonderful thread and I'm getting super excited for the season. Last year I lived in Leeds so it was only a half hour trip up north to get to the dales, which has some great shroomy fields.
Unfortunately I've moved back to the midlands (Bourne area), and although I'm surrounded by fields here, a lot of them are crop fields, which I don't think yield any libs. Last two days I've had a reccy on my bike, scouting around for potential spots, and I think I've found one or two, but there was fuck all to find. Some fungi growth but no psychedelics.
I'm getting a bit disheartened, but tbh its probably still too early? We've had good rain over the weekend but its still been very hot- am I better off waiting for a week or two til the temp drops? I'm only 20m above sea level here as well.. I took some pictures of prospective fields that I'll upload later.
I've got two months of doing nothing so I'm planning to devote most of my time to picking, but maybe I'm being too eager and should have some patience! The season starts a bit later the farther south you are right?
Cheers!
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: PsyMindz86]
#23589304 - 08/29/16 08:18 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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took a drive up to 3 of my main spots near me and managed to find about 150 over the day, first real haul of the season so was well pleased! found a spot that i reckon in season is gonna be unreal! walked a nice 10k in the sun so was a good day!
happy hunting everyone!good luck to all
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: Florents]
#23589353 - 08/29/16 08:41 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Where is Bourne? I also live very south in Brighton will be waiting untill the beggining of October before i begin, once the tempreture drops to 15 and below is a good sign! Happy hunting and good luck p.s patience is key

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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: PsyMindz86]
#23589374 - 08/29/16 08:52 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Really? Cow fields aren't a good place? Because I've been reading all over on the website that cow and sheep fields are the best. People also saying they haven't had much luck with horse fields? Are you sure that it's not too warm down here still doesn't it have to be around 10-15 degreese and a few days rain fall?
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: Itzcallumboy]
#23589473 - 08/29/16 09:44 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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PsyMindz86 said: would love to if it wasn't so far.. lil holiday in some swag hippy truck lol..
Holy fuck man I just had an awesome little day dream to myself lol, how awesome would it be if one of us had a chill little VW bus and we all spent a few weeks just travelling around the UK living in this little fucking hippy wagon smoking weed and picking mushrooms and going further into our minds than anyone has gone before :P
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PsyMindz86 said: for the lib cap don't waste ur time in cow fields...
I dunno man, I found a ton of shrooms last year in a field that was filled with little baby cows. Or calfs whatever they're called.
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Itzcallumboy said: Really? Cow fields aren't a good place?
You can find them in cow fields but it's probably not the first place I would look. I find they are easier spread by rabbits, sheep and deer.
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: rudeb0y]
#23589575 - 08/29/16 10:36 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Im down!
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: Florents]
#23589612 - 08/29/16 10:52 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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PsyMindz86 said: for the lib cap don't waste ur time in cow fields... unless it already had libs on befor they arrived, but usually the cows, lib mycelium and treggy marsh land or saturated fields don't go down to well, everything gets crushed , so they know not to choose such fields ....
The majority of the fields I visit are a mix of bullocks and sheep grazing together. Farmers rotate the use of the land according to local weather and drainage conditions, daily if needs be.
How the fek are you going to know the libs were there before the cows, or before you found them there, you ask the farmers?
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Florents said: Alright folks!
I'm getting a bit disheartened, but tbh its probably still too early? We've had good rain over the weekend but its still been very hot- am I better off waiting for a week or two til the temp drops? I'm only 20m above sea level here as well.. I took some pictures of prospective fields that I'll upload later.
I've got two months of doing nothing so I'm planning to devote most of my time to picking, but maybe I'm being too eager and should have some patience! The season starts a bit later the farther south you are right?
Cheers!
Hi florents. It's far to early to be getting disheartened. I live in N.bucks, which, like the place you've moved to, is in what amounts to Englands 'arid belt'. It's seldom worth going out till early-mid september, -I associate lib picking as often as not with the need for wooly hats, and, if cycling, warm gloves- we had our first proper downpour yesterday, less than a 1/2" but probably more than we've had the rest of this month combined.
Check out google earth for local places that might be worth a visit. It can help pinpoint likely looking areas and help you avoid, as I do, the recently ploughed fields. They are easy to 'spot from the air' by the straight tracks running up and down the fields, in what look like giant scars on the landscape that last for years.
If any one has had luck on such fields I'd like to hear it. I'd probably still avoid them as my area is mostly clay, so it's claggy when wet and like a horrible rough moonscape when hard and dry, bloody tiring, and a danger to ankles to walk across.
Good luck all.
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: Itzcallumboy]
#23589634 - 08/29/16 10:59 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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@ callumboy - whoa whoa hold ya horses, i didn't say impossible, I said if the field had already contained them before cows arrived they will be there... but highly saturated boggy marsh land .. no chance for me atleast...
duecybi9 - how the fook? what is this pick on psyminds day..lol, I mean that mycelluium gets a chance to produce underneath without being crushed to fuck by a herd of cows on marshland - we aint talking about acer n acers of grazing land on great planes for fek sake, nor are we talking about cubensis .. is what the fuck I meant - yeh good luck , next time clarify yourself to my response before being a pissy fucker yeh ? mycelium WONT work underneath if there are heards of cows above it , and always been above it,would just get crushed, surly your common sense by now would establish that fact, especially when it gets bogged out!...
if you find some on a busy cow fields then hats off to you, but I PERSONALLY wouldn't waste my time , when thousands can be had in what, 3 pasture spots ?!! but sure go for it, what the feck do I know
cant see young cattle,calfs being a problem tho.. but I spent a good week in cow fields, why I said IME! in my experience I havnt found anything in cow fields... but horses and sheep, donkeys , yes all day long .. fuck my life. but what ever instead of asking, get your arse out in cow fields and look yourself... just take care in there and don't appear fearful of them.
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: rudeb0y]
#23589835 - 08/29/16 12:14 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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It proper pissed it down over the weekend and was sunny today. Worth having a look over next few days?
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: PsyMindz86]
#23589836 - 08/29/16 12:14 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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PsyMindz86 said: would love to if it wasn't so far.. lil holiday in some swag hippy truck lol..
Seriously though how amazing would that be lol Our last stop should be at stone henge with 10g of mushrooms down each of our necks, talking to the stars and doing some serious dark magic ritual shit hahaha 
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PsyMindz86 said: @ callumboy - whoa whoa hold ya horses, i didn't say impossible, I said if the field had already contained them before cows arrived they will be there...
cant see young cattle,calfs being a problem tho.. but I spent a good week in cow fields, why I said IME! in my experience I havnt found anything in cow fields...
Nah don't get me wrong mate I wasn't trying to say that you're wrong or anything, just that I have actually found some in cow fields before but like I say its definitely not the first place that I would look.
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PsyMindz86 said: just take care in there and don't appear fearful of them.
I'll be honest lol I actually did get scared a couple times hahaha, young calfs can be very curious and inquisitive so they all ran up to me as soon as they saw me and pretty much followed me the whole time lol. And even though they're young they were still pretty big and could have easily fucked me up if they wanted to :P
I went hunting with a friend today at a scenic little spot where we found a few last year. It's a national park not too far from where I live and you can see the whole of manchester city centre from the top. It's slightly higher than where I live cause I'm pretty low as I'm right near the city, but it's nowhere near as high up as where I was the other day when I was up in the pennines. I told her not to get her hopes up because it was really warm today and we're still pretty low down for this early in the season, and I honestly didn't think that we would find any at all but there actually were around 20-30 really dried out little shrooms.
Really helped convince me that the season is finally here, and it's also motivated me to go out and check all the spots that are near where I live that I thought it was too early to really check yet. 
Oh and PS: I told her not to pick the babies so please don't shout at me She grew up in a small shitty town that was full of hippies so her experience with taking shrooms is pretty big and she's got a proper education and understanding about how psychedelics work, but whenever I try to talk to her about mycology her eyes glaze over a bit and she stops listening :P So she doesn't have much experience with actually foraging for shrooms. The only shrooms she sees are already picked and dried and have shrunk a lot so she probably didn't know that she was picking them when they were a bit too small.
I promise you guys that if I weren't on the other side of the field I would have slapped the back of her hand when she tried to pick such tiny little babies :P
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: lovelaughlibs]
#23589853 - 08/29/16 12:22 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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lovelaughlibs said: It proper pissed it down over the weekend and was sunny today. Worth having a look over next few days?
I found some today man but like you say it was really sunny and hot today so they were hard to spot and were well on their way to drying up and shrivelling away. But you can definitely still find them today mate, I didn't think that it was worth looking today and I only really joined my friend foraging today to humour her and because it was a nice day so it would be a nice walk anyway.
She actually said on the way up there that she would be pretty disappointed if we didn't find any so I was trying my best to temper her expectations and try to explain how the odds were stacked against us and we probably wouldn't find any at all.
I'm forever a pessimist though, cause despite how warm and dry it was we did find around 20 that were possibly from a day or two ago and had started to dry out, but we actually found maybe 5-10 in the longer grass that were still very wet and brown and looked as though they were still growing.
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: rudeb0y]
#23589898 - 08/29/16 12:34 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I might try in a week or two then, i found like 5 dry shrivelled ones last week with a first timer mate (he actually spotted them) but I saw almost no other fungi. I said the exact same thing to him not to expect anything, we sat down for a rest and he had a puff on his weed pipe, within the minute he'd spotted them lol, lucky pipe 
Do libs actually need sun to fruit or is it just the ambient temperature?
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: PsyMindz86]
#23590047 - 08/29/16 01:30 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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PsyMindz86 said: for the lib cap don't waste ur time in cow fields... unless it already had libs on befor they arrived, but usually the cows, lib mycelium and treggy marsh land or saturated fields don't go down to well, everything gets crushed , so they know not to choose such fields .... ime so far ive had the best luck in horse fields that have there pastures rotated so they get a chance to grow etc , love abandoned or horses that havnt been on their field for a few years - again that's if they already there , not every pasture has them, so that's why you have to keep looking until you find your spot.
Not too sure about this mate, all of my best fields are grazed by either cows or sheep and any field that has had crops rotated in it in the last several years seems to be among the poorest fields in terms of quantity, so much so that if it has ever been used for crops I just outright ignore it.
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: PsyMindz86]
#23590422 - 08/29/16 03:29 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Chill out man, I weren't saying you're wrong I was just saying this is what I've seen on this website ok what other people have said. So the best fields you're telling me to go look in is sheep fields? I live in the south west same as you, so should I also wait then? As I have been out to a Different variety of fields and finding hardly any kind of fungi.
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: Sand87]
#23590432 - 08/29/16 03:31 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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well that's interesting to know aswel as duecbi9, I didn't say not impossible and said usually theground is so fucked that you litrally have to jump to the next patch to avoid some welly grabing sludge monster ... catch my drift? and that could aaalll be for nothing. - so I wouldn't waste my time personally... was just advice from my bad experiences I guess on marsh land with cows and only cows finding nothing - we talking about a whole stretch of land that runs about 4 miles adjacent to a river , the land by side of it always got cows , yet 100 yards further away toward the trees and off the bogy land is a church , with a back sloping mound behind it, horses been grazing on and off and it was caked in them.... so , this is just in my experience I assumed that they are to destructive , once that land has been destroyed they the spores even if did land on the stretch I'm on about, I don't think they would come to anything... yet a field with small grain animals and libs on there, these animals are replaced with cows, no problem, coz the mycelium had its chance to colonize before getting wreked up by herds of cows on rainy rainy floody days .
- do u get what I mean?
I hate being mis understood..
callumboy - just incase u didn't know already , forgive me if I'm wrong.. u say its all u been hearing, u sure you not refereeing about cubensis
coz if so
cows = shit = P.cubensis in hot temperate tropical conditions, not in the uk,these grow directly out from the dung..
P. semilanceata the liberty cap doesn't grow directly out of the dung but on well fertilized land that has a reasonable history of grazing animals, horses,sheep,donkeys,rabbits,deer... and I guess lol , cows ( but in my opinion only after the smaller animals had brought in the cap first. libs are more delicate than cubensis , not as hardy, so no idiot lib cap spore in its right mind would choose a field with swampy cow land and nothing else but cow land all day night long that would have its spore settle and colonize. it wouldn't get the chance really..
- if people havnt had much on horse fields as u say then they finding the wrong ones.... just as I had with the grand scale cow field... tooshay , check my pics , so I got material to back my big fat mouth... I'm here to help you find amounts that I find...... that's it.. I'm also here to tell u to take care about how u do it, not just who sees you,or welfare, but how you take them and when you choose... but again, do as u will , experience so far I like to help... I'm no expert tho but I can tell u what I know so far...
rudeboy , wasn't at you.. 'callumboy' getting me exicted about some cows being light on their toes treating the ground well or something? cant remember now forgotten about
last of all, I cant tell u what field callumboy, because now it seems like a confused mess about where to go and where not to go.. erm so.. start of simple then complex , find grazing sheep horses in countryside, then when your established some spots later cow for the cow field I dunno.... instincts play apart.. internal compass, the pull towrd the intention, till they find u and u find them
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: PsyMindz86]
#23590547 - 08/29/16 04:06 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah I think you're right, I may have got the two confused. I have two fields on my land with a river going right between them. Before I moved here there were sheep grazing on one of the fields, I have two horses which we rotate in the fields one summer one winter field. But last year I couldn't find any Liberty caps anywhere, so I shall try again once this week is over as we are predicted a fair bit of rain. But I also have a place wich is 800 above sea level, which have sheep and rabbits on a lot of the time, it has never had any farming on it. I'm glad you told me about the cow fields I would have wasted a lot of my time looking in there, so a sheep field that isn't always used would be a good place also?
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: Itzcallumboy]
#23590583 - 08/29/16 04:13 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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oh and check this pdf.. a helpful start http://www.mediafire.com/download/kbpgngs60ekpqt3/Liberty+Cap.pdf sorry for biting , I'm being mis understood by people, and its probs my fault with how I words my shit , but this a nice read.
the greatest amount ive found so far, are from fields that have had no horses in for a while like a good year or so.. grass gets long and so does the libs , many large pastures with lengthy rotations have been great for me so far.. for example after one side has been grazed to zero ,the fence then gets put up to keep it separate, they get moved and that field is left alone for a few months.... then when the season comes , boom..
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Re: OFFICIAL UK 2016 Liberty Cap Season [Re: PsyMindz86]
#23590594 - 08/29/16 04:15 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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