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flyingBanana420
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WTF is wrong with my luck?????
#23446599 - 07/16/16 11:20 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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It rained heavily for 3 days of almost non stop rain. And humidity is always high. I searched everywhere in all different habitats but i cant find a single mushroom after 3 days of rain. This isnt normal, even in horrible conditions after 3 days of rain one could find at least some little brown mushrooms or idk what kind. It seems like i can find A LOT of the mushrooms that grow on wood but dont have stems (i think polypores). I found a shit ton of multiple colors amd different kind of polypores and even some very weird looking mushrooms (not the typical cap with stem) it looked like black coral. Anyways i searched everywhere in fields, dung, compost, woodchips but nothing.. only a very very small mushroom in a lawn (i found a lot of them) i think belongs to the genus coprinus that is 7-8 mm big growing under the grass. I cant find any typical mushroom with stem and cap even inactive ones just any little brown mushroom or any color or anything but just nothing. My question is: are polypores (the ones that look like reishi) fruiting faster and before the other ones or are they more tolerent to something? because i can only find them in abundance but no other kind. The temps dropped to 12-15°C in the days of storm (the 3 days of non stop rain we got) does the drop in temps make the fruiting slower meaning i will have to wait a couple days after rain ? And say if panaeolus cinctulus for exemple needs temps of around 25°C and when the rain drops the temps are far below that but after the rain it gets hotter will it still fruit or does it need the rain and proper temps at the same time? Anyways i would really like some help because i am searching for hours everyday in the cold without any success (even non actives that are said to be sooo common) So do i need to wait more for the sun to come and temps to go up for some fruiting or maybe i will still just be finding many different kind of those weird polypore mushrooms. The habitats are very different i searched litterally evrywhere around and im searching in correct places i did a shi ton of research. Thanks for help.
Edited by flyingBanana420 (07/16/16 11:21 AM)
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ToxicMan
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Mushrooms will typically take 1 to 3 weeks to come up after rains. The symbiotic ones take toward the long end of that range.
If it's been dry for a long time first, your season may have hypogeous (underground) mushrooms predominating.
Polypores can be found in numbers during dry weather because their fruiting bodies don't rot as readily as the more fleshy fungi. The odds are good that many of the polypores you find are left over from a year ago.
Nobody can tell you how to find mushrooms in your specific area because each area is somewhat unique. The fruiting patterns where I live may be very different from what they are in your area.
To find mushrooms, go out every week for several weeks. If you're not finding any mushrooms, you're probably moving too quickly. Slow down and look for smaller mushrooms.
Perseverance is an important virtue for mushroom hunters. Sometimes there are few mushrooms, and the ones that are there are 1 mm or less in size. If underground mushrooms are what's around, you need to be looking for humps in the ground where something seems to be pushing up the soil. Another way to find them is to look in holes dug by squirrels and the like - they rarely get everything, so you can find the ones they missed in their holes.
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Lucis
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You just mentioned searching for hours in the cold, and also looking for Panaeolus cinctulus, I have only found Panaeolus cinctulus in warm weather, and have never known it to grow when the weather was to cold.
If you don't mind me asking, what is your general location, don't be specific, just an area is fine like Ontario, Scotland, New York, etc.
Below is the list for actives which are found in certain parts of the world, and you can find many sites which specialize in non-active species all over the internet, you could target a few species, then hunt for those ones alone, and document what you find along the way. This way you learn about the edible/medicinal/actives you targeted, and also whatever else you find, can't go wrong with that.
https://www.shroomery.org/12246/Psilocybin-Mushroom-Locations
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flyingBanana420
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Re: WTF is wrong with my luck????? [Re: Lucis]
#23448678 - 07/17/16 02:34 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I live in hungary central europe close to serbia and croatia. And i know which psilocybin mushroom grows here. Those are the ones im focusing on: Psilocybe serbica/bohemica Panaeolus cinctulus Gymnopilus sp I know that pan cinctulus doesnt do good in the cold i was just asking if say it was cold when raining but warm after when the rain stopped will it still fruit or it needs the rain and warmth in the same time. Im hunting for actives but the fact that i cant even find a little brown mushroom makes the actives almost impossible to find.
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pan_hed
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hmmm try switching things up a bit and use a more erratic pattern, some call it chaos magic. one suggestion would be try using farenheit as it may confuse the universe and cause a glitch in the matrix. anyway we are all off to the beach now which is just a sandbox next to a glorified water hole that some interpret as having become a pond, some call it a puddle, i call it my own beach side property. alas but with imagination it can be better than Mao weeee.
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flyingBanana420
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Re: WTF is wrong with my luck????? [Re: ToxicMan]
#23448695 - 07/17/16 02:51 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Toxicman does that mean that even if after the rain the weather is going to be kinda hot and dry they will still pop out say a week after? Are the hypogeous a specific genus or something?(didnt understand a lot about the undergunderground ones). Before i came in hungary we got quite nice rain but when i was here we had a week of hot and dry days but now that we got 3days of non stop rain will the mushrooms i listed in my comment still pop out? Can you clarify a bit about the underground mushrooms? Are you talking about mycelium or a non-active kind of mushroom fruiting underground? Basicly the weather was dry then we got enormous amounts of rain (60mm) and a drop in temps. What can i expect now and how long will mushrooms take to fruit in those conditions.(those conditions look a lot like the first rains of autumn that mushrooms like lot based on research). Thanks for the help guys i apreciate it a lot
Edited by flyingBanana420 (07/17/16 02:55 AM)
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Afroking
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Mushroom fruiting conditions can be very fickle and erratic. Any one condition flaw can kill the mycelium, and thus waiting for the "perfect conditions" can seem like an eternity. I love that term "chaos magic" I think it sums up the growth of mushrooms pretty well. Keep searching, you will find them. Make a conditions list, when those conditions are meeting the requirements for a certain type of mushroom to grow that you are looking for, hunt those habitats until you find them.
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Odor Gills
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Isn`t it due to the time in season? I mean from what I know from own experience, in higher altitudes you can go for semilanceatas which already should be there in august, but I think in this central european climate you will have to wait for the right season for bohemicas/serbicas to appear, it might come in september or even later, don`t you think so?... depending on location of course... speculating...
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flyingBanana420
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Re: WTF is wrong with my luck????? [Re: Odor Gills]
#23493111 - 07/30/16 05:08 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah i know its not the season for p serbica/bohemica but it is for gyms and pan cintulus and the 2 of them are supposed to be the most common active shrooms. Now after some time and more rain i found a shit ton of mushrooms. Everywhere mushrooms are popping up. But mostly in forests where the humidity of the rain doesnt get destroyed by the sun. I found (and ate ) about 3kg of chanterelles and 2.5 kg of porcini (king bolete) and found a lot more inedibles. Porcinis are supposed to be quite rare and chanterelles in a way too. But the "very common" pan cinctulus is impossible to find. Some say you need to search in a pile of horse dung mixed with straw to find them in massive amouts becaue they are rare in lawns and guess what i looked every day after the rain in 6 different giant piles of manure mixed with straw and nothing... I searched also for gyms a lot with no success. I mean if i was searching for a rare shroom i could understand but they are the most common ones.
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flyingBanana420
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Re: WTF is wrong with my luck????? [Re: Odor Gills]
#23493127 - 07/30/16 05:11 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah i know its not the season for p. serbica/bohemica but it is for gyms and pan cintulus and the 2 of them are supposed to be the most common active shrooms. Now after some time and more rain i found a shit ton of mushrooms. Everywhere mushrooms are popping up. But mostly in forests where the humidity of the rain doesnt get destroyed by the sun. I found (and ate ) about 3kg of chanterelles and 2.5 kg of porcini (king bolete) and found a lot more inedibles. Porcinis are supposed to be quite rare and chanterelles in a way too. But the "very common" pan cinctulus is impossible to find. Some say you need to search in a pile of horse dung mixed with straw to find them in massive amouts becaue they are rare in lawns and guess what i looked every day after the rain in 6 different giant piles of manure mixed with straw and nothing... I searched also for gyms a lot with no success. I mean if i was searching for a rare shroom i could understand but they are the most common ones.
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elprawn
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Keep at it. Keep learning. Learn what grows in which habitats and when in the year, in your area and keep looking. Persistence is key. You'll learn even when you're not finding what you want.
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Odor Gills
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Ou yeah, regarding the edibles, thumbs up on that find! Recently I managed to find a chicken-of-the-woods mushroom and tried it, the consistency was without the doubt like chicken meat. Regarding pan and gym I have no experience as I am pleased with natural/regional abundance of the psilocybes, found pan semiovatus and was amazed with the strong manifestation of that strain, didn`t took or try though...
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