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SideNote
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: woaronun]
#23775495 - 10/27/16 02:13 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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This inspires me to take another look also. It rained heavy 2 days ago (finally). It also was some mild frost 4-5 days ago. Now temps are around +3C at night, +6C at day. Disappointed in this dry Autumn, but sun was also nice and golden. But gonna take a look also today to the field!
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: SideNote]
#23779851 - 10/28/16 11:56 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hej alla, I am in the göteborg area and over the past few days the weather has been good, it finally started raining a few days ago and there has been hundreds popping up!
I am originally from the UK and I noticed that Nordic libs look quite different, there are many more that are close to flying saucer kind of shapes. Here are some pictures:
Day1: I cycle around, I go through a few sheep fields but the grass is so short and there are no shrooms to be found, It hasn't rained enough. But on the way home I find these... Maybe that cow field will be good to visit tomorrow...

SO I go back with a friend and what do I find?

Next day:

Towards the end of that day a tractor came into the field and started cutting the grass, RIP. The next day I go back and the tractor is still at it, well I have read about libs springing back after grass being cut so maybe it isn't so tragic... So I went to the field I found the first ones in and found so many...
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 *DELETED* [Re: Nudibranch]
#23780036 - 10/28/16 01:21 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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knarkkorven
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: ShroomsCanTalk]
#23780419 - 10/28/16 03:40 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nudibranch: Hej! Nice photos. I agree that you found a lot of saucer shaped libs there. I believe it's a very local thing. I found a lot of bottle shaped on the pasture I visited a few days ago. But if I had walked to another spot one kilometer away, they wouldn't have looked the same.
ShroomsCanTalk: This is not an ID thread.
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: knarkkorven]
#23782611 - 10/29/16 01:03 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Today, I had an incredible time out in a large cow pasture. I knew it would be great since I checked it earlier this week (my last photos), and on my way there today I spotted some libs on a lawn. But I didn't think it would be this good. They were everywhere. I could pick 5, walk a could of meters and pick 5 more, on an on and on. Got 490 grams wet, left several hundreds and only searched 1/5 of the pasture area. It must be around 1200-1500 since many of them was pretty small. 


Edited by knarkkorven (10/29/16 01:23 PM)
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: knarkkorven]
#23784298 - 10/30/16 01:43 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Gorgeous, knarkkorven, that's a nice fuckin haul!
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: NoBeginningNoEnd]
#23788131 - 10/31/16 10:36 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Tripped the other day on 20 mushrooms, it was quick to come and also intense with the autumn colours of the forest making the leaves all switch rapidly and fluidly between yellow orange and red. It felt like a time when I took 40, these were dry but I think they were the larger than usual mushrooms that I had picked (see my last post). Maybe there is something about that strain of mushroom that is very strong...
Well anyway, it hasn't rained for a few days but will tonight so I had a quick look today and found a few patches with absolute giants growing! but there was not as many mushrooms as last time. The huge ones here were found near a very stinky fox or maybe badger poo.
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: knarkkorven]
#23790640 - 11/01/16 08:22 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
knarkkorven said:

That is a crazy ass haul!
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: Anglerfish] 1
#23797234 - 11/03/16 11:09 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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60g dried = 1500-1800 libs. 
But I think this was the end of the 2016 season. We had frost all day today and expecting snow tomorrow, and freezing temperatures next week.
Amazing season. At first I thought it was going to be crap due to the drought, but this flush in the end was extreme. I have picked liberty caps for 13 years and have not witnessed a season like this before.
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: knarkkorven]
#23798097 - 11/03/16 03:36 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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In amount picked this season, I'm on an all time low. I don't mind, however, just thankful for them showing up at last so I could pick a decent 10 grams dried. Don't consume too often these days in any case, also I'm stuck with thousands from previous seasons. It is the hunt which is the main thing for me. I even dream about hunting liberty caps...
But yes, season just about started here too, but this picture from earlier on today tells me it is soon finished:
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: Anglerfish]
#23798269 - 11/03/16 04:26 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Nice photo!
For me, it's all about hunting and taking photos. Getting storage problems in the freezer is the downside of picking them ... I have to do some extraction soon.
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: knarkkorven]
#23801198 - 11/04/16 04:54 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Snow on the mountain tops this morning. They are freezing now, brrrr....
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: Nudibranch]
#23801267 - 11/04/16 05:24 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Nudibranch said: I am originally from the UK and I noticed that Nordic libs look quite different, there are many more that are close to flying saucer kind of shapes.
Nice pics (I won't quote them since there are loads). I agree that the flying saucer ones seem more atypical here (from my experience, at least). I have found them, mind you. Which environmental factors in Scandinavia do you think make them more likely? I am not sure what causes them.
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: elprawn]
#23804208 - 11/05/16 06:08 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I Had a Convo on here a few years back in which someone suggested it was the type of grass they "came through"... I know Captain Futures Libs, dubbed "UFO Libs", where the Flattest saucer-like I'd ever seen and they grew on a "Grass mix". But I've looked at the grasses in my various spots and it seems maybe more to do with soil composition, or maybe just location specific conditions or slight "strain" variations? Regardless, I find it interesting. My one spot I call "Doozer field" (Not cuz it's a Doozie but from Fraggles...yeah I went there... The Trash-Heap has spoken...Nahhhh lol) it always produces "mutants" and has odd grass unlike any other spot I find "Libs"...It's also very thickly "Clovered" which is very rare for Lib finds here in Canada at least.
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: Liberty King]
#23811626 - 11/08/16 03:13 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm not sure, but it is entirely possible that the appearance of them could be due to genetic factors, it makes sense that genetic variation would arise. The saucer types in my opinion seem like ab intermediate in appearance to that Psilocybe strictipes species. Ps.Strictipes does have differvent spore shapes but in an organism like this which has great numbers and great amountservice of reproductions occuring it makes sense for there to be the appearance of some kind of different "races".
But it could very well be due to many environmental factors, the environment could very well have a strong force in selecting a certain phenotype of them to survive from that great pool of variation one can see in their phenotype.
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: knarkkorven]
#23860314 - 11/23/16 11:04 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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So, apparently a week of temps as low as -8"C won't kill off a healthy patch of P. semilanceata.
After the weather turned back to rain and temps between 2 - 10"C, I headed out this morning and found a few:

Notice some of the stem bases are quite blue.
I was hoping to get some in situ shots here, but my freezing fingers had their full time trying to pick these. I simply couldn't operate the camera with such stiff fingers! So you'll have to cope with the dull photo instead.
Anyway, I believe this is the latest in the year I've ever found liberty caps in Norway. Going to go out again to check a few spots over the weekend if the conditions seem favourable. Hoping for my first December pick ever....
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: Anglerfish]
#23860338 - 11/23/16 11:17 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Wow, that's something, do you hunt close to the shore or more inland? I'm in Finland myself and our mushrooms have been gone for a while already.
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: do it]
#23860392 - 11/23/16 11:51 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm close to the western coast of Norway. These were picked at between 50 and 100 meters above sea level, around 4 kilometers from the sea.
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: Anglerfish]
#23860529 - 11/23/16 12:51 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Great picture!
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Re: OFFICIAL Nordic / Baltic Psilocybe semilanceata thread 2016 [Re: maynardjameskeenan]
#23860680 - 11/23/16 01:30 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Great find Anglerfish
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