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dodeski
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Mr Piggy]
#23752173 - 10/19/16 02:25 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Mr Piggy said:
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dodeski said: Found a few P. cyanescens out at the coast this last weekend.

This first photo is an azzie!
I thought it was a little different. It was found within their natural radius. I was thinking it was possibly a P. alenii because of its small size. It was about half the size of the cyans I found less than two feet away. It's stipe is reminiscent of azurescens and there is a distinct umbo, though. When I go back I'll separate them out for microscopy
-------------------- "People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me are these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings." -Timothy Leary “You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.” ― Terence McKenna "In defying the authority we become the authorities" - Unknown
Edited by dodeski (10/19/16 03:08 PM)
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oregonshroomers
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AstaCrazyBull said: That's really cool OS!
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oregonshroomers said: some pictures of log cyans         
That's amazing! Did you put spawn plugs in that log?
Thanks guys! Nope, I had nothing to do with any of that. All of them are just doing there thing in the wild
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islandcoast
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Taking the morning off work today turned out to be a good move. sorry about the shitty cell phone pics
cascading stuntzii

plump little cyan cluster
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: islandcoast]
#23752375 - 10/19/16 03:46 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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islandcoast said: Taking the morning off work today turned out to be a good move. sorry about the shitty cell phone pics
cascading stuntzii

plump little cyan cluster

Dam son!
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Adden

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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: N05482]
#23752414 - 10/19/16 04:00 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I picked the guy in the center before I realized how cool they looked together, so it's placed back for the shot. Regret that but to be fair I didn't know any other mushrooms were around until I cleared things away.

Then they were just splattered across this small hill, completely ignored by other pickers, about 15 or 20 feet down this whole thing that's all of a six foot slope.
Got some slurry base on these overgrown matures. Waiting on a few sheets of prints to add. Area needs time to recover. I only got about a half pound in the first part of my day cleaning up everything the other pickers left behind, which was a surprising amount of stuff they just straight up missed, but final tally of the day was just over 2lbs.
Basically the mushrooms in this area grow in duplicate or triplicate. Outside of a few monster patches, hunting here is usually just smattering them in little clusters. I found about 200 of these and they had 5-10 specimens each.
I cleaned up in the pine litter and ferns. I went to some areas last year that I had found them in and just brushed the top needles aside very gently until that twang of mushrooms hit. These had stems upwards of 8 to 10 inches, whereas most matures in other areas were 4 inches with a quarter size cap.
The patch I was at got worked over but again I still cleaned up after everyone else. Just lifting some grass to the left, collect mushrooms, move it back to where it was.
Moved some stem butts closer inland at some parts and further out in others. I found the trail I was starting last year and now it just drops me into the thick of it.
As much as I love a monster patch (that was a life changing experience), I love finding these little caches of mush. The weather went from sunny/cloudy, cold to hot and wet to dry from 5am to 5pm. I'd been soaked and then I dried just walking around.
Sorry if some pics suck, I picked the place clean but took me 12 hours and I'm not young nor spry anymore.
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N05482
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Adden]
#23752495 - 10/19/16 04:35 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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200x5-10 = +- 1500 mushrooms!
2lbs wet = +- 3oz dry
Can we see pics of that pile please!
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Have a nice day! psilocybe cyanescens time lapse
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Joust
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: islandcoast]
#23753167 - 10/19/16 08:35 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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islandcoast said: Taking the morning off work today turned out to be a good move. sorry about the shitty cell phone pics
cascading stuntzii

This is insane!!
-------------------- ~~~~~~***Psilocybin Mushrooms***~~~~~~ _________A Practical Guide To Psilocybin Mushrooms_________ "Think about the species, not your scale". -NeoSporen "Mr. Joust, I see you don't actually partake in the psilocin, but it looks like it may partake in you!" -Gojira
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Visions710
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Joust]
#23753209 - 10/19/16 08:45 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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This^^^^^^^^^^
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NothingsChanged
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: N05482]
#23753283 - 10/19/16 09:13 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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N05482 said: 200x5-10 = +- 1500 mushrooms!
2lbs wet = +- 3oz dry
Can we see pics of that pile please! 
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AstaCrazyBull
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NothingsChanged said:
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N05482 said: 200x5-10 = +- 1500 mushrooms!
2lbs wet = +- 3oz dry
Can we see pics of that pile please! 

-------------------- The Great Spirit gave me permission to use all things that bear seed for my use. I personally choose non-toxic organic compounds and a couple fermentables.
 Cyan time lapse youtube link. https://youtube.com/watch?v=gtgr2SGHxog
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Adden

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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: N05482]
#23753680 - 10/20/16 12:04 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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N05482 said: 200x5-10 = +- 1500 mushrooms!
2lbs wet = +- 3oz dry
Can we see pics of that pile please! 
After drying they did the weirdest thing.
Bucket + metal pail + backpack + bag


I will start taking pictures of piles. They just look so ugly at hour 12 then the drive home +/- 3h.
Edit: CONTENT ADDED FOR ACTIVES THREAD DISCUSSION AND PHOTOGRAPHS

^ He seemed to like that little fort. I see azures a lot in areas like these. It looks like people walk right on by and favor the grasses. The ample coverage in some spots leads to larger and condensed caches of them. Same with the pine litter. Hunt around conifers as old as the ones you found them in, and nearby in that state of decay, and there are probably more. But hunting in the pines they've really gotta be nearby and in abundance where they've run out of other sources to grow on. That tiny thin layer of decayed wood is all they need. I've found them fruiting in beds where the mycelium just attached to a few needles.

I like the areas on the fringe between the coastal pines and the decayed harbor wood and deciduous trees. Grass mixed with ferns they will almost always be at every plant, it is helpful to grab an armful of grass like you would hay and check underneath. Move it back the way it was. You can use a walking stick to casually brush away plants without looking skeeze.

^ I tried unfocusing so I could snag the background and foreground habitats for you guys.

^ When you see this, stop walking and look at your toes. You're probably in the thick of it and don't know it. Check everywhere around you (spider webs are still out they get big and mean and hurt so watch your face). Even thick grass you'd find in your yard. They're likely to be more under that than all else. Pick up where other pickers have walked. After years and years of people working the same spots they start to spill out in other places. I've found them in numbers outside a back entrance to a patch.

And hills after old maintenance dump. Nature's way of producing azures in January. If cyans grow on them, the caps will be gone, but leave behind a blue woody stipe. The ants only go so far out so like half way down these hills and a few feet out you'll have a microclimatey area if it is dense (not like this open one). There are smaller ant hills in fern sections where wood is decaying but the grasses are still new. They warm those pockets up good and also move warm area into the grass or nettles around.

Some wood that runs through the area and is covered in soil like roots of a tree. Sand has come from storms in the dunes and made a nice mix. This area is when I first discovered Mr Piggy's advice of just hitting the dirt and picking/tossing into bins. It was raining and the tide was coming in so I just slid along in my rain pants with bag in tow. There's piles of mycelium under regular long grass here and in the floor. I doubt the patch will go anywhere any time soon and it fruits both cyans and azures.

Some areas you can't leave them for a day or two it seems. They're growing fast just not very tall. I left a half grown specimen at 5am and by 5pm it was wide open and spored on the one next to it. I didn't feel bad in the least picking small ones because they're apparently ignored, by and large, by other pickers and rot so fast. I did end up with about 7 or 8 palm size rotten cyans, huge score for slurry, I threw some out in the planter to sit in the meantime.

Then, there's this other thing I noticed which is why I scissor these and large solo ones. I noticed that some places they will fruit in duplicate or triplicate early in the season and stay smaller and meatier, then turn to large honking bastards late in the season. The spots throwing big ones now will be doing small clusters come the end of December. It works both ways and I never see large fruits with smaller triplicate fruitings. I definitely scissor these because if you pull up mycelium there are always pins. I've got one patch right now that instead of the big guys, there's tight little piles, but more mass.

And now instead of a sweeping patch of clusters, beefy solo dudes.
Helps knowing they look different at different times of the year and makes hunting so much easier. If it was December I would be sweeping the needles away at the side of this.
See how many you can see btw if you want to test your eye.
Edited by Adden (10/20/16 04:45 AM)
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N05482
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Adden]
#23753708 - 10/20/16 12:17 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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$3500 must have been 2lbs dry... sorry missed that part. Well guess we know what's up now. Lucky your guy pays in crisp hundies
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Adden

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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: N05482]
#23753715 - 10/20/16 12:23 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've known too many Shitty Bills in my life so I don't take shitty bills. 
There's only 3k tho. Gotta snap some off for myself!
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Adden]
#23754267 - 10/20/16 08:40 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Shananagins
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Neomorph]
#23754422 - 10/20/16 10:15 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don't know how long PDX has been on, but this is the first pin of the season at the only location I have discovered here to date.
I hope for many more discoveries this year. I will be going back to my super secret epic cyan colonys in grays harbor this year. It has been 2 years since I have been there, and spawned a lot of stem butts and colonized cardboard and chips. Should be awesome 
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islandcoast
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Shananagins]
#23754974 - 10/20/16 01:56 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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First real flush of cyans at this patch. (before you get your panties in a knot about the upside down cluster with mycelium in the second photo, it was like that when i arrived)
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AstaCrazyBull
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: islandcoast]
#23754984 - 10/20/16 02:01 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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islandcoast said: First real flush of cyans at this patch. (before you get your panties in a knot about the upside down cluster with mycelium in the second photo, it was like that when i arrived)

Leave that cluster attached. Take it home and start a tub. Even let those mature and rot in the new tub. Recipe for a successful flush next year.
-------------------- The Great Spirit gave me permission to use all things that bear seed for my use. I personally choose non-toxic organic compounds and a couple fermentables.
 Cyan time lapse youtube link. https://youtube.com/watch?v=gtgr2SGHxog
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islandcoast
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: AstaCrazyBull]
#23755002 - 10/20/16 02:08 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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AstaCrazyBull said:
Leave that cluster attached. Take it home and start a tub. Even let those mature and rot in the new tub. Recipe for a successful flush next year. 
Thanks, I'll remember that for next time. I ended up just plugging the stem butt cluster into some nearby chips.
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AstaCrazyBull
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: islandcoast]
#23755010 - 10/20/16 02:10 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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islandcoast said:
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AstaCrazyBull said:
Leave that cluster attached. Take it home and start a tub. Even let those mature and rot in the new tub. Recipe for a successful flush next year. 
Thanks, I'll remember that for next time. I ended up just plugging the stem butt cluster into some nearby chips.
That's a good idea too!
-------------------- The Great Spirit gave me permission to use all things that bear seed for my use. I personally choose non-toxic organic compounds and a couple fermentables.
 Cyan time lapse youtube link. https://youtube.com/watch?v=gtgr2SGHxog
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SpectreOfCommunism
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: AstaCrazyBull]
#23755292 - 10/20/16 03:37 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Okay, so here's my hunts from the last three days -- season finally seems to be in full swing around here!
These were all from a graveyard patch that I know of...

And I found these cyans nearby -- but these were all growing at the bases of ferns, which isn't where I'm used to finding them. Learn something new everyday, I guess...

And my trusty forest patch is spreading out!

And finally, a new blackberry patch that I found...

Also, question: in the second to last picture, is the mushroom on the right an azure?
-------------------- Found Species: Ps. Azurescens, Ps. Cyanescens, Ps. Baeocystis, Ps. Semilanceata, Pan. Cinctulus
 
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