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Sk8nshram
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Love me some allenii porn...I think I enjoy seeing them more because they are less common than cyans around here. Hopefully I'll be able to expand my yard patches this spring. Had two spots where allenii came up this year.
I want to get out and look for pellies this year too. Never seen em in person. How many years after clear cut do they come up?
Here are some pictures from last week.



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SkagitHunter
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) *DELETED* [Re: Sk8nshram]
#23836129 - 11/15/16 04:36 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sweet gym log!!
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Sk8nshram
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) *DELETED* [Re: SkagitHunter]
#23836138 - 11/15/16 04:38 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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SkagitHunter said: Sweet gym log!!
Pretty sweet eh? My gf has better quality and quantity of pictures from this spot. I'll see if I can get some uploaded soon.
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Sk8nshram
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) *DELETED* [Re: Sk8nshram]
#23836145 - 11/15/16 04:39 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've found so many active gyms and stunzii randomly this year.
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SkagitHunter
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) *DELETED* [Re: Sk8nshram]
#23836189 - 11/15/16 04:48 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sk8nshram said: I've found so many active gyms and stunzii randomly this year.
Gyms seemed to be popping everywhere for me too. I'm yet to find any stuntzii.
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Sk8nshram
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) *DELETED* [Re: SkagitHunter]
#23836202 - 11/15/16 04:52 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sk8nshram said: I've found so many active gyms and stunzii randomly this year.
Gyms seemed to be popping everywhere for me too. I'm yet to find any stuntzii.
Definitely more gyms than stuntzii this year. I think the temp drop and heavy rain took out a lot blue ringers. They just can't handle heavy rain.
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Joust
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: liloldme]
#23836713 - 11/15/16 07:54 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Wow NC and lil old me! those are crazy slime mold shots!
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Joust]
#23836727 - 11/15/16 07:57 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Some shots from NO542 and I's foray: Thanks again man! it was a blast, such an awesome dude!
Psilocybe cyanescens in Dune Grass



Psilocybe azurescens
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Joust]
#23837352 - 11/15/16 11:37 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm watching "Magic Mushrooms in Mexico" on Hamilton's Pharmacopeia" On the viceland channel also can stream. Very interesting!! I recommend.
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maynardjameskeenan
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: PNWrain]
#23837449 - 11/16/16 12:26 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Do you have to pay for this shit?
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maynardjameskeenan said: Do you have to pay for this shit?
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SkagitHunter
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: SkagitHunter]
#23837562 - 11/16/16 02:01 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Joust those coastal shots are amazing.
Here's some wild cyans from Oct. 25th. Found ten miles from the nearest city, along the Skagit River.
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Adden

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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Joust]
#23837580 - 11/16/16 02:27 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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SkagitHunter said: Joust those coastal shots are amazing.
Here's some wild cyans from Oct. 25th. Found ten miles from the nearest city, along the Skagit River.

You probably had spores on your shoelaces ten years ago walking down that path.. 
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Joust said: Some shots from NO542 and I's foray: Thanks again man! it was a blast, such an awesome dude!
I'm glad you guys had a good time. I made good with a guy out there last year when I helped him fix his fence. I can photography his property on the outskirts so long as I don't mess the place up, pick up trash, and kick anyone else out if I see them.
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^ Amazing right there. True paydirt. That's the stage I love to eat them at. Nibble at the stem, pop the cap in and work my tongue on the gills moving it around my teeth. They kick in almost dangerously fast.
Second best time to eat them IMO is when a ridiculously cold storm slams steady 55/45 moderate rain areas. When they grow so fast their pellicles are intact or on surrounding grass. They are a unique taste and vary area to area (of course). Eating the cap is almost like the initial texture of eating an oyster, but then being a salty, smooth, and healthy feeling (as far as subjectivity goes).
I'm really impressed with a lot of you this year. New and returning. Some of you are killing it.. some of you have found actives after years of hunting, others of you right out the gate, obligatory find in a parking lot opening his car door... you're all doing amazing jobs. Keep up the good work because these pictures are all pure gold. I hope the people struggling hang around cuz we still have 6 weeks, then a 3 month hiatus. Plenty of time to get boots and eyes on the ground and show us what you've got 
Holy hell I'm baked peace and love everyone
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Adden]
#23837584 - 11/16/16 02:35 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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just wait till the next set of azure pics.....
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: Joust]
#23837615 - 11/16/16 03:15 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hah I had to check my threads one last time.
Warning: Stoned ramblings on mushroom picking ahead..
I like azures and cyans in the beginning of the season because they're stunning and also their stems are so beastly that you collect weight fast. And it's good weight too, and stems don't taste nearly as bad as caps despite how ridiculously good these are.
This time of year they start to get really, really cool. Dune cyans are going to stay deep brown and purple, sporulating in the microclimate they form by numbers.. the cyans will grow slower and won't sun bake and rain staves off the insects..
And the azures just pop pop pop, very quickly, especially if they get a good cold shock. A couple days of morning frost and 35ish, followed by warm rain, orange and tan and caramel caps will be on full salute again and flush, and a lot faster, and drop their spores much earlier. At that point though you're picking popsicles out of the ground hoping to reach a dehydrator in the next half hour before they turn black. Someone mentioned earlier that 80% of the places that will flush already have. I agree. When the mycelial mats are doing a Hail Mary pass and throwing up mushrooms, it's rainy and cold and they're a lot less than 10% dry weight, more like 2.5-5% in cases of weak and small fruits.
The best part of it getting later in the season is that mushrooms start to take all sorts of twisted and odd shapes not shown early Oct. They'll be stampeding against each other buried deep beneath pine needle piles or moss casing layers. I noticed with buried trunks they start inching closer and closer back to bramble.
After Thanksgiving, they're going to be growing where everyone walks and has pushed the grass over like assholes. So really, it's a smelling game, and when you're on the mushrooms it's a digging game and spreading loose foliage around. Which sucks because you can decapitate them easy, being so extra delicate and all. This is when there's tiny spots of mycelium attached to like 3 or 4 pine needles but it still shot mushrooms out, and some piles of needles will have the mycelium growing upwards into the needles.
When it's late in the year I really don't care about the mycelium pockets. They're not the driving force behind the organism, and are going to literally freeze to death and die. It helps to take the needles and stuff and collect those little bits and it soon adds up. You can save it from a hard winter death by bring them with woody soil where a microclimate will be with anaerobic bacteria. I like these tiny spots where no one looks until they're desperate, and I always find mushrooms in those spots.
Whichever the case, hitting that true paydirt. I love seeing mycelium. I think we all do. Then the different layers it travels as it moved up the grass and used it as shoots. I like to work my hands to where the soil ends, then search a radius around it for mushrooms and for more woody soil. The foot long azure stems with tiny nickel sized caps. If you move your hands over pine needles and dislodge w cap you still have a giant stem that you can find, and it'll be bluing and easier to spot.
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#23838443 - 11/16/16 11:06 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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You probably had spores on your shoelaces ten years ago walking down that path...
Right? Actually this find has been humbling. I've been spore bombing so heavily the UN is investigating me for war crimes. Then, in the middle of nowhere in an area I've never been, boom cyanescens. I have no doubt these are native. It has been really humbling. The species will survive in my area without me. If I lived elsewhere, or if this patch was elsewhere I would suspect human intervention. I don't think that is the case here.
That doesn't mean I can't do my part. I've spread at least 25 of these guys this season:
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Raven44
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: SkagitHunter]
#23838486 - 11/16/16 11:18 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hahaha hahaha, hell ya. I would drop 3-5 of those per day lol. Was going every day but didn't start bombing till late in season. At least 25-50 per yr. This yr tho I've clocked a total of 0. Double time next year.
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N05482
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: SkagitHunter]
#23839147 - 11/16/16 03:18 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Looks like a pretty dark spore solution, any honey or karo in there to germinate them into lc? I've found lc fruits constantly the next year, spores not so much so i go 50 50 and put a few tablespoons of honey in the gallon and let it sit a few days before spreading. I figure some germ now some germ later and some stay dormant for future genetics.
No matter what the case thanks for doing your part!
And thanks joust i had a blast can't wait for pics of your trip south!
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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: N05482]
#23839205 - 11/16/16 03:35 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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spotted a couple pellies today and some bluing what I would guess to be mycena in old deer manure

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Re: Un (Official 2016 PNW Actives Thread) [Re: N05482]
#23839379 - 11/16/16 04:22 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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N05482 said:
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Looks like a pretty dark spore solution, any honey or karo in there to germinate them into lc? I've found lc fruits constantly the next year, spores not so much so i go 50 50 and put a few tablespoons of honey in the gallon and let it sit a few days before spreading. I figure some germ now some germ later and some stay dormant for future genetics.
No matter what the case thanks for doing your part!
And thanks joust i had a blast can't wait for pics of your trip south!
Wow, I never thought of that. Thank you NO5. I will try that with the next batch.
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