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shinamhaengosa
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Night temperature
#23696253 - 10/01/16 04:01 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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If the temperature during the night is falling down to as low as 2°C, is this bad news for Psilocybe semilanceata? I got up very early this morning to go looking through the fields around about where I live but the temperature at that point was around 3-4°C (the sky was clear through the night I think) and according to BBC weather had been at around 2°C through the night.
Is it safe to say that those nights where the sky is clear and the temperature drops below 5°C that there won't be any Liberty Caps popped up through the night? Or does the temperature have to be consistently falling below 5°C over a longer period for it to affect their growth?
I found some the other day on a hill near me (one that goes to a maximum of around 520ish m) but there were very very few. And every time I go to any fields with sheep I find absolutely none at all. I'm assuming it isn't just whether the place has sheep or not but also the type of grass growing there? I've noticed that those fields with long grass that have sheep have none and I tend to see that in people's photos of habitat the grass is much much shorter. I seem to only have sheep or cow fields near me that have lots of long green grass and no mushrooms whatsoever or those that are slightly marshy and water-logged and "wild" but again have nothing.
Anyway, I spent around 2 hours this morning driving around to different locations and it was all in vain. Pretty annoying.
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You'll just have to keep looking. Cold nights usually trigger fruitings, but when it keeps going below zero for longer stretches of time, the game is usually up for the season.
As for grass types libs seem to have some affinity for the tufted Deschampsia cespitosa - possibly due to the fact that the tufts provide a nice humid environment for the mushrooms to grow in.
I find that liberty caps can grow quite abundantly in longer grass, but it is much harder to spot them.
Speaking of the presence of sheep, they tend to mow up the libs when grazing (have you seen the way some of them just stand there and stare at you?) - so you should choose the fields that haven't been molested for a while.
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shinamhaengosa
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I should have mentioned that I am in Scotland (and I'm not sure whether we have this grass species; I'll look into it).
Funny you mention that about the sheep, my girlfriend and I were talking one time about the fact they *must* eat them while grazing and be tripping balls a lot of the time (although deep down I kind of imagined they would perhaps avoid mushrooms perhaps; not sure though).
That makes sense then as to why I don't find any in those types of fields where they reside. You know those types of fields where there only seems to be a single grass species and it's all really green and healthy looking and quite long. I started to wonder if the farmers have done something to the ground on tending it which has caused mushrooms to not grow there (and hence it's better to search in really wild areas in the middle of nowhere). Is that a possibility too?
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