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ch3ckyourmirrors
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Need help focusing my psychoactive mushroom search.. NW NEW JERSEY
#23707406 - 10/04/16 04:40 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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*To preface, i have familiarized myself with forum rules. I have also read through the guide on hunting mushrooms, and mushrooms specific to my state. The information i am seeking lies past what has already been provided on this site(to my knowledge)
I live in Hunterdon County, NJ (a rather large area, more specifically by the musconetcong ken lockwood river gorge...i believe i have refrained from being too specific)
I won't order spores or grow any mushrooms. Ive eaten copious amounts numerous times in the past and have taken more than a year long break, but am looking to find my own in the wild(i don't know why, maybe it'll add to the experience and enhance the takeaway)
I'm having a hard time figuring out what i should look for. as far as habitat goes, I've got plenty of places to search. expansive farmland and fields, pine forests, deciduous forests, (relatively) wet lands, dry lands, rocky areas(who knew jersey had all that covered right?) river beds, etc. I've looked up all of the psychoactive mushrooms in my area, and begun to familiarize myself with their varying levels of rarity, times of season, etc.
I'm thinking my best luck will be found in the panaeolus cinctulus. any further delineation in that regard would be much appreciated.
I'm wondering out of these listed below, where should i focus my efforts in terms which mushrooms to look for? Sorry if this kind of question isn't allowed. my main goal is to have 2 or 3 species I've got the best chance of finding(and best chance of a spiritual experience) in my general(15mi or so) area. I'm not afraid to look hard, but I'm not willing to travel. i want some of what my local habitat has to offer ya know? just adds to the..this is the wrong word but... sentimentality of the whole thing.
if it is any help, i would like to be searching between now and the winter. if the flow of life forces me to continue my search again in the spring, so be it. patience is a virtue. but more specifically, mushrooms that are growing right now.
WARNING- The administration of further information to me will inevitably lead to a few(or many) more questions. Im looking to educate myself further on the broad topic of mycology, but for my own personal reasons am seeking psychoactive mushrooms. any advice in terms of when to pick ones found, if i should dry them, preparation, etc will be gladly taken.
*New Jersey-
Gymnopilus junonius Gymnopilus luteus Panaeolus cinctulus Psilocybe caerulipes Psilocybe graveolens (rare) Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata
Edited by ch3ckyourmirrors (10/04/16 04:41 PM)
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gman



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Re: Need help focusing my psychoactive mushroom search.. NW NEW JERSEY [Re: ch3ckyourmirrors]
#23707779 - 10/04/16 06:52 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Gymnopilus season is starting - this year I've found them in the base of partially toppled long dead hardwoods and at the base of others in a somewhat damp area with lots of downed trees ( maybe as shown below) and I've also seen them in the past year and grassy areas about 50 yards from the woods. Caerulipes have been found in Sussex county and you may have similar habitat. The official Caerulipes threads from 2012 on should provide insight on that. The ovoids finds that I am aware of in NJ have been on wood chip in debris piles as well as landscape chips though there's nothing unpleasant about hunting flood debris piles along and I stream - your best bet for these is in the spring before he vegetation takes over but I always glance at wood chips anyway. Since you did some homework –my basic advice is to go hunting especially after some rain. Enjoy G



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ch3ckyourmirrors
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Re: Need help focusing my psychoactive mushroom search.. NW NEW JERSEY [Re: gman]
#23709346 - 10/05/16 09:29 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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So whilst walking the dogs i took the opportunity to do a little more looking. GOSH is my road a hotbed for mycology!!! There were plenty of other specimens i didn't snag, as obviously above i stated i was going for psychoactive species right now....
heres a few pics! let me know if you see anything particularly interesting; or let me know if you see anything particularly promising in the psilocybin/cin dept. regardless, i thought these things were damn cool.

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doctorghosty
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Re: Need help focusing my psychoactive mushroom search.. NW NEW JERSEY [Re: ch3ckyourmirrors]
#23709444 - 10/05/16 10:10 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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none of those are active. I see Armillaria (White stipes, yellow caps), Mycena (all white, fragile), maybe something in the Craterellus genus (the black one), and 2 bracket fungi I don't know the names for
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ch3ckyourmirrors
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Re: Need help focusing my psychoactive mushroom search.. NW NEW JERSEY [Re: doctorghosty]
#23709528 - 10/05/16 10:44 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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if it is of any assistance, the large orange guy smells very sweet, almost like anise. The two different white stipe/yellow cap specimens i have were found growing in rotted logs. None of them are bioluminescent. Tried sitting in the dark with them for 10 minutes or so. do you believe the two similar white stipe/yellow cap mushrooms i have at opposing ends of the picture are the same? They were found near each other although look totally different. I guess thats the toughest part for me at the moment... so many different physical expressions of each type of mushroom.
working on some prints. not sure how they'll turn out-- I'm sitting at work with limited supplies at the moment hahah.
by the way i did not realize before that you are a trusted ID-er. I assume your skills are in high demand on here and i really appreciate the quick responses.
is it not considered good etiquette to be making frequent ID help/ID requests? I plan on doing a lot of mushroom searching in my area and due to my small knowledge base am having a hard time even starting to identify various types.
i understand the etiquette behind preserving the wild shroomies tho
Edited by ch3ckyourmirrors (10/05/16 10:46 AM)
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SailAwayLadies
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Re: Need help focusing my psychoactive mushroom search.. NW NEW JERSEY [Re: ch3ckyourmirrors]
#23709539 - 10/05/16 10:50 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Certainly people here are happy to help you to some degree. However, if you just walk down your road and post every mushroom you find hoping that it will be active, I can almost 100% promise you will never find an active mushroom. This sort of thing takes work. You don't have to be especially smart to do it, you simply need to be able to read and use your eyes. I suggest you get a field guide to act as a primer to mushroom ID - Mushrooms Demystified has a great introduction or to use the internet to learn a bit about ID. Psilocybin mushrooms do not grow everywhere equally - you will need to hunt out their often very specific habitats to find them. Luckily, there are many, many pages of info here on habitat and hunting. If you demonstrate that you have put in effort to learning about mushrooms and take the time to weed out obviously inactive species, people will be much happier to help. People here will help you if you think you have something that looks right, but your last post seems as if you are asking someone to do 100% of the work for you. Its inefficient and its not going to result in you finding shroomz.
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doctorghosty
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Re: Need help focusing my psychoactive mushroom search.. NW NEW JERSEY [Re: ch3ckyourmirrors]
#23709542 - 10/05/16 10:52 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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it's not bad etiquette at all to make frequent ID requests, it's how we all learn.
and yes, the white stipe/yellow capped ones are both the same, just at a different stage of development
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ch3ckyourmirrors
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Re: Need help focusing my psychoactive mushroom search.. NW NEW JERSEY [Re: SailAwayLadies]
#23710212 - 10/05/16 02:52 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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so, as i wrote above i am interested in mycology in general. I am looking for active mushrooms but am also trying to widen my knowledge on the mushroom species that grow in my area. when i asked about any mushrooms of interest i just meant, have i found something not commonly seen?
i have done some research over the last two days but so far everything ive been able to glean has left me still feeling like quite the newby. Im not expecting to just go find psychoactive mushrooms on the second day out. I don't feel that i can distinguish even whether the two mushrooms I'm looking at are the same just at different growth stages.
besides this wasn't even an ID request. all i wrote was that theres tons of mushrooms growing everywhere around where i live and wanted to share.
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