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Sirtalis


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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: Origyn]
#23930269 - 12/15/16 05:40 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Found a cyan patch today in SF. I was decked out in my rain gear in the pouring rain. Fun stuff. I have a feeling the next week or so will be great hunting.
No pics of the cyan patch but found a massive patch of these guys. Thought I hit the motherlode but they seem to be Galerinas.
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Sirtalis


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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: Loveshroomz777]
#23930280 - 12/15/16 05:43 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Loveshroomz777 said: Allen you found some alleni in Sunnyvale? That is cool do you have any pictures I guess I should try hunting Sunnyvale instead of driving all the way to San Francisco
You can hunt in almost every town on the peninsula. SF has lots of patches, but they are heavily picked. I'm guessing the hippies in the 60s spread the love, but not many people have been doing it lately. I have a feeling its been a lot of mushroom picking but no one plants mycelium anymore. To change that, I'm going to try to grow about 10 spawn bags and see if I can start up some new patches in my area. The game plan is allenii, ovoid and azzie spawn (and stuntzii if I ever get the print- you know who you are!). Just kidding. But really though, we've got enough cyans around here
Edited by Sirtalis (12/15/16 05:57 PM)
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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: Sirtalis]
#23930417 - 12/15/16 06:25 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Posted elsewhere on this forum for ID verification, but had my first-ever harvest today. Woohoo!
Looks like mostly P. cyanescens with a couple allenii(?). East Bay location. Had to do some awkward bush-spelunking nearby a school. That's the price you pay, I guess!
 
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WhyDidiDoThis
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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: Origyn]
#23930517 - 12/15/16 06:53 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Border Collie & Blue heeler. Bred by ranch workers. Sold as a working dog. We really had to talk and give some money for him but he is the smartest well behaved guy in the world. Off leash everywhere. He's got quite the vocabulary.
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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: Sirtalis]
#23930584 - 12/15/16 07:06 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sirtalis said: But really though, we've got enough cyans around here 
i think we could use more cyans here really, i almost always only find allenii around the bay. seems like 8 out of 10 patches are allenii in my experience. You finding more cyans than allenii i wonder?
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Origyn
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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: WhyDidiDoThis]
#23930589 - 12/15/16 07:08 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Great mix, probly pretty intense too.
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Sirtalis


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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: bush-lurker]
#23930667 - 12/15/16 07:30 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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bush-lurker said:
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Sirtalis said: But really though, we've got enough cyans around here 
i think we could use more cyans here really, i almost always only find allenii around the bay. seems like 8 out of 10 patches are allenii in my experience. You finding more cyans than allenii i wonder?
Yeah 75% of my patches are cyans. Maybe I'm biased but I think allenii, ovoid and azures are prettier.
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NothingsChanged
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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: Sirtalis]
#23930786 - 12/15/16 08:06 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Theres always that chance of messing up your Eco-system when jump starting a species or 4, in a Blaze of fury. Just an opinion of course. Great season my southernly (From me) Friends.
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bush-lurker
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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: Sirtalis]
#23930865 - 12/15/16 08:42 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sirtalis said:
Yeah 75% of my patches are cyans. Maybe I'm biased but I think allenii, ovoid and azures are prettier.
Ok, i can see that. But to me allenii look like big fatty meatheads with double-chins. And cyans look like female whirling dervishes or something, more refined or elegant. Don't get me wrong, i love 'em both. I'm probably just enamored by cyans at the moment cuz i don't find as many. Found some today though, i'll try and post a pic
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bush-lurker
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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: bush-lurker] 1
#23930889 - 12/15/16 08:51 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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heres the cyan patch i found today

and some other patches from today

and one other one, that turned out to be much more extensive than this pic indicates

i love hunting in the rain, but today was crazy, so drenched. need better rain gear.
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bush-lurker
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Alan Rockefeller said:
Those are Stropharia ambigua. They are interesting because they have crystals at the base of the stem which look really cool under a microscope if you use polarizing filters. Here is a pic I took of the crystals at the SF fungus fair two weeks ago: http://mushroomobserver.org/263263
They are also said to taste like whatever substrate they are growing on, so it would be interesting to try growing them on garlic or cannabis or something with a strong flavor.
That crystal microscopy photo is really cool Alan. Its nice to know what they are and that they taste like their substrate. I came across some the other day, I think they are the same Stropharia Ambigua
 there were some big beautiful ones next these tiny guys, wish i had taken a pic of them
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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: Loveshroomz777]
#23931948 - 12/16/16 10:09 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Loveshroomz777 said: Allen you found some alleni in Sunnyvale? That is cool do you have any pictures I guess I should try hunting Sunnyvale instead of driving all the way to San Francisco
Mushrooms don't know what city they are in. They grow anywhere there is moisture and substrate.
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Sirtalis


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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: Ran-D]
#23932473 - 12/16/16 01:15 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Found where I'll be placing spawn this spring. Too bad these were leratiomyces (I think)
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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: Sirtalis]
#23932594 - 12/16/16 02:09 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Beautiful photo! Started droolling for a second lol
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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: spacecadetCID]
#23932876 - 12/16/16 04:08 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Found yesterday in the Easy Bay right as it started to rain:







and this little cutie:
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WhyDidiDoThis
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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: Sirtalis]
#23932919 - 12/16/16 04:23 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sirtalis said: Found where I'll be placing spawn this spring. Too bad these were leratiomyces (I think)

place spawn in an area without any myc. Devoid of other fungal life.
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Sirtalis


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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: WhyDidiDoThis] 1
#23933042 - 12/16/16 05:05 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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There's an area right behind those trees that hasn't been colonized by anything. The environmental conditions at this spot are too perfect to not let psilocybes have a shot at survival. Maybe I'll make an experiment out of it to see if they can overpower this species by placing a little spawn right in the middle of this patch.
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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: Sirtalis] 1
#23933077 - 12/16/16 05:20 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sirtalis said: There's an area right behind those trees that hasn't been colonized by anything. The environmental conditions at this spot are too perfect to not let psilocybes have a shot at survival. Maybe I'll make an experiment out of it to see if they can overpower this species by placing a little spawn right in the middle of this patch.
plant some allenii, it's really invasive. i've noticed it "kicks out" other fungi
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WhyDidiDoThis
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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: SmilingPolitely]
#23933156 - 12/16/16 05:53 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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It really is invasive.
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Re: OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ACTIVES 2016 [Re: WhyDidiDoThis]
#23933440 - 12/16/16 07:35 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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@WhydidIdothis - holy cow!!! What a great find!
I went hunting for about an hour and checked some known spots. Things are beginning, finally, to pop!


Sorry for the blurry pics. I saw a bunch of pins too. Going to go for a bike ride this weekend and see what else I can find.
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