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Picking Advice for Beginner
    #23824895 - 11/12/16 04:43 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

I've been out looking for mushrooms, but always seem to come up short. I pick a few earlier but they were so varying and different to pictures that I was too unsure.

I've been wanting to microdose psychedelics for a while now as I suffer from anxiety but the stuff is like gold dust. I have been trying to find some for years but never succeeded. I can't find anybody to buy any for of psychedelics from and if I try to pick shrooms I rarely find any that I am truly convinced are liberty caps.

I picked some earlier, some were small short and white, they had pointed top but also had white gills. The stems seemed very short though it was proportionate to the cap. Wasn't convinced by these.

In the same area I found some that I thought were more like liberty caps, but imo they didn't have the length and the caps seemed wider than most I have seen in pics but  they weren't flat. They looked like Liberty caps when they are moist. They were of a brown colour with a point and had that glistening look but the overall shaped and size seemed a little off.

These were both on a golf course the area was a grassy bank where golfer's tee off, but there was also a mossy substance in the grass. Is that the wrong environment for them to grow?

I found some resembling liberty caps on another field, but these ones seemed very small, though there proportions were more accurate. The field had been plowed though and the new grass was thin so I didn't think this was an ideal environment. The stalks were really thin, perhaps a couple of mm, they were probably about an inch 3-5cm in length. Slightly pointed on top but not as much as pics I had seen online. They are darker gills like a deep grey. The cap colour didn't seem right, though it was close, I would be confident enough to identify them.

What is the ideal habitat to find them in?

There are some cow fields behind my house, would that be a good location? I'm going to have a little walk out now, hopefully will be a better experience.

Is now a good time of year? I read autumn is good...

Any info or advice would be appreciated.


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Re: Picking Advice for Beginner [Re: coolhandduke]
    #23824902 - 11/12/16 04:53 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Yea let us know if you have any questions.


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Re: Picking Advice for Beginner [Re: coolhandduke]
    #23824921 - 11/12/16 05:14 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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What is the ideal habitat to find them in?




Try finding some old-ish grazing pastures with short to medium length grass and lots of tussocks.
You'll have to look closely, as the mushrooms might often be hard to spot. Persistence pays off.

Where in the world do you live? If the frosts haven't set in yet, you still have a good chance of finding some.

Be sure to bring a camera with you when hunting, and take pictures of your finds both before and after picking them.

Happy hunting! :smile:


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Re: Picking Advice for Beginner [Re: Anglerfish]
    #23824940 - 11/12/16 05:30 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

I'm in the UK, it's mid autumn at the moment, so I don't know if it is too late. There have been mild frosts the occasional day but not a lot. I'm finding other mushrooms so don't think it's too bad.

There are some fields of that type behind my house, with sheep and cows so I'm going to check those out, if I can't find any there I'm not really sure where else I can look.

I will have my phone today so if I see anything I'll upload some pictures.

Fingers crossed


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Re: Picking Advice for Beginner [Re: coolhandduke]
    #23824961 - 11/12/16 05:47 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Use Google maps to check for fields nearby. You're not guaranteed to find any in the first one, so it's good
to have a few more to look in, at least.

When using a phone as camera, you should perhaps check out if there is a macro app available for your phone.


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Re: Picking Advice for Beginner [Re: Anglerfish]
    #23825420 - 11/12/16 09:58 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

No luck. I walked for hours through various fields and different types of grasses, but like America I came up trumps.

They must not exist here. Very disappointing.


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    #23825492 - 11/12/16 10:29 AM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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No luck. I walked for hours through various fields and different types of grasses, but like America I came up trumps.

They must not exist here. Very disappointing.




Don't give up. They are likely to exist where you live.

What you basically need to do, is whenever you see any type of mushroom growing in a field - crouch down and
scan the immediate area very closely. Look carefully around and inside the tussocks. You might end up spending the
bulk of an hour searching within literally just a few square meters. And you might have to search dozens of small
spots, finding nothing of worth. Yet, after long and tedious labour you are bound to succeed at some point.


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Re: Picking Advice for Beginner [Re: Anglerfish]
    #23839286 - 11/16/16 03:56 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

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Re: Picking Advice for Beginner [Re: coolhandduke]
    #23839292 - 11/16/16 03:58 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Mycena spp.
grew from wood?


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Re: Picking Advice for Beginner [Re: coolhandduke]
    #23839303 - 11/16/16 04:00 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

These were the closest I came to but seemed off to me. The caps didn't seem the correct shape, the gills are white, the stalks are kind of translucent and the overall colours seem different.  I didn't take a spore print as they didn't make it home.

Not sure what they are but if someone could identify that type it would be helpful.


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Re: Picking Advice for Beginner [Re: WhyDidiDoThis]
    #23839313 - 11/16/16 04:03 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

No, they were growing from soil In field. The grass wasn't there naturally and it was extremely thin around the area I found them in. It's a farmers field of some kind though I don't know if it is ever used to produce crops.


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Re: Picking Advice for Beginner [Re: coolhandduke]
    #23839463 - 11/16/16 04:47 PM (7 years, 2 months ago)

Look where you are likely to find grazing animals.  Liberty caps are dung lovers.  So horse, cow, fields with herbivores.  Even deer.


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