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Old_Toby

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Re: Official UK Liberty Cap Thread 2020 [Re: maxmelt] 1
#26987361 - 10/15/20 04:11 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I went to my good site today (about 400 feet above sea level) and it's started fruiting! I left all the ones I found with a gentle little flick, as it's only the first flush and I want to wait until it really gets going before I start pulling them out of the ground. Instead I just picked all the random ones I found along the side of the path where the sheep deposit spores with their wool. Managed about 100 in a couple of hours of casual walking-foraging. Kind of cold and wet, but still had a lovely time of it. Spotted a fair few in the dark with my headtorch after the sun went down.

Best of luck to everyone!
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Scout101
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Re: Official UK Liberty Cap Thread 2020 [Re: Old_Toby]
#26988072 - 10/16/20 08:41 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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This might be laughable to someone who knows about growing them but would this work - if I took any the bits I've dried ) (I imagine there's a lot of spores in the dusty bits) and mixed it in a a bottle of water then sprayed it around the field I've found them, would it help to grow more next year?
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Annunaki_Dude
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Any idea what these are? [Re: sigma_j]
#26988168 - 10/16/20 10:11 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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These were found on boggy grass today near woodland location North East Scotland. Stems are about 5 inches very pale coloured and body is domed shaped varying from Half inch to 2 inches and is brown in colour with a dark brown spore print.
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MetalSlug

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Hey dude, we are in the same area, but never found one close to woods unless it was on a grassy field/hill.
Check this field guide out:
https://i.cubeupload.com/97rozf.jpg
They're not libs.
Still flushing hard here, and since the council and others are not cutting the grass in playing fields, golf courses, etc, so much now, since its October, nows the time good luck 
Edit: just realised I didn't asnwer your question, sorry, no idea what they are
Edited by MetalSlug (10/16/20 10:40 AM)
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Sargon101
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Can anyone help me identify these? [Re: sigma_j]
#26988199 - 10/16/20 10:41 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Newbie here. Been out picking and think I may have had success. Can anyone confirm these are liberty caps? Are there any suspect ones?
Edited by Sargon101 (10/16/20 11:30 AM)
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Barnabywood
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Re: Can anyone help me identify these? [Re: Sargon101]
#26988427 - 10/16/20 01:06 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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No libs there mate.
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Sargon101
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Re: Can anyone help me identify these? [Re: Barnabywood]
#26988441 - 10/16/20 01:11 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Damn I was sure I had some! Do you know what they are?
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maxmelt
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Re: Can anyone help me identify these? [Re: Sargon101]
#26988445 - 10/16/20 01:14 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sargon101 said: Newbie here. Been out picking and think I may have had success. Can anyone confirm these are liberty caps? Are there any suspect ones?
Looks like Milking Bonnet (Mycena galopus)
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/15105900
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Re: Can anyone help me identify these? [Re: maxmelt]
#26988463 - 10/16/20 01:27 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Damn and damn thanks for your help guys
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Best haul to date, 328g wet! [Re: sigma_j]
#26988497 - 10/16/20 01:47 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Very chuffed with my hunting and haul this year, previous years I've never found more than a dose or twos worth. Got enough for the year now! Peak District, circa 400m. Keep searching people, they're there if you persist.
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Re: Official UK Liberty Cap Thread 2020 [Re: Googolplex]
#26988550 - 10/16/20 02:12 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hi there, I'm also in Kent and found these earlier today - only 8 in total, in a fairly wild meadow with no grazing animals (although there are horses in the adjacent field).
This is my first ever find, I'm a first timer looking to experiment with very low doses initially just to see if it helps me with depression, stress, chronic pain etc. Ultimately I'd like to get off of my antidepressants and if these can help then I really have to try it.
The bigger caps smell faintly of radish. I'm currently taking spore prints overnight (see photo).
I tried to remove the pellicules, but by the time I got home the caps were drying and sticky and I was unable to separate any pellicules.
If anyone is happy to confirm that these are all liberty caps, I would be extremely grateful, many thanks indeed for any help at all.







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Re: Best haul to date, 328g wet! [Re: thewalaw]
#26988591 - 10/16/20 02:38 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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thewalaw said: Very chuffed with my hunting and haul this year, previous years I've never found more than a dose or twos worth. Got enough for the year now! Peak District, circa 400m. Keep searching people, they're there if you persist.

great job. i'm making my way into the Peaks for the first time in a while to my fave spot which seemed to dry up about 5 years ago. hoping its back in bloom this weekend, really fancy a liberty cap fuelled mash up!
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ShroomAnon
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not if i beat u to em
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Re: Official UK Liberty Cap Thread 2020 [Re: ShroomAnon]
#26988688 - 10/16/20 03:27 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hello all,
I'm very new to this but I found these little cuties today but I thought I'd post here and not in an ID thread because more than just looking for an ID, I actually have a couple of noob questions about liberty caps:
(1) I always hear that upland and mountains is the place to look, but this map, which was only red on the upland areas until yesterday seems to be red everywhere now. So do liberty caps only grow at high altitudes or is it just that they appear there earlier in the season? Does this map know what it's talking about? Are they happy to grow where I live, which is all of about 250 feet above sea level?
(2) What's the deal with blue bruising? If I have picked a mushroom and say dig my fingernail into the stipe, how long should it take to turn blue? The ones in my pic didn't have any blue anywhere.
(3) I forgot at the time but is there any point checking for a pellicle if they're already all dried out?
Sorry about the bad post, but I wasn't really hunting mushrooms I was out walking with my little girl, so I snapped a quick pic and kept going. It was 4pm in Somerset, on the shady southern verge of a fallow farmer's field.
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Re: Official UK Liberty Cap Thread 2020 [Re: Shar-Teel]
#26988722 - 10/16/20 03:48 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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1) not qualified to comment but seems to suggest quite simple model on homepage 2) its one of the ID qualities but won't always happen, prob more unlikely with dry specimens and not always required for ID if otherwise 100% sure 3) i believe you can rehydrate cap with drop or two of water, wait and remove
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Re: Official UK Liberty Cap Thread 2020 [Re: Claudius]
#26988732 - 10/16/20 03:55 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Claudius said:

Another Nice find yesterday after Taking a break for about a week. Managed to stumble across a good 200 wet grams dried out too 16 g cracker dry. Been trying too get some bigger fruits again, was surprised too find so many yesterday. I thought we had a flush though as we had a few showers over the past week. Was meaning too go up earlier, I think late October now will see loads as we got a nice bit of rain forecast. Managed too save up 75 dry grams already though which was a lot more than intended. Not sure when too stop now.. xD

Here are a few pics of my last find from the quote now in a Kilner too Preserve. Look Nice Quality this batch.
Note the Bluing in the stalks in the first picture Underneath the Number 8 Written on the Jar. Looks Amazing. Beautiful stems and all..
Edited by Claudius (10/16/20 04:10 PM)
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Re: Any idea what these are? [Re: MetalSlug]
#26988762 - 10/16/20 04:10 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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That’s great I’m struggling to find I live in Morayshire I know a place Nice grassy headland at height in Grantown. Where you from m8 and where do you get yours?
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I'm Down in South West Wales Kind of in the middle of nowhere. But Many Fields in the area, I struggled finding any for years even when I had my car. Just last year I thought too my self I would go for a hunt and I even used google maps too help. But I had one place in mind from years ago down a public foot track and I had completely forgot where it lead and I decided too go for a stroll down it too have a look. It Ended up leading too a couple of fields full of sheep but with really long grass, Which didn't seem too promising.. But as I was walking through the first one I stumbled into a tiny one popping up and so I kept going into the next field and it looked worse.. I nearly turned back but I for some reason went too the end of this field and then climbed over the fence of the last field in this row of 4 fields and it looked really promising. Walked through it a bit with no joy but kept at it and I found sections with a few which led too more and more and then I noticed as I went back different sections of the field getting them at different times. This year went too same place earlier in season and am finding Hundreds upon hundreds there now. Nearly a thousand in a month. But I followed my intuition which led me too this place. So it takes a long time finding a good place. Before this I walked for miles upon miles until I found this gold mine of a field. They are few and far between it seems around my locality. But if you find a good place you'll know about it.
P.S I just noticed your reply was too metal slug. But here is how I found those Liberty Caps.
Edited by Claudius (10/16/20 05:55 PM)
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Re: Best haul to date, 328g wet! [Re: thewalaw]
#26989090 - 10/16/20 07:59 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Great pics. That one with about 30 in it is dreamland!
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Re: Official UK Liberty Cap Thread 2020 [Re: Sid Shroom]
#26989474 - 10/17/20 02:18 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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All look good Sidshroom.
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