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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
    #27084531 - 12/11/20 06:35 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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Central Valley.
BEFORE the rain.  :rimshot:




"Can you see the li-ight?" :bananamusic:




That's a great find in those leaves.


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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
    #27085685 - 12/12/20 12:40 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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5 pounds of freshly harvested magic!










Nice harvest!....Reminds me of the first year I found patches around my town. The first patch I found was not only massive and took several loads to harvest but I found several other good sized patches that year and ended up with a lot. Felt like every where I went I found a patch that year. I think I ended up with around 10 ounces dry that year, way more than any other year (lots of early soaking rains that season).

I had so much more than I needed to last me through the year, so while at festivals/gatherings that year I was walking around giving away palm-fulls and hand-fulls of mushrooms for free to anyone that wanted them lol.






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I was back at that same apartment complex this week delivering things....

After making a delivery I "got a feeling" that I should take a walk around a way that I haven't been yet in those apartments, and just as I felt so I found another patch of allenii running all along the stretch of the path I walked down.

They too are all well past their prime though, I picked only 3 individual mushrooms that were still "OK" just for the sake of picking a little something...But pretty much all of the fruits at that patch are already dried out and the edges of the caps are starting to rot (and they are all super tiny). It's been so damn warm and dry in the areas I've been working around east bay, up around 75+ some days. I can tell the dry conditions have essentially "stunted" and slowed down their growth, all the mushrooms are super tiny and drying out before they even got the chance to grow up.

But during a "good" proper season where we actually receive some precipitation and don't have such warm & dry days, I can tell those two patches will be big producers...So it's nice to know they're there.




Glad to hear you're finding them even away from your home environment, and on top of that: during work hours! How much better can it get? :sunny:





:lol:

Yea, it was funny to be doing a little bit of hunting/picking while technically on the clock & working lol . Mostly just when walking from the vehicle to the customer/delivery, but I managed to find two patches in the little "free time" that I had to look around.

This is actually the only time I've been out in the bay area during the winter/active season and the only time I've done some "hunting" out there and outside of my home area in general.

There are so many prime habitats out there...So many spots I was itching to get out and look around but didn't have the time to do so.





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Central Valley.
BEFORE the rain.  :rimshot:




"Can you see the li-ight?" :bananamusic:





Those should grow into some nice looking fruits! Especially with this rain. Those are prob the best looking fruits I've seen yet from the valley this season. Actually surprised to see such good looking mushrooms popping up now like that with how dry it has been around here.

Seeing that does give me some hope tho, because everything else I've been seeing has been dry or rotting fruits that are super tiny or just myc waiting to push up some pins.


I'm going to check on a tiny patch of cyans that I know about this Sunday while running errands...They were still tiny pins when I last looked almost 2 weeks ago. Hoping slugs/snails haven't made a meal out of them.





'tis the season, and it finally feels like it. I'm loving the moist & misty damp vibe today  :rainyday:  :shroompick:





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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: openmind] * 2
    #27085695 - 12/12/20 12:45 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Small potted cultivation project started last winter is pinning for the first time.



I'm loving this misty weather too OM.


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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: breeg89]
    #27085700 - 12/12/20 12:50 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

That is sooo cool Breeg! :jolly:

Good job! :justastonishing:


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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
    #27086291 - 12/12/20 07:06 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Thanks zen. Growing will never match the thrill of the hunt, but it does make for a fun project.

Here's a known irrigated spot in Berkeley from today. This spot got ravaged by the handful last season, so I'm glad to see at least a couple popping this year for the first time.



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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: breeg89] * 1
    #27086423 - 12/12/20 08:49 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Hmmm idk,

to me it feels like that a small home project could be just as exiting as hunting. Hunting lasts only so long...What about the rest of the year? Right?

Watching mycelium going wild, colonize, eat aggressively over the winter/spring, then become dormant, dried out, dead looking even, [edit: comma] in the heat of the summer, and then watch how it rejuvenates slowly in the fall,  emerge, "re-connect" and finally, if one took good care of them, watching the fruits popping up in the fall/early winter, I imagine all this could match the thrill of the hunt, plus this is a year round busy-ness! Well, the summer could be a little boring maybe... :lol:

On the other side of the coin, it could also match the hunt when it comes to the frustration part... Watching the whole patch in the summer being eaten by green mold or slime mold because one watered them too much, and then watch them display a total inability to fight back could be heart wrenching. Learning how it's best to NOT water them above certain temperatures and let them go dry completely takes a few tries. (in high temp environments)

Anyways :lol:, seeing fruits coming out of your own doing is very rewarding I imagine. :yesnod:

The more I learn about mushrooms the more fascinated and mesmerized I become about them.
The woodlovers thread is one of the best thread on this forum.

Sorry for the rumble :lol:... I used too much flower  tonight


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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
    #27086525 - 12/12/20 11:40 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)



Yeah both are very satisfying in their own way. It's cool how easily allenii take off in a suitable climate. Good luck getting them not to fruit if you give them wood, nutrients, and water.


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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
    #27087849 - 12/13/20 07:41 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

anyone know if these woodchips are toxic/contaminate the mushrooms?



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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: wwolfe28] * 1
    #27087940 - 12/13/20 08:51 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

You are searching the right habitat.
Post them as an ID request, in a separate thread, more people will look at them.

From those images alone it's impossible to ID them tho.
Gills shot, shots from different angles would be necessary, including the stem.
Spore print could also be helpful at times (especially when blue bruising can't be seen)

Go back if you can and try to get those shots. And while you there, take one and touch it, apply some pressure between your fingers and see if it bruises blue.  It can take some time, minutes, maybe 15 at the most tho. The dryer they are the longer it takes.

To me, from these images alone, they could be either psilocybe, galerina or gymnopilus sp.


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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: wwolfe28]
    #27087945 - 12/13/20 08:56 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Double checked one of my patches and found a light flush. Interestingly the landscape was re-mulched but the Psilocybes had not yet started inoculating the new substrate so these guys were sprouting from the lower base layer, resulting in the stipes being some of the longest I've personally seen. I did notice that the new mulch had a couple large patches of non-Psilocybes so unfortunately there's some competition for them.

Haven't been out in the field enough to discover some new and larger patches, but this find might keep me content for the year.



And FYI, for anyone wondering why I took a shot of them in the sink, I harvested them while raining so they were already waterlogged so when I returned home and washed them to get the dirt off and immediately got them started drying.


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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: Californian] * 1
    #27087965 - 12/13/20 09:02 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

A ton of wild dune cy pics. A couple of my patches are exploding right now.



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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
    #27087970 - 12/13/20 09:06 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Thanks Zen, but I wasn't asking for an ID. I already know that they're Psilocybe. I was just posting my find, and also wondering if those woodchips are toxic.


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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: wwolfe28]
    #27087992 - 12/13/20 09:20 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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Thanks Zen, but I wasn't asking for an ID. I already know that they're Psilocybe. I was just posting my find, and also wondering if those woodchips are toxic.




Oh shoot, sorry lol, I really need to pay more attention :crazy:
Yeah I wouldn't worry about the chips.



And yeah, nice finds everybody!


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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: TheMycoverse]
    #27088391 - 12/14/20 08:31 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Yup, it has been raining, so the wife and I went to our usual Allenii spots, brought our little fuzzy dog as a cover story and looked over the beds carefully...
Nada, nothing!
Forgot to check for mycelium growth.



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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: Bobby2fish]
    #27088402 - 12/14/20 08:51 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

New hunter here in the east bay , I would appreciate  any tips / advice for starting out.


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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: TrippyZen]
    #27088816 - 12/14/20 12:46 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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....I was just posting my find, and also wondering if those woodchips are toxic.





If you're asking that because of the black color the chips have have. I'm pretty sure the black coloring is "natural" and comes from something like carbon/charcoal.

The only time I've been a little concerned about chips being toxic is when I saw some chips that appeared to be made from "processed" wood/ply wood. Most chips I've seen out there tho appear to come from shredded up timber, "real wood" lol.

I'm pretty certain all colored bark is done so with natural dyes.





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Yup, it has been raining, so the wife and I went to our usual Allenii spots, brought our little fuzzy dog as a cover story and looked over the beds carefully...
Nada, nothing!
Forgot to check for mycelium growth.







Just because it rained doesn't mean a patch will have mushrooms popping up overnight/the next day. Woodlover species grow pretty slowly and it takes a while for them to develop. I feel like this recent rain is just now going to start to "wake up" some patches but it might already be too late :shrug: . I don't know how things work out when the first proper rains of the season don't arrive until now.


I find that the "peak" of the season is usually between now and Christmas, but we just now got our first real rains so :shrug: .







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New hunter here in the east bay , I would appreciate  any tips / advice for starting out.




Learn what allenii & cyanescens look like. Learn about the toxic/deadly specie "galerina" and what they look like since they can appear quite similar to allenii & cyans from an untrained eye and they also grow in the same habitat and can grow right next to allenii & cyans. (In my 8 years or so of hunting, I've only seen galerina twice, but def something one should be aware of)

90%+ of my "hunting" for active species is done around landscaping in urban areas. The active species in our region are called "woodlovers" since they eat/decompose wood/lignin. They are commonly found in woodchips.

Keep an eye out for woodchips in landscaping. Think about places like restaurants, shopping centers, banks, malls, schools, apartments, hospitals, etc etc.

Ideally look in areas that should have sprinklers & receive irrigation.

Look for micro-climates, tiny spots that are relatively shaded & moist & cool (north sides of buildings, underneath plants/bushes, etc etc).



Good luck! If/when you do find some, don't tear them out of the ground, try to take the time to cut the stem at the base with scissors or by pinching them with your finger nails. This season doesn't seem to be the best but lots of folks are def still finding em' out there.





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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: openmind] * 2
    #27089118 - 12/14/20 04:06 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

More from a nice fat dune patch.

On the hunt so much lately I see cys when I close my eyes. I can't imagine I'm the only one who has hunting dreams at this time of the year. :smile:



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    #27089254 - 12/14/20 05:44 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Gotta love Humboldt.


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    #27089324 - 12/14/20 06:25 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

What da heck?  :lol:


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    #27089452 - 12/14/20 07:50 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Found in Oakland today. These were leftovers. Parts of the patch look turned upside down.



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