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Ghost
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: breeg89]
#27059007 - 11/26/20 04:33 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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It seems like allenii are totally dominating the finds in the Bay area. 9/10 seem to be allenii. I wonder why.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: Ghost]
#27059026 - 11/26/20 04:45 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Allenii is way more drought resistant I think, plus based on what I'm reading on the woodlovers thread, alleni is also more aggressive that cyans. The central valley is loaded with alleni but much harder to find cyans ovah here.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
#27059158 - 11/26/20 07:04 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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I hadn't thought about that zen, but drought tolerance could be a big factor making allenii more common than cyans in California, whereas cyans dominate in the PNW. I also agree that allenii seem to be much more aggressive colonizers of both cardboard and chips, at least based on the very limited experiments I've done in my kitchen.
And on this note of cyans vs allenii, I found a new spot in Berkeley today. This is mostly allenii, but I think a couple cyans are mixed in too.
One example of possible cyan:
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: breeg89]
#27059240 - 11/26/20 08:13 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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breeg89 said: I hadn't thought about that zen, but drought tolerance could be a big factor making allenii more common than cyans in California, whereas cyans dominate in the PNW. I also agree that allenii seem to be much more aggressive colonizers of both cardboard and chips, at least based on the very limited experiments I've done in my kitchen.
And on this note of cyans vs allenii, I found a new spot in Berkeley today. This is mostly allenii, but I think a couple cyans are mixed in too.
You're on a roll! 
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breeg89 said:One example of possible cyan:

Yup, looks like a cyan!
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
#27059308 - 11/26/20 09:16 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Cool man, glad you're seeing cyan too. There's something very nice about seeing them sharing the substrate like that.
Can't wait for the valley to pop off.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: breeg89]
#27059384 - 11/26/20 10:19 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Can't wait for the valley to pop off.
[sigh....]
This has been an exceptionally good season in the pnw I hear/see here. The valley is a different story - except for patches that are well taken care of. I hope we won't end up with fires from May to October. Yikes.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
#27059394 - 11/26/20 10:34 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Some more recent finds from Humboldt dunes. 
 The 3rd pic at the top is actually in a wine barrel planter in my backyard
Edited by Matanaska (11/26/20 10:36 PM)
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
#27059412 - 11/26/20 10:52 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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ZenZone said:
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breeg89 said:
Can't wait for the valley to pop off.
[sigh....]
This has been an exceptionally good season in the pnw I hear/see here. The valley is a different story - except for patches that are well taken care of. I hope we won't end up with fires from May to October. Yikes.
It seems like California and eastern Australia are on a similar trajectory. Longer fire seasons and shorter rainy seasons.
And loving those Humboldt cyans.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: Matanaska]
#27059850 - 11/27/20 09:28 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Those are real beauties. Last year, I went camping over in humboldt just before thanksgiving and before the rain had started. I looked everywhere for mushrooms, and found and collected many hundreds trying to find some actives. I didn’t find shit, but now I realize I was looking in the wrong areas. I’d love to go back over there next year and do some more hunting. It’s such a beautiful area.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: breeg89]
#27059857 - 11/27/20 09:30 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Many of the fires in California this year were not all accidental fires or started by lightning strikes. Many of them were straight up arson.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: Dandurn777]
#27060037 - 11/27/20 11:24 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've been working in the (east) bay area lately...I haven't had much time at all to do any real hunting and looking around but anytime I'm walking by woodchips/landscaping I do keep an eye out as I walk by. I've been around several apartment complexes that are loaded with chips and the most ideal habitats, but I haven't seen any mushrooms of any sort at all yet.
....There's soooo many prime habitats out in the areas I've been in the bay compared to my local area, it's ridiculous. I'd love to get out there on a bike sometime to do some real "hunting".
But all the spots I've been able to at least get a glance at so far have been really dry, I'm not seeing any mushrooms at all and things still seem crispy & dried out in the spots I've looked at briefly....I'm surprised to see so many pics of patches fruiting already in this thread considering how relatively dry & warm it is (no doubt in areas that receive irrigation), but I know the bay area also has a lot of micro-climates that can hold a lot of moisture.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: openmind]
#27060188 - 11/27/20 01:24 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah OM, my patches have all been pretty damn dry. In fact, only one of my patches has been producing any Psilocybes, and not very much. Gotta keep up the rain dancing!
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
#27060816 - 11/27/20 08:57 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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ZenZone said: Allenii is way more drought resistant I think, plus based on what I'm reading on the woodlovers thread, alleni is also more aggressive that cyans. The central valley is loaded with alleni but much harder to find cyans ovah here.
That’s cool they I more drought tolerant I didn’t know that.
allenii’s season also starts earlier than cy’s and while cy’s can be found in dune grass and more wooded areas allenii are nearly exclusively found in wood chip landscaping.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: CHUCK.HNTR]
#27060970 - 11/27/20 11:52 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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From yesterday... I like the phenotype of the allenii in the first pic
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: bush-lurker]
#27061216 - 11/28/20 08:00 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Someone is really smashing the hell out of the old growth lupine in the Humboldt dunes this season. Not the dead stuff, but living individuals. On the off chance they see this post, please stop doing that. You're killing plants that appear to have been alive longer than we have.
On the positive, it looks like our season is in full swing. Left tons of pins out there from just poking around a few hours the other day.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: Metridium]
#27061264 - 11/28/20 08:34 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Once again, I don't understand why everyone needs to pick in the dunes. I have seen them all over the damn place in Humboldt, including in pine duff in the forest. But I guess theor population seems to be fine so
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: Ran-D]
#27061300 - 11/28/20 09:07 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Great finds everyone! It's been an oddly great season for allenii around here, definitely outweighing the cyan populations. On the flip side, last year seemed to be the season of the cyans for me. Only difference I can note is that we had some significant rain last year (despite being seasonably late). Allenii could very well be drought tolerant.
Stoked to see the coast lighting up! Does anyone here have experience hunting azurescens on the north california coast? I make a trip up to the Colombia River dune zone each year, but I wonder just how far south azures have migrated. The furthest south I've seem them is Lincoln City, Or. Granted I haven't put any time into searching for 'em past of there.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: Ran-D]
#27061322 - 11/28/20 09:21 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ran-D said: Once again, I don't understand why everyone needs to pick in the dunes. I have seen them all over the damn place in Humboldt, including in pine duff in the forest. But I guess theor population seems to be fine so 
It's just a product of being the most well known and shared spot, no?
This is only my third season, but I've started to branch out to hunt in those transitional coastal pine zones. Haven't stumbled on anything yet. And, while they may be in abundance in landscaped beds in town, hunting there isn't appealing to me. I much more enjoy being in nature than stomping around an urban or landscaped park environment.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: Metridium] 1
#27061818 - 11/28/20 03:28 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Based on what I've seen today, there are a LOT MORE people out for magic this year. Disturbed chips everywhere. Heavily disturbed. I think the psychedelic renaissance is generally a good thing - whatever that means - but it also comes with a lot of people that have zero respect to existing patches, the life cycle of the organism and all. Make your own garden, because this is gonna get worse.
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Here is an example of a disturbed patch:

And here is an example of a few miserable allenii lol:
Edited by ZenZone (11/28/20 03:59 PM)
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: Metridium]
#27061992 - 11/28/20 06:04 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Metridium said:
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Ran-D said: Once again, I don't understand why everyone needs to pick in the dunes. I have seen them all over the damn place in Humboldt, including in pine duff in the forest. But I guess theor population seems to be fine so 
It's just a product of being the most well known and shared spot, no?
This is only my third season, but I've started to branch out to hunt in those transitional coastal pine zones. Haven't stumbled on anything yet. And, while they may be in abundance in landscaped beds in town, hunting there isn't appealing to me. I much more enjoy being in nature than stomping around an urban or landscaped park environment.
Be careful if you're hunting the pine forests in the dunes, rangers are pretty hardcore there. No mushroom picking of any kind, even edibles.
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