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Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 13 years after update! [Re: Asante] 1
#28528847 - 11/04/23 10:13 AM (2 months, 22 days ago) |
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Bumping this thread to share the beginning of my own journey with psilocybe cyanescens. Props to everyone who has contributed to the various woodlovers threads, so fascinating to see what everyone gets up to, love it!

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Lithop said: Obligatory "mods please move if there's a more appropriate subforum."
So, October 17th I'm clearing the straw and chopping the vines to mulch while harvesting the last of my pumpkins. I see a few pins on the pollinator side of the patch, didn't look like Ghost or Nats really and that's all I've dumped out there sub-wise since February. Cool, I picked a lot of the small pins thinking it was cubes, chopped them up and buried them throughout the patch...
(I REALLY wish I'd let them mature in hindight.)


 By the 26th, it was increasingly clear these were no cubes.
 I had an inkling so started to feverishly rule out lookalikes based on as many macroscopic identifiers I could. If my inkling was right I was both EXTREMELY hyped and confused as to where these came from. Never had any Cyan genetics, the closest I've even BEEN to one IRL is walking past woodchip beds w/ my GF whispering: "Cyaaaannneeeeessscceeeeennnsssss." when out for a walk, every year
By the time 28th rolled round, things were getting pretty clear.





October 29th, dios mio....





Halloween Eve:







 The start of something beautiful. THANKS NATURE, YOU'RE THE BEST!

 (I know I picked them pretty small etc, other than continuing to mulch and adding new chips, I plan on leaving the bed well alone to do its thing through Autumn and Winter now I've spread some intitial myc to cardboard/pots.) Cheers for reading I hope you all had a great Halloween!
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Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 13 years after update! [Re: Lithop] 1
#28529373 - 11/04/23 05:47 PM (2 months, 22 days ago) |
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What a wonderful enrichment to this cyans thread! temperature is dropping here and its raining lots, fingers crossed.
Yours are extremely similar to mine, not all cyans look the same.
Now you're an unexpected cyans grower.
Wait till you feel them
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Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 13 years after update! [Re: Asante] 3
#28530892 - 11/05/23 04:51 PM (2 months, 21 days ago) |
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Well, I supposed I should followup on my long post from last year. I first ordered my Cyan spores 1 year and 9 months ago, and since then it's been a beautiful disaster. I was hoping for a harvest last year, and did get some pinning and a few fruits on the periphery of the bed, but barely enough for a trip, then we had an early snow and they aborted, so I figured the bed just needed a full year to finish colonizing.


Coming up to this fall, the bed was totally colonized with myc below the surface, so I had high hopes. Then the disaster, pins started coming up, and they were ALL inky caps. Wild spores, probably from my woodchipper wood, totally took over the bed, as far as the eye could see. No cyan fruits at all.


I was so bummed, after all that work. Out walking our dog, I'd keep an eye out for every mulch pile but never found anything active. Then a few weeks ago, while out weeding the garden, in an area where we'd had a contractor bring in some mulch-heavy topsoil then covered with wood mulch from Lowes, I found a whole patch of wavys growing. Searching around the other areas we'd mulched, I found 2 more areas where they are growing wild, tons more pinning. This was in a area probably 200 feet away from the bed I made, and on the other side other side of a house, so I don't think they migrated. I also did not get them in areas where I only used the Lowes mulch but no topsoil, so I think they came in with the landscaper's load.





I took some on a small test flight 2 weeks ago to confirm activity, and activity was confirmed. Took a large dose last night and WOW what a beautiful gift from nature. Extraordinarily visual, colorful, intricate geometry, which I was very thankful for as my trips are often not very visual. Incredible connection to music and rhythm. My psytrance playlist included something old and something new, Paul Oakenfold's "Tranceport" from 1998 then King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's "The Silver Cord" from last week (below). The overlapping polyrhythms in both of them put me into overdrive.
I've been harvesting about 4g dried every other day for the past few weeks, 2 big mason jars full so far. Have been transplanting stem butts all over the yard like a busy beaver. We'll see what happens next year.



Unexpected cyans FTW!
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Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 13 years after update! [Re: Shroomintune] 1
#28531046 - 11/05/23 06:51 PM (2 months, 21 days ago) |
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You too got magical cyans 
They say "acid finds you" and many find that doubtful, but here 2 cases of surprise cyans!
Transplant those stem butts, make it happen 
I hope i'll have a bit of a harvest this year.
Those caramel caps look so yummy when wet!
Non-growers: THIS CAN BE YOUR GARDEN!
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Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 13 years after update! [Re: Asante] 2
#28531473 - 11/06/23 08:47 AM (2 months, 20 days ago) |
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Herald of the holidays, inbetween halloween and christmas Psiloybe cyanescens pokes up, now for the 15th year in a row in my perennial wavy caps patch.
First one of the flush!!

I harvested it! A 2.3gr fresh cyan is about 3mg tryptamines, 4 microdoses, 2 mood enhancers or to me, 1 trip. (i'm 4x as sensitive as most)

When I cut the shroom, it was a cluster of three so the other two now get a growth spurt. Taking a pic of that: baby shrooms all around!

I'm happy the Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could keeps on going towards its second decade!

2.3gr!

this one is more useful. As you see, there are lamellae that start at the cap and never make it to the stem. Thatys one characteristic. A hollow stem is another.
one every 2-3 years you add woodchips to the patch, to give it time to colonize and mature. The patch will sink cionsiderably in height and you fill this hollow up with chips
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Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 13 years after update! [Re: Asante]
#28533229 - 11/07/23 05:19 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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very cool ..lots good info about outdoor beds , , I'm in zone 5 temperate .. climate harsh , swings from very hot to very cold here.so maybe just barley / might be ok for ovoids .. huuuummm..
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Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 13 years after update! [Re: Asante] 2
#28534586 - 11/08/23 05:47 PM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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great read so exciting like the discovery of animal husbandry and melting of ore to make cast metal objects.
what a trip!
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Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 13 years after update! [Re: redgreenvines] 1
#28539782 - 11/12/23 07:18 AM (2 months, 14 days ago) |
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The gift that keeps on giving:
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Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 13 years after update! [Re: Asante]
#28548774 - 11/19/23 06:37 AM (2 months, 8 days ago) |
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Asante said: Wait till you feel them 
You weren't kidding, around a week ago I tested 2.5g powdered in cold water and... WOOOOOOAH!
 Intense, they have lots of character and I absolutely loved it.
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Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 13 years after update! [Re: Lithop] 1
#28549003 - 11/19/23 10:13 AM (2 months, 7 days ago) |
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Quote:
Lithop said:
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Asante said: Wait till you feel them 
You weren't kidding, around a week ago I tested 2.5g powdered in cold water and... WOOOOOOAH!
 Intense, they have lots of character and I absolutely loved it.

yeah they are the best, aren't they? I'm glad it was so good for you! i'm totally in love with cyans
The rain had a little more to say:

22 grams fresh!

Nkondi stands guard as they dry, on top of a copy of Omnicyclion. Nkondi loves the Mushroom Spirits, and the Mushroom Spirits love him.
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Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 13 years after update! [Re: Asante] 1
#28549011 - 11/19/23 10:18 AM (2 months, 7 days ago) |
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💔 They break me, they are so generous and gracious! They ask so little of us and give themselves so abundantly.
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Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 13 years after update! [Re: Land Trout] 2
#28557343 - 11/26/23 02:49 PM (2 months, 16 hours ago) |
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Smallest harvest ever, but it's enough.

I got a 5kg bag of woodchips ready to dig up and revive the starved patch.
These few shrooms represent more $ than the 5kg of beech chips that for sure will yield a big harvest next year.
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Re: The Little Wavy Caps Patch That Could -- 13 years after update! [Re: Asante]
#28559592 - 11/28/23 03:14 PM (1 month, 29 days ago) |
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Acid found me pretty good, so I have to thank the universe for that one... but the mushrooms haven't quite found me.
@Shroomintune
I also tried to setup a wavy cap patch to total failure. I got a few tiny pins the first year round, then nothing. The second year round colonization everywhere, but it was invaded spores. It's literally the most perfect wood mulch environment with dirt and moss below and ivy growing around for a micro climate to keep it moist. I transplanted a ton of already colonized chips... but no dice.
I'll check it at Xmas time because I'll be back at that house, maybe this will be the year they show themselves to me. I've found them in the wild, but hoping they are ready for me.
That's so incredible that you just happened to have them delivered to your house, they definitely wanted to find you.
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