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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
#27062005 - 11/28/20 06:10 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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ZenZone said: 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.
Dude same shit happened to me today. I went to check on pins I left last time and covered with some clumps of dead grass. I lifted the grass and there was a hole where they were growing someone shovel scooped and removed the pins and the myc and then replaced the grass!
I know many people hunt at this SF location I've not only run into people there but I've noticed their harvesting etc. It's a bummer to have it completely removed if by chance who ever did this sees this please don't remove the patches we can absolutely share the spot.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: CHUCK.HNTR]
#27062205 - 11/28/20 09:38 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Found a patch in San Francisco today after a couple years since my last find. I think they are Allenii, but I am not totally sure. I've only found cyans in the past and because these don't have the wavy cap I think they are Allenii.
The pics of the patch are what I left behind after harvesting about a third of the fruits (they were going bad as you can see). I also carefully pulled up some mycelium with a few to attempt colonizing some cardboard and then woodchips.





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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: diamond]
#27062228 - 11/28/20 10:13 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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@ZenZone
Yeah when i've been searching I've seen spots that look strangely disturbed in random ass areas with myceliated wood chips nearby. meeh!
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: diamond]
#27062655 - 11/29/20 09:08 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Beautiful fruits! Just a tip if you’re gonna use cardboard ditch the flat non-corrugated pieces attached to the corrugated cardboard. And wrap each butt into a burrito with the corrugated pieces. Allows for more innoc. points/faster inoculation. Creates a sorts microclimate in the burrito and you won’t need to mist too often. Also the egg carton tek works super well for allenii in my experience.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: Pnwmushroomnomad]
#27062674 - 11/29/20 09:17 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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 A week ago I washed the spore covered caps on to split cardboard with paper towel on top, rolled them up put a rubber band around them and then loaded them into a sandwich bag (left open for airflow. Now they are in my kitchen with my edible mushroom blocks where I can mist them.
We'll see if this works?
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: CHUCK.HNTR]
#27062720 - 11/29/20 09:43 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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That’s neat man, I’ve been meaning to do an experiment with straight spores or a fresh cap onto cardboard. I’ve seen something like that in mycelium running so I feel like you’ll have success given some trial and error. Keep us updated!
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: CHUCK.HNTR]
#27062727 - 11/29/20 09:48 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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CHUCK.HNTR said:
 A week ago I washed the spore covered caps on to split cardboard with paper towel on top, rolled them up put a rubber band around them and then loaded them into a sandwich bag (left open for airflow. Now they are in my kitchen with my edible mushroom blocks where I can mist them.
We'll see if this works?

I usually take the spore ridden paper towel and shake it up in a bottle of water then go dump it on new wood chips. Have had fairly good luck. Interested to see if your method will work to germinate the spores on just cardboard. I'm guessing pouring onto chips outside is better though.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
#27062890 - 11/29/20 11:38 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Metridium said: 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.
Isn't Lupine an invasive species in the dunes up there?
I think I heard something from a friend about every year for years now up around Humboldt they hold something like a "lupine bash" or something along the lines of that where groups of people go out to the dunes and try to take out and eradicate as much lupine as possible.
I'm pretty sure...unless I have lupine confused with some other plant up there and/or don't recall what exactly my friend was saying lol.
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ZenZone said: 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:

Dang, that's a bummer to see & hear about.
I've def wondered about how many more folks are out hunting for actives these days compared to when I first started to about 8 to 10 years ago.
I'm going to have a little bit of time today to get out and check on two spots real quick that had a few pins poking up last week. One spot had cyans and the other allenii, but only like 5 to 10 pins starting to poke out of the chips when I saw em' last week. This will likely be my only day to get out and check on things until the solstice. Since it's been so warm & dry during the days and there's been nips of frost in the mornings I'm not expecting them to look pretty, but I at least want to see how much they've grown in 7 days and bonus if some of them look mature and nice enough to pick.
Not to de-rail into chit chat about the weather....but it looks like it'll continue to be dry for about another 10 to 14 days before the pattern might start to change.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: openmind]
#27063328 - 11/29/20 04:30 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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openmind said:
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Metridium said: 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.
Isn't Lupine an invasive species in the dunes up there?
I am pretty certain every year for many years now up around Humboldt they hold something like a "lupine bash" or something along the lines of that where groups of people go out to the dunes and try to take out and eradicate as much lupine as possible.
I'm pretty sure...unless I have lupine confused with some other plant up there?
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Nah you got it right. Lupine bashes have been happening here for a while now and are actually really fun! The yellow flowered lupine, Lupinus arboreus, is very invasive, so bash away, while the purple flowered one, Lupinus albifrons, is native. In fact, while I hunt in the dunes, I make it a point to kill as much lupine (and beachgrass, pampas grass, blackberry, etc) as I have the motivation for. That has always been my go to excuse if I ever get caught picking in the dunes (it has never happened)
Metridium, I’m not sure what you mean by old growth lupine but if it’s the yellow flowered stuff, I say good riddance
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: CHUCK.HNTR]
#27063637 - 11/29/20 07:39 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Dude same shit happened to me today. I went to check on pins I left last time and covered with some clumps of dead grass. I lifted the grass and there was a hole where they were growing someone shovel scooped and removed the pins and the myc and then replaced the grass!
I know many people hunt at this SF location I've not only run into people there but I've noticed their harvesting etc. It's a bummer to have it completely removed if by chance who ever did this sees this please don't remove the patches we can absolutely share the spot.

Wow dude that's rough. I hate seeing that...went around for 3 years straight 2015-18 planting clumps of myc I cultivated because I was seeing this so much. Guess I couldn't expect it to be getting better but still bums me out.
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#27063654 - 11/29/20 07:50 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: gKid_A]
#27063656 - 11/29/20 07:55 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Wow dude that's rough. I hate seeing that...went around for 3 years straight 2015-18 planting clumps of myc I cultivated because I was seeing this so much. Guess I couldn't expect it to be getting better but still bums me out.</font>
Thats rad you were planting myc! I have a lot growing right now that I'm planing on planting plus a bid jar of P.cy LC (and as you know gonna be starting some ovoideocystidiata cultures hehe)
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: mind.at.large]
#27063722 - 11/29/20 08:58 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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openmind said: Isn't Lupine an invasive species in the dunes up there?
I am pretty certain every year for many years now up around Humboldt they hold something like a "lupine bash" or something along the lines of that where groups of people go out to the dunes and try to take out and eradicate as much lupine as possible.
I'm pretty sure...unless I have lupine confused with some other plant up there?
Nah you got it right. Lupine bashes have been happening here for a while now and are actually really fun! The yellow flowered lupine, Lupinus arboreus, is very invasive, so bash away, while the purple flowered one, Lupinus albifrons, is native. In fact, while I hunt in the dunes, I make it a point to kill as much lupine (and beachgrass, pampas grass, blackberry, etc) as I have the motivation for. That has always been my go to excuse if I ever get caught picking in the dunes (it has never happened)
Metridium, I’m not sure what you mean by old growth lupine but if it’s the yellow flowered stuff, I say good riddance
Old growth = there are some with main stems >10" in diameter and appear to be very old.
Thanks for the education. I wasn't aware the species was invasive. Bash away. While you're at it, chop down all those eucs along the 101 safety corridor.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: Metridium]
#27063737 - 11/29/20 09:15 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Old growth = there are some with main stems >10" in diameter and appear to be very old.
DAMN!! Those are some big ass lupine! Well like I mentioned, there are native lupines that I encourage everyone to let live, but I'm pretty sure the invasive one is the bigger one. Either way, still impressive for a bush to get that big!
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While you're at it, chop down all those eucs along the 101 safety corridor.
Oh I'm with you there! I'll bring the chain saw...
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: palmwinedrunkard]
#27064346 - 11/30/20 10:52 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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palmwinedrunkard said: Psilocybe ovoideacystidiata?

No ID requests in this thread please re-post to main forum & ask for ID.
But I would guess ovoid or allenii. Ask for a 2nd opinion in the right spot you'll get a few folks chiming in.
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: CHUCK.HNTR]
#27064350 - 11/30/20 10:54 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thats rad you were planting myc! I have a lot growing right now that I'm planing on planting plus a bid jar of P.cy LC (and as you know gonna be starting some ovoideocystidiata cultures hehe)
Yeeeeaaahh man get it out there! Stoked to have someone helping Ovoids spread, I love that species. That's how to pay it forward & thank these allies for all they give us in expanded states- simply give back as much or more as you take.
Woodlovers are really aggressive so it doesn't take much to get them established in the right conditions. I had a 5 gal bucket of myc and probably started 30 patches with it. No idea if any are still there, but I imagine some are...
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: gKid_A] 1
#27064547 - 11/30/20 12:39 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
#27064933 - 11/30/20 04:00 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Found my first new patch of the season today. These were tucked into a north-facing corner under an awning at an apartment building in my neighborhood. I got lucky with this find -- many of the caps are died out but aren't rotted. In the photos you can also see that the caps blued a bit. Maybe they got rained on. In any case, I'll be watching the spot to catch the next flush sooner.

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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: drainge]
#27064968 - 11/30/20 04:15 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Right on! 
The bluing can be also caused by frost and/or wind. Nice find regardless!
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Re: California Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 Season Actives [Re: ZenZone]
#27065452 - 11/30/20 08:57 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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drainge said: Found my first new patch of the season today. These were tucked into a north-facing corner under an awning at an apartment building in my neighborhood. I got lucky with this find -- many of the caps are died out but aren't rotted. In the photos you can also see that the caps blued a bit. Maybe they got rained on. In any case, I'll be watching the spot to catch the next flush sooner.


Oof nice catch those are almost toast! Saves you the need to dehydrate much though, so that's nice!
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