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 Killateh
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Found a new patch today or should I say several. There were multiple fruiting like in the picture. My pockets were so full they were falling out š¤£. If I were a few days earlier, it would have been even better but this is what I ended up with. There are also ALOT of pins that I will be checking in on.
Edited by Killateh (01/17/23 08:07 PM)
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 Mr Piggy
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 Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022  [Re: Fogy1]
#28145120 - 01/17/23 09:05 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Is there a group that gets together to hunt for these. Would love to get some hunting friends and learning new things.
This is against the forum rules, please do not ask for hunting partners.
Mushroom Hunting & Identification Forum Rules
8. No asking for hunting partners.
The Hunting Forum is for learning, sharing, teaching and identification purposes. If you would like to request a hunting buddy, send PM's or make a topic about it in the Gathering Forum. You will gain access to the Gathering Forum after being a member for more than 60 days and when you have reached more than 100 posts. Posts announcing mushroom events and official group forays are permitted; please don't take groups of people picking psilocybin mushrooms.
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afrogus
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: Mr Piggy]
#28145850 - 01/18/23 12:20 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Went and cleaned up a few spots that were full of babies last week. I was late to a few as I was out of town and I missed the boat on several flushes. Seems to me the season is all but over. Donāt think Iād head out to forage any more. That said, itās been probably my best season to date. Got near a pound dry. My friends are gonna be tripping into the summerā¦.
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Dandurn777
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: afrogus] 1
#28145915 - 01/18/23 01:16 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Iād tend to agree with you. Seems like things are mostly flushed out and done for the season. I would say last year was far and away my best season. I got just over 3.5 pounds dry from last year. I honestly harvested more than I even shouldāve last year because itās enough to last me a decade. I just got a new scale so I havenāt weighed this years haul, but Iād guess itās somewhere around 1.5 pounds. Too bad we didnāt get all this rain like 1-2 months earlier than we did. The season wouldāve been a banger for sure then. Hereās to 2023! Iām getting all my cultivation stuff ready to start some new projects. Gonna start some more azurescens, subaeruginosa, cyan, and allenii plates and increase my own cultivated beds and spread the love (for microscopy purposes ONLY š) around the valley.
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GroundedMycelium
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: Dandurn777]
#28145975 - 01/18/23 01:53 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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I wasn't in california for the whole season but I imagined the rain made a difffrence, I spent some time in WA state this year looking for actives. I found panaeolus cinctulus and psilocybe cyanescens all in the PNW region.
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Shhhh
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Registered: 12/20/22
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So the last time i found a good patch in a bed of roses with what must be alder wood chips, i grabbed a chunk of wood that was thick with myceliumāi spread some wood chips to nearby areas that seemed promising and i brought some home and put it in a plastic cup with cardboard scraps. After about a month, this is what the cardboard looks like:
So now Iām spreading the cardboard far and wide for future foragersāwhich makes me wonder how many spots Iāve found were deliberately spreadā¦
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Dandurn777
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: Shhhh]
#28146336 - 01/18/23 05:24 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Many areas have been seeded by previous hunters.
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Mr Piggy
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: Shhhh]
#28146375 - 01/18/23 05:46 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Shhhh said:
So the last time i found a good patch in a bed of roses with what must be alder wood chips, i grabbed a chunk of wood that was thick with myceliumāi spread some wood chips to nearby areas that seemed promising and i brought some home and put it in a plastic cup with cardboard scraps. After about a month, this is what the cardboard looks like:
So now Iām spreading the cardboard far and wide for future foragersāwhich makes me wonder how many spots Iāve found were deliberately spreadā¦
Good on you spreading patches for others!
Pro tip: Put the myc you bring back (stem butts, chips, ect) directly to new chips and skip the cardboard. Cardboard myc often goes anemic very quickly and has trouble making the jump back to wood. Once I started transferring directly to wood my success rate jumped to the high 90s.
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Dandurn777
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: Mr Piggy] 1
#28146465 - 01/18/23 07:05 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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With any luck weāll have every town/city poppinā with Allenii and Cyans within 5 years. Also want to start spreading some subaeruginosa spawn around.
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NothingsChanged
Striving for Excellence
Registered: 05/28/11
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Loc: North/Western WA
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: Dandurn777] 1
#28146671 - 01/18/23 09:08 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Nice job yay area.
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Shhhh
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: Mr Piggy] 1
#28146751 - 01/18/23 10:18 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Mr Piggy said:
Good on you spreading patches for others!
Pro tip: Put the myc you bring back (stem butts, chips, ect) directly to new chips and skip the cardboard. Cardboard myc often goes anemic very quickly and has trouble making the jump back to wood. Once I started transferring directly to wood my success rate jumped to the high 90s.
Thx for the pro tip! Iām going to start skipping the cardboard and spreading the wood chips directly.
Even after 5+ years of hunting/gathering, Iām still such a noobāi would have never made it this far without the shroommunityāso thanks to everyone for ābeing there.ā
Now, Iām not really even foraging for myself so much as spreading the spores for others and giving away most of my findsā¦ on a personal level, this is the closest thing to religion that Iāve ever experienced.
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Mr Piggy
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: Shhhh]
#28147066 - 01/19/23 07:15 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Ahh yes, hyper-fixation.
Follow the dopamine.
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Shhhh
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: Mr Piggy]
#28147844 - 01/19/23 05:00 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Mr Piggy said:
Ahh yes, hyper-fixation.
Follow the dopamine.
Haha, thatās me!
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: Shhhh] 1
#28148461 - 01/20/23 06:59 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Shhhh
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: Mr Piggy] 1
#28149497 - 01/20/23 07:39 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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āYou said it manā
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Shhhh
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: Shhhh]
#28151706 - 01/22/23 08:34 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Hereās a question for seasoned foragersābut first, context:
Iāve been finding actives in the east bay for just about five years and although Iāve found flushes in similar areas, i have yet to see the exact same spot fruit more than onceāeven in places where mycelial network flourishes and i find flushes that have yielded dozens of cyans and/or allenii.
Having said that, most of the past few years Iāve left town during the fall / winter holidays right when the rain and cooler temperatures are hitting and i canāt say for sure that one or more spots hasnāt bloomed when Iām out of town. Usually, I check as many spots as i can when i return and Iāve never found anything in the same spot twice.
So i guess my question is how often do you harvest from the same spot more than once?
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: Shhhh]
#28151843 - 01/22/23 10:08 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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I hunt mostly allenii (which donāt fruit as many times per season as cyans) but probably 2/3 of my spots fruit consistently every year. They do all fruit at different times though. I had a couple spots last year that produced huge flushes of huge mushrooms, but this year conditions werenāt optimal for those spots and they started flushing pins and most of them aborted or were very small fruits that I didnāt even waste my time harvesting. I have one cyan spot that Iāve only harvest from for the last two seasons, but even that has produced both years. It didnāt flush out as well this year as it did last year, but thatās kind of the luck of the draw as is said.
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Edited by Dandurn777 (01/22/23 10:09 AM)
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afrogus
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: Shhhh]
#28153403 - 01/23/23 08:38 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Shhhh said:
Hereās a question for seasoned foragersābut first, context:
Iāve been finding actives in the east bay for just about five years and although Iāve found flushes in similar areas, i have yet to see the exact same spot fruit more than onceāeven in places where mycelial network flourishes and i find flushes that have yielded dozens of cyans and/or allenii.
Having said that, most of the past few years Iāve left town during the fall / winter holidays right when the rain and cooler temperatures are hitting and i canāt say for sure that one or more spots hasnāt bloomed when Iām out of town. Usually, I check as many spots as i can when i return and Iāve never found anything in the same spot twice.
So i guess my question is how often do you harvest from the same spot more than once?
Iāve been foraging for about a decade or so. Most of the original spots I found flushed for as many as 5 years, and then stopped all together. In general I personally get about 4-5 years on one spot, and then Iām on to another. I imagine those old spots that stalled will eventually flush againā¦ā¦
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justjarvis
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: afrogus] 2
#28226385 - 03/12/23 12:41 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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well, maybe we're in store for a late season flush?
cyan pins from a known location in SF. I bet there's more out there!!!
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Dandurn777
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Re: Official Bay Area Actives 2022 [Re: justjarvis]
#28227040 - 03/12/23 10:44 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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well, maybe we're in store for a late season flush?
cyan pins from a known location in SF. I bet there's more out there!!!
Thatās amazing!
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