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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: koods] 1
#28190580 - 02/16/23 06:07 PM (11 months, 4 days ago) |
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Hoping for some luck this year!
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: evlyshrooms] 1
#28191760 - 02/17/23 02:36 PM (11 months, 3 days ago) |
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The honeysuckles in my yard started flowering last week, about ten days ago. Slowly, but still the earliest I can remember in a while.
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: Hertz] 1
#28191820 - 02/17/23 03:26 PM (11 months, 3 days ago) |
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We have official leaf out in DC, the earliest in 40 years. NYC is the earliest ever recorded
https://www.usanpn.org/news/spring
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: koods] 3
#28192876 - 02/18/23 11:10 AM (11 months, 2 days ago) |
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Few more from this morning and yesterday. Temps dropped below freezing last night and will again tonight but after temps shooting back up, highs in 70/80s. Feel like more and more people are finding them around Atlanta now . Either more folks looking or they’re spreading… or both 🤷♂️
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: evlyshrooms]
#28192912 - 02/18/23 11:36 AM (11 months, 2 days ago) |
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Nice finds Evly. If I had to bet I would say more people are looking. Just look at how many new people have joined this thread in the last year or so (including me). I just wonder whether the amount of people now looking for ovoids is growing at a proportionate rate to the population growth or not.
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: MilkywayMushroom] 1
#28193085 - 02/18/23 01:36 PM (11 months, 2 days ago) |
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Beautiful finds! These growing on top of the rotten standing piece of wood are absolutely crazy!
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: evlyshrooms]
#28193104 - 02/18/23 01:51 PM (11 months, 2 days ago) |
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Beauties!
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: Mead] 1
#28194729 - 02/19/23 03:44 PM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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Fantastic Pics, evilshrooms.
It is crazy how early spring is coming this year, but I’m excited for it. I’m new to Ovoid hunting and These Official East Cost Ovid threads have helped me solve a personal 25 year old mystery:
It was Late September of 1998, at Ft. Drum, NY (about 80 miles north of Syracuse). The snow had not yet fallen, but there was frost in the mornings. It was in the 50’s during the days. We’d been in the field for a one rainy week and one dry one when my buddy comes up to me and pulls a cluster of mushrooms from his ammo pouch. He said, “Hey check out these mushrooms! Look how they bruise- they’ve got to be psilocybes!”
They were picture perfect specimens: Beautiful brownish-orange caps, with pale stems & deep blue bruising where they had been handled. I said to him, “No way, man- they look like it- but they don’t grow wild this far north”. He packed them away and once we got back to the barracks we went about trying to identify them. I’d just bought Psilocybin Mushrooms of the world, by Paul Stamets, and I’ll be dammed if these things didn’t look very similar to the books cover photo- P. Azurescens. But I knew that couldn’t be the case- not in upstate New York. I took a spore print (brown) and it passed all of Stamets’s ‘How to identify a psilocybe’ criteria from his book. But I couldn’t find anything anywhere about a Psilocybe native to the northern NY, so I was stumped. Ultimately, we through them out. I kept an eye out the rest of my time upstate, but never found another specimen. Life went on and it just remained a little mystery.
Fast Forward a quarter century: I live in MD now and am putting together a wood-lovers bed. I was browsing the wood-lovers thread trying to decide whether to do Azzies or Cyans, where someone referenced Ovoids- I'd never heard of them. After taking a deep dive into these & Previous ovoid threads & photos, I'm solidly convinced that this is what we found. Nothing scientifical about any of this, though...
Anyhow, I’m Super stoked to have found this thread & am Pulling up a chair and lacing up my hiking boots. This is going to be fantastic.
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: Daytrp]
#28194753 - 02/19/23 03:58 PM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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Honestly sounds more like Psilocybe cyans to me. Cyans are fall mushrooms that fruit more readily in colder temps than ovoids, to my knowledge. Also cyans have been found as far north as Toronto while ovoids have not. Not to say they aren’t there though.
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: MilkywayMushroom] 1
#28194765 - 02/19/23 04:03 PM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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Ovoids definitely fruit in the fall as well, some years I’ve seen them fruit more plentifully in the fall than in the spring, in the same location.
Edit:The orangish cap doesn’t really fit ovoids though, neither does the not finding them again in the same area or the close resemblance to P. azurescens, my guess from available info, is that your friend found P. caerulipes, a far more rare species, that has been known to occur in that area, since well before P. ovoideocystidiata, was reported in the region.
Edited by manOwar (02/19/23 04:14 PM)
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: manOwar] 1
#28194818 - 02/19/23 04:31 PM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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Could well have been Cyans- They didn't go wavy though. I ruled them out mainly because of location (not PNW), but I'm no authority. Going off a 25 year old mental snapshot, it Looked almost exactly like Evilshrooms 2/18 pic- top row, left, and was about 1.5" across the cap. Found at the edge of a Woodline.
But- I'm right in the middle of prime habitat for them now, and that's my great news for the year! I don't know how I didn't find these threads earlier. I've probably seen the term Ovoids and not thought much about it.
All my past experience has been with cubes, so I was usually looking at threads more related to them. I'm excited to move to a stronger & more native species, a perirenal garden, and hunting! I was out yesterday scouting around and found some prime spots- the ground is still freezing at night here, so it'll be a while yet, but I figure its nice to find the spots to watch before the poison ivy & wild roses start to come in.
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: Daytrp]
#28194849 - 02/19/23 04:53 PM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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interesting stuff, thanks for sharing
love hearing stories like that
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: sbkn]
#28194933 - 02/19/23 06:02 PM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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Fort drum is really far north and September is pretty much the least likely month to find ovoids. I don’t think there’s any reason to believe ovoids grow in far upstate New York.
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: evlyshrooms]
#28194957 - 02/19/23 06:20 PM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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you guys have me planning expeditions, it has been super warm lately and the forecast has warm weather with rains mixed in. its early but its time. guess ill look for morels too if im out.
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: dna24]
#28195087 - 02/19/23 07:27 PM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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First off- thanks everyone for your thoughts. I've never discussed it with anyone who would either care about it or know one from the other.... so its been cool to hear what folks have to say.
And Yeah, Drum is way up there, and it was late September. So Probably not. I'll never know what it was. It's just a memory now anyhow- but the lasting effect was lifelong affinity for mushrooms- Which has served me well over the years.
Hey evilshrooms- one of your pics looks like it has an ovoid fruiting off an evergreen cone of some kind or another. Do these things fruit under evergreens too then?
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: Daytrp]
#28195171 - 02/19/23 07:58 PM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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Ovoids are not at all picky about wood type. Most info that is really specific about a type of wood to use in cultivation is very outdated, as far as picking them is concerned, whatever wood accumulates in riparian zones where they occur, will be fair game for ovoid mycelium. I don’t think there are a lot of conifers in the areas of the East Coast where they are super common, but if there are branches or cones coming down the creek and being deposited in piles, Ovoids will happily devour them.
 Ovoid mycelium growing on a mix that is primarily Douglas Fir, Sitka spruce chips, Western Red Cedar sawdust, and pine shaving pet bedding, with random other wood chips in the mix as well.
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: dna24]
#28195194 - 02/19/23 08:17 PM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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Well that just made my day- I've got a few well shaded spots for wood chip beds but a few of them are under either Doug Fir or holly.
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: Daytrp]
#28195645 - 02/20/23 06:21 AM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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Quote:
Daytrp said: Fantastic Pics, evilshrooms.
It is crazy how early spring is coming this year, but I’m excited for it. I’m new to Ovoid hunting and These Official East Cost Ovid threads have helped me solve a personal 25 year old mystery:
It was Late September of 1998, at Ft. Drum, NY (about 80 miles north of Syracuse). The snow had not yet fallen, but there was frost in the mornings. It was in the 50’s during the days. We’d been in the field for a one rainy week and one dry one when my buddy comes up to me and pulls a cluster of mushrooms from his ammo pouch. He said, “Hey check out these mushrooms! Look how they bruise- they’ve got to be psilocybes!”
They were picture perfect specimens: Beautiful brownish-orange caps, with pale stems & deep blue bruising where they had been handled. I said to him, “No way, man- they look like it- but they don’t grow wild this far north”. He packed them away and once we got back to the barracks we went about trying to identify them. I’d just bought Psilocybin Mushrooms of the world, by Paul Stamets, and I’ll be dammed if these things didn’t look very similar to the books cover photo- P. Azurescens. But I knew that couldn’t be the case- not in upstate New York. I took a spore print (brown) and it passed all of Stamets’s ‘How to identify a psilocybe’ criteria from his book. But I couldn’t find anything anywhere about a Psilocybe native to the northern NY, so I was stumped. Ultimately, we through them out. I kept an eye out the rest of my time upstate, but never found another specimen. Life went on and it just remained a little mystery.
Fast Forward a quarter century: I live in MD now and am putting together a wood-lovers bed. I was browsing the wood-lovers thread trying to decide whether to do Azzies or Cyans, where someone referenced Ovoids- I'd never heard of them. After taking a deep dive into these & Previous ovoid threads & photos, I'm solidly convinced that this is what we found. Nothing scientifical about any of this, though...
Anyhow, I’m Super stoked to have found this thread & am Pulling up a chair and lacing up my hiking boots. This is going to be fantastic.
He found Caerulipes the "rare" summer/fall NY native Psilocybe. (use quotes because they aren't rare, just not abundant)
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: Mead]
#28195685 - 02/20/23 07:28 AM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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isn't that what rare means
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Re: Official 2023 East Coast Ovoideocystidiata Thread [Re: sbkn]
#28195806 - 02/20/23 09:35 AM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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Could also have been P. aztecorum
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