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XfnMast
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: Anglerfish]
#28526164 - 11/02/23 04:11 AM (2 months, 25 days ago) |
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Absolutely! They're a curiosity for sure... and I agree it's got to be their unpredictability that makes them so fascinating - and why it's also really fun at the end of the day! Time spent out hunting is never time wasted, from one perspective even a fruitless day gives you insight and a hands on experience of what kind of day isn't working for them... and from another perspective, a day spent out in fresh air, alone staring at the colour green is extremely healthy for the ol' grey matter.
I went out for 3 hours yesterday late afternoon/early evening, as I say we'd had a nice low temp and constant rainfall and then sunshine and temps in the teens in the day, it felt actually Autumnal for the first time. But doubt Ciaran is going to do anything to promote the season in the right direction... But yeaterday, lots of new stem and cap mushrooms had broken through which is good to see, as not even seeing galerinas, petticoats or brittlegills since the first week in autumn was somewhat disheartening.
I found 3 libs... haha... which is the curse/tease. In one field there were these patches of pretty damn weird lookalikes... they had a grey purplish hue. I took a video, There's a couple of screen grabs below:
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Edited by XfnMast (11/02/23 04:22 AM)
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Rache2020
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: XfnMast]
#28528308 - 11/03/23 06:46 PM (2 months, 23 days ago) |
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Went out yesterday in the East Midlands and didn't find any possibly there was a very old one, but not much left of it so I didn't bother checking if it was a lib. Plenty of the lookalikes that almost fooled me a few years ago (mottlegills?) and other types, but not libs. Only checked one field though. First time I've been out looking this year as I'm still deciding whether I even wanna try them again, but don't have to worry on that score if I can't even find any!
Hopefully they might appear in a few days?
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Anglerfish
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: Rache2020] 1
#28528876 - 11/04/23 10:38 AM (2 months, 23 days ago) |
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Rache2020 said: Went out yesterday in the East Midlands and didn't find any possibly there was a very old one, but not much left of it so I didn't bother checking if it was a lib. Plenty of the lookalikes that almost fooled me a few years ago (mottlegills?) and other types, but not libs. Only checked one field though. First time I've been out looking this year as I'm still deciding whether I even wanna try them again, but don't have to worry on that score if I can't even find any!
Hopefully they might appear in a few days?
Since you saw plenty of lookalikes you should keep looking in similar habitat. You might just have to work harder in order to find them. One field only is also a very limited search area.
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Rache2020
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: Anglerfish]
#28529222 - 11/04/23 03:11 PM (2 months, 22 days ago) |
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Yeh usually I would be on hands and knees looking but the grass was cut a few months ago so they should've been no problem to spot (and I spotted plenty of other little mushrooms) so I think if they were there I would've found some. I was really hopeful this year as well.
A few years ago I did multiple fields but had no luck (although that was before I was 100% on identification) once I found them in the closest field to me I just decided to stick to that one. It's pretty big and I think I'm the only one looking since it's a bit hard to get into the field now. If no luck in a few days I'll try some others though.
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Blazeyy
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: Rache2020]
#28529783 - 11/05/23 12:48 AM (2 months, 22 days ago) |
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We went to a diff spot this time, was a lovely place just pretty hard to shroom there as it was really wet and stuff. Anyway, I need either a lift from some one who drives who is close to my area so we can go to my proper spot and get a good haul or bus fair to do it myself. I have no shrooms at all as I let the people I was with have em, but if you are down to come with me then PM me on here and this time we can split it. I got bud n that, vapes, codeine, gabapentin all sorts for anxiety so it's a good time for me to go.


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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: Blazeyy]
#28529784 - 11/05/23 12:53 AM (2 months, 22 days ago) |
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Just make sure if you come with me to bring a good coat, if you don't have one I have one with a furry hood in like dark green. I like to bring a hat too for any wind or sunrays, like a cap or a kevin n perry job. Cheers. Girl or boy or non binary I don't mind what ya are I'm a decent lad me.
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Frenchjedi
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: Blazeyy]
#28529883 - 11/05/23 05:09 AM (2 months, 22 days ago) |
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Between 170-200 found today on the South Dorset Ridgeway over about an hour…by far the best haul this season. Roughly from mid October have been out for a ‘stroll’ and bumped into 30-50 a time so happy with todays finds. Hopefully a few more weeks of the season down here. Plenty of rain lately and temps about 14-16 in the day to 8-9 at night! Long grass but once one spotted and the rake the grass a wee bit then plenty more of his little friends out to play!!
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: Frenchjedi]
#28530562 - 11/05/23 12:30 PM (2 months, 21 days ago) |
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I have finally found a spot that is producing in kent.
I’m sure there are tons if spots but people are understandably hesitant to give up their abundant places to people they don’t know and tbh it’s fair enough.
I’m tryin to combine putting in the work myself with building connections with people who can hopefully see I’m not some disrespectful commercial picker, just a family man who likes to trip a few times a year as a medicinal use to combat anxiety and depression. We shall see where that takes me. For now though at least I’ve found a spot that is less than an hour away and I haven’t had to to go all the way to wales, even if it isn’t quite mushroom mountain.
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Blazeyy
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: Jimmyp555]
#28530563 - 11/05/23 12:30 PM (2 months, 21 days ago) |
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Only went for an hour with a random guy off Facebook, we got like 20 each and some amanitas, we went far too late the sun went down and we had to use a torch lol, still popping everywhere!!
So far, everyone I have met in the mushroom community has been sound as a pound!
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: Blazeyy] 1
#28530935 - 11/05/23 05:18 PM (2 months, 21 days ago) |
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Found about 50 down in Dorset a week ago Tbh I was surprised I found any down there, very scenic spots though 👍

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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: Jimmyp555]
#28530947 - 11/05/23 05:24 PM (2 months, 21 days ago) |
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Nice, I am on the border of Kent but not managed to find any around croydon area sadly.
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: dropski]
#28531676 - 11/06/23 12:06 PM (2 months, 20 days ago) |
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Hello all, looks like 2023 is going the same way the last four seasons did round these parts (SW). In blunt terms totally dry. From spots that were producing 500 in a day from 2014-2016 to absolute zero.Of course, the possible reasons and factors and permutations have been chewed over in vain. Plus one place is now unofficially OOB having been open to all for as long as I've been alive. A public right of way and a farmer's newly planted private property sign in the same field. Oh well, onwards and downwards into deep depression with not one window of relief a year.
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: YellowArrow]
#28531815 - 11/06/23 02:05 PM (2 months, 20 days ago) |
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40 grams today
I think strong winds discourage them from poking their heads above ground so hoping storm Kieran or however you spell it was a temporary setback from which we are due to recover
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: XfnMast]
#28532983 - 11/07/23 01:24 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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Any results from the vibration induced fruiting theory?
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: walksatsunrise]
#28533058 - 11/07/23 02:26 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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Finally some decent picking here with the sunshine after Storm Ciaran - close grazed top fields meeting the moors upto about 100ft above pasture.
Tried a variety of hunting experiments recently, including testing the relative strengths of each Led Zepellin album, but the results were largely inconclusive, except for Led Zeppelin 1, but that hasnt been Peer Reviewed.
This time I randomly tried not to focus on other LBMs (Little Brown Mushrooms i.e Mottlegills etc) so when I glimpsed them I immediately looked to another area, like I didnt want those focussing my attention, a bit like aiming for the right ambience aswell as environment - find alot after doing this could have been chance of course,but this is what nearly 2 months wandering in Sheep Pasture has brought me to 😂
Edited by walksatsunrise (11/07/23 03:31 PM)
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: walksatsunrise]
#28533346 - 11/07/23 07:01 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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Man yallve got some gorgeous country sides to be hunting magic mushies in. Hope I get to travel and pick these someday
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: kochab]
#28533750 - 11/08/23 04:48 AM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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Is it still worth going to Yorkshire Dales this time of the year guys? Last time I went about 3 weeks ago and I found maybe 10 libs, planning to go back to the same spot but wondering if it's worth the trip considering that we're in mid November now...
Edited by Mechrazor (11/08/23 04:49 AM)
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: Mechrazor]
#28535582 - 11/09/23 12:08 PM (2 months, 17 days ago) |
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Potential ground frost forecast here in Wales for Friday night, and I think I spotted a dusting of snow on the mountain tops today. Could be the beginning of the end of the season.
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walksatsunrise
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: FlipFlops]
#28536530 - 11/10/23 02:28 AM (2 months, 17 days ago) |
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It might be decent today before frosts but we got hammered with rain last 2 days...going to check slopes with good drainage that get full sun.
Tricky planning close by hunting let alone longer travels... trying to second guess conditions locally, but then in a whole different area aswell. Need like a Thomas Shaffernacher of Lib Cap forecasting - quite tempted to buy a cheap suit and a green screen to fill a gap in the vlog markets.
No looking at fields this week which is apparently now one of my main hobbies - should have saved some time off for later in season, so not even sure if much is growing generally...still no way im going in today if its one of the last picking days...
Edited by walksatsunrise (11/10/23 02:36 AM)
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Re: ***The Official UK Liberty Cap Mushroom Season 2023**** (No ID requests) [Re: walksatsunrise] 1
#28536861 - 11/10/23 09:29 AM (2 months, 17 days ago) |
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About 100 from a few hours today

Batch of Waxcaps for an omlette

Worth missing a days pay
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