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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Dandurn777] 2
#28547362 - 11/18/23 04:04 AM (2 months, 9 days ago) |
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Contra Costa County is fruiting now too! Found some Allenii in an irrigated flower garden yesterday before the rain started. Lots of pins in this patch so the rain today will help…very little shade here and some mature fruits already dehydrating and bluing in the sun and wind—a few miles away i found a tiny patch in some ankle/shin high grass where the shade and dew help the fruits grow much larger.
If you see a guy with his head down staring at his phone over there in the wood chips and shrubbery, he might not *actually* be looking at his phone — just using it as a foraging foil — happy hunting every body!



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Tiny patch in Oakland in a vast area with a TON of wood chips and manicured landscaping—was a mixed bag to only find the one flush… i grabbed some mycelium and spread it in nearby areas, seems like the best way to increase future prospects?
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ErnestBecker said: Went back to the first place I ever found actives in SF (back in November 2021) on the hunch that it might fruit early every year and found a couple of small Allenii.
Seems like out of all the patches I’ve found (which is probably around 8-10) only maybe half fruit consistently from one year to the next—not sure what’s up with that—some places change so much from one year to the next: less irrigation, variations in weather, inconsistent landscaping (wood chips completely decomposing), etc—so recently I’ve been more proactive about spreading little chunks of mycelium in good habitats.
I do love finding the same spot fruiting years after year—feels like bumping into an old friend ~~
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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: justjarvis]
#28551022 - 11/21/23 02:29 AM (2 months, 6 days ago) |
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Also found a decent size flush of Allenii, but given what the weather looks like I bet the majority of it aborts pretty soon.
Definitely. Went out today and found a couple Allenii in the shaggy grass, soaking up the dew and flourishing shade. Everything else in the woodchips is drying out real quick.
A few days ago i found a decent sized patch in a flower garden—i had my eye on the forecast: a day of rain followed by abundant sun and warmer temps. SO, i started covering the healthiest pins with rose petals, like little umbrellas overhead. Three days later, the fruits with shade were way bigger than the uncovered ones. I had to peel the petals off as they dried onto the caps like paper mâché:


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Last week's leaf tek served me well this morning. Most other patches were bone dry.
Nice work Mycoverse— You made me chuckle about the leaf tek i posted last week — glad it helped you out!
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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: CHUCK.HNTR] 2
#28559567 - 11/28/23 02:57 PM (1 month, 29 days ago) |
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Martinez, earlier today. Had a hunch about this area near the delta—lots of public parks, condos, apartments, county administration buildings, woodchips everywhere, but not much irrigation.
Found a withering patch of cyans in the undergrowth mostly buried under oak leaves AND one colossal cap that was perfectly ripe:



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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: justjarvis]
#28570014 - 12/05/23 02:22 PM (1 month, 22 days ago) |
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Walnut Creek: landscaping around the parking lot of a grocery—some frost damage on the wavy caps but the stems are sturdy.

And a few feet away a more recent flush:

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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Dandurn777] 2
#28574512 - 12/08/23 02:34 PM (1 month, 19 days ago) |
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It’s been an unusual season for me too — a decent amount of actives out there but almost no other species, until today.
All kinds of fruits are popping up in my foraging grounds with the rain and cooler temps:

My first Bolete!

And this:
 Anyone on this thread ever try to decarb Amanita by dehydrating it and adding it to a bottle of kombucha?
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Re: OFFICIAL Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Pokepoler] 1
#28632360 - 01/23/24 05:24 PM (4 days, 16 hours ago) |
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The stragglers are still out there!
Found these about 15 feet from a nice flush i came across earlier in the season—there were even a few pins that were just getting started — Walnut Creek vicinity.
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Re: OFFICIAL Bay area actives 2023 [Re: justjarvis]
#28636021 - 01/26/24 06:37 PM (1 day, 15 hours ago) |
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Found a new (to me) spot in Emeryville today. Wasn’t even really looking or expecting to find anything because 3 out of 4 of the patches i found this season stopped producing a while ago.
Then I stumbled across a patch with a few dozen fully grown cyans that were mostly ripe with a few that already started to rot:


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