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OFFICIAL Bay area actives 2023 * 3
    #28528400 - 11/03/23 08:26 PM (2 months, 22 days ago)



Found a few allenii just now seeing how some of my irrigated spots are doing, Redwood City area. We all know as soon as it rains it's on 😁. I'll post pictures soon, had to go home to gear up to hunt.


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Stranger69]
    #28528506 - 11/03/23 11:14 PM (2 months, 22 days ago)

The weather has been so dry, even after a day of rain, it’s followed by 5 consecutive days in the 80’s with a dry wind.

Friends, if you look at the next two weeks, it’s looks wet, and never getting warmer than 67-68.

It’s time to get your walking shoes ready.


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: TheHumanist]
    #28528515 - 11/03/23 11:38 PM (2 months, 22 days ago)

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The weather has been so dry, even after a day of rain, it’s followed by 5 consecutive days in the 80’s with a dry wind.

Friends, if you look at the next two weeks, it’s looks wet, and never getting warmer than 67-68.

It’s time to get your walking shoes ready.




Right you are, microclimates and well irrigated spots are worth checking after the recent cold spell though. Off to collect what I scoped out earlier. Hopefully we all have a good bountiful year this year. Happy hunting to all whenever it begins officially.


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Stranger69] * 1
    #28529018 - 11/04/23 12:10 PM (2 months, 22 days ago)

Previous El Niño years have been very productive years.  Hopefully that continues.  Happy hunting everyone!


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 *DELETED* [Re: justjarvis]
    #28529115 - 11/04/23 01:31 PM (2 months, 22 days ago)

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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Dandurn777] * 1
    #28529118 - 11/04/23 01:32 PM (2 months, 22 days ago)

Off to a good start.



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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Dandurn777]
    #28529133 - 11/04/23 01:44 PM (2 months, 22 days ago)



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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Dandurn777]
    #28537190 - 11/10/23 01:36 PM (2 months, 16 days ago)

any day now....


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: afrogus]
    #28537258 - 11/10/23 02:18 PM (2 months, 16 days ago)

I think we need to consolidate to a single thread.  There are like 3 of them.


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: justjarvis]
    #28537266 - 11/10/23 02:25 PM (2 months, 16 days ago)

Or maybe this is the main one going forward?


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: justjarvis]
    #28538203 - 11/11/23 07:27 AM (2 months, 15 days ago)

Yes keep going with this one, this was the first one

Maybe Stranger69 can change the name to ‘Official’ with little stars ⭐ like they do for the PNW and nordic ones

In any case, Im gonna post on this thread this season


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: bush-lurker]
    #28538733 - 11/11/23 01:20 PM (2 months, 15 days ago)

Can't wait for this rain! Lazer focus on finding a patch this year.


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Mezzichai]
    #28538741 - 11/11/23 01:27 PM (2 months, 15 days ago)

Yeah.  This season start is so slow compared to the last 2 years.  But seems like it should kick off pretty soon.  I’ve visited several of my spots and haven’t seen much of anything at least in SF proper.  Up north I think is a different situation.


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: justjarvis] * 4
    #28545046 - 11/16/23 09:25 AM (2 months, 10 days ago)



They’re out there.


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Dandurn777]
    #28545203 - 11/16/23 11:25 AM (2 months, 10 days ago)

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They’re out there.




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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Dandurn777]
    #28545209 - 11/16/23 11:36 AM (2 months, 10 days ago)

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They’re out there.



Are those regular Bay Area allenii or Australian genetics? They got that neat looking umbo.

Cool to see things get going down there!


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Land Trout] * 3
    #28545315 - 11/16/23 01:44 PM (2 months, 10 days ago)




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Quote:

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They’re out there.



Are those regular Bay Area allenii or Australian genetics? They got that neat looking umbo.

Cool to see things get going down there!




I don’t know. I made a post last year specifically about this mutant colony I had found and suspected to be azures. There we’re differing opinions on them last year. Many said azures, another said subs, and Alan said mutated cyans. I’m still up in the air. I think the area I hunt was started by a fellow shroomery member, and it seems to have at least 2, if not 3, distinct Psilocybes flourishing there. Also, it’s not true Bay Area. I hunt hills of the Sac Valley a few hours away. aid they were mutant cyans that I had found last year. They do have a very peculiar look to them. Definitely not like the allenii or even cyan to me.


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Dandurn777] * 1
    #28545405 - 11/16/23 03:22 PM (2 months, 10 days ago)

Nice Dandurn!  I decided to check some of my spots today, and ended up in my favorite hunting zone and guess what?  Cyans in SF!  I found 3 fairly significant flushes, left lots of pins, and harvested the biggest ones.  Not bad since I thought I wouldn't find anything out there and we've really only had a small amount of rain and fairly high temperatures nearing 70. 









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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: justjarvis]
    #28545561 - 11/16/23 05:53 PM (2 months, 10 days ago)

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Nice Dandurn!  I decided to check some of my spots today, and ended up in my favorite hunting zone and guess what?  Cyans in SF!  I found 3 fairly significant flushes, left lots of pins, and harvested the biggest ones.  Not bad since I thought I wouldn't find anything out there and we've really only had a small amount of rain and fairly high temperatures nearing 70. 












Nice finds! Love to see it starting to happen in SF! Some real rain over the next few days, overnight temps starting to drop into the 40s. :mushroom2: :smile:


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: sfmycoman] * 1
    #28545855 - 11/16/23 09:52 PM (2 months, 9 days ago)

My natural spot finally popped this week.  No irrigation or landscaping.  Under Fir with huckleberry bushes.  Ate one fresh for the hike out.  The taste was much worse than i remember and i didn't really feel any effects.  Thinking about making some liq. culture and spraying the neighborhood.  Imagine mass sporulation.



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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: KissMycelium]
    #28546557 - 11/17/23 02:20 PM (2 months, 9 days ago)

I don’t mind the taste. Not award winning, but I’ve tasted far grosser shit from natural food stores.


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Dandurn777] * 2
    #28546571 - 11/17/23 02:29 PM (2 months, 9 days ago)



Found a single allenii growing out of the base of my hydrangeas.


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Dandurn777] * 2
    #28547362 - 11/18/23 04:04 AM (2 months, 8 days ago)

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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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Shhhh]
    #28547675 - 11/18/23 09:32 AM (2 months, 8 days ago)

how are mushrooms so cool.  that is all.

ill be in the bay area around christmas and am definitely gonna check a few spots.  I need to re-up for my microdoses!


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: bush-lurker]
    #28548024 - 11/18/23 02:47 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

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Yes keep going with this one, this was the first one

Maybe Stranger69 can change the name to ‘Official’ with little stars ⭐ like they do for the PNW and nordic ones

In any case, Im gonna post on this thread this season




Will do


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Stranger69] * 2
    #28548219 - 11/18/23 05:12 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)



On the board with a cyan from coastal Bay Area.


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Pokepoler] * 2
    #28548727 - 11/19/23 04:17 AM (2 months, 7 days ago)

The rain is here and it's on I would say






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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Stranger69]
    #28549183 - 11/19/23 01:25 PM (2 months, 7 days ago)

Found a small patch in San Bruno.  But all my other spots in the south bay and SF are bone dry......


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: afrogus] * 2
    #28549339 - 11/19/23 03:48 PM (2 months, 7 days ago)

Modesto/Turlock region is starting



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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: ZenZone] * 2
    #28549368 - 11/19/23 04:19 PM (2 months, 7 days ago)

found some cyans up in the north bay today



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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: bush-lurker] * 1
    #28549416 - 11/19/23 05:07 PM (2 months, 7 days ago)

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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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Shhhh]
    #28549451 - 11/19/23 05:50 PM (2 months, 7 days ago)

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.





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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: ErnestBecker] * 1
    #28549612 - 11/19/23 08:47 PM (2 months, 6 days ago)

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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: Shhhh]
    #28550020 - 11/20/23 09:39 AM (2 months, 6 days ago)

Looking good everyone.
I gotta get out and hunt!


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: CHUCK.HNTR] * 1
    #28550428 - 11/20/23 02:55 PM (2 months, 6 days ago)

The south bay and Santa Cruz area is alive and well. I made some rounds yesterday and about 80% of my patches were producing strong. Tons of pins out there, allenii and cyanescens. Even a few patches that haven't produced in a year or two were fruiting.
I didn't take many photos, but this particular spot in San Jose was a nice surprise. I originally found a small handful here this time last year, then it got relandscaped with new chips shortly after. Now it's booming.



On a side note, a good portion of the allenii I picked up yesterday had pronounced umbo's as well. I didn't take photos, but they resembled those that Dandurn777 posted. Azure-esque, but likely cyan mutations.

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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: ZenZone]
    #28550495 - 11/20/23 04:02 PM (2 months, 6 days ago)

Y'all have some good looking patches boomin'!


About 3 weeks ago I found one small patch of cyans in a backyard of a customers place I was working at. That was a cool surprise for the day.

In my area (Humboldt) the fungi in general are poppin' everywhere, it's been much wetter this fall so far compared to last time around. I've kept an eye out for actives when I'm out & about but haven't found anything else yet.

I'd like to find some cyans in the dunes, it'd be cool to find 'em growing in a natural/wild environment like that. I took a stroll around the dunes recently and that's such a different habitat/setting compared to urban hunting, I totally had to re-calibrate my eyes & approach to hunting lol. Generally though I was checking out areas that were shaded, moist, and looked to have accumulated detritus/woody debris.

If anyone has any tips about hunting actives in coastal dunes LMK...Not asking for spots, I'm mostly just curious if they're associated with a particular plant/habitat or zone within the dunes? I've heard "they're in the lupins", and they're in the ice-plants, and in the clumps of dune grass.






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Modesto/Turlock region is starting







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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: TheMycoverse] * 1
    #28550573 - 11/20/23 04:55 PM (2 months, 6 days ago)

Damn, nice allenii patch myco!  I've been out again.

Found this lone cyan pin in a place I found a bunch 2 years ago in GG park:



That's the only one I've seen in the park so far. 

Also found a decent size flush of Allenii, but given what the weather looks like I bet the majority of it aborts pretty soon.



And more cyans out and about:



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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: justjarvis]
    #28550732 - 11/20/23 07:16 PM (2 months, 6 days ago)

These things hit hard


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    #28550738 - 11/20/23 07:23 PM (2 months, 5 days ago)

I think a patch will last a good 2 years at best unless carefully maintained


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: justjarvis]
    #28551022 - 11/21/23 02:29 AM (2 months, 5 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 mĂąchĂ©:




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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: openmind] * 2
    #28552735 - 11/22/23 11:56 AM (2 months, 4 days ago)

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If anyone has any tips about hunting actives in coastal dunes LMK...Not asking for spots, I'm mostly just curious if they're associated with a particular plant/habitat or zone within the dunes? I've heard "they're in the lupins", and they're in the ice-plants, and in the clumps of dune grass.

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I haven’t hunted dunes up there but yeah I’ve heard lupin and also under blackberry bramble (it’s leaves and dead branches are good food sources for the cyans)

Further north when hunting Azzies I seem to always have best luck right at the transition zone between tree cover and pure dune grass.


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    #28552843 - 11/22/23 01:18 PM (2 months, 4 days ago)

Checked a few SF spots mostly still very dry. Found a couple in shady wet areas.



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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: CHUCK.HNTR]
    #28553056 - 11/22/23 05:09 PM (2 months, 4 days ago)

I’ve had some pretty good success but it’s all about micro climates and ground cover so far.  I’m done hunting until the rain starts again. 

I went back to check the status of my Allenii patch from 2 days ago.  Here’s what that 75 pin patch looks like now:



Nice shovel technique?  This was 2nd year in a row for that patch but it’s done.  No worries though.    Still got about 200g fresh mixed cyan/allenii  and pretty stoked about my early season hauls.  Gonna sample it this weekend.

I’m looking forward to the season peak.  Happy hunting everyone!


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: justjarvis]
    #28553288 - 11/22/23 08:59 PM (2 months, 3 days ago)

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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: Dandurn777]
    #28553328 - 11/22/23 09:39 PM (2 months, 3 days ago)

It looked pretty surgical.  Quite possible it’s just been moved and will live on.  But that flush was really nice and I doubt they will survive the move.


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: justjarvis] * 3
    #28555540 - 11/24/23 11:24 PM (2 months, 1 day ago)

I typically find cyans so I get thrilled when some allenii grace me! (North Bay)


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: CHUCK.HNTR] * 1
    #28555923 - 11/25/23 10:53 AM (2 months, 1 day ago)

Nice allenii.  I'm here in north bay too, but not doing any serious hunting.  I still managed to find what looks like active pans.  Also found this guy on a short hike yesterday.  Hard to tell from this distance shot but this amanita was the size of a large hat.



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    #28556922 - 11/26/23 09:13 AM (2 months, 10 hours ago)

Sacramento is on the board. Checked my two best patches last week and only a few pins were up looks like they’ve all aborted now. I decided to check some new spots. Found this giant allenii patch at the first location I went to. Many had dried out but there was a ton of pinning still happening so hopefully some irrigation will help them along.


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    #28557232 - 11/26/23 01:36 PM (2 months, 5 hours ago)

wow thats a crazy patch

looks like somebody might have tossed myceliated birdseed all over that place


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: distancesocial]
    #28557511 - 11/26/23 05:04 PM (2 months, 2 hours ago)

Wow, nice patch!  Definitely looks like one of those familiar patches I've seen posted over the years from the central valley.


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    #28557638 - 11/26/23 06:31 PM (2 months, 48 minutes ago)

Killer patch distancesocial. Stoked to see y'all finding during this dry spell!

Last week's leaf tek served me well this morning. Most other patches were bone dry.




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    #28558113 - 11/27/23 09:04 AM (1 month, 30 days ago)

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Last week's leaf tek served me well this morning. Most other patches were bone dry.





Nice work Mycoverse—
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    #28559447 - 11/28/23 01:02 PM (1 month, 29 days ago)



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    #28559567 - 11/28/23 02:57 PM (1 month, 29 days ago)

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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    #28564022 - 12/01/23 04:43 PM (1 month, 26 days ago)

Had a pretty good day here in SF. 

Here's my hunting partner:



Found this lovely cyan patch almost immediately:



And then found a pretty decent allenii flush but no insitu pics. 

The haul (allenii in front, cyans in the rear):


2 big patches within minutes of hunting.  And then the slow trickle of lesser but still appreciated finds. 

I guess you don't really need a lot of rain, just need the right micro climate.

These were all from the same general area I've been hunting this season.  I kinda think this could be one of those neighborhoods where Alan used to live.  I certainly think somebody spread the love over there.  I'm doing my part too.


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: justjarvis]
    #28565060 - 12/02/23 10:27 AM (1 month, 25 days ago)

Wow great finds!


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    #28565231 - 12/02/23 12:46 PM (1 month, 25 days ago)

Checked 4 old patches the other day, No signs of life. Psilocybes at least. I'm gonna poke around at some new spots this weekend!


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    #28565670 - 12/02/23 06:06 PM (1 month, 25 days ago)

Most of my spots are barren too.  I did manage to find these cyans complete with slug attached. 



They are out there in shady spots with ground cover.


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    #28566027 - 12/02/23 09:55 PM (1 month, 24 days ago)

Yep. Only a few popping up atm. December weather looks promising.


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    #28567134 - 12/03/23 05:39 PM (1 month, 24 days ago)

ZenZone with the zen garden find :hewut:


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    #28567195 - 12/03/23 05:58 PM (1 month, 24 days ago)

Love the Myc crawling over the stone shot.


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    #28567287 - 12/03/23 06:40 PM (1 month, 24 days ago)

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ZenZone with the zen garden find :hewut:




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Love the Myc crawling over the stone shot.




Me too! Never seen anything like this!


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    #28567395 - 12/03/23 07:41 PM (1 month, 23 days ago)

That rock looks like it made the perfect casing! Awesome clusters.


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    #28567430 - 12/03/23 08:01 PM (1 month, 23 days ago)

Wanted to drop in and say hello to all - was out and about and saw some a nice little patch:





Visited a couple good patches from prior seasons and they don’t look to be producing (looks like wood chips were cleared out and replaced in the other).


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    #28567576 - 12/03/23 09:45 PM (1 month, 23 days ago)

Nice allenii patch zen.


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    #28568050 - 12/04/23 09:58 AM (1 month, 23 days ago)

😯😯

Ps. Allenii?





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    #28568112 - 12/04/23 10:50 AM (1 month, 23 days ago)

Yes, Ps. Alenii.  Nice find.  If you want to get an ID, it's better to create a separate thread.  But these are the goods!


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Re: Bay area actives 2023 [Re: justjarvis]
    #28570014 - 12/05/23 02:22 PM (1 month, 22 days ago)

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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    #28571347 - 12/06/23 10:24 AM (1 month, 21 days ago)

uggh yall are making me so excited to go home for the holidays and get some hunting in.  hopefully the weather lines up.

I just finished mulching my backyard in colorado and the mulch the houseowner provided was that black alder mulch I always see cyans and alleni's growing out of.

Anyone know if it's possible to try and get them to fruit in colorado?  I thought about getting some spores, inoculating them into soaked mulch, and then spread that around the rest of the mulch and hoping I can maybe luck into a varietal that can survive the mild winter were having here as it's much more similar to PNW weather this year.


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    #28571360 - 12/06/23 10:41 AM (1 month, 21 days ago)

I hope you have some luck there.  Cyans have showed up on the east coast so probably anything is possible.  Colorado does have pretty hot summers though.  I think maybe the summer may be more of a problem than the winter?  Anyway, here's to your success!

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    #28571763 - 12/06/23 04:56 PM (1 month, 21 days ago)

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uggh yall are making me so excited to go home for the holidays and get some hunting in.  hopefully the weather lines up.

I just finished mulching my backyard in colorado and the mulch the houseowner provided was that black alder mulch I always see cyans and alleni's growing out of.

Anyone know if it's possible to try and get them to fruit in colorado?  I thought about getting some spores, inoculating them into soaked mulch, and then spread that around the rest of the mulch and hoping I can maybe luck into a varietal that can survive the mild winter were having here as it's much more similar to PNW weather this year.



If you know any cultivation techniques you could clone a wild fruit on agar and then expand to grain and then to chips.
This is a good thread I didn’t copy any specific page you’ll have to weed through to find info you find helpful.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/24673753/fpart/675#28520964

I found a small handful in SF yesterday another friend found good allenii and cyan patch. They are really starting to show up in the city.


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    #28572367 - 12/07/23 04:30 AM (1 month, 20 days ago)

Well, this season has turned out to be my best so far. Every spot I check, turned out to be better and better. Mind you, they're all irrigated pretty much, shady north sides and ivy lurkers. But man, the places I've spread stems and mulch pieces over the years are paying off where they have laid new mulch down. The facilities manager at the office park where I pick met me the other day, and just like everyone else I come across, I'm honest about why I'm there. He gives me the okay to be at the place anytime I like and if anybody has a problem to contact him. I have more pictures because I am finally slowing down enough to be able to. Good luck everyone. Redwood City














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    #28572855 - 12/07/23 01:11 PM (1 month, 20 days ago)

That's awesome!  Congrats on the early season finds!  I'm also having a pretty great season, certainly my best so far.

Today, I went back to my favorite spot (SF) and it is going off!  Lots of Allenii and Cyan pins.  Too early to pick most of it, but I still made off pretty good.  I'm almost even this year between alenii and cyanescens and that's new to me.  Up til now, I've usually only found cyans in bulk. 

cyanescens pinning in San Francisco:

   

The Alenii patches I found were pretty damn extensive.  I got so excited I forgot to take pics.  I was short on time and if I had looked more I'm certain more would have been found.  Gonna be a major haul next week and if they're still there I'll take a bunch of pics then.   

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    #28573354 - 12/07/23 07:34 PM (1 month, 19 days ago)






Beginning to pick back up again.


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    #28574512 - 12/08/23 02:34 PM (1 month, 19 days ago)

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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    #28574614 - 12/08/23 03:55 PM (1 month, 19 days ago)




out and about in SF and the south Bay today.  Lots of small fruits out there- so many pins!  Hope they can make it with this dry spell upon us.


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    #28574802 - 12/08/23 06:46 PM (1 month, 19 days ago)

finally got out there to check some spots
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    #28575772 - 12/09/23 12:11 PM (1 month, 18 days ago)

Is there any way to know what kind of wood these colored woodchips are made of? I know mushrooms don't like cypress, cedar, redwood- cupressaceae family wood. Or eucalyptus. What other kind of wood don't they like?


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    #28575800 - 12/09/23 12:44 PM (1 month, 18 days ago)

They love eucalyptus from what I’ve seen.  Redwood is naturally antifungal I think.  Just about any hardwood is fine and even pine has worked.


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For sure. I think the weed control fabric the gardeners put under wood chips is annoying. I think it prevents mushrooms from growing. It also disintegrates after a while and leaves a bunch of plastic fabric pollution in the soil. Also, weeds eventually grow over it anyway.


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Went out today to a regular spot. Found a couple dozen fruitsa and left lots and lots of pins. Unfortunately, another woman was foraging and when I saw she was going over the area I just scoured I said leave those pins! Theyll grow big.  I was being friendly, but she was such an asshole to me.  Led with" It's always a man that tells me what to do"  I was being friendly.  People are so teritoral.  So much for community.


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    #28576409 - 12/09/23 09:26 PM (1 month, 17 days ago)




had a rad day hunting today, new locations, all new spots!
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    #28577747 - 12/10/23 08:05 PM (1 month, 16 days ago)

big family outing today to a public garden/park, there were cyans and allenii scattered all around. i got to teach the basics of woodlovers hunting and id’ing to my teenage niece and nephew 😜





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    #28578206 - 12/11/23 07:40 AM (1 month, 16 days ago)

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proper haul that bushlurker!  Way to train the new guard.




yeah man , my 16 yr old niece found five humongous allenii and a handful of cyans in her first half hour of hunting
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:bigyesnod:


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    #28582336 - 12/14/23 08:27 AM (1 month, 13 days ago)

Allenii in rural western Sonoma County, popping up despite the cold. No rain lately, but we've been absolutely socked in with thick fog the last few mornings.



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Allenii in rural western Sonoma County, popping up despite the cold. No rain lately, but we've been absolutely socked in with thick fog the last few mornings.




glad to see that fog is still pushing up some fruits in some places, but mostly ive just been seeing patches that are getting super dried out by now. despite the general lack of rain this season so far, im surprised by all the patches ive come across in the past week or so. heres some from today :







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    #28583817 - 12/15/23 10:51 AM (1 month, 12 days ago)

Hello, I'm Rob C in San Jose. I have been hunting/gathering wild Psilocybin mushrooms in California and Oregon for a little more than 40 years now. A field guide on the subject that I had purchased in 1981 stated that the cold loving, wood substrate inhabiting Psilocybin species (P. cyanescens, P. semilanceata, etc.) common to the Pacific North West region of N. America will grow on any type of wood EXCEPT Cedar and Redwood.
My personal observations over the years support this narrative. While I have many times observed Psilocybin mycelium growing on Eucalyptus, Oak, Pine, as well as a multitude of other wood species, I have never seen it inhabiting a Redwood or Cedar wood substrate.
Just putting my two cents in the 'collective knowledge' bin here.
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despite the general lack of rain this season so far, im surprised by all the patches ive come across in the past week or so





Indeed, there's been virtually no rain and yet I've had my best season yet.  The fog and morning dew at the coast has kept things going well in spots that have plenty of ground cover

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i think im gonna take a break from hunting until this next system rolls through next week, hopefully its arriving in time to push the season back into swing again




Yeah, I'm holding off until the rains as well.  I went back to hopefully harvest the big allenii patch I left to mature last week, but instead found another shoveled trough.  Not sure if this is a hunter or a land maintenance person.  Hrm.  No worries though, plenty of cyans around that weren't dug up:



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    #28584072 - 12/15/23 03:07 PM (1 month, 12 days ago)

For me, the biggest flushes the last previous three years I e been hunting all came mid December to mid January. Seems to be the sweet spot. At least in the valley.


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    #28584105 - 12/15/23 03:33 PM (1 month, 12 days ago)

Same here at the coast.  But that being said, this early season has been great even though the rain has been limited.  So I’m anticipating the peak window to be bonkers.  Things are primed here.  Lots of tall grass ready for the explosion.


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    #28584464 - 12/15/23 08:20 PM (1 month, 11 days ago)

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Hello, I'm Rob C in San Jose. I have been hunting/gathering wild Psilocybin mushrooms in California and Oregon for a little more than 40 years now. A field guide on the subject that I had purchased in 1981 stated that the cold loving, wood substrate inhabiting Psilocybin species (P. cyanescens, P. semilanceata, etc.) common to the Pacific North West region of N. America will grow on any type of wood EXCEPT Cedar and Redwood.
My personal observations over the years support this narrative. While I have many times observed Psilocybin mycelium growing on Eucalyptus, Oak, Pine, as well as a multitude of other wood species, I have never seen it inhabiting a Redwood or Cedar wood substrate.
Just putting my two cents in the 'collective knowledge' bin here.
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Rob1C, that’s cool you’ve been hunting them that long! OG hunter, much respect to you. Have you noticed them becoming more common as more hunters are out there expanding patches and spending spores?

Also curious about your P. semilanceata experience. How far south have you found them on the west coast? I tried many times to find them in CA and I’ve gone to the correct habitat near the boarder but my timing has been off I guess.
In OR, do you hunt them on public land or do you creep private spots? I’m always worried some hillbilly farmer is gonna shoot my ass.

Also to your point Redwood and cedar are incredibly anti fungal which makes them great wood as an outdoor building material and def added to their (especially Redwood’s) deforestation.


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    #28585660 - 12/16/23 04:47 PM (1 month, 11 days ago)



Took a stroll around the South Bay today. Found the largest patch of (pretty dried up) allenies  I’ve ever found! I’d guess  a half pound dry when all is said and done. Huzzah!


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    #28585973 - 12/16/23 07:27 PM (1 month, 10 days ago)

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Found the largest patch of (pretty dried up) allenies  I’ve ever found! I’d guess  a half pound dry when all is said and done. Huzzah!




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    #28586976 - 12/17/23 03:01 PM (1 month, 10 days ago)

Those allenii can take over of conditions are right. Two years ago, I found over 3.5 lbs dried of P. allenii during the season.


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    #28586999 - 12/17/23 03:23 PM (1 month, 10 days ago)



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    #28589628 - 12/19/23 10:57 AM (1 month, 8 days ago)


Pins are popping
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    #28590061 - 12/19/23 04:06 PM (1 month, 8 days ago)

Seems like it might be a decent year. I saw a patch that didn’t produce many cyans last year, and as of this morning, it’s teeming with life and has dozens of pins pushing up. 🙏


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    #28590240 - 12/19/23 06:05 PM (1 month, 8 days ago)

One of my big spots is showing signs of life.  I guess we’ll see.


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    #28591477 - 12/20/23 02:25 PM (1 month, 7 days ago)


They’re out there. Sf today.


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Re: Best types of wood medium to host PNW cold loving Psilocybe species of mushrooms. [Re: afrogus]
    #28591884 - 12/20/23 07:30 PM (1 month, 6 days ago)

I haven't been having luck in central SF this year despite all these great pics! None of the spots (over multiple parks) where Ive previously found them have had any although I find disturbed mycelium, so it seems others are finding them first. Hopefully I can find some although Ive never been the lucky one to find a huge patch, so here's hoping for a Christmas miracle :laugh:


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    #28591970 - 12/20/23 08:48 PM (1 month, 6 days ago)

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I haven't been having luck in central SF this year despite all these great pics! None of the spots (over multiple parks) where Ive previously found them have had any although I find disturbed mycelium, so it seems others are finding them first. Hopefully I can find some although Ive never been the lucky one to find a huge patch, so here's hoping for a Christmas miracle :laugh:




Still plenty of time. A lot of patches haven’t even flushed yet. A flush is underway at the moment though. If we get some more rain in the next week or so, it should pop off. Ca is good until at least mid January for actives.


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Re: Best types of wood medium to host PNW cold loving Psilocybe species of mushrooms. [Re: Dandurn777]
    #28592625 - 12/21/23 11:05 AM (1 month, 6 days ago)

Thanks for the reassurance! I’m hoping to get out there this weekend as it’s hard to do in the dark after work. I’ve definitely stumbled on some spots that clearly had mycelium disturbed so sometimes it’s just the luck of who’s there first. Regardless I always enjoy the hide and seek game of finding any type of mushroom, spore printing, and identifying. Shaggy parasols have been popping up a lot! I had some unexpected good news this morning though so maybe my luck is turning đŸ€­


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    #28594015 - 12/22/23 11:54 AM (1 month, 5 days ago)


Checked my patches in the South Bay and the city- mushrooms everywhere! Easily scooped up a qp dry.


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    #28594100 - 12/22/23 01:18 PM (1 month, 5 days ago)

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    #28594412 - 12/22/23 06:51 PM (1 month, 5 days ago)

Hunting was good today.  Dehydrator is packed.  I should have taken some pics but got lazy.  Gonna need to find some new spots now...


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Re: Best types of wood medium to host PNW cold loving Psilocybe species of mushrooms. [Re: justjarvis]
    #28595580 - 12/23/23 05:43 PM (1 month, 4 days ago)

this allenii patch was already pinning well before the recent rains so i went to go harvest



then this patch was right next to my car door where I parked. I thought it was hypholoma at first glance, but on closer inspection turned out to be a young Allenii patch, a bit wind bruised and dried. I would normally leave these to mature but it was a sun-exposed patch in a place where kids play sometimes, so i decided to grab them before they get trampled or dried out





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    #28595646 - 12/23/23 06:36 PM (1 month, 4 days ago)

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    #28595867 - 12/23/23 10:24 PM (1 month, 3 days ago)

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    #28596509 - 12/24/23 11:30 AM (1 month, 3 days ago)

Been kinda out of the game for the last few years, but have been going out to some of my many old spots recently. Haven't had any luck yet. Either the spots are depleted or have totally different landscaping... Good to see some people are finding them though. Gives me hope :laugh:. Anyone on here with a location/spot that still produces years later?


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    #28596613 - 12/24/23 01:30 PM (1 month, 3 days ago)

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Been kinda out of the game for the last few years, but have been going out to some of my many old spots recently. Haven't had any luck yet. Either the spots are depleted or have totally different landscaping... Good to see some people are finding them though. Gives me hope :laugh:. Anyone on here with a location/spot that still produces years later?




I bet they’re still around, even if the patches you found got burned out. Try searching other areas around the areas you used to hunt. Especially in areas of high foot traffic these things get spread around quite a lot. Conditions aren’t great at the moment. We got enough rain to get things going, but not enough to get explosive growth. Hopefully we can get some good rain over the next couple weeks and we can get a good January haul going.


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    #28596663 - 12/24/23 02:21 PM (1 month, 3 days ago)

I just landed in the bay, here for another four days.  Hoping I can go picking in that time but seems I'm a bit in between.

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    #28596673 - 12/24/23 02:34 PM (1 month, 3 days ago)

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    #28596702 - 12/24/23 03:03 PM (1 month, 3 days ago)

2 years ago this spot produced a very large flush.  Last year just a few fruits.  Now it looks like it may go big again.  The cyans from this spot were wicked strong. 

Some pins. 



Here at the coast the ground has remained damp even though there hasn’t really been that much rain.  It’s still very much going on but limited to shady spots with ground cover.  Unless you are bush-lurker and they seem to pop up everywhere you go.  Just a little jealous of those big Allenii hauls.  No complaints here though as I’ve already doubled what I found last year.


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    #28597588 - 12/25/23 01:47 PM (1 month, 2 days ago)

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Unless you are bush-lurker and they seem to pop up everywhere you go...




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    #28598987 - 12/26/23 07:50 PM (1 month, 23 hours ago)

Found a nice small cluster of Cyans today.  Nearly all the caps were two inches plus across and the stems are really beefy.  They are mature but no signs of rot.    Placing stem butts around.  Added more chips to the site they are growing. Good times and more rain coming in!



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    #28599672 - 12/27/23 10:24 AM (1 month, 8 hours ago)

both KissMycelium’s and my last photo show patches growing out of pine duff cover, and the others ive seen recently either had significant leaf cover or were in very deep shade

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I should probably retract this statement. I checked a lot of deep habitat spots yesterday, seems limited and spotty at the moment, definitely not looking like a season’s peak of plenty out there. Maybe this weeks system will bring some early year flushes, lets see


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    #28599691 - 12/27/23 10:43 AM (1 month, 8 hours ago)

Well.  They are out there but like you said
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    #28599780 - 12/27/23 12:36 PM (1 month, 6 hours ago)

The redwood needles cover over nicely aged wood chips provenance unknown.  I looked for hours after finding these little guys and it was the only score of the day.  Not complaining, as I found several choice Blewits nearby.

The cluster I found was in an extremely public place, so I picked them to protect small children and unsuspecting dogs.  hehe

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    #28599859 - 12/27/23 01:59 PM (1 month, 5 hours ago)

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    #28600998 - 12/28/23 02:46 PM (30 days, 4 hours ago)

this spot isn’t as bountiful as years past, but its finally pushing some fruits up



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    #28601121 - 12/28/23 03:58 PM (30 days, 3 hours ago)

Do the alleniis usually finish by January?


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    #28601221 - 12/28/23 04:51 PM (30 days, 2 hours ago)

in my experience, season for both allenii and cyans starts winding down first week of january, finishing up by mid-january

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    #28601292 - 12/28/23 05:50 PM (30 days, 1 hour ago)

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in my experience, season for both allenii and cyans starts winding down first week of january, finishing up by mid-january

we can find them later than that of course, but much less frequently




This is pretty much my experience too, though I was still finding cyans in April of this year.  Just not a lot. 

A couple of my spots that I found late season last year (probably January) are going pretty good right now.





Picked a little, left a lot.  All cyans. 



One of those spots was rather conspicuous and required some digging so I didn't stay too long.  I'm going back in a few days, I think there is a LOT over there and the genetics are nice with big fat stems. 

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    #28601622 - 12/28/23 10:11 PM (29 days, 21 hours ago)

I would usually agree the season winds down around mid to late January, but I feel like this year could be different. Probably only half of my cultivated patches have really flushed out, and the one local cyan patch, just flushed out for the first time after this last storm system that rolled through. Hopefully, the rain we’ve gotten the last couple days, and the systems coming through will kick things off. I see mycelium coming to the surface, and definite signs of life in my own patches, so I am hopeful. I need to get out and drive out to check my main spot after the new year.  It’s always has something decent.


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    #28601684 - 12/29/23 12:06 AM (29 days, 19 hours ago)

What’s up guys this is my new account it used to be never_2_high but I can’t access it anymore this is my new name glad to see you guys are finding actives awesome I haven’t gotten a chance to go look this year but will soon you guys take care glad to be back and happy holidays :mushroom2:


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    #28602271 - 12/29/23 01:00 PM (29 days, 6 hours ago)

Last of the stragglers. Here’s hoping this storm brings another big flush


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    #28602770 - 12/29/23 10:19 PM (28 days, 21 hours ago)

seems like my known spots aren’t doing anything at all.
but hunting new terrain has been pretty efficacious this season, lot of new spots. There are mature patches out there now, found these on a late afternoon jaunt in the rain today







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    #28602779 - 12/29/23 10:41 PM (28 days, 20 hours ago)

Damn that’s a nice combined haul.  I’m enjoying the sounds on my skylight.  I think we’re in for some more flushes.


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    #28603463 - 12/30/23 03:29 PM (28 days, 3 hours ago)

Decent amount of new flushes out there. Nothing crazy- seems the season has peaked

 still got a few weeks for sure but I see it winding down.


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    #28603766 - 12/30/23 07:41 PM (27 days, 23 hours ago)

Haven't posted in awhile, check these out. Never found anything quite like this before and have been hunting quite a long time. Resembles Psilocybe subaeruginosa, curious to see what y'all think.








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    #28603969 - 12/30/23 10:27 PM (27 days, 20 hours ago)

hi Rafiikii, wow, those are awesome looking

ive never found any subs so cant say anything except they look just like pics of them that ive seen on other threads

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    #28603987 - 12/30/23 10:58 PM (27 days, 20 hours ago)

those convex edges with that umbo look so cool

i also found something interesting today, but less unusual than Rafiikii’s

I found 8 or 9 of these clusters and instantly thought of that awesome patch that ZenZone posted early on in the season







wish I’d gotten more/better pics. it was right in front of the entrance to a building and people kept coming out so I tried to be quick. Not anywhere as extensive or as awesome as the one ZenZone found, but still got a decent haul



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    #28604052 - 12/31/23 01:17 AM (27 days, 18 hours ago)

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hi Rafiikii, wow, those are awesome looking

ive never found any subs so cant say anything except they look just like pics of them that ive seen on other threads

you found those randomly in some potted plant somewhere? is there a backstory? great pics




Pretty much popped up randomly in some potted plants of a friends of mine, and when he showed me I was like WTF!


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    #28604061 - 12/31/23 01:47 AM (27 days, 17 hours ago)

woah, thats wild
i wonder if its some exotic plant imported from new zealand or somewhere else where subaeruginosa grows

maybe it rode into town on the plants roots somehow

i remember auweia found some in the bay years ago but that was an impossibly rare occurence, so finding some in a potted plant is even more absurdly strange


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woah, thats wild
i wonder if its some exotic plant imported from new zealand or somewhere else where subaeruginosa grows

maybe it rode into town on the plants roots somehow

i remember auweia found some in the bay years ago but that was an impossibly rare occurence, so finding some in a potted plant is even more absurdly strange




they were growing in a christmas cactus pot, fairly common plant but my thoughts were the same. Wondering if maybe these spores have been cross country in there life perhaps


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    #28604643 - 12/31/23 01:49 PM (27 days, 5 hours ago)

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    #28605071 - 12/31/23 07:23 PM (26 days, 23 hours ago)

last patches of 2023
some new allenii finds to close out the year
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Godsmm
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    #28605469 - 01/01/24 07:22 AM (26 days, 11 hours ago)

I am going to do a huge photo dump on here soon. This season is insane. Best yet. I've already gotten over 5 dried pounds. The amounts are staggering. I'm spending hours a day picking spots. Good thing I don't have a job to get in the way 😁 here's a few choice pics for now. They're out there in massive numbers. Office parks are your best friend. Talk to the security guards, most of them don't give a fuck and think it's awesome. I've gotten approval to pick whole complexes this way. It's so easy to find massive numbers when you don't have to worry about anything but hunting. Just my advice. I hope y'all are finding more than me. Mush love.






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I am going to do a huge photo dump on here soon. This season is insane. Best yet. I've already gotten over 5 dried pounds. The amounts are staggering. I'm spending hours a day picking spots. Good thing I don't have a job to get in the way 😁 here's a few choice pics for now. They're out there in massive numbers. Office parks are your best friend. Talk to the security guards, most of them don't give a fuck and think it's awesome. I've gotten approval to pick whole complexes this way. It's so easy to find massive numbers when you don't have to worry about anything but hunting. Just my advice. I hope y'all are finding more than me. Mush love.









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    #28606147 - 01/01/24 05:17 PM (26 days, 2 hours ago)

I've been keeping an eye on the cyans patch I found in SF last season and it has fruited since I last checked about two weeks ago. Maybe bigger than last year at the same spot. Picked 20, left another 20 or so pins growing that I'll go back for later if others don't find them first!




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    #28606326 - 01/01/24 07:02 PM (26 days, 17 minutes ago)

My first ever psilocybe find. Im pretty sure both Alenni and Cyanscens are in these photos. Looking forward to searching more tomorrow.




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My first ever psilocybe find. Im pretty sure both Alenni and Cyanscens are in these photos. Looking forward to searching more tommorow.







Can’t say for sure about the middle picture (gill pics would confirm), but the top and bottom pics are both P. cyanescens.


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    #28606351 - 01/01/24 07:21 PM (25 days, 23 hours ago)

Yeah, those were a bit more faded, Im glad to have looked at pictures of these species for so long, because the weathering can make then look quite distinct from eachother! All bluing, but here are a few of the Alleni gills for the extra assuredness, seems to match up- attached.


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Yeah, those were a bit more faded, Im glad to have looked at pictures of these species for so long, because the weathering can make then look quite distinct from eachother! All bluing, but here are a few of the Alleni gills for the extra assuredness, seems to match up- attached.





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Re: Best types of wood medium to host PNW cold loving Psilocybe species of mushrooms. [Re: bush-lurker]
    #28607367 - 01/02/24 04:17 PM (25 days, 3 hours ago)

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in my experience, season for both allenii and cyans starts winding down first week of january, finishing up by mid-january

we can find them later than that of course, but much less frequently






That's what I've observed as well.



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Haven't posted in awhile, check these out. Never found anything quite like this before and have been hunting quite a long time. Resembles Psilocybe subaeruginosa, curious to see what y'all think.








Interesting!

Those are beautiful mushrooms, what ever they are.

I can def see the sub look to em'.



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i also found something interesting today, but less unusual than Rafiikii’s

I found 8 or 9 of these clusters and instantly thought of that awesome patch that ZenZone posted early on in the season








Cool!

Those are some primo looking cyans. I dig the aesthetic of em' growing through the pebbles, neat!

Last year I found a small patch of cyans growing in a rock/pebble bed someone had in their yard, I imagine they used to have woodchip/mulch in the same spot previously.







I've only been out actively looking for fruits around town twice so far this season but haven't found a thing. I did find one patch of cyans in the backyard of a customer's place I was working at back in October. And I've tried hunting the coastal dunes in my area but it's such a new habitat/setting for me it is a bit daunting with how much area one has to walk through/hunt, versus urban hunting where it is very obvious where they could potentially be fruiting (mulched landscaping), hunting dunes/natural habitats is a whole other game lol, they can be almost anywhere (tho I do try to focus on areas with shade/moisture retention and lots of lignin rich detritus built up).

I now live in area that has a much more ideal climate for woodlovers compared to where I used to live, I'm on the northern coast of Cali, but the town/urban areas here just don't really have a lot of primo habitats/wood chips for woodlovers. The town I used to live in had tons of shopping plazas and commercial areas and restaurants with wide swaths of mulched/woodchips in landscapes, where I'm at now there just doesn't seem to be many places with woodchips/habitat for woodlovers even tho the climate is absolutely ideal for them.

I just need to get a patch of my on going in a pot/planter of sorts.

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Re: Best types of wood medium to host PNW cold loving Psilocybe species of mushrooms. [Re: openmind]
    #28607382 - 01/02/24 04:26 PM (25 days, 2 hours ago)


Cleaned up the rest of my patches.  Getting pretty slim out there.  No new pins and only a few babies here and there.  Been one heck of a season though.


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    #28607422 - 01/02/24 04:56 PM (25 days, 2 hours ago)

The subaeruginosa and incredibly resilient and adaptable Rafiikii, i wouldn't be surprised if they start becoming a dominant species/variety on the west coast.


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    #28607518 - 01/02/24 06:16 PM (25 days, 1 hour ago)

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Getting pretty slim out there.  No new pins and only a few babies here and there.  Been one heck of a season though.




A couple of my spots are going large but I’ve been sick and unable to go check them.  There’s another spot I need to check too.  It’s gonna wind down soon but this season has been a real ringer.


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    #28607548 - 01/02/24 06:29 PM (25 days, 49 minutes ago)

Found 4 new spots today, all within a half mile surrounding the only other spot I'd found :smile:.

Picked some choice ones, left a ton behind to grow a bit more over the next few days :cool:.







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I am going to do a huge photo dump on here soon. This season is insane. Best yet. I've already gotten over 5 dried pounds. The amounts are staggering. I'm spending hours a day picking spots. Good thing I don't have a job to get in the way 😁 here's a few choice pics for now. They're out there in massive numbers. Office parks are your best friend. Talk to the security guards, most of them don't give a fuck and think it's awesome.




damn that sounds like some serious pickin’
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    #28607872 - 01/02/24 11:53 PM (24 days, 19 hours ago)










Love that mycelium




Yeah dude tell me about it. That's from one of the patches I pick at an office park I expanded on with some good genetics. Well, landscapers always put a big old pile of mulch out for a few days before they start spreading it. You know the rest of the story. But yeah that patch the mycelium is so thick and white and healthy, that the mushrooms fruiting underneath the plants we're so clustered together and huge they were uprooting them damn near. It's almost impossible to pull wood chips apart that it's so overran through it. There's so many down here where I'm at that I wish there was other people out picking to get them before they rot, but I don't ever see anybody.


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    #28607881 - 01/03/24 12:25 AM (24 days, 18 hours ago)

Here's to not legalizing mushrooms this year on october 7. Revenge of the shrooms. They're like "we're a native species, how can we be illegal?"


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Here's to not legalizing mushrooms this year on october 7. Revenge of the shrooms. They're like "we're a native species, how can we be illegal?"




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Real deal


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The monsters are out now




Yea and they're everywhere.

Four days hunting in a row for me and four days of finding new patches. I swear I'm seeing as many cyans as I am anything else. Leaving tons of pins around as well that will hopefully blossom.

Here's some pics from today.



These guys growing right around some mycena...



The picture doesn't do justice but this guy was huge, 5-6cm across. Left a dense spore print on the one beneath too.


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    #28609763 - 01/04/24 06:01 PM (23 days, 1 hour ago)

its looking good out there, im not sure it will get any better than it is out there right now for this season

some of today’s patches:












And check out this awesome pixie ring of Cyans







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:letsgo::endorse:


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That fairy circle is awesome! It’s been a huge year in Sacramento. I’ve only found a couple new patches this season mostly because I’ve been so busy harvesting my known patches. I did find a new patch up in auburn which is the highest elevation I’ve found them. I’m just gonna post a few highlights of the season.  Also has anyone had any experience getting any of their finds lab tested?





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that convex edge and umbo resemble the christmas cactus pot possible subaeuruginosa find of Rafiikii. Maybe its all allenii after all, but a cool phenotype nevertheless


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Bush-lurker - I thought the same thing when I saw that post. The patch that one was found in was by far my biggest patch last year but this year it’s barely produced anything. Many of the fruits that did come up had strange traits and were more delicate than usual.


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    #28612869 - 01/07/24 10:50 AM (20 days, 8 hours ago)

Haven’t hunted much at all this season I’ve been too obsessed with edible mushrooms and sitting in the woods.
I love the dedication of the office park hunters what a dull place to hunt, but what amazing rewards you can find.

I ran into a few other hunters in SF they all said this year has been outstanding for them. Most my patched didn’t produce much or my timing was off. Next year I’ll try and find new spots (maybe this season too if I can get out there again before it’s over)

It seems the mycelium network is strong access the board form the last few seasons of good rainfall let’s hope this trend continues đŸ€ž
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    #28617010 - 01/10/24 10:59 PM (16 days, 20 hours ago)

No pics right now but... it's been a good year for me. I found 10 new spots this season. 3 cyan spots, 7 allenii. I harvested a good amount of fat allenii yesterday. Those 3 spots had put out one flush already a few weeks ago. These were mostly mature mushrooms, no new pins. I found another new allenii spot yesterday also, but they were too far gone to harvest. So it seems allenii are more common? But in the area where I live, cyanescens have been the most common find for me, 3 to 1 vs allenii, over several years, 2 cyan spots found here this season. One cyan patch had really small mushrooms, anyone know why? Some areas have just been loaded this year, making it nearly impossible to not find any. The hunting in the coast hasn't been nearly as productive as closer to the bay. Hope this all makes sense. Some of the spots are very close to each other, but in different beds separated by sidewalk or pavement. I did not include or count those as being separate spots in the total, though.


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I’m still finding some nice cyans but smaller amounts.  Season is not over yet but it almost is.


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I’m still finding some nice cyans but smaller amounts.  Season is not over yet but it almost is.





Same here. A few scattered here and there in known spots. I for the most part have moved on to edible foraging.  twas a great active seaon for sure.


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    #28618012 - 01/11/24 07:29 PM (15 days, 23 hours ago)

I did find this monster today in a spot I haven’t hunted this year. 



Over 4” in diameter with a very fat stem.  Weighed 31g wet.  Trying to coax a print of it but it may have already dropped all its spores.  The others around it were also pretty big so I’ll probably get a print off of one of them.


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Re: OFFICIAL Bay area actives 2023 [Re: justjarvis]
    #28618082 - 01/11/24 08:37 PM (15 days, 22 hours ago)

4" damn!

But yea season is winding down. I checked my spots today and picked two mature cyans, left about 10 smaller guys that I'm hoping will put on some weight with some rain over the weekend.

Clocking in around an ounce of dried cyans this year. More than double what I found in my first year hunting last year, so pretty pleased with this year's flush :mushroom2:.


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    #28622800 - 01/15/24 10:48 PM (11 days, 20 hours ago)

Here’s a few of the many cyans I found today. 



Took it in a hurry so sorry for the blurriness.  They are still out there.


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    #28624088 - 01/16/24 10:22 PM (10 days, 20 hours ago)

Yea, I grabbed a nice haul this past weekend as well. A few spots had a second flush.

A nice little trio:



Love the caramel caps when they are wet:



A baby slug blasting off underneath this guy:



One of many patches of pins I saw that I'll be going back for after next weekend's rains:



Finally, some fresh caps from the weekend sautéing in butter :mushroom2:, read more here:



I'm expecting one more successful hunting outing sometime next week to pick up the pins.


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    #28628543 - 01/20/24 12:49 PM (7 days, 6 hours ago)

Cyans still poppin


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    #28632360 - 01/23/24 05:24 PM (4 days, 1 hour ago)

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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    #28633163 - 01/24/24 10:44 AM (3 days, 8 hours ago)

As long as it keeps raining consistently the cyans will continue to pop.


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    #28633880 - 01/24/24 10:02 PM (2 days, 21 hours ago)

Saw these little pins on Sunday.



Looks like it'll be dry for the next week or so... curious to see how big those guys will get.


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    #28635638 - 01/26/24 01:39 PM (1 day, 5 hours ago)

Checked back on those pins from my last post, and not only had they grown but a handful of others popped up around. Encouraged enough to check on a few other spots and definitely seeing a lot of new action since Sunday. One patch kicking off a third decent size flush and several patches with a few new cyans popping.

Jan 2024 has been the gift that keeps on giving.


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    #28635929 - 01/26/24 05:22 PM (1 day, 1 hour ago)

It’s definitely not over yet in SF. 



Even found a single Allenii (on the left hand side) and I really wasn’t expecting that. 

Gravy on top of an already stellar season.  Left pins.  If this atmospheric river actually happens next week I suspect things will continue.

Probably do another hunt/harvest from my favorite hunting zone this weekend.  And might even take the bike to Marin and see what’s up over there.


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    #28636021 - 01/26/24 06:37 PM (1 day, 42 minutes ago)

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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    #28636024 - 01/26/24 06:39 PM (1 day, 40 minutes ago)

:lahey:

Well done.


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    #28636166 - 01/26/24 08:26 PM (22 hours, 53 minutes ago)

Gymnopilus luteofolius from the east bay



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    #28636734 - 01/27/24 10:25 AM (8 hours, 54 minutes ago)

Nice to see some Gymn’s in the feed!
I was up the Sonoma coast yesterday hunting edibles but had an eye out in the pine needles for Psilocybe pelliculosa which I know is super rare that far south but the ground is good and soaked for psilocybes so i thought there was a chance.


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    #28636735 - 01/27/24 10:26 AM (8 hours, 52 minutes ago)

Always a chance of cool stuff out west you all are very fortunate :cheers:


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