OOISI said:

Nominating for POTM November. Lovely cyans, simply beautiful. Congrats on the find!

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Thank you OOISI!

Moria841 said:

WOW! I gotta get out there and LOOK!

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BoogieManSam
And another important thing: To anyone in New England or the north east, I encourage you to go out at this time of year and look for Cyans and other Ps species that occur here in the fall but aren’t very well documented. I never see much about people looking for Ps species in this area in the fall, but they’re out there!

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Mr Piggy said:
My partner and I really like them for getting frisky

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I don’t have a partner at the moment but for the future

openmind said:

Dude! That is such a sweet magical find! Especially so randomly in an "accidental" sort of manner, at a family friend's place of all places lol, and in a region where cyanescens are somewhat rare or far & few between, not to mention it sounds & looks like they're fruiting prolifically all over that property!

I'd be so damn excited & stoked to be in your shoes and randomly spot those like you did .

I'd be like, "Those kinda look like cyans or woodlovers of some sort"...~kneels down for a better look and plucks one to look at the stipe & under the cap~..."holy shit, they ARE cyans!"...~starts looking around for more and realizes they're all over the place~


I'm assuming you've never ate any cyans or other woodlover species before? Whenever you do get around to it I'm curious to hear what you think of them. Allenii & cyans are my favorite, more potent than any cube variety I've had (tho enigma & some APE have come close) and just overall they have a special feeling & place in my heart...and I thoroughly enjoy eating them fresh, both the aspect of chewing them up fresh as well as the aspect of the effects/trip from fresh fruits (I swear there's a certain "zest" to the experience from fresh fruits that just isn't there after dried).


Looks like you'll have cyans available now every fall .

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Yeah man, the whole thing was just so incredibly serendipitous. I hadn’t been over there in more than a year and almost didn’t even go. While we were waiting for my friend and his wife to get ready to go out for breakfast I asked if they would mind if I poked around their garden. Not expecting to find much because it’s so late in the year, I walked down the front porch stairs, took literally one step and bam! Right there in one of the hostas was the most perfect little clump of caramel and green tinge just waiting for someone to noticed them. I started laughing my ass off, immediately turned around and went back inside to get my buddy.




I knew right away that it was unmistakably psilocybe though at first assumed it had to be ovoids. I didn’t make it 10 more feet before I bent down and all the sudden like magic eye everywhere I looked were wavy caps. I was completely gobsmacked!

Every time we moved some dead grass or dying tomatoes etc. they were just everywhere. It’s a pretty big space too; there has got to be without exaggeration 20 to 30 truckloads of wood chips spread out all over their property. Apparently the ground is originally Clay and he’s been building up topsoil using free wood chips for over 35 years now. Completely unreal. I couldn’t stop laughing at the absurdity of it all.

Your correct, I’ve never tried cyans before, the only wood lover I have sampled thus far is P. caerulipes. I am very much looking forward to it though. I am attempting to recruit a friend to eat them with me, but they are sketched out about possible WLP so I might just go it alone. Might not be a bad idea considering the weird horniness I’d love to try them fresh and may go back to look again next weekend for that purpose, though I’m not sure they would still be fruiting so late in the year. Probably worth a shot though.

Icyurmt said:

After searching for ovoids (NY zone 5, not far from MA) for years, I still haven’t found any. Today however I accidentally stumbled upon a giant patch of cyans in a family friends garden, just doing their thing. They were honestly everywhere I looked, I just kept finding more and more and more. 

The guy who’s garden it is has a mild obsession with wood chips (he gets several truckloads of chips from chip drop each year for mulching, so they are from tree trimming etc. not a distribution center), but these were definitely not intentionally introduced; neither myself or anybody there has ever handled cyan spores, so somehow they’ve naturally introduced and have been surviving zone 5 winters for who knows how long now.

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Holy shit man, this is incredible! Big congratulations on this find, I knew someone else was going to find them in the north east eventually You’ve earned yourself a lifetime supply of Cyans.

Regarding fruit in this late in the year, you could probably find some this weekend. Latest I’ve found them is mid-late November.


On the topic of my spot, it’s not doing super well this year. However, there was just some good rain so I’m feeling hopeful. Heres a couple pics my friend sent me:



Not much, but always good to see them coming back. I think more will start popping up very very soon.

Dandurn777 said:

How many years have they been fruiting off of the same wood chips? If it’s in a place where they’re not adding chips to it, the patch could be phasing out. These things blow through chips. I’ve had spots that got a late start so they didn’t fruit first year, even though they seemed like they had nearly completely colonized the chips. I thought for sure they’d fruit the next year and by that time the mycelium had already eaten the majority of the chips. I should’ve added some more, but I learned an important lesson. They are really good at composting chips quickly and effectively. I’ve also seen more wild patches phase out as the chips get more sparse. Seems to me like the fruits end up being significantly smaller as well once the food supply is short. If it’s at all possible, you may want to try adding chips, or starting some patches at other suitable habitats.

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I know for sure those have been growing here since 2020, maybe earlier but that’s as far as I know. I believe some chips were added around 2022? Big woodchip pile appeared there that year. I do believe it’s probably dying down. Rereading your tips of adding chips - what do you mean by “fermented woodchips”? I’m not experienced when it comes to cult stuff.


In other news… my friend just went out this afternoon and found some nice specimens. It doesn’t seem like the fruit size has been affected as he’s found some pretty good sized ones He’s going to send me a pic later of some of them laid out to get a better size reference

Icyurmt said:

Still finding them.

If your in the Northeast keep an eye out over the weekend..

~12gal of chips were moved within 50 miles + a few gallons down to Brooklyn, hopefully we will start seeing more finds in the coming years

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BoogieManSam said:

Has anyone in New England found any Ps. this fall?

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