Bra said:

Very nice and thank you for sharing!

To me, it looks like Serbica. By the way, it's very similar to a mushroom I found not far from Brno. Take a look at the photos.


Also, I'm thinking that once I find some spore-dropping mushrooms, besides collecting spores to share with the community, I want to put the caps in bottles of water. Then, by making a hole in the lid, I can spray the spores in damp areas closer to home, it's just such a long drive to get to them
I have a few spots in mind, but there are no oaks or beeches there. I'm wondering if the spores would actually take hold.

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Bra said:

It’s far too dry here, and it was extremely dry by the creek too: there was hardly any moisture at all. I’m surprised I managed to find even those 50 grams of fresh mushrooms.
Found them today at the completely different place than I found before, about 150 km away from there in central Bohemia. ID thread with more pictures is here: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/29718054#29718054

What surprised me about the place was how quiet and peaceful it was once you got farther away from the motorway. I found a few of those mushrooms there, which should be more than enough for a trip, and I also made spore swabs to share. I won’t be able to make spore prints from them because the caps are empty and have no spores. I think both bohemica and arcana grow there.

Another thing that surprised me: I wandered around there for about five hours, and not a single person passed by the whole time! I wonder what these mushrooms will be like in a trip.

I also brought back a few little branches and sticks from the spot, the ones the mushrooms were growing on. I’m going to try introducing them to a city park where serbica has never grown. I hope they take hold. I know some very similar, damp places by a creek. I’ve read that they spread best on sticks containing mycelium. For now, I’ve put both the mushrooms and the sticks in the fridge. I think serbica should grow everywhere as it possible, and I try my best to share the genetics. I gonna bring and introduce more genetics from the whole republic at one place in the city

I made some swabs from the biggest and the most brusing fruits. If you promise to grow them, I will send the swabs, just send me a PM with your adress.

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Bra said:

I was in the woods today to forage serbica in their natural habitat at some places in Czechia with special microclimate.

It’s far too dry here now, and it was extremely dry by the creek too: there was hardly any moisture at all. I’m surprised I managed to find even those 50 grams of fresh mushrooms.
Found them today at the completely different place than I found before, about 150 km away from there in central Bohemia. ID thread with more pictures is here: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/29718054#29718054

What surprised me about the place was how quiet and peaceful it was once you got farther away from the motorway. I found a few of those mushrooms there, which should be more than enough for a trip, and I also made spore swabs to share. I won’t be able to make spore prints from them because the caps are empty and have no spores. I think both bohemica and arcana grow there.

Another thing that surprised me: I wandered around there for about five hours, and not a single person passed by the whole time! I wonder what these mushrooms will be like in a trip.

I also brought back a few little branches and sticks from the spot, the ones the mushrooms were growing on. I’m going to try introducing them to a city park where serbica has never grown. I hope they take hold. I know some very similar, damp places by a creek. I’ve read that they spread best on sticks containing mycelium. For now, I’ve put both the mushrooms and the sticks in the fridge. I think serbica should grow everywhere as it possible, and I try my best to share the genetics. I gonna bring and introduce more genetics from the whole republic at one place in the city

I made some swabs from the biggest and the most brusing fruits. If you promise to grow them, I will send the swabs, just send me a PM with your adress.

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Adas said:

Good for you man! Here the season ended before it even began. God I hate dry autumns and early frosts.. Haven't seen a single wild Psilocybe this year, what a bummer!

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Adas said:

Good for you man! Here the season ended before it even began. God I hate dry autumns and early frosts.. Haven't seen a single wild Psilocybe this year, what a bummer!

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Bra said:

I tried those mushrooms from the Kr valley in Central Bohemia. 25g fresh. Can you imagine? I saw that very valley while I was tripping on mushrooms from there! The trip was very emotional and insightful. I’ve even thought about collecting some mushrooms there and taking them fresh right in the valley to have a better connection with the place and the Earth.

I liked their effects, they were very euphoric, but I like the mushrooms from the Pardubice region best. They look very different too. I’ve tried mushrooms collected near Brno, but their effects felt very heavy and sluggish, and clearly different. The effects were consistent, too, every time I took them, so I could really notice the differences between mushrooms from different regions.

Since I’d already collected mushrooms in the Kr valley, in Central Bohemia, I also gathered some of the pieces of wood they were growing on. Although I like the ones from Pardubice best, I moved some of that wood to a similar spot near my home today, about 20 km away. It’s in a valley by a stream.
Galerina marginata mushrooms were growing there; they look a bit like serbica and grow in similar conditions, which seems like a good sign that serbica might take hold there.

I buried the pieces of wood with mycelium in three different spots where there were oak trees, lots of leaves and branches, and damp ground near the stream, and at the place with mossy wood. I hope the mushrooms take hold.
I’ll try to bring more pieces of wood with mycelium from Pardubice and establish them in the valley by the stream near my home. Then my favorites will be closer to me. Though I do wonder how much the location affects the mushrooms’ character, I more likely to think it is more about genetics than conditions...

By the way, I also saw mushrooms growing right out of the humus, right by the road!

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