Thanks, Urbanator and Fuzzysquirelnuts, for taking my back in this thread! Stay cool, guys!
Shroomdom, I guess I came across as a dick, but it wasn't my intention to put you down or anything. I only meant that if you were pretty much educated, it would be better to say something like," Where are y'all finding your caps at this season?" or "I've searched the beauty bark for wood-lovers and it looks like the semi-field has been stripped by god-awful kids!" or something like that.
This is what I meant by telling you to humble yourself, instead of asking for tips, you should come across the "pretty much educated" person you are!
Hehe, I ain't bruising blue from your comments, so I'll say we're cool, without an aplology from either of us. Deal?
From my experience, I've found the wood-lovers in the strangest of places, so any tips from me might just lead you away from the mushrooms. You should take a long walk and scope out any green-grass area, rich-looking areas(expensive-ass white and light brown beaty bark and of course green. green grass) and office buildings. Also, look for groupings of alder trees(sometimes rare, depending on if you're in "Doug-Fir, U.S.A. LOL) for Psilocybe cyanescens. Both Cardboard and myself have found Ps. cyanescens in the midst of Alder trees mixed with Blackberry bushes this season already! Coincidental, of course. Hehe, you should also search every God-damned flower pot in Port Townsend for Ps. Stuntzii, as Cardboard and I have both found that species in flower pots, too! Hehe!
Oh, yeah, if you're looking for Ps. baeocystis, find Ps. cyanescens( as Cardboard will explain after ringing my neck) and it'll most likely turn out to be Ps. baeocystis(J/K Cardboard!).
Yeah, with the heavy and constant rains that have hit us this month, Psilocybes are definitely in abundance, man! Grass that hasn't been mowed since the last dry day, about a week ago, would be a killer place to start! You'll need to walk around in your "Psilocybe Stoop" and pay very close attention to the entire viewing area, cause a blink of your eye might lose a good troop of those soldiers. Move the grass blades around alittle and pay close attention, seriously. Most every green lawn should have some Psilocybe species growing in it. There might only be a handful, but that's better than 2 Ps. semilanceata, huh?
Another thing, the same day I discovered my newest fruitful Ps. cyanescens spot, I thought I'd found Ps. pelliculosa and started a thread on the findings. Well, MJ replied, stating that they were in fact Psathyrella species and not Psilocybe pelliculosa. Even with my shitty-camera-pics, I will still take his word for it 100%. Those mushrooms didn't blue, as Ps. pelliculosa probably will not, but had the classic "Psilocybe Look" to them( You know, the grayish gills with a hint of purplish-bluish colors and the darker blue-black ends of the cap circumferance?). I made the mistake of just calling them Psilocybe pelliculosa, instead of asking the board for and i.d. You see, this is where I should have humbled MYSELF! Hehe!
I know I was totally wrong and I accept that and will go on to find Ps. pelliculosa to prove to myself it can be done.
I can only speak for myself, Shroomdom, but I believe that each and every member, that is a regular here at The Mushroom Hunting Forum, is a "Practicing" or even an "Amateur" Mycologist. MJ is the only real exception, because he is, in fact, a True Mycologist, and he's the only one we've got. He isn't spending alot of time here this season becase I, as well as others, have badgered him quite often, because of our impression of his "ego". Either that, or he's really busy this season and doesn't have much time to spend here. He's very valuable to us, nonetheless.
Back to the point of the members being "amateur" mycologists:
OK, so many of us, whether living in the PNW, Southeast, Gulf Coast or Northeastern areas of the U.S. and Canada, are searching and searching for new Psilocybes all the time and when we find them, we feel we've really accomplished something! Sometimes it fills empty spaces in our lives, bro! Seriously! Mushroom hunters are "different" peoples, man! For instance, most people in the PNW love this place and only have one thing to complain about-----The Fucking Rain! Well, I for one of the PNWesterners, love the rainy season most of all! This is why I live here! For mushrooms, I live in South Puget Sound, Doug-Fir, WA, U.S.A., man! Period. Well, the "normal" PNWesterners will think that is very strange! Very fucking strange! So, you get the drift that I, for one, definitely am strange( in a social and mental sense), thus someone like you just might start a thread that I reply to in a strange sense that the "normal" people might take offense to. But you must realize that I think in more of a "Mushroom Mind", rather than a Realistic, Socially-accepted, run-of-the-mill mind. Can you try to understand that? I am not meaning to put you down or on a shelf for other members to laugh at you and turn their nose up towards your username.
My post was more of a welcoming post, with a boost of confidence considering you said you were pretty much well educated in the subject, man! If someone came on the Forum and started a thread asking for an "experienced" mushroom hunter to take them out and find some so that person can get himself and someone else high, I might really be a dick! I would probably tell them to just look for someone to sell them some Ps. cubensis, dried in a bag or something! LOL Actually, I probably wouldn't even respond to his or her sorry ass, anyways! hehe! I'll leave that up to my fellow Mushroom-Hunting buddies!
So all-in-all, I'm telling you that this site----this forum especially--is just as much yours as it is mine or any other of the "experienced" mushroom hunters, man! The only difference is that we've seen some in true-life because of coincidental luck and you got screwed by nature, only finding 2 Ps. semilanceata. That really sucks for you, but we've all been there and kept searching and those musrhooms always tend to show themselves to us. Believe me, once you find a good patch, you'll always find more patches, man! Always! You'll develope that Electrified Awakening that happens to our mind when we run across those Magic Mushrooms and at first glance, we know what they're all about! hehe! It's true, man! It's true!
Anyway, welcome aboard! Please stick around even after you go back home. It'd be cool to have you around, Shroomdom!
One more thing, I thank you for your invitation and unselfishness, but I'll have to pass on licking your hairy ball sack. It just doesn't sound like it'll go with my steak and potaters, man! hehe! :)
**********New Just IN-------Levi has just been awarded the LONGEST FUCKING MEANINGLESS POST IN THE MUSHROOM HUNTING FORUM'S HISTORY AND SHOULD BE HUNTED DOWN< HAVE HIS MUSHROOMS STOLEN AND BE FED GYMNOPILUS SPECTABILIS UNTIL HIS MOUTH IS SO DRY THAT IT IS FOREVER FUSED SHUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*********************
Cardboard, Shroomdom is in Port Townsend until Tuesday, Oct. 30. :( Too bad he wasn't staying all week, huh?!
Stay cool, brothers and sisters!-Levi7.
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