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SuchSmartMonkeys
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Mushrooms in olympia
#4854602 - 10/26/05 01:01 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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hey everyone. im new to the board, so if i do anything stupid, let me know. I've posted on totse as TheMeatPirate for a number of years, some of you might be familiar with it, so i hope things will work out around here. I'm pretty new to the mushroom world. I've been hunting a few times, but never with anyone who has more knowledge about it than i, simply using books, not eating anything unless i'm completley 100% sure it is what i think it is.
I'm from Seattle, WA where i have found P. cyanescens mushrooms growing fresh a few times, they grow like madness all over town up there, lots of parks, and woodsy roads have tons of them. I'm now living in Olympia, going to school, and i've been mushroom hunting a few times, and haven't found any. I've found chantrelles, shaggy parasols, shaggy manes, boletes, but no P. cyanescens.
Is anyone from the area and know that they grow around the area? if so, what parts of town? is it just not time yet? it's rained quite a bit, but maybe not enough? i've been looking mostly in the forest and feilds, far away from and near roads, am i just looking in the wrong places? i can't think of any landscaped areas around here...
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hEAtOniKgun
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Well SuchSmartMonkeys, I havent had any luck finding cyans either in Federal Way, WA, but this is my first serious year, and im still looking for spots. But I know the only way to find them is just to keep looking, so take a look at this:
HABITAT Widely scattered to densely gregarious on woodchips, sawdust, mulch, and humus, and on lawns rich in lignin; partial to coniferous debris, but fond of adler and eucalyptus. It is fairly common in the San Francisco bay area in cold weather (December through February),especially in landscaped areas and mulched flower beds, and is also fairly common in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
So just look all around your city for areas like it describes in parks, yards, churches, schools, business parks, etc. I have also noticed a majority of the cyanscens I have seen pictures of were found in woodchips that have been taken over by other vegetation, such as weeds and vines, that recieve tons of shade.
Good luck finding.
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Re: Mushrooms in olympia [Re: hEAtOniKgun]
#4855113 - 10/26/05 03:21 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've been hunting quite a bit this season without any luck on any of my hunts but last week, i was riding my bike around the neighborhood with one of my friends waiting on a bag and i just happened to look down onto this persons garden next to the sidewalk and found a very decent sized patch.
After that, i was thrilled and i felt like i could find them anywhere so i rode my bike around the corner of the block and what do ya know... another patch at least 3 times the size of the first one in a ditch off the side of somebodys driveway. I've already harvested these two patches two times in the past 8 days or so and i'm waiting to do it again friday!!
I most certainly wont tell you where my patches are but this was on the east side of Olympia (Boston Harbor-ish). Just keep on looking and you'll find em! Try and travel by bycicle as much as possible and always keep your eyes peeled.. you'll most likely find them when you least expect it!
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hEAtOniKgun
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You asshole, what was the subtrate (what were they growing on) like in those peoples lawns mushroom?
Thanks, hEAtOniK
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SuchSmartMonkeys
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man, you just foun them in a ditch and in someone's yard on the eastside? i live in the west side, and i bike all the time, i've been in mad search of these things for ages, and have found them in seatle before, but never here...it's been raining lots the last few days, rained a lot last night....maybe i'll go try to find some after i get out of class....TESC
seriously though, i went in mad search of them on wednesday, rode my bike around all day looking for P. cyanescens, but only found a few boletes growing in someone's lawn...
where should i be looking? what type of a place did you find yours in sacred mushroom? i'm about to take a trip up to seattle soon just for the soul purpose of picking P. cyanaescens cause i know where they are unless I can find some here....
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SuchSmartMonkeys
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i have the next two days off (wednesday and thursday) it's been raining the last 3 days, i think i'm about to scout out on bike and go huntin'. what am i looking for here....i see areas all over the place like the pictures of other people's finds on this site, maybe just not out yet before...i'm hoping.
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sacred_mushroom
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In the persons garden they're growing out of very loose soil covered in decomposing grass and leaves, scattered throughout their shrubbery. In the ditch i found them in, some are growing from scattered bark while others are growing directly out of packed dirt with the mycelium above the surface (with the cover of blackberrys and grass).
Yeah, it's been dumpin buckets on us lately. This weekend i'm gonna be out and about. Last year i had a huge patch in front of my house but i was un-educated about hunting and i completley fucked my patch by not using scissors.
I found a stray Cyan amongst a large patch of Galerina Autumnalis in my neighbors bark covered lawn the other day, i'm hoping these rains wake up the rest of em!!
There was nothing special about the places i found my mushies, they can potentially grow just about everywhere it's just a matter of finding where they are!!
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SuchSmartMonkeys
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i think i'm going hunting today, i'm at my girlfriend's house in the east side, about to strike out from here when she has to go to school at 11....i've got my bike, so i can cover a decent amount of ground....on my last search, i looked mostly for wood chips and mulched areas, but i guess i'll start looking more in grassy areas with loose soil and lots of leaves...from what i've seen on here, it looks and sounds like that's the place to look...i've looked all kinds of places i would have expected to find them like the places in seattle, but found none, so today i look in new places...
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SuchSmartMonkeys
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i went hunting today, and i hit the motherload!! i found 3 patches, of what i am about 90% positive that are cyanescens, picked a bunch, made sure to leave a bunch. decent amount of pins coming up in all spots also, only one spot had them too old to pick...i didn't have scissors, i felt bad about that, but i made sure to just pinch off towards the bottom of the stem, leaving the mycelium perfectly intact for later visits...
i wasnt to make sure that i've identified these right though: 1. caps domed in small ones, wavy in adults 2. caps almost chestnut brown, bald with a little nipple on top, and a few of them have darkened spots where bruised 3. gills are light brown, older ones have darker gills 4. stalks thin and white, blue bruising where picked 5. the very small ones had the fibrous veile 6. lots growing in one location, some growing so close touching at the first place it was growing on the side of a hill that had some wood chips on it, the second place they were growing in the grass about 5 feet from a wood chip bed, then the third batch was just in someone's yard, in the grass....that was weird and i'm working on spore prints right now, i'll post the results on those in an hour or two
Flesh of the gods!
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SuchSmartMonkeys
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well, i'm positive they are P. cyanescens...is there any way possible to tak a shovel and dig out like a 1'x1'x1' chunk of the soil it was growing in and plant it in similar soil near my house? would it continue to grow?
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nihilistninja
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i'm in olympia too. been hunting for weeks and just found some amanitas today.
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SuchSmartMonkeys
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i live in the west side, and i found 3 different patches in once day. one of them was on the west side then the other 2 were up on top of the hill in the eastside, one in a park, one in someone's front yard. keep up the hunt man, you'll find some. i was resolving to not find any, i was getting ready to give up, but found my first patch on my way home.
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JadeWarrior
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I live in Olympia too and have been searching my ass off! havent found a thing, (with the exception of maybe some liberty caps, but didn't know what they were.) WHERE ARE THEY AROUND HERE! There was rumor, well more than rumor, good fact almost, of a spot over on the eastside, that they were just growin right off the road, in a little ditch, but think some guy picks as soon as they grow back. if you live in the area and could lend a tip to a desperate hunter, that would be great...im not look to steal em all, i just want to have a little fun, thanks.
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Re: Mushrooms in olympia [Re: JadeWarrior]
#4897603 - 11/05/05 03:01 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've tons of Amanitas around here though. Not sure if theyre deadly or a deliriant but theyre amanitas. Not Too interested in those myself, I lookin for some cyans. saw the picked ones myself, looked pretty good, ive looked out there and didnt find anything, also had some trouble finding access.
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SuchSmartMonkeys
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Re: Mushrooms in olympia [Re: JadeWarrior]
#4898068 - 11/05/05 06:04 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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keep hunting man, you'll find them. this was my 3rd time going out for like 4-5 hour mushroom hunts in search of specifically P. cyanescens without finding anything the first 2 times, and i finally hit the motherload.
monkey
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gilbert
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hey guys im in olympia too! its not allowed to organize a hunting party on these boards right? sorry if it is mods.
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sacred_mushroom
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Re: Mushrooms in olympia [Re: JadeWarrior]
#4898772 - 11/05/05 10:18 PM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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JadeWarrior said: There was rumor, well more than rumor, good fact almost, of a spot over on the eastside, that they were just growin right off the road, in a little ditch, but think some guy picks as soon as they grow back.
hahaha! thats halarious.. that guy is me. i found those patches while i was with a few people and now everyone knows about it.. i'm sure people are picking em, it pisses me off but i've had to many mushrooms for now. i'm tired!!
the patches looked beautiful when i first found them. there were so many pins poping up absoulutley everywhere but people started raiding the patches.. it fuckin pissed me off, there were holes in the ground where the thick spots were!! theres not to much point in going there now, there all ravaged.
read my posts earlier in the thread.. i describe the patches near **************. its funny how word gets around eh?!
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sacred_mushroom
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jadewarrior, who did you hear that from? sounds like alot of people know about it.
i'll post pics of my haul from those patches in this thread when i figure out how.
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JadeWarrior
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Well, I think i know who you are now, small world i guess. And i heard it from the guy you found them with i think.
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spores
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Re: Mushrooms in olympia [Re: JadeWarrior]
#4900095 - 11/06/05 10:39 AM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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hey,
can you kids kindly STOP FUCKING POSTING THE NAMES OF SCHOOLS WHERE YOU FIND/HUNT FOR SHROOMS?
I don't think I really need to explain why. that stuff has no place here, and we don't need to be spreading that kind of information. discussing it in pm's is fine, on the boards is not.
if anyone keeps it up, I'm gonna have to consider a ban.
I feel like a babysitter. think before you post for fucks sake... how the hell is posting stuff like that a good idea?
jesus
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sacred_mushroom
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Re: Mushrooms in olympia [Re: spores]
#4900226 - 11/06/05 11:36 AM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well excuse me but there isn't a damn thing at either one of those schools. I merely used the two places as reference points for a VERY general area of where i'm talking about. Not once have i named the locations of my patches. I've read the fuckin rules!.
who are you jadewarrior?? im sure as soon as those guys got away from me they told everyone about the patches.. not to mention one day when i was harvesting, a car packed full of people i know stopped and obviously knew what i was doing. so much for that! this is where having a private patch comes in handy!! PM me jadewarrior
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I don't care if there's anything growing there anymore or what you were using the schools as in your description of the area.
DONT POST THE NAMES OF SCHOOLS HERE, PERIOD.
that better? or do you honestly need me to explain to you why posting the names of schools you found schedule 1 controlled substances growing by on a public forum is a bad idea?
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sacred_mushroom
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Re: Mushrooms in olympia [Re: spores]
#4900253 - 11/06/05 11:46 AM (18 years, 4 months ago) |
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I understand, i just assumed that it was alright to use names as reference points. Both schools mentioned are at least half a mile away in opposite directions from the location. They have nothing to do with my patches... just a harmless mistake.
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SuchSmartMonkeys
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sorry, didn't know it wasn't allowed....i never said any high school names though, i just said 'the high school'
i checked, and all 3 of my patches had been raided pretty much. the first someone had picked a ton (luckily only the big ones) of big ones, some looking like they were snipped with scissors, some looking like they were ripped out with chunks of mycelium on the ends. they left all of them behind though, i just walked around picking up a bunch of already cut mushrooms off the ground. the 2nd patch had moved....there were absolutely no shrooms where thye were before, but my girlfriend found a few small ones in a wood chip patch, i ran over, moved a few wood chips, and found insane amount of pins, it's gonna be something fantastc in a few days if it keeps raining...the third spot in the persons yard looked like they mowed their lawn or something, cause the shrooms were all chopped up and fucked...
i still got those 2 though...i'm gonnakeep on hunting for more, i've gotten a few tips on parks to look in and such. IM me if you want to talk about it, maybe i'll tell you about my spots if you tell me about yours, or possibly want to go on a hunt. alright, peace
also, what can i do about drying my shroomies out? the FAQ about preserving them is no help. only useful one on there was putting them in the oven at 90-100 degrees, and not over...my ovens only goes as low as 150. whta can i do?
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nihilistninja
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the rage. THE RAGE!
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hitmang
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Sorry to bring up an old thread, but this seems relevant. I recently moved the Olympia area and am interested in shroomery. I know its not quite season yet, but I went for a walk today and wanted to put up a couple pics of what I found. I don't have much experience with shrooms, other than buying little baggies of dried ones. If anyone in the area is looking for a buddy to go hunting with, I'm your guy. Otherwise, I may have to go back to buying.
They were all growing in moss near my place. If I have anything of interest, hopefully someone can let me know.
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Re: Mushrooms in olympia [Re: hitmang]
#8108399 - 03/05/08 09:07 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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hitmang said: Sorry to bring up an old thread, but this seems relevant. I recently moved the Olympia area and am interested in shroomery. I know its not quite season yet, but I went for a walk today and wanted to put up a couple pics of what I found. I don't have much experience with shrooms, other than buying little baggies of dried ones. If anyone in the area is looking for a buddy to go hunting with, I'm your guy. Otherwise, I may have to go back to buying.
They were all growing in moss near my place. If I have anything of interest, hopefully someone can let me know.
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Re: Mushrooms in olympia [Re: hitmang]
#8108657 - 03/05/08 09:49 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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> If anyone in the area is looking for a buddy to go hunting with, I'm your guy.
Try the gathering forum for that, this is a public forum that doesn't allow looking for hunting partners.
We would be happy to ID your mushrooms but in the future you should make your own thread about them and include more information about the spore print color and what they were growing on.
Rough guesses from left to right:
1) An old mushroom 2) Hard to see what it is, maybe a Stropharia 3) Mycena, probably toxic 4 - 8) Galerina, deadly 9 - 10) Psathyrella, unknown
Nothing active or edible here.
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hitmang
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Alan Rockefeller said: > If anyone in the area is looking for a buddy to go hunting with, I'm your guy.
Try the gathering forum for that, this is a public forum that doesn't allow looking for hunting partners.
I most definitely would, however I have read that "You will gain access to the Gathering Forum after being a member for more than 60 days and when you have reached more than 100 posts." Being a noob, I thought I might be able to get away with it.
I do really appreciate the response and attempt to ID my mushrooms.
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Re: Mushrooms in olympia [Re: hitmang]
#8108910 - 03/05/08 10:54 PM (16 years, 17 days ago) |
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>Being a noob, I thought I might be able to get away with it.
Hehehe, no. No one gets away with it. Stick to PM's or wait until you have access to the Gathering Forum. You have a while to wait until next mushroom season anyway.
As alan said, nothing active in that bunch.
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This thread has been closed.
Reason: Old thread. You got to start your own thread for these sorts of posts, and please follow the forum rules. Other than that, please stick around and use the search:
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/search.php
You can most likely find the answer to your question if you use the search. Spend the time waiting for the season to begin by reading up so you know what to look for when they are growing.
Welcome to the forum!
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