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Re: March [Re: auweia]
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here's something extra special for next year




I bike around the bay all year, summer and winter..the above photo is a brand spanking new park somewhere in the city of San Francisco (but I'll never say where, exactly)..I mean, less than a month old, and it's still locked up...but as you can see, the landscaping is ...is...is...woodchips

I know of at least 5 other brand spanking new parks like this(around the bay), not even listed on any maps yet, filled with woodchips...some of them already heavy with red hypholoma


you could only come across this type of thing if you bicycle around the San Francisco bay ALOT...I recommend it even in summer time..

it's good for you...healthy excercise anyway you look at it :smile:


technically, they are public parks, but they are soooo obscure, it's not even on any maps yet...hehe

Edited by auweia (03/01/07 10:52 PM)

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Re: March [Re: auweia]
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Earth quake?  I felt nothing.

I find all sorts of huge, hidden away wood chipped areas with plenty of trees and grass for shade.  But the Stropharias and Tubarias seem to be the only ones benefitting from all this rain!  :mad:

Any speculations as to what is inhibiting Psilocybe patches from fruiting, despite plenty of rain and cold weather???
Anyone?


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Re: March [Re: CureCat]
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CureCat said:
Any speculations as to what is inhibiting Psilocybe patches from fruiting, despite plenty of rain and cold weather???
Anyone?



yeah sure...it's a combination of long term weather patterns this year...remember January!

I've repeated this so often to people offline..remember january was the 5th driest on record..it wasn't just that, but more important, it was the dry east wind > in between the storms < that blew hard and dry and dried out the surface, all along late December, january and into february

ain't no cyans gonna pin under those conditions, and neither will many other species, which is why those yellow srtropharias are almost the only ones left

not even the red stropharias recovered after that 3 month episode, and that's that closest indicator to cyans we have out there

too little, too late...this year

also, one thing I forgot to mention about these litle new obscure parks...ALL of them used to be dirt lots, and a nuisance...Many of them used to be filled with broken glass, beer cans, spare tires, you name it..neighbors complained about these dirt lots for years, until the pressure got so great that the local city hall finally took action, and made a tiny city park out of it (with piles of new woodchips too)

this effort is getting bigger now, thanks to community effort

I hereby officially advise all people around the Bay Area to do the same  :laugh:

Edited by auweia (03/01/07 11:22 PM)

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Re: March [Re: auweia]
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But when a cake dries out, you rehydrate it (dunk it), and it fruits. The substrate and mycelium have been drenched for weeks. I don't understand why the Psilocybes aren't pinning, why many other species are.

I'm sure it is simply my inexperience with the area. If I knew the patterns, it might make a lot more sense to me.


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Re: March [Re: CureCat]
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psilocybes are a bit more sensitive to temperature fluctuations than some other species...some stropharia species will darn near fruit under any temps


psilocybes and certain other stropharias are more sensitive to those extreme weather conditions

some stropharia species will fruit if you look at them sideways under any conditions...sheesh.. (that, BTW, is usually your competition, when you dig up some patches)

......even more species are even more sensitive than that, so this, psilocybe, is about halfway, as usual

it's hard to explain without showing you personally, but what anybody needs to do to propagate psilocybe this year, is to isolate a small amount of mycelium already found..

in other words, you better find a fruit pretty soon if you want to do this....otherwise...theres always next fall :laugh:

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Re: March [Re: auweia]
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I have plenty of spawn, dried tissue (including an accidental pin or two, which i understand do fairly well on agar, even dried), and a few sheets of wild prints.

I just don't like growing, hehehehe, the fun is in the hunt...... except when you never find what you're searching for.


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Re: March [Re: auweia]
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Quote:
yeah sure...it's a combination of long term weather patterns this year...remember January!

I've repeated this so often to people offline..remember january was the 5th driest on record..it wasn't just that, but more important, it was the dry east wind > in between the storms < that blew hard and dry and dried out the surface, all along late December, january and into february


I completely agree. This has been a relatively poor year for cyans in the S.F. Bay Area due to the deviant weather pattern of the "wet" season we call winter. When there is a classic, standard dumping of rain in the right weeks of late fall and into early winter, we will have a beautiful cyan fruiting. Then, it is supposed to be sustained by a regular drenching through the cooler months. It just didn't happen for us this year.

I'm glad that I finally started cultures indoors this year and hopefully will have enough colonized chips by next season to have my own substantial patch on my own property.

I also, quite unfortunately, did notice many excavated outdoor beds this season. At first I brushed it off as wildlife digging for food, but after seeing it all over multiple patches, I realized that there were a lot of people attempting to take matters into their own hands. It's unfortunate that greedy people think they need to dig out an entire established fruiting bed from a public place in order to have it all their own. I collected a total of 4 colonized wood chips about 1/2"-1" long and definitely have enough cardboard going to spawn some wood by now. Shame on you digger uppers. I bet most of them are not on the Shroomery because they are obviously not very educated. If they are on here they are lurking and scrutinizing everyone's pictures for clues to their next rape.

I hereby promise, in direct disapproval of the raping of public outdoor beds, that I will transplant as much spawn as I care to part with for next season into public places. That will be my way of combating these unscrupulous troglodytes of mushroom culture. Who will join me and spread the wood chips of love?

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Re: March [Re: BaldCuban]
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Oh...  I have a number of projects growing out, and waiting to be transplanted. 

My one patch..... I thought someone had drove their tire into the patch.  But now that you all are mentioning this patch raping, and i do recall being a little confused by the volume loss of chips in the patch, and the fact that the chips that were disheveled did not have mycelium growing on them, but they had previous to the destruction...... Fuck.  Lame asses.  I've never done close to as much damage to a patch in transplanting.  Damn ignorant jerks.  :cuss:


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Re: March [Re: CureCat]
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Nice... I just fixed a flat I should take up biking again soon.


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RogerRabbit said:
Don't assault your mycelium with peroxide.  That's like throwing acid in your girlfriends face just to see if it sizzles.

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Re: March [Re: auweia]
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auweia said:
here's something extra special for next year






I cant wait for that park to open. I have been watching that for 4 years. i saw the paper work come through the city planners office back in '03 so i have first dibs on it


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Stop experimenting half way through your first grow. Grow it to maturity, watch it, learn from it. Do this a few times then experiment with different ideas and figure out what works best for you.


My Legacy
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/22140987#22140987

Teh=The
I need to proofread

Edited by tahoe (03/03/07 10:52 AM)

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Re: March [Re: auweia]
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Whoa, I had no idea you guys were still finding cyans.

Cool.

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Re: March [Re: psiclops]
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Just Auweia.  :bored:


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Re: March [Re: CureCat]
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nice finds everyone!

im in melbourne australia
it seems like last season was forever ago!!!

going threw this thread is giving me itchy feet..

I WANNA HUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!

newayz.. good shit! peeece


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Re: Official Fall 2006 Winter 2007 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: shroomer_nick]
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Is MT. Diablo a good place to hunt? Anyone have good hunts around Auburn CA?...Can't find anyone experienced to go hunting with....

Edited by randy420rhoads (03/07/07 10:48 AM)

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Re: Official Fall 2006 Winter 2007 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: randy420rhoads]
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It depends what you are looking for.

If you are unsure about a place, the best why to find out is to check it out.


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Re: Official Fall 2006 Winter 2007 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: CureCat]
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Any and all actives...still not experienced enough to safely I.D. myself...can't find anyone to go with...

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Re: Official Fall 2006 Winter 2007 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: randy420rhoads]
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That is likely because good mushroom hunters/identifiers are often interested in mushrooms, not just drugs. A lot of people ask me to take them hunting, and I tell them that they have to go hunting once on their own and show a genuine interest in mycology, because I don't like finding people drugs. It's not my hobby. I've taken a few people to realize how lame it is when I'm all:
"Oh- neat! look at this ganoderma!!"
"Sweet! Is it active?!!"
"...No."
"Oh."
"Hey, there are some candy caps!! YES!"
"Awesome, so we found some?!?"
"Some what?"
"you know, actives?"
"NO."

So anyway, you will probably need to find someone who hunts strictly active mushrooms, or start studying and learn to identify mushrooms safely on your own.

First lesson- The mushrooms you are after are gonna be Psilocybe cyanescens, Psilocybe cyanofibrillosa, some Gymnopilus species, and Panaeolus subbalteatus. The only one of those that are usually found in forest areas are Gyms. Start reading through this thread and do some searches you will figure out where the cyans, fibs, and subbs grow, and when.
Good luck.


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Re: Official Fall 2006 Winter 2007 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: randy420rhoads]
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randy420rhoads said:
Is MT. Diablo a good place to hunt? Anyone have good hunts around Auburn CA?...Can't find anyone experienced to go hunting with....


IO have heard that the cow pastures near the auburn airport produce libs but I havent verfied this. I have also seen people picking mushrooms at the bell road off ramp but I dont not know what they were picking. The dude had the perfect outfit. He had on his orage saety vest and a caltrans trash bag but he wasnt picking up trash. I saw him as i passed the exit so i got off on the next exit and went back to talk to him but he pulled away right as i pulled up. There was trash everywhere so I know he wasnt picking up trash. I checked around and there were chantrelles but he was picking something smaller. I have found actives in cameron park but they came in on the azaleas. Fibs have been found in sac but i havent found any. They do grow here but they just arent as abundant. PLus its too late in the season to find anything around here


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Stop experimenting half way through your first grow. Grow it to maturity, watch it, learn from it. Do this a few times then experiment with different ideas and figure out what works best for you.


My Legacy
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/22140987#22140987

Teh=The
I need to proofread

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Re: Official Fall 2006 Winter 2007 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: tahoe]
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Fibs have been found in sac but i havent found any


I was in Sonora and Columbia last month and they have a "Mushrooms of the Motherload" club at the collage there- pretty neat- after the class some of the guys took me about and showed me Fibs- I was like "up here? no way..." but yeah, that place is a fib wonderland. It was just weird being that high up and seeing actives, more than in the valley even.


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"...Gal's seem to hate the thought of blending chicken shit in a blender.
So, wash it well afterwards & DON'T tell them..."  -Agar

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Re: Official Fall 2006 Winter 2007 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: Civ]
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One of my large Gymnopilus luteofolius patches has begun to pin since the rain has quit.  One of the patches had a huge pillow-size hole about 5 inches deep dug out.  :nonono:


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