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fliped
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Mushroom Hunting Myths
#7498472 - 10/08/07 05:04 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I just wanted to start a post of all the annoying little Mushroom hunting myths!
The one that annoys me the most is
stomping mushrooms into the ground makes them grow back faster...
Well what mushroom hunting myths annoy all of you avid mushroom hunters here at the shroomery?
Hope this post is alright CureCat:)
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: fliped]
#7498483 - 10/08/07 05:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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fliped said: stomping mushrooms into the ground makes them grow back faster...
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libery caps are ONLY found in the early morning. i was picking at 2pm till 4pm today
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: oh_ollie]
#7498529 - 10/08/07 05:15 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah, that is like Mushrooms grow better under a full moon...
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: fliped]
#7498546 - 10/08/07 05:21 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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the only mushroom stomping myth i've ever heard is that stomping or kicking toadstools will keep them from growing back. on par with the old belief that it was bad luck to walk by them, which i believe is where toadstool kicking originated.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: canid]
#7498762 - 10/08/07 06:13 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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thats like saying pulling the roots up from a plant makes it mature faster.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: fliped]
#7498975 - 10/08/07 06:59 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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fliped said: Well what mushroom hunting myths annoy all of you avid mushroom hunters here at the shroomery?
That touching mushrooms is dangerous. lol.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: scout24]
#7498981 - 10/08/07 07:02 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Mushrooms grow UNDER cow poop
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: fliped]
#7498990 - 10/08/07 07:04 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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That plucking mushrooms rather than cutting near the base damages the mycelium and inhibits fruiting.
Not True! You just gotta be careful and wiggle them out, not rip them brutishly out of their home.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: fliped]
#7499022 - 10/08/07 07:14 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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i've heard a couple of off the wall and persistent myths and misconceptions:
'you have to flick them and then they turn completely' 'you have to squirt water into the spores with a syringe and extract them to make them active' [heard that one twice] 'when you grow them you have get some ropey mycellia and grow it under the right conditions so they'll come out the right kind to make you tr!p ballz0rz'
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: canid]
#7499038 - 10/08/07 07:17 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I love how they are not only ridiculous, but also incoherent.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: CureCat]
#7499043 - 10/08/07 07:18 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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mostly they, like all the misconceptions i've heard, come from completely misreading something or not understanding the terminology or context, then often telling it to somebody else who understands it even less and then repeats it.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: canid]
#7499084 - 10/08/07 07:26 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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But of course.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: CureCat]
#7499106 - 10/08/07 07:33 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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LOL, this one dude swore up and down that to find mushrooms, all ya gotta do is shine the flashlight on the cow patty, the magic ones will grow by the light
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: canid]
#7499116 - 10/08/07 07:34 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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i don't know about growing back faster, but stomping a mushroom into the ground would in effect smear it's spores back into a viable substrate... just don't try it with dung lovers 
let's see... hunting myths...
how about this one I've been seeing lately.
Look for the ones with purple juice. (huh?) Or the ones that bleed blue. (wtf?) Or the ones that bruise purple. (saw some of those today, but I don't think they'd make me trip bawlz0rxsxz)
any brown mushroom is okay to eat, any white one is poisonous. (good idea to stay away from all-white ones, but still... bad info both ways, and a good way to get sick or dead.)
coon is good at IDing pan subbs.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: CureCat]
#7499117 - 10/08/07 07:35 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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what actually is annoying is when people try to insist i'm uneducated or don't know what i'm talking about for trying to set them aright.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: canid]
#7499136 - 10/08/07 07:40 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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canid said: what actually is annoying is when people try to insist i'm uneducated or don't know what i'm talking about for trying to set them aright.
I encounter this frequently. I usually stop talking to these people... I don't like getting angry.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: CureCat]
#7499253 - 10/08/07 08:01 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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This one annoys me "Liberty Caps only come out when it frosts"
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: GbBaker]
#7499429 - 10/08/07 08:40 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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"dude, my friend picked some cubes and we tripped balls" Yeah, because there are fat patches of cubes all over the PNW...Just everywhere.
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I like the one of cyans grow like weeds.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: budmanman]
#7499460 - 10/08/07 08:47 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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True or false does thumping the mushroom before you pick it drop spores so they'll grow back?
A guy I went hunting with told me that, but he seemed less experianced than myself.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: Rant]
#7499489 - 10/08/07 08:56 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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No, flicking nor thumping the caps helps disperse spores. Spores will have already dropped if you pick mature mushrooms, and if they are immature, there will be no fully formed spores to drop off the gills.
If thumping or flicking mushroom caps worked, you wouldn't have to wait hours for spore prints to finish, you could simple flick the cap above the paper, and the spores would fall. Of course, that doesn't work.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: CureCat]
#7499663 - 10/08/07 09:52 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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There are some funny mushroom hunting myths here in Texass....
One I have heard is you can only pick them during the morning, "otherwise they turn to poison". Ive also seen people who think a cube cap covered in purple/black spores makes it poisoned.
Another great thing people like to say down here in the dirty south is you have to flip over the cow shit to find mushrooms. I dont understand this. I mean sometimes you can find a pin or two that hasnt poked out the side of the dung but this shit is weak.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: 2859558484]
#7500144 - 10/09/07 12:33 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah, but i like to chuckle at the mental image of inexperienced kids handling cow dung.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: canid]
#7500177 - 10/09/07 12:43 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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cubes only grow after a night of rain and thunder, and then they sprout in the morning, but after the morning is gone, they disappear....
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: fliped]
#7500196 - 10/09/07 12:49 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I love all the people that claim to have found cyans in the summer! LOL.
Or a good one I heard on Thursday actually, if you walk around a night in a cardboard fridge box (with a flash light hanging from above) along the edges of golf course fairways you'll find the right kind. Just watch out that the sun doesn't come out cause apparently that's what happened to this guy's friend and he got arrested.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: oh_ollie]
#7500552 - 10/09/07 05:57 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
oh_ollie said: libery caps are ONLY found in the early morning. i was picking at 2pm till 4pm today
hehe that one makes me laugh too... they grow 24/7
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One in three magic mushrooms will kill you..
If it has got a gold top eat it.
if it has a red cap with white spots, eat it.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: FondaCox]
#7500833 - 10/09/07 08:48 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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FondaCox said: if you walk around a night in a CARDBOARD FRIDGE BOX (with a flash light hanging from above) along the edges of golf course fairways you'll find the right kind. Just watch out that the sun doesn't come out cause apparently that's what happened to this guy's friend and he got arrested.
WHAT THE FUCK???
No wonder the dude was arrested!
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: CureCat]
#7501060 - 10/09/07 10:12 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yup, I've heard some crazy stories in airport bars!
I'll be sure to collect some more on this weeks business trip...this thread is fun to read!
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: budmanman]
#7501360 - 10/09/07 11:41 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I just hate the people that have never really gone hunting and try and tell you what to do. Or they see a picture of a cyan or lib and say, "oh yeah, i see those all the time where i work/go to school/whatever"
NO YOU DONT! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
the same people that will go out "hunting" and pick every single mushroom and them come back and ask me which ones are good. AND THEN ARGUE WITH ME ABOUT IT!
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: canid]
#7502421 - 10/09/07 05:59 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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that jackass bear gyrlles actualy claimed on international television that 'of course over two thirds of all mushrooms are poison' or some similar.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: canid]
#7502556 - 10/09/07 06:41 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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is it really true that the bright mushroom moon doesnt help? when its full
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: milkman]
#7502568 - 10/09/07 06:43 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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oh that's a lunatic notion...
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: milkman]
#7503511 - 10/09/07 10:47 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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the moon has no effect on the mushrooms development
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: canid]
#7505221 - 10/10/07 12:54 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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canid said: that jackass bear gyrlles actualy claimed on international television that 'of course over two thirds of all mushrooms are poison' or some similar.
I love how part of this guy's survival technique always incudes scaling a sheer cliff, eating a nasty looking grub, or shimmying a hundred feet up a dead tree.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: fliped]
#7505372 - 10/10/07 01:29 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well if our planet did not have a Moon, not much life would excist here on Earth. I believe the Moon phases play some role in how mushrooms behave, certainly not significant, but I am sure it has some impact. It is all speculation I suppose. From an astronomical standpoint, what is happening in our universe right now is beyond anything a human could ever fully understand.
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"liberty caps only grow on westward facing slopes"
ive heard this one many a time... and disproved it many more times...
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: Boomers420]
#7505429 - 10/10/07 01:41 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Boomers420 said: Mushrooms grow UNDER cow poop
uhhhhhhhh they do.I have found hundreds in this fashion. Another myth is about lime in the field=no mushrooms.And salt licks.These are needed for good intestinal support of cattle not to get rid of "shrooms"
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: em_bre_O]
#7505455 - 10/10/07 01:46 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Cubes grow in California. Ive argued with people about this soo many times.
They allways say, "You cant know that for sure".
I usually just give up and tell them, "Ok go and look for you non-existant wild californian cubensis, IM going to look for some cyans".
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: sui]
#7505628 - 10/10/07 02:31 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Flicking the cap drops spores" Ever done a sporeprint... no didnt think so.
"They only grow in the early hours of the morning" Yeah, just like when trees go underground overnight.
and the best one. "yeah those grow all over my garden" :|
"liberty caps only grow on south facing hills" what about flat fields?
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: blacksun]
#7505866 - 10/10/07 03:23 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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this is actualy interesting, as flicking a cap would and does release spores, only in numbers dramatically fewer than natural discharge.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: canid]
#7506284 - 10/10/07 05:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I have heard that to find cubes:
1. The cows have to have a special kind of shot. 2. The cows have to be grain fed. (not just good ole hay) 3. Cubes do not grow north of HWY 20 in GA. (wrong) 4. They will dry up in mere minutes once the sun hits them.
God, its so funny the crazy shit people will tell just because their dad's cousin's best friend, who happened to try the once in the 60's, tell them about mushrooms.
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: fliped]
#7506350 - 10/10/07 05:28 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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chewing gum and walking in a straight line at the same time will intensify the trip
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Re: Mushroom Hunting Myths [Re: blacksun]
#7506456 - 10/10/07 06:04 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
blacksun said: "liberty caps only grow on south facing hills"
its definately west facing slopes 
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I find they grow in caves. on rocks. with no light or soil. Impressive.
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