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Mr. Cordoza
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: johnnyblaze2316]
#9224407 - 11/11/08 01:28 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've spent some time shrooming in the san joaquin and all I've ever found were subbs. I would recommend taking a trip to the bay area as has been mentioned, or check out your local state park. Once you find a nice reliable patch that you could see yourself visiting again in the future, make sure to snip the mushies with some clippers rather than pull them straight out of the ground; the latter will usually tear out some of the mycelium and make that patch potentially less fruitful in the future.
Also I would recommend eating them fresh since they lose a bit of potency dried. I've made that mistake plenty of times in my early days, when I thought drying my shrooms would make them more potent. If the taste and/or bugs is/are unbearable, just make a tea out of them. The mushroom tea will also taste a little better if you add a bit of loose mint tea in with it, or whatever else suits your fancy.
Good luck, and happy hunting!
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El Zorro
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: johnnyblaze2316]
#9224426 - 11/11/08 01:31 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I am in the central valley as well. I haven't seen more than a handful of subbs since the weather turned cool. There are some Gyms out there though. Be careful hunting gyms though. You will need to be able to distinguish them from deadly species that share the same habitat as Gyms and have similar characteristics. NEVER consume a mushroom that you are not 100% sure of.
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johnnyblaze2316
Registered: 11/05/08
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Loc: West coast
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: El Zorro]
#9225858 - 11/11/08 05:41 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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thanks guys, if i was to take a trip to the bay what genus would i most likely encounter, so i could research it
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canid
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: johnnyblaze2316]
#9226102 - 11/11/08 06:23 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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check out this thread by alan. it illustrates some of the more common mushroom fruiting in the bay area this time of year.
for actives, you should read all you can on Psilocybe cyanescens, the new species going under the name 'cyanocriscosa', or 'friscosa'.
-------------------- Attn PWN hunters: If you should come across a bluing Psilocybe matching P. pellicolusa please smell it. If you detect a scent reminiscent of Anethole (anise) please preserve a specimen or two for study and please PM me.
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johnnyblaze2316
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: canid]
#9226923 - 11/11/08 08:25 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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thanks man, nice pics!
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canid
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: johnnyblaze2316]
#9226927 - 11/11/08 08:27 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah, alan is a good photographer.
-------------------- Attn PWN hunters: If you should come across a bluing Psilocybe matching P. pellicolusa please smell it. If you detect a scent reminiscent of Anethole (anise) please preserve a specimen or two for study and please PM me.
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johnnyblaze2316
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: canid]
#9231319 - 11/12/08 03:13 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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is it a good time now in the bay area and coastal.....going this weekend coming from fresno so i figure ill hit the s. coast and 101 N. been reading a little and im hearing its a lil early and dry?????????/ let me know thanks guys.
Edited by johnnyblaze2316 (11/12/08 04:01 PM)
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frostforests
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: johnnyblaze2316]
#9231507 - 11/12/08 03:38 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm about 45 minutes up the hill from Sac and they are really starting to fruit around here in the last two days. Pins everywhere. Found a few on a lawn on my property, start looking around closer...dozens and dozens coming in.
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magicbastard
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: frostforests]
#9231519 - 11/12/08 03:40 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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cyans? in the foothills?
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El Zorro
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: magicbastard]
#9231611 - 11/12/08 03:53 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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He just means mushrooms in general. He's not finding any actives in his area.
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johnnyblaze2316
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: El Zorro]
#9231737 - 11/12/08 04:11 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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going to the bay this weekend any ideas would be great. i really need to find some actives for two reasons....1 being i really need a spore print from a decent strain as i live in ca and 2 to eat them......any info would be graet are the cyans pretty common urban/disturbed??? cow fields or twigs and leaves in the forested areas you know from expierence as i only know what ive read which is pretty contradictory and of a broad spectrum, any help and/or info would be great
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Nezzy
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: johnnyblaze2316]
#9236223 - 11/13/08 09:08 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ew Fresno... Modesto here. Also ew. Just hit the big parks in the city and be patient. Take your time and look under/near/around logs and wood chips. Although, I have found most my cyans hiding amongst tall grass in the transitional/restoration areas. Carry a stick for those hard to get places. I went out to the bay twice last week and didn't find any actives but from the looks of bay thread it would be worth another trip soon.
-------------------- In fact, everything we encounter in this world with our six senses is an inkblot test. You see what you are thinking and feeling, seldom what you are looking at. Shiqin
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johnnyblaze2316
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: Nezzy]
#9254520 - 11/16/08 11:43 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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went to frisco yesterday......tore up GGP, a lot of mushrooms but no actives......found some shaggy manes, and 2 subbs, and what i know to be a meadow mushroom, the ones with purple gills. i searched all day man, in the pines, in the eucalyptis, in the grass, the bushes, the logs, hahahhah. bummer. it was like fucking 90 degrees though, wtf is that about. oh well better luck next time.....oh but i did find a dozen of fresh oysters at the local resturaunt, so hey wtfever.
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frostforests
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: johnnyblaze2316]
#9254593 - 11/16/08 12:02 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah, I dunno if SF hit record temps, but they said a few days ago it was possible.
I think the issue is that we simply have not had enough rain in CA. It was a exceptionally dry spring/summer and so far fall. We recently just had our first real rain in 7-8 months here in the foothills around Halloween.
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johnnyblaze2316
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: frostforests]
#9254648 - 11/16/08 12:19 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah man they said on the local radio up there it was record setting,,,,,,oh yeah i wanted to give a shout out to all the bay area squatters::::::clean your fucking trash up:::::::::::, it was terrible, my girl found more syringes than mushrooms, we had to head west big time to get away from the squatters and trash, and still...........
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Re: wild shrooms in the central valley? [Re: johnnyblaze2316]
#9420579 - 12/12/08 07:19 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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