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EADD 2012 Official UK Mushroom Thread

i took a look in my usual place beside edinburgh but i didnt see anything yet. ill try again in a couple of weeks.
 
hey guys,

short time reader, first time poster (obviously), from ireland - north leinster. hope everyone's season is going well or will get going soon.

i spent the past few weeks reading up on these wonderful fungi (including the entire UK/Ireland 2011 mushroom season thread - great read), though i've never taken them and only have sparse second- and third-hand accounts of hunters and experiences. i've tried acid and DMT though and loved them both very much. anyway, some friends and i are going hunting for these soon, for the experience of it as much as anything else.

anyway i had some questions that you fine folk might be able to shed some light on that will hopefully make our quest more fruitful. please feel free to correct any information that is inaccurate..

first off, the types we'll be hunting for (what). from what i gather the main one here is the liberty caps, but there's also psilocybe strictipes and fly agaris. i'm not too sure about this last one, one member here from wicklow said they found them but i can't information on it anywhere else.

can someone tell me the particular characteristics to look for and to avoid? somebody mentioned how caps give a purplish print when drying and their poisonous (?) lookalikes give black or rusty brown ones. and any cap with white gills is not a cap. is this what they mean by printing? as in, this is just the drying on paper, not a separate process, right? i also know libcaps can appear different in colour depending on the weather?

also, i read that the fly agaris has some sort of toxin in it. is this true? can it be gotten rid of while keeping the trippy stuff?

now, the where. wikipedia tells me caps grow in wet, northfacing fields particularly but both they and the strictipes are common in grassy fields, fertilised by cow and sheep but never growing directly from the dung. fly agaris grows from woodchippings in coniferous forests... we have a couple spots already picked, but a) is it necessary for the field to be the cow / sheep field, or can it be the adjacent one or a few ones over? what kind of radius are we looking at? do they grow in clusters, what's the distribution usually like? one post i saw said that they grow in long lines because the wind tends to blow the spores along in the same direction... as for the location itself, what kind of characteristics should the land have? altitude-wise, height of the grass, number of trees, that sort of thing. does the area of the country matter? or just that the land and weather are right?|

so..when would be the best time to go picking? both in terms of when they grow and when it's practical to spend a day in the field. what i learned so far is that it's best after rain and a bit of chilly weather (but not too chilly). is it best to go on a dry or wet day? how long are they typically out for after a rain? i read a tip that it's best to have the sun behind you so the shade makes them more visible. anything else?

and finally...how! not really looking for a "best" way to take them, just most common or practical to get the full potency and least nausea out of it..i've read drying them is advised but certainly not freezing or boiling them. then they can be cut, ground, and eaten that way or with food, or in tea. taste really isn't an issue for me (unless they're absolutely vile). how long do they take to dry? what surface/level of light/heat?

oh and this probably isn't the right section for this, so feel free to link me to another part of the board, but how does it compare with LSD? i don't mean which is better..i've seen enough discussions on the internet of people getting uppity about how it's "disrespectful" to compare the two. that's a load of balls. i'm just looking for a brief description of its effects, duration, visuals, mind-fuckery, preferred setting/time etc but how it differs from acid, since it's the only comparable experience i know..

thank you for reading and i hope you can help. apologies for the super long post..but you know knowledge is the organ of sight n all that and i'd like to be able to see :)

if you made it this far, thank you again and here's a joke for you efforts: i did shrooms with my shoelaces undone yesterday. i was tripping all night!
 
also, is there any point in amateurs like ourselves looking out for wavy caps? if so, where and how dangerous are they to get confused for bunk?
 
Is there anywhere online i can go to find out decent mushroom spots in my area? I've looked around a few times (in banstead woods) but can never find anything..

I'm from Croydon ways..
 
naughtynicknails said:
Is there anywhere online i can go to find out decent mushroom spots in my area? I've looked around a few times (in banstead woods) but can never find anything..

I'm from Croydon ways..
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As far as I know there isn't a dedicated site as to where to find mushroom fields, mainly because people tend to keep the fields they know of to themselves because that means more mushrooms for them. Also you say you're looking in woods, you'd be much better off looking in fields during the season for the liberty caps that pop up.
 
parttime crackhead said:
I most likely can. It probably doesn't involve picking up the phone & being told "I'll be round in half an hour" though, so I still can't be arsed.
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Haha fair enough bud, I've never tried it but figured it was an idea.

Sweet Fang, I'm hardly an expert, so take this with a pinch of salt, but I've picked up a little bit off a mate who picks stupid amounts every year. I'd sack off the agarics, they contain a different chemical to the magics. From what I've read its not very nice, but I don't know much about it tbh.

I think the sheep/cow fields are pretty much essential if you want a really good amount of mushies. You don't have to go when its raining, so I wouldn't bother just for comfort, and as long as the ground is wet, and they aren't gonna dry out, you don't have to go in the morning. Looking for them they're usually amongst the clumps of grass you find in farmers fields. They'll be brown if wet, and lighter in colour if its drier. You're looking for a nipple, and if wet a peelable pellicle, and a gnomes hat shape. Tbh though the best way of working it out is looking at other peoples identification threads on a certain magic mushroom forum. After a while it'll sink in what is and what isn't.

As for taking, just much them down! They taste like mushrooms to me, definitely not as bad as people make out! I've only had mild nausea off them, and if you're really bothered just drink some ginger tea beforehand, it'll sort it out.
 
Can folk maybe start putting together a list of things that make a good mushy spot? If you know what I mean. Like more specific things than just "a field with grass", if that's even possible.

As for how to eat them, we've always made tea. Just bang all the mushies in a saucepan thing, 1 or 2 teabags per person, mug of water per person, cook it up, stir them about, seive into mugs & drink (usually with tons of sugar). Still tastes like mud but it's better than just eating them imo.
 
making tea is a waste IMO, it kills one of the actives, and tastes like shite, makes the whole experience duller.

Eating them wet and fresh is best trip....if you get stomach probs just break off the cap and eat that, i used to use the stems for alcohol tinctures, crude extractions etc, but the cap alone seem to give rise to less stomach issues, I dunno if its cos the stem is where the dung/dirt is more likely to be, or if it's the fibrosity of the stem that makes it harder to digest.

Get the shrooms, about a hundred, eat the caps and top of the stems fresh...fuckin ace. much better than a 1000 shroom tea between 4-5 of you...whatever the tea connoiseurs reckon.... ;)

Field, sloping between east and northwest, or flat, or sometimes sloping another way...should have been damp in the preceding days, cold nights...doesn't need to be damp or wet to find them, for me its beter on a sunny breeezy day after a wet cool period, this is cos the shrooms are light coloured when dried by the wind and sun, and easy to spot, specially if you walk the field with sun behind you.

On a damp day, as said, they will be brown and harder to spot.

Once you've got your eye in though, you'll see a couple, get down to pick them, and start noticing others nearby, then your eye will just wander to the next patch, like magic, like a divining rod.

Doesn't always need to be sheep/cattle fields, sports fields and parks often have a lot, but are likely to be well known and so you'll think there are none there, but they've just been picked....

Just go for a wander in the country, move away from the path into grassy fields, look for clumps of darker grass, look round the edges of those clumps...

it's almost impossible to explain crackheed, if you lived down here i'd love to take you out for a day picking...once you've been shown once, it's a piece of piss, no more wondering is it, or isn't it etc, you just know....

But fuck the tea off for a start.

if you're going to dry them, again, i always just dry the caps for eating, use the stems for an alcohol tincture or something, just do some experiment with them....the dry caps are very easy to dose, they tiny, you can neck about 15-20 with a mouthfull of water and barely taste them, go down like tiny little pills... :D

if you can find last years mushroom thread theres loads of good info in there too....

But get someone to take you out, it'll be worth more than you could ever hope to read, or see in pictures..
 
Actually finding them is easy, just knowing where to look is the hard bit. No-one I know would have a clue where to look round here nowadays.

When we went picking round here it was always the front grass of reasonably new (within a few years) houses that we looked first. For some reason we were always told (by older druggy wasters, this is going to back to being about 15) that new grass was the best place to get them. Sounds like a load of shite now that I think about it but we did always tend to find them, running about like dicks at night in front of folks living room windows lol, getting chased because folk would think you're trying to rob their car or their house. The golf course was always a good shout but there's not been any there for years now, they did something to get rid of them because there was always teams of wee bams (me included) running about mushy picking when cunts were trying to play golf lol.

I didn't know tea was a bad idea. Again, that's just how we've always taken them. Whoever it was that first took one of us mushy picking that was how they said to take them & we've just always done that since. Fuck eating them wet from the field, I'd definitely spew, tea is bad enough.

Here's me talking as though I'm actually going to go picking. Will I fuck. I should just go trekking in a field or something one day when I'm doing fuck all else. I won't though lol.
 
I've never experienced any hallucinogenic drugs. I really really want to trip but I don't know anyone experienced. I'm scared to trip with someone inexperienced because if it went bad I wouldn't be able to help and I wouldn't want my trip interfered with. I only plan on doing it once so I want to be mindblowing! Has anyone tripped alone? What's the best dosage/hallucinogenic for newbies? So much info and I sitll don't know where to start lol.
 
PTCH, as a vague rule of thumb, the older and less human influence a piece of land has had on it the more likely (from my experience) you are to find mushies there. That coupled with either sheep or cow grazing there from time to time seems to provide the best pickings.
Shroom locations are extremely fickle and can change from year to year, make sure you go after several days of rain and cooler temperatures.

This seems typical of the places I have found my spots:

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