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Best time of the year to pick Cubensis

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I lived in southeastern louisiana most of my life, and shrooming for cubensis amngst a couple other is a favorite pastime.
Yes, its almost too late in the year to find a feild crazy full of them blooming, but the fields they have been known to grow it will def still have some in clusters, you just gotta look well. Tree lines, patches of mulch w shade trees, etc

From what I've always understood the cows diet is also dependnt on the luck of the field. Something to do w grain. Some farmer intentiinally feed their cows a certain way to keep mushrooms from growing and keeping dirty hippies out their fields,lol! I guess a lot of folks in diff regions of the country don't realize how big shrooming for cubes is on the gulf coast. Haha. I'll admit I take it a bit for granted..there always around pretty much, you've just got to find the ideal places to look. These days I've been upin the pnw,
And the shrooms grow everywhere here too...only they've got the cyanesis(sp) out here.. whole different kinda hunting...
Your best bet is to talk to ppl you know that go.hunting. get some details about the fields. Pluck em before you pick em please :)

. Have fun and good luck!

They staybloomin around the gulf coast for about 8-9 months out of the year, but overall year round during different warm fronts, etc.
 
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.:Holy::Toast:. said:
Poisonous mushrooms can bruise blue as well
Is fairly sure really the chance you want to take when dealing with your life?
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The only poisonous mushrooms which truly stain blue are boletes, and they do not have spores. You wouldn't mistake them for a cube in a million years unless you're an idiot. They're also not that toxic - just a little diarrhea, cramps, etc.

Now when it comes to cubensis.. June to August are the best months. They don't grow north of Tennessee at all, the farther south you are, the more there's gonna be (in the US).

Florida is the best state for cubes. I've made a few trips down there just to pick mushrooms and we're talking several pounds dried in a week of searching. We could have done better I surmise had we not been trespassing. Florida also has several other active species stronger than cubes that we didn't know to search for.

Whoever said something about cubensis growing in PNW is way off. They are thinking of wood-lovers which grow in abundance. Psilocybe cyanescens and psilocybe azurescens. They are quite a bit more potent than cubensis. That area of the US also has a lot of pannaeolus subbalteatus which grows in shit and aren't as potent as cubensis.
 
Lsd cruiser: I said I said spent most of my life in louisiana where cubensis are plentiful, but that these days I a, mostly up in the pnw and they have syanescens..I just wasmt sure how to spell it. They grow all over out here too! I've found a perfect spot where there is a nature trail running along the river, and mulched trees at.the bsnk where they seem to love growimg out of that mulch.
As opposed to cubes which tend to.grow out of manure...
 
I've gotta admit...picking mushrooms while I'm walking my dog on a trail is a lot more chill than jumping barbed wire fences and risking getting shot with rock salt.ouch lol
 
Admittedly I skimmed the thread as quick as I could so I could get my 2 cents in as quick as possible. Must have misread you. You know how that goes. ;)

I'd say PNW is equal if not better than the gulf in terms of what grows there and especially the risk you must take in acquiring. All the hippies picking mushies right in the middle of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park must be a sight to see. I'm actually pretty sure FL has azures and cyans too. They have around a dozen different active species of active mushies besides cubes. Next time I make it out to somewhere that actually has mushrooms (pretty rare here in Ohio, we just got the rare pann subbs and a few others even rarer) I'm going to look for more than just cubes.

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ACTUALLY it was Weadazoid I was referring to, not you. But any who it doesn't matter.
 
Yeah oregon is the shit for hunting no doubt. I've had the azures twice...found them once growing off some tree roots, and was gifted some once that were home grown actually back home in the south. Thosepuppies are super potent..I've told the story in a diff thread here..they caused me a psychedelic blackout..
The cyans are waaayy more chill, relaxing, stoned feeling. They grow everywhere..in my front yard and allalong the williamette river offthenature trails. I found a few clusters in my neighbors front yard I just couldn't pass up a few weeks ago. Neighbor came out and said 'what are ya up to? Mushroom hunting I see' I said yes and she asked me to let her know if I found anything worth eating. Lol. Waaay different culture than in the south.
 
plusfourpirate said:
I lived in southeastern louisiana most of my life, and shrooming for cubensis amngst a couple other is a favorite pastime.
Yes, its almost too late in the year to find a feild crazy full of them blooming, but the fields they have been known to grow it will def still have some in clusters, you just gotta look well. Tree lines, patches of mulch w shade trees, etc

From what I've always understood the cows diet is also dependnt on the luck of the field. Something to do w grain. Some farmer intentiinally feed their cows a certain way to keep mushrooms from growing and keeping dirty hippies out their fields,lol! I guess a lot of folks in diff regions of the country don't realize how big shrooming for cubes is on the gulf coast. Haha. I'll admit I take it a bit for granted..there always around pretty much, you've just got to find the ideal places to look. These days I've been upin the pnw,
And the shrooms grow everywhere here too...only they've got the cyanesis(sp) out here.. whole different kinda hunting...
Your best bet is to talk to ppl you know that go.hunting. get some details about the fields. Pluck em before you pick em please :)

. Have fun and good luck!

They staybloomin around the gulf coast for about 8-9 months out of the year, but overall year round during different warm fronts, etc.
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Wow, thanks man, that really helped! Yea, I feel pretty lucky to live in one of the few states that they grow in abundances in. The field I'm going out to is pretty damn large, I'd say overall there have to be at least 350-400 cows, and that's a low guess. It's just a massive field out in the middle of nowhere. Never seen any grain troughs, looks like the cows are just fed on grass. I've been out there a few times before in the summer times of past years but that was back before I was a real psych junkie, so I never bothered to pick em'. I know that at this point in the year I'm not likely to go out and find groves of them everywhere (I wish), but I'm thinking that with such a large field, that if I look hard enough for a while that I should find a few nice patches here and there. Your comments are really reassuring! A lot of the people in these forums have been saying not to bother b/c I won't find many at this point. You give me hope though! You really think I can find some? :D
 
LSD Cruiser said:
Admittedly I skimmed the thread as quick as I could so I could get my 2 cents in as quick as possible. Must have misread you. You know how that goes. ;)

I'd say PNW is equal if not better than the gulf in terms of what grows there and especially the risk you must take in acquiring. All the hippies picking mushies right in the middle of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park must be a sight to see. I'm actually pretty sure FL has azures and cyans too. They have around a dozen different active species of active mushies besides cubes. Next time I make it out to somewhere that actually has mushrooms (pretty rare here in Ohio, we just got the rare pann subbs and a few others even rarer) I'm going to look for more than just cubes.

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ACTUALLY it was Weadazoid I was referring to, not you. But any who it doesn't matter.
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My apologies to all, it is I that is misinformed. I thought Cubenesis was the common term for pretty much all magic mushrooms in the US. I do think the best I ever had were some very strong FAT blue stems with these big cone shapped dried orange/yellow caps. These must cyanansis or azures whatever you called them. Back in the 90's info wasn't as readily available. Back in the day a friend told me all about his travels in Oregon and Southern Washington state in the late spring when apparently they grow pretty much all over, you just have to spore print them. He said some just pop right out of wood mulch. His point was much like yours that going picking in a cow field isn't really a necessity.


Honestly it has been so long since I even saw a magic mushroom. But I will say this much what I have in my backyard does look a lot like variety of magic mushroom, but the brown spore print tells me different.

That is why I said I did not think they all had to grow in cow manure.
 
Thanks all! I'm gonna head out there this coming Saturday and I'll be sure to letcha all know how it goes! Wish me luck... :)
 
Well it's less than a week until my hunt and I'm fucking excited! It's rained a bit here and there in little drizzles, but nothing major. But hey, a few showers is better than nothing, and may be just the ticket to getting a few nice cubes to sprout up. Anyway, I have a question about where to pick. I already have a field in mine that has hundreds of cows and is fairly secluded so I don't have to worry about anything. Any way, the field in question is right on top of some basic, so there is like a large bayou type body of water on one side of the field. Would any part of the field be fine to start the search or do you think I should start near the bank of the water? No trees around, but the grass in some spots is up to my knees. Would it be best to look in low or high grass or does it matter really? I'm just trying to determine where at in the field to look exactly or to increase my chances at finding some at least, or if I should just look all around.
 
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The best areas are near treelines or in woods within the cow field. The most productive spots in the nearest field to me don't have any grass at all because it's shady. Near the water doesn't really matter- it's all about the shade.
 
oar9fi said:
The best areas are near treelines or in woods within the cow field. The most productive spots in the nearest field to me don't have any grass at all because it's shady. Near the water doesn't really matter- it's all about the shade.
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Hmm, I've never heard anyone say this before...I'm not doubting you at all, just never heard that before is all lol
 
weadazoid said:
Honestly it has been so long since I even saw a magic mushroom. But I will say this much what I have in my backyard does look a lot like variety of magic mushroom, but the brown spore print tells me different.
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Panaeolina foenescii have a brown spore print and grow in yards, very similar in appearance to the active panaeolus subbalteatus. I would almost bet that's what you are seeing. You could eat them but they don't taste that great.
 
oar9fi said:
The best areas are near treelines or in woods within the cow field. The most productive spots in the nearest field to me don't have any grass at all because it's shady. Near the water doesn't really matter- it's all about the shade.
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I've found this too.
 
Well tomorrow is the day and the weather has been fairly decent for shrooming IMO. It's rained nearly half an inch total since Wednesday, and as always it's been humid and warm. Can't wait, I really hope we find some! I'll keep you all posted.
 
Found a shit load of shrooms! Hopefully, these are Panaeolus cyanescens like I believe. Can someone please confirm that? I know the pictures are not great but it's all I have. Also, found about a dozen nice sized Cubies. So are these Pan Cyans? Lots of blue bruising so I'm thinking they are active found growing in cow shit.

Here are the pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/105976774@N02/
 
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