Immortal Teknique
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These are some of my finds so far this season. Not the best photos, but you get the idea.
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Mushroom season 2005/2006
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college_dropout said:
when i go out i take my camera and if someone comes along i just pretend im taking pictures of mushies and trees and stuff. the other day a lady walking her dogs started talking to me and told me there was a big patch of amanitas around the corner, thanks luv! ive only ever come across a couple people when hunting thou.
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OMFG! I haven't gotten this many mushrooms in Melb ever! Tonight (after already filling a plastic shopping bag at one patch) I went to the local supermarket for mum and found enough in the garden beds there to FILL one of those green reusable shopping bags, a couple of thousand at least, and there i had to leave heaps behind cos i ran out of room. 4.5 kilos! Photo's soon...
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hdang said:
I always tell people that I'm doing a survey for the university...
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Four and a half kilo's 
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sonicnature said:my usual spots are looking v tasty, came across three patches of about 400 today on a brief walkinner & east subs melbourne
any melbournites wanna collaborate on a mission?
I'm down, but be buggered if i'm giving away any of my patches (
) but would be down for random forages to find new patches.
Tell I must say that this year seems perfect for fungi of all kinds. Today I stumbled across the biggest patch of P. Subs I have every seen. I would estimate about 10000 mushrooms varying from pins to large partially decaying specimens. I estimate the area cover was 200 square meters, I happened upon them purely by chance.
I could not believe my eyes, I didn't pick any as I have made a resolution this year to observer but not interfere or indulge. Anyway I did take some photos and a 'medium' size movie of the area (without identifying any landmarks). The movie is roughly 50 Mb, the photos can vary from 400Kb to 1.5 Mb. So if your interested download them but be prepared for a long wait unless you have a reasonable connection.
Here the files are:
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Movie:
Please note that I have provided these files for informational purposes only and hope they assist the community here in avoiding unnecessary poisonings, harm due to miss-eductation or miss-interpretation of ambiguous comments between experienced pickers.
On that note I would like to bring your attention to the slightly red or orange fungi that can be seen in both the video and many of the photos. These are Stropharia aurantiaca, well known in the mycological community to be both inedible and toxic to humans. Care should always be taken to identify and avoid these mushrooms while searching for edible specimens.
I could not believe my eyes, I didn't pick any as I have made a resolution this year to observer but not interfere or indulge. Anyway I did take some photos and a 'medium' size movie of the area (without identifying any landmarks). The movie is roughly 50 Mb, the photos can vary from 400Kb to 1.5 Mb. So if your interested download them but be prepared for a long wait unless you have a reasonable connection.
Here the files are:
Images:
Movie:
Please note that I have provided these files for informational purposes only and hope they assist the community here in avoiding unnecessary poisonings, harm due to miss-eductation or miss-interpretation of ambiguous comments between experienced pickers.
On that note I would like to bring your attention to the slightly red or orange fungi that can be seen in both the video and many of the photos. These are Stropharia aurantiaca, well known in the mycological community to be both inedible and toxic to humans. Care should always be taken to identify and avoid these mushrooms while searching for edible specimens.
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price of fish
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Awesome photo's mongman, can't believe you're not indulging - wish I was there to pick em all up!
Cyberdyne: I too am having difficulty finding anything around akl, just went bush out west this morning and found zip, amanita's appear to be everywhere though. Think maybe it's been a bit too warm of late.
Cyberdyne: I too am having difficulty finding anything around akl, just went bush out west this morning and found zip, amanita's appear to be everywhere though. Think maybe it's been a bit too warm of late.
Immortal Teknique
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Lol man they are defenitely subs, ive been hunting for along time, not a doubt they are subs.
If you havent notices, subs can vary sooo much depending on temperature/substrate/location etc.
Look at some subs from South Australia. There is a thread at the shroomery (shroomery.org) with some SA finds and they are so much different than Vic subs.
If you havent notices, subs can vary sooo much depending on temperature/substrate/location etc.
Look at some subs from South Australia. There is a thread at the shroomery (shroomery.org) with some SA finds and they are so much different than Vic subs.
price of fish said:
I too had a wee looksy in everybodys favourite forest and found a SHITELOAD of amanitas proliferating absolutely everywhere but zippo nada of anything else interestng except some rather exotic looking puffballs i might scratch my head about.
Fortunately, i know of people who have confirmed sightings in west auckland, and my ventures to the eastern regions of auckland have been suprisingly succesful at two of my regular favourite spots!!
I definitely think it isnt quite cold enough as the potency was nowhere near what it hit last year....soon enough though!
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Just a quick question....
My patch has pretty much been completely picked and while there are a few pins popping up here and there, there doesn't appear to be too many on the regrow. So, if I stopped picking mushrooms and stayed well away from them how long would it take for the patch to completely regrow back to its original status? Anyone that could give me an actual time frame would be great because I really want to know just how long I should leave off until I can go back and get a decent haul again.
My patch has pretty much been completely picked and while there are a few pins popping up here and there, there doesn't appear to be too many on the regrow. So, if I stopped picking mushrooms and stayed well away from them how long would it take for the patch to completely regrow back to its original status? Anyone that could give me an actual time frame would be great because I really want to know just how long I should leave off until I can go back and get a decent haul again.
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Awesome find dude. But please, do you relly need to pick that many?
Remember, it could also be someone else's patch too, and you have just gone and raped it. If you are going to pick mushrooms, only take what you need and don't pluck the mushies 'roots' and all. Try to snip the stems with your thumb nail, that way you won't hurt the 'roots' and there will still be some there next year.
Once again, great find, but just think next time. Make sure you dry them out too, or else they will go rotten on you.
I picked up about 20 on sunday.. I got soaked but hell it was worth the walk.. this was my second successful hunt this season, the first patch i found was in my own backyard last monday and I could not believe it.. I ate all of the 8 small-medium sized subs (half-dry) and tripped quite a lot harder than suspected!. Couple of seasons ago I once ate 30 to get to that kind of intensity... so true about the potency varying greatly.
There's just 1 thing I'm not entirely sure about with these ones I found sunday.. the stems are quite thin, like 2-3.5mm, the ones I found before in my garden had stems that were probably at least 4-5mm in thickness (like I've seen in most other pictures of melbourne finds here on bluelight, etc)
I know it's ridiculous of me coming here to ask for ID, especially since I haven't supplied some photos. But I am very positive these are what I want, they have all the same characteristics as my last harvest (the blue bruising, ascending gills, appropriate colours, etc...) also have the exact same spore print colour.
The ONLY thing I am questioning is the thickness of the stems.. everything else tells me they are subs.
Anyway, yeh.. all I'm really posting this for is to see weather any of you more experienced pickers have come across thin stems.
I would not say I'm _totally_ inexperienced BUT definently inexperienced (i've done my shitload of reading/looking/eating, and I am aware that subs can have differences in appearance depending on substrate/how much rain.. etc)
I've just let the thinner stems really get to my head.... because apart from that I can safely say these are definently not Galerina or Stropharia.. I know what those nasty buggers look like as it was all I could find for a long time before I found subs.... So sorry for making this as long as it is.. It's just very rarely I make a post. -_-
There's just 1 thing I'm not entirely sure about with these ones I found sunday.. the stems are quite thin, like 2-3.5mm, the ones I found before in my garden had stems that were probably at least 4-5mm in thickness (like I've seen in most other pictures of melbourne finds here on bluelight, etc)
I know it's ridiculous of me coming here to ask for ID, especially since I haven't supplied some photos. But I am very positive these are what I want, they have all the same characteristics as my last harvest (the blue bruising, ascending gills, appropriate colours, etc...) also have the exact same spore print colour.
The ONLY thing I am questioning is the thickness of the stems.. everything else tells me they are subs.
Anyway, yeh.. all I'm really posting this for is to see weather any of you more experienced pickers have come across thin stems.
I would not say I'm _totally_ inexperienced BUT definently inexperienced (i've done my shitload of reading/looking/eating, and I am aware that subs can have differences in appearance depending on substrate/how much rain.. etc)
I've just let the thinner stems really get to my head.... because apart from that I can safely say these are definently not Galerina or Stropharia.. I know what those nasty buggers look like as it was all I could find for a long time before I found subs.... So sorry for making this as long as it is.. It's just very rarely I make a post. -_-
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dada said:neva seen shrooms like that. Are they subs. my subs usually look like
Sub shapes and sizes tend to vary alot. Fungus is a pretty random lifeform. Ive seen some fully grown subs the size of a 5c peice and some as huge as a fist.
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shorza said:
I dont think its wrong to pick the whole patch. In my philosophy, if i dont, someone else will. I agree with cutting the stems off with scissors, but i think taking the whole patch isnt so bad. I dry them, store some for summer, eat them during the season, give to friends etc etc.
If you have gone to the effort of researching these mushrooms and put in the work to find a good patch, by all means pick them all IMO
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Some people seem less fussy with the shrooms they pick, it would seem.
We made an expedition early Sunday morning to my usual haunts. Came across a few patches that had gone absolutely insane. One mid-suburban patch yielded about 400g of wet mushrooms, and we only grabbed the middle-aged mushroom varieties, leaving pins and the elderly, decaying kind.
and ^^concur. I don't live where mushrooms grow well (although I did find a patch down the road yesterday), nor will I get more than another 2 or 3 opportunities of heading out this season, so I'm make the most of it by grabbing as many of the larger sized shrooms as I can.
fist sized mushrooms FTW
We made an expedition early Sunday morning to my usual haunts. Came across a few patches that had gone absolutely insane. One mid-suburban patch yielded about 400g of wet mushrooms, and we only grabbed the middle-aged mushroom varieties, leaving pins and the elderly, decaying kind.
and ^^concur. I don't live where mushrooms grow well (although I did find a patch down the road yesterday), nor will I get more than another 2 or 3 opportunities of heading out this season, so I'm make the most of it by grabbing as many of the larger sized shrooms as I can.
fist sized mushrooms FTW