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Mushroom season 2010

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STILL haven't got to go picking in my S.E suburbs of Melb yet :(

Fortunately had some mates go today who said they picked heaps. Few paper bags full apparently, Should be hitting them up tomorrow and will let you know how they go :)
 
^^ good to hear mongman

I found some nice fruiting bodies whilst hiking on a mountain side, roughly 80km west of melb. Mixture of pine and eucalyptus forest with good maulch layers around the base of tree's. Mushrooms from pin size up to old and rotting (roughly 10 days old)
 
Found a HEAP in North East suburbs. One suburb that is well known for finding them :D
Found more than i could pick and there were plenty of subs in all stages of life. Found some real monsters too! Got dark before i could check the rest of the known patches in the area.

Season is certainly powering up!
 
Went for a walk in one of the parks today, SE. Probably turned up about 20 species of mushrooms, lookalikes and just heaps of different kinds. No actives. Was a refreshing walk though plus I love mushrooms active or not. Fascinating things they are.
 
This morning I took a walk through wonderland...

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No subs in this area but I felt blessed to have my camera and find such a wonderful patch of Amanita Muscaria.

Just beautiful :)
 
Thank for the feedback guys. I got over 100 pics from that one patch. I was like a kid in a candy store! I found subs in the same area over 2 weeks ago but there were none there today...

I love this time of year :)

I found another 7 patches of Amanita Muscaria as big or bigger than the patch in those pics. All at Altitude of between 450m and 650m.

I did not pick any but I will be trying Amanita for the first time in many years this season. I'll be dosing powdered ones of known potency from last season.

The weather is looking good for next week. Might get some subs popping up further west later in the week as the first of the real winter fronts come through Vic Tues/Weds.
 
Nice photos!

Checked all my spots over the past week, plenty of inactives but nothing golden yet. More rain in the south-east please!
 
PsiloSubNaut said:
The subs from the patch we hit are notoriously small but very potent

I made a tea for 4 of us using 30-40 small mushrooms (caps 15-25mm, stems 20-30mm)

Fresh mushrooms are the hardest to dose.

With well versed trippers, such as the friends I was with on Sunday night, I go for roughly 10 per person and that dose is 50/50 medium/strong

You just never know whats going to happen as you come up on fresh mushrooms. Sometimes you feel them and it slowly gets visual but not much more. Other times you feel them and rocket to an intense peak within 20 minutes as you wonder why the 10 mushrooms you ate last weekend didn't get you anywhere near as fucked as the 2 you ate 20 minutes ago 8o

To get an even potency for dosing your best bet is to dry your mushrooms and powder them
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Hahaha! No wonder you had a strong trip! 80

Damn youngun's ;)

In my old age I have learned, often the hard way, that less really can be more. I can eat two or three fresh and find myself being operated on by interdimensional beings who can physically manipulate my body into yoga position and shit, lol, there' no way I'd eat that many in the company of others. I have a pretty personal, and often erotic, relationship with my mushroom spirits.

Dried, never more than 2g at a time, even that can be excessive. I'm done with heroic doses (and subs are a lot stronger than even the mycological community seems to generally accept in my experience (shit check the 'warning on subs' post on a well known enthogenic forum to see what I mean, people who are used to cubes just can't handle subs). I get much more on low doses, me and the myco-gnosis have a good relationship, even physically erotic at times, and through dialogue with each other, we know the limits and know each others intentions. I've fund that engaging with them you can avoid the really mind bending aspects, if you ask nicely they will lay off a bit. Its a give and take relationship ime. The myco-gnosis seems to think we need some radically intense therapy, but are amenable to negotiation and compromise. Unlike ayahuasca, which doesn't give a fuck what you think about things.

So, yeah low doses for me. I've been deep into that shit in my youth, no need at this stage of my life to go to excess. Its been a few years, but I kind of look forward to engaging my stick insect lover again this year, I think the time s righ now, time to reacquaint myself with my interdimensional stick insect lover again
 
A little story about hunting.

It started around 2:00 PM wandering through some very think bushland in the south eastern suburbs. Awfully dry (well above the water table), the bush in many of the these reserves is starting to regenerate very well... almost to dense to walk through.
I got out the other side.... only to discover I had dog crap all over my pants from the knees down.
Heading straight for the nearby creek, I managed to clean myself up.. gross. People with dogs need to get their shit sorted...
At this point I thought maybe it was time to go home. No subs & nothing had piqued my interest.

I thought I would head to one last place just a little further toward the Dandenongs. Off I head and bam, Subs everywhere. Mainly small and some nobs seemed to have got there before me. Clearly not using scissors when doing the cutting, destroying at least to patches I had seeded two years earlier using spores. On closer inspection I could see a few hundred pins, reassured the patches would fruit again I headed for greener pastures.

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Just a little way up the track was an area mulch was laid two years back. This had been seeded with spores also. But the patch pirates hadn't found these ones, the rest of the afternoon until after dark was spend picking picking picking.

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Oh, some harm reduction points I think are worth mentioning:

It's important to note I'm not just talking about harm to people, also consider the land your taking from.

a) Know your mycology. Don't think you can ID Subaeruginosa or any other type of Psilocybe without practice and experience
b) ID each mushroom before picking it
c) ID each mushroom again once picked and taken home
d) Take care when dosing, never dose when picking you need your judgement.
e) Take care of the bush that gives these fungi to you
f) Pick sustainably, never pick a mushroom that hasn't had a chance to drop spores

[On point (c, who can see the poisonous non active mushroom in the above photo? there is but one, it was identified during a second ID]
 
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AFAIK (and could be wrong) the but the dropping of spores isn't so important. Mushrooms are the fruiting body of the mycelial base that is growing underground. The spores generally get caught by the wind etc and can potentially start a new mycelial base in other areas. Care needs to be taken not to disturb the mycelium, so scissors etc are useful techniques for harvesting. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but that's how I've come to understand patches.
 
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