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Mushroom Season 2011 UK / Ireland / Anywhere else

I think the best way to dry them is on brown paper spread out. Drying them like that will bring loads of maggots after a couple of hours
 
I went out last weekend to search and found nothing until i was walking home and seen a lone large capped shroom sittin in the middle of a neighbours garden im going out this evening to check a good spot, will keep u updated.
 
If they are dried they will keep and lose potency the same way as a dried herb loses flavour, if you dry them on paper they will stick to it so try greaseproof paper. If we had thousands we used to use a microwave to do 'em cos it would impractical to air dry them. y them.
 
yeah greaseproof paper is best i have found.
anyway, im going for a wander to the local woods to take all my mushrooms. got my mp3 player, a packed lunch and a blanket i think im ready.
wish me luck.
 
^Best of luck, I wish I was doing something similar. I am not sure about the food though, pint upon pint of Guinness is my idea of an accompaniant
 
Mr Smokes Blunts. said:
Sorry for my total ignorance on this topic, but can you find anything other than liberty caps growing in the UK? I am thinking no... Liberty cap trips seem like they are essentially just a weird, dazed and delirious poisoning of sorts? I was pretty sure they can be bought legally all year round too. I totally understand how fun it would be to go out picking them for free, and being involved in the process though.
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There's a variety of different actives in the UK, you're best off looking in shroomery.org for that level of info. Also, legal stuffs

I wouldn't describe tripping on Liberty Caps as even remotely 'dazed and delirious'. Every trip I've ever had has always been blissed out and beautiful, often with yummy visuals and always totally positive and as thought inducing as you want to make it. And my number of trips is probably nudging into triple digits by now.

The law changed in 2005 in the UK, making it illegal to buy/sell cultivated spores, or kits prepared with them with the intent to cultivate, and made them a Class A possession at the same time[99% sure, not 100% on the technicalites]. Previously they were legal. You can't legally pick them in the field anymore either, which is utterly fucking ridiculous. The spores themselves are not psychoactive tho, and are still legal to possess. [99% sure anyhow]

This is my favourite time of year. I heart being in the middle of a field, on a cold October morning picking liberty caps more than anything else. My annual ritual to welcome the first forage of the year that yields a worthy trip amount, is to have them fresh on the same day, while watching Naked Lunch projected on my living room wall, via a dodgy homemade projector.

Last year the field I used to pick in became overun with various numpties, so I went off to find a new one and was lucky enough to stumble across a totally organically farmed, DEFRA sponsored sheep field, with a public footpath/right-of-way through it. Total field of dreams, liberty caps in droves, and to my knowledge no-one else seems to have discovered it. No use of pesticides seems to really make a difference in terms of volume, as did it being used to graze sheep only, no cows. Not even remotely overgrazed by livestock like the previous one I picked in.

The farmer seemed to be a little overly curious and concerned with me being there at first, but I spoke with him a few times making pleasantries and he seemed to relax a little. Hope its the same this year.

Went to check it out 2 weeks ago and it was way too dry. Gonna check back this week since the rain really cained it over the last few days, and it's gotten a bit colder.

happy hunting, peeps! <3
 
Got ~80 yesterday on my walk over the mountain.
Last night was great craic! =D Mushrooms + 4-FA FTW! 8o

Here's a pic of a few that I found aesthetically pleasing! :D
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Found loads of Fly Agaric but no libs. Anyone with any pointers on where to look in N Leeds? Keep getting told off for walking my dog on the golf course
 
don't look on golf courses? manicured places don't get too many sheep ... and you need sheep poop, and cow poop to fertilise ground and grow shrooms. altho many public places and parks have liberty caps, i personally don't find they yield in huge volumes due to pesticide use and regular intervention of a variety of kinds

you're in the middle of bronte country. rambling hills and there's infinite places around leeds to look. I was in Leeds not 3 hrs ago, btw, so hello thar!

Check high altitudes atm [ie: 500+ mtrs above sea level], damp places. north facing hills [the bottom of]. can't mention specific fields/locations, but there's tons of public walkways through most of leeds/bradford/north yorks. hebden bridge, otley/keithley

download a cracked version of Memory Map, the ordanance survey proggy that lets you look at the OS's LandRanger and Explorer maps on your pc, find the maps for your area and then look at the public pathways youve got access to. drive/bus around and see where sheep are being grazed [if youre seriously looking for shrooms, you should be doing this all year round, in advance, and in prep for Oct-Dec picking time]

check out this Field Mycology site for recorded sightings of Psilocybe Semilanceata in your area. If youre using firefox, 'ctrl F' and type in your town/village on each page and it will highlight any recorded sightings in your search criteria. It's quite a handy tool if you're unfamiliar with finding your own field

good luck!

oh, and also, this might help anyone trying to find local spots to try
 
2low said:
has anybody got any good links for drying/storing?
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I have a fuckton of tips and tricks of how to dry & store, based on my successes and failures of past m'shroom exploits

and Ill try to post em later on [poss today], when Im a little more sober

I'll post some pics of what I did last year for my own finds, if I can find em.

I still have a ton of dried 'shrooms from last year that are still serving me well, but I've certainly had some disasters in the past [learned from them well] <3

Acid4Blood said:
Got ~80 yesterday on my walk over the mountain.
Last night was great craic! =D Mushrooms + 4-FA FTW! 8o

Here's a pic of a few that I found aesthetically pleasing! :D
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/9026/shroomst.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]

they do indeed look very sexy. hope you enjoy em <3
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A buddy has given me a few that he picked on saturday, he said dry them out to prolong the potency etc. Trouble is, one or two have started to go dark/slimy almost, should I bin these ones?
 
2low said:
A buddy has given me a few that he picked on saturday, he said dry them out to prolong the potency etc. Trouble is, one or two have started to go dark/slimy almost, should I bin these ones?
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last year, when i found my field of dreams, I came home with a carrier bag full once, it'd been raining the day before, and they were all full and wet and bulbous, and I think it took me a week before i pulled em outta that bag and dried em off. sheer laziness on my part. but they were fine in the end

lay em out one by one on a piece of brown parcel paper if youve got it ... or newspaper paper ... or greaseproof ... when youve finished put em in a dry place that's not particularly hot but IS dry ... ie: an airing [sp?] cupboard, where you keep yer towels ....or ontop of your kitchen cupboards ... somewhere dry and moistless ... check back tomorrow ... turn em over, that way they wont stick too much .. or leave em for a few days if its a really good moistless area and theyll just pull off whatever paper surface theyve been drying on.

Ive left some really black looking, 'left til theyre almost rotten looking' liberties for ages without tending to them, and theyve still been fine.

If youre feeling uber paranoid, wash 'em, lay a tea towel on em to soak up the excess moisture, and then dry em as above. altho that wont actually make any difference, just to your piece of mind

<3
 
Marmalade said:
don't look on golf courses? manicured places don't get too many sheep ... and you need sheep poop, and cow poop to fertilise ground and grow shrooms. altho many public places and parks have liberty caps, i personally don't find they yield in huge volumes due to pesticide use and regular intervention of a variety of kinds

you're in the middle of bronte country. rambling hills and there's infinite places around leeds to look. I was in Leeds not 3 hrs ago, btw, so hello thar!
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Hallo! I've only ever found then on cultivated areas, the best being a cricket pitch, and golf course, thats why I looked there. My mrs insists the longer grass is better though, so I I'll have to hold my hands up to her, dammit!

Check high altitudes atm [ie: 500+ mtrs above sea level], damp places. north facing hills [the bottom of]. can't mention specific fields/locations, but there's tons of public walkways through most of leeds/bradford/north yorks. hebden bridge, otley/keithley

download a cracked version of Memory Map, the ordanance survey proggy that lets you look at the OS's LandRanger and Explorer maps on your pc, find the maps for your area and then look at the public pathways youve got access to. drive/bus around and see where sheep are being grazed [if youre seriously looking for shrooms, you should be doing this all year round, in advance, and in prep for Oct-Dec picking time]
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Will do only just moved here so scoping has been limited, and had a good spot at my old gaff, but I am on the case. Was looking up in Otley on Sunday looking as it happens its a short drive from me

check out this Field Mycology site for recorded sightings of Psilocybe Semilanceata in your area. If youre using firefox, 'ctrl F' and type in your town/village on each page and it will highlight any recorded sightings in your search criteria. It's quite a handy tool if you're unfamiliar with finding your own field

good luck!

oh, and also, this might help anyone trying to find local spots to try
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Smashing, I do love a good resource. You're a winner!
 
Although not Liberty Caps, I've eaten mushrooms that weren't looking the best and still had the same trip off them. They are fungus remember, so don't like the appearance put you off!
I see some Ireland members are posting up about mushies, looks like I'll have to definitely get off my arse and grab some this weekend.
 
anyone around grimsby area fancy foraging for any edible mushrooms? definatly not psylicyblin containing ones tho!
 
I've yet to go looking yet, but the weather of late has been fairly ideal for the little wonderful blighters to spring up from their mycelium. I purely doubt that they'll be able to survive more than a few day and won't grow to be too big.
Worth looking soon though I'd imagine :)
 
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