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Mushy season opener 2006

There are so many species of fungi growing in my yard! The conditions have been perfect for fungi in the hills it seems - cold nights and a lot of rain. Various colours and sizes of mushrooms growing in leaf litter and in between sleeper retaining walls... including some large specimens of the easily identifiable amanita muscaria.

BigTrancer :)
 
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I went out again today to check how much the mushrooms had grown in the last day. They had actually grown very little and I would guess that they would need at least 3 days to grow from about 2cm to a decent size.

I still managed to find a few although I only grabbed around 50 as there were people picnicking around my best spot(damn public holidays!). I'll probably leave it now until the end of the week. More rain and fog predicted so I think more mushrooms will be up. I know I should get them while they are here, but I can't really be bothered driving out there and then drying them all. I'm sure I'll regret it in summer though and be wishing I had gel capped more! Maybe once I get a dehydrator I'll be a bit more enthused.

I hope that you mainland guys are finding some!
 
Found a patch of around 200-220 P. Subaeruginosa growing out of woodchips in melb eastern suburbs. Of the 200-220 around 80 were mature and the rest im letting grow. Just a heads up to all you melb hunters.
 
We've been finding plenty of Stropharia aurantiaca's around here (they look pretty similar to p subs) ( http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/P1/P10199.HTM )

Would you suggest that P subs grow in similar habitats to these? The ground is covered in a lot of wood debris, yet the Stropharia are the main type we have been finding :(

Either there are none around here, or we just aren't looking hard enough, any help is thanks.
 
Im finding alot of Stropharia's aswell. In my experience, stropharia's grow in same conditions ie. when its cold and rainy; both mushrooms seem to appear however i havent seen them fruit from the same substrate, that is, the woodchips have been different. I find subs in those light grey woodchips which i believe is Pine Radiata, and i find Stropharia's in more of a dark, gum tree type woodchip.

Im not sure whether the type of woodchip matters, but over the 2 years ive been hunting consistently im yet to see the 2 mushrooms fruiting near each other in the same substrate but i can guarantee you, when they are fruiting, subs are bound to be around aswell.
 
Immortal Teknique: I have a photo of a stropharia specimen growing amongst a group of subs. in-fact the caps are pushing against one another. In this particular instance the subs where starting to get dry due to strong winds and a lack of rain. making the stropharia very hard to pick out. I actually picked the offending mushroom before noticing differences in the gills, subtle color differences and a lack of bruising. If it interests you I can dig it up from the archives.

PS. Some nice photos will be posted by me in the next day or two. I have been lazy this day reporting my hunts.

EDIT: at the request of another bluelighter I have uploaded and linked a photo of the P. Subs. with a stropharia in their midst. I posted this last year when I found the mushroom as a warning to pickers who may become over confident of their identification abilities... it could happen to anyone!
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Good work mongman. However i didnt say that they *never* grew next to subs, i was just commenting on my experience. Were all those other mushrooms around it subs? Some of them look alot like Galerina's to me, but as you said they were very dry so thats probably why. Not doubting you but when i first looked at it thats what i suspected.
 
Nothing personal Immortal Teknique, just wanted to show an example of this occurring for the new comers to the game. The mushrooms surrounding the stropharia do indeed look suspicious don't they! However I guarantee they are P. Subs. just with an unusual apearance. They had been dried by strong winds for a few days and exhibited little blueing until after picking. Due to the substrate they where growing on they where very 'chunky' specimens. You may have noticed that subs. on mulch tend to show this particular trait often.....

A warning to all you confident pickers out there.....
 
Yep i agree mongman, gotta be really careful, despite how sure you are that its a sub, if your not 100%, chuck it. Quite ironic today how next to my sub patch are 5 stropharia aurantiaca. They must have wanted to prove me wrong. :p
 
Found a single sub today growing meters from my house! I was well aware of other bluelighters having patches in their garden but this is i think is preety fucking cool. Assisted in my deeper knowledge and understanding of exams in couple of days!

fuck in heaven
 
I have some very small subs that i plan to eat tomorrow. picked fresh today,

however, i cant find out how many i need anywhere.
clearly, theyre fresh. i can only find out how much to eat dried.

if i have subs about ___ big in diameter, (yes i know i'm impatient), so how many would i need? or how much in weight?
i like to be nicely fucked up.

please let me know so i can eat these things :D
 
well you really need to wait for them to develop properly as the active drugs inside the mushroom are developed during its infancy. For this reason it may be hard to gauge exactly how potent the mushrooms you have are. However don't take their size to be a representation of potency, they could be very potent.
I also have some concern regarding the identification of such small specimens. Many of the aspects I use to ID mushrooms become more evident as and after the veil breaks. Please be careful.....

... you may have noticed I didn't answer your question. I don't think anyone can _reliably_ tell you how many you need.
 
I agree with what mongman said. Active mushrooms tend to be most potent right after the veil has broken. However in your case, i'd be worried more about a positive ID rather than then potency, because you want them to be potent with psilocybin and not amatoxins :)
 
Renubity: As someonelse has said, no-one can really tell you how many you need. But, you did mention that you've found dry-weight dose examples, so, for what its worth, in my experience, I generally find it is about a 12:1 ratio with wet/dry weight. So 12g wet == 1g dry.

Mind you, dry weight doses are generally somewhat more accurate, since, for example, in a bag of powdered dry weight mushrooms weighing 100g (dry) the potency of each 1-2g dose is fairly consistant since a large amount of mushrooms have been mixed together. It is also more consistant with other peoples dry weight doses. Obviously, the bigger the bag of mushrooms, the more standardised the dose can be.

In your case though, a bunch of fresh mushrooms, presumably from the same patch, could vary a lot in potency to the 'standardised' dose someone may come to expect from an average dry-weight dose.
 
Don't suppose it was a fellow BLers i saw poking around some bushland in NW Sydney today with a small hessian (sp?) sack? Did u have any luck i'm just wondering because my patch, which was a fair way from where i saw u though, was bone dry and i don't know whether its because u picked it or if its just the damn warm dry weather.

Any other Sydney hunters having much luck atm?
 
yeah, its just a tab bit dry, but if you get down low or high enough, you will find them..
 
Found a further 68 subs in mebourne eastern suburbs this afternoon. Heads up to all you hunters to snap em up while they are there.
 
Renubity said:
I have some very small subs that i plan to eat tomorrow. picked fresh today,

however, i cant find out how many i need anywhere.
clearly, theyre fresh. i can only find out how much to eat dried.

if i have subs about ___ big in diameter, (yes i know i'm impatient), so how many would i need? or how much in weight?
i like to be nicely fucked up.

please let me know so i can eat these things :D
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The other comments are right in that unless those veils have broken they are probably not potent at all. If the veils HAVE broken and they are just small sub's in fairly early stages of development you may find that they are just as potent as larger specimens.

I wouldn't reccomend eating more than 3-5...

Myself and two friends ate around 5 subs each of size roughly mmm _______

that big around MAX just a week ago or so. We found it extremely strong to teh point where I did not want to drive at all. Strong, lucid visuals, and we were so whacky we all got booted out of a 'dance party' held at a local pub (stupid pissheads).

Start low and work up...psilocybin generally will not take long at all to notice that you've taken a decent dose.
 
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