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yes!!! No one needs to know!

"Lose lips sink ships"

Google is a good friend to people who want too find out stuff.

So often I hear people say, they don't know something or they don't know how to do something.

I look at them and see the pc in the corner & think surely you could google it.

Maybe some people just want things handed to them on a plate, I rather find out how to make the plate and grow the food to put  on it.

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original post was 30th Aug 2013 so it not a new post.

I remember your video toke walking in the woods looking at mushroooms, I actually went to look for it the other day, but could not find it.

Two places I like are the Shroomery amd Mycotopia.

The Shroomery - http://www.shroomery.org/

Mycotopia - https://mycotopia.net/

 

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The shroomery.org is a nice place for info. Sometimes i find the forum a little too big haha Nice place tho.
I had to learn mostly by my own but there was a girl in shroomery.org that gave me very good help.
From my first shroom grow i learned the simple methods then i moved on to the advance methods with Petri dish and agar.

It´s a huge world to explore just like with Cannabis. Loads of fun and my next project will be edible mushrooms(got to wait until spring first)
 

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Not done agar and petrie dish. sounds interesting though. :)

I used brown rice flour and and vermiculite.

Not really a tripper these days so don't bother anymore & have a friend who always has plenty, should i want some. ;)

Fungi is such an amazing thing and I still like to go to the fields for some picking of the liberty caps, I just give them to friends. :D

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In Spain the collect in the field (born on cow shit lol), here called "monguis" and are very small. Usually eaten dry, with the help of an omelet or food, must be controlled as much for a happy journey, not a trip with fear. Everything is always slowly, never much of a hit. 

 

 

Greetings!

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In Spain the collect in the field (born on cow shit lol), here called "monguis" and are very small. Usually eaten dry, with the help of an omelet or food, must be controlled as much for a happy journey, not a trip with fear. Everything is always slowly, never much of a hit. 
 
 
Greetings!

 

Also called "Psilocybe Semilanceata"

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Jose.gh, on 19 Feb 2014 - 10:05 AM, said:snapback.png

 

In Spain the collect in the field (born on cow shit lol), here called "monguis" and are very small. Usually eaten dry, with the help of an omelet or food, must be controlled as much for a happy journey, not a trip with fear. Everything is always slowly, never much of a hit. 
 
 
Greetings!
 

 

Also called "Psilocybe Semilanceata"

:)

Psilocybe semilanceata do not grow from cow shit but instead grow on decomposed grass, it is a popular misconception they grow on cow shit. They are often found on lawns and golf courses which have no animal dung on them.

Having said this "Psilocybe coprophila" do grow on cow/sheep shit and are about half the strength of "psilocybe semilanceata" .

Psiocybe coprophila lack the distictive nipple of the "psilocybe semilanceata" and you sould take care not to confuse them with the "Dung Roundhead/Stropharia Semiglobata" which also grows on cow shit & has a more yellowish cap and longer stalk.

Psilocybe coprophila cap 0.5cm - 2.5cm, stalk 2.5cm - 4.0cm, cap colour - tan to pale reddish brown, gills pale grey darkening with age. Halcuinogenic

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Stropharia Semiglobata cap 1.0cm - 3.0cm, stalk 6.0cm - 10.0cm, cap colour yellowish, gills purplish brown.

Not edible

Toke is right :) they are also called "Liberty Caps" here in UK

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The liberty caps are the weakest amongst the psilocybe bearing species. psilocybe azurcescens are the strongest but also the hardest to grow. The easiest ones to grow indoors are the psilocybe cubensis. Don't grow the liberty caps they suck. There are many kinds of cubensis all with different slightly different characteristics. The light from a black light has mutated a cubensis strain and you can get cubensis mushroom spores that grow white mushrooms like the ones in the food store.

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Psilocybe Baeocystis along with Psilocybe Cyanescens & Psilocybe strictipes are stronger than Psilocybe cubensis.

 

One of the benefits of Psilocybe Cubensis is it's ease of growth indoors and a relatively high strength.

 

Psilocybe Semilanceata are not the weakeat Psilocybe and have a moderate strength.

 

The Psilocybe Semilanceata whilst not a mushroom so suited to indor cultivation has the benefit of be readily available to pick in many parts of the world, is easily identifiable and once dried has a better longevity of active compounds compared to other Psilocybes. They are easily found and I can pick a kilo in a couple of hours (wet weight). They have a moderate strength, but take enough and a heroic dose is in your head. 30 dried liberty caps is approx = 1 Gram (this is not  dosage  info, just haow many you can expect in a gram)

 

One thing I do really enjoy is going out to the fields and having a damn good picking session, not forgetting some smokes, muchies and a flask of tea or coffe.

 

Hints for picking psilocybe semilanceata, go on a sunny day following a nice period of wet weather.

 

Always have some nice water proof shoes or wellies, plasic bags over trainers in not good!

 

Be prepared take a coat and hat it may rain or get chilly.

 

Depending where you live they can be found late summer to late autumn.

 

Heavier blooms will occur on years with warm wet summers , which allow for abundant mycilial growth, where one thread of mycillium touches another thread a fruiting body will appear. In a good year more mycillial growth occurs and so a heavier crop can be expected.

 

Keep the sun to your back, this is especially usefull if they are still wet and have an olive/hazel colour & the grass is fairly long.

 

The sun shining on the mushroom makes it easier to spot, if you walk towards the sun you are seeing the shade side of the mushroom and it blends into the shade of the grass like camoflarge. This method is especially useful during the later part of the day as the lower sun hits the sides of the mushroom. The first time I realised this, I was walking through a field late in the afternoon and couldn't see many mushrooms,I turned around and suddenly there they were illuminated like little lighthouses.

 

If you are picking on very short grass ie grazed very short by hill sheep, then no worries where the sun is they will just appear like carpets, they also will dry alot quickers as the wind and sun will dry them out & appear almost golden in thier semi-dry state.

 

Peace

 

Lams

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I think the highest value of psilocybin and psilocin is measured in "Psilocybe Azurescens", Sadly that is one of the few strains i yet have to sample. I remember old Fuzzy used to tell me that they had them in Portugal.
The "Psilocybe Cyanescens" have a nice punch to it. Just 1,5g is enough to send me to a better place(3g and i´m really out there). Kind of a favourite for me because i don't have to eat tons of nasty mushroom. OMG i hate the taste.

The liberty caps used to be my favourite but now i can´t stand the smell or taste of them. I had to eat many but they sure worked :P
Now a day´s i´m a bit tired of mushrooms so when i do eat it is usually the Cubensis because of the softness and the enhanced colour mode my eye´s turn to hihi. 

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yup don't like the taste either ;) always brewed them in saucepan and then added a load of coffee and drink as quick as possible.

These days I rarely do mushrooms and when I do I prefer to do small doses which give me some nice sparkley giggles, I no longer need to be tripping balls, but thats just me.

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Lams

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While ridge-walking this past week, I came across these specimens.  Can anyone identify them?  I think that these are not edible.

 

Their size and consistency are very strange.

 

The first is the fruiting body that seems to have grown out of a hole in the ground.  It is located in the wall of a dry brook, under the shade of trees.  The surrounding area has lots of limestone layers with lots of fossilized shellfish, so there is lots of calcium available.  The fruiting body looks and feels exactly like that construction foam that one can buy at most any home improvement store (about 1 or 2 hours after it has been sprayed, such consistency).  It definitely doesnt smell like the foam.  This fungus does have a smell when it is disturbed.  And when a small piece is broken off, one can see a hash-colored spore in clumps inside the dry foam.

 

 

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This fungus was found about 100 meters away in the edge of a grassy field.  At first it looked like a sunburned foam stuffing from an old pillow that someone had simply thrown into the field.  But no, it is a fungus.  When it is lightly kicked, it releases a cloud of spores.  Very interesting is that it is not at all attached to the ground, nor is it integrated into the grasses on which it sits.

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