Noob mushroom question +rep for noncondicending answers

The cow patties have tons of mushrooms on them any shape size I should look for? Is it worth my time to even look?? Thanks

Check out ralphstersspores.com -- His site has all the pictures of the shrooms you need. By the way, its spelled non-condescending. No rep for me, huh.

Cubensis staining blue is thought to be a chemical reaction between oxygen and enzymes. . The oxidation gives the mushroom picker a surefire way of determining if a magic mushroom has been found. On occasion you will find cubes that are more resistant to damage and show not the slightest sign of blue when you take them out of the ground. Just give that fat stem a nice firm squeeze and then it should quickly display the color within seconds (in front of your very eyes!). If for any reason at all, you are not sure if it is staining blue, then throw the mushroom away. Whatever the reason might be, you can not miss it and if it does not stain blue, then you have probably not found a magic mushroom. It either stains blue or it does not stain blue. Period.

Another feature that the cubensis displays is a dark purple colored "veil". The veil is found wrapped around the stem. It is a skin-like ornament that protects the gills of the mushroom until it is ready to mature. As the mushroom grows bigger, its cap spreads out and expands. The veil then snaps off from the edges of the cap and is left hanging around the stem like a ring

There are non-psychedelic mushrooms that bruise blue. Not sure if they will make you sick or die, but why take that chance? I would definitely not recommend eating mushrooms you found randomly. It is very easy to wrongly identify a mushroom and get something that you don't want to be ingesting. There are too many factors that come into play for an amateur to identify them consistently and accurately. Just buy or grow your own.

http://www.shroomery.org/ This is a good place to get started on learning to grow shrooms.
I buy my spore syringes off the aforementioned Ralphster.
[video=youtube;ZHJQrsZFQdE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHJQrsZFQdE[/video]

A video I found helpful. The guys who made it regularly post on Shroomery. They are professional mycologists, so they know what they are doing.
I can't help you on buying them obviously.

Just eat one and see what happens.

bigbillyrocka said:

Just eat one and see what happens.

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Lol don't do that

it is soooo easy to grow cubes yourself.
try one of many teks available on the net (PF tek for beginners) i have been succesfully growing my own shrroms for ages. at least you can be sure what are you eating and the potency as well so you can dose according to your needs.
best case scenario if you pick the wrong ones - you will shit a lot more than those cows. trust me - i've done it when i was young and stupid

anyway - apart from cubes described above it is more likely you may find some liberty caps but again if you are not sure what you pick leave it alone

for about 30 to 90 $ (depending on the set-up) you can have a nice mushroom farm at home which with little or no effort (compared to growing cannabis) give you a lot of decent shrooms

stay safe

Watch it - there are other staining blue mushrooms. You want the combination of blue stain AND purple spore. In the U.S. this is a sure indicator HOWEVER - it is possible that galerina grow next to such speices as liberty bells to where you think it is the same mushroom and it is not - people die every year or so from this mistake.

Not gonna bother just gonna take some old ass needlepoint in the freezer instead thanks to all for answering +rep to everyone oh and I don't eat mushrooms myself so I won't pick ones that could hurt... Unless it's chantrells

There are other problems with picking and eating your own - the ones that grow from under the cow pies (they don't actually grow FROM them) can be contaminated with e-coli. Of course, eating things that are in close proximity to any sort of excrement elevates your likelihood of getting ill from such bacteria. Of course you can wash your mushroom - sort of - but the point is that there are many dangers associated with picking and eating you own. I think the worst of all is the anxiety you can instill in yourself. Imagine:

You picked a basket full of your favorite fungi, you eat some and you get the standard upset stomach/nausea - but your altered state attributes this to a mistake in picking or a little food poisoning, or even a galerina mixed in with your other genuine mushrooms unbeknownst to you - you figure that is a recipe for a hellaciously bad day?

Or worse, you actually DO pick up some food poisoning or a gallerina and you actually ARE very very sick while you are very very high.

researchkitty said:

Check out ralphstersspores.com -- His site has all the pictures of the shrooms you need. By the way, its spelled non-condescending. No rep for me, huh.

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I'll rep you for it...thanks

grow your own mushrooms.

if you commit 8 weeks of your life.
you will have YOUR OWN homegrown mushrooms.

and homegrown are THE best. because YOU grew them yourself.

thats a lot of hard work energy...
wouldnt you think from after all that hard work.
tripping off YOUR OWN shrooms....woudlnt that be the BEST TRIP OF ALL??


it is....

I live in the pacific northwest I am going mushroom hunting in autumn and it will be fun.

lol i dont see why so many people are against picking ...

my only concern is the person doing the picking has to have a general knowledge of mycology

if you have a test kit + can read spore prints there is really no way to mess up picking your own...


i have succesfuly picked lib caps and pan sub's from MY OWN backyard lol

Do you test every single cap you pick Unnk?

yes.. its imperitive you make sure you identify every cap becuase there are imposter species

just becuase it looks like a active species and even bruise like one doesnt mean its active

again your only sure fire way of testing boomers picked outside is the metol test + a spore print identification

like if your hunting for panelous you know that if you looking a sporeprint for it its going to have to be a pure jet black print not even light black HAS to be jet black

but again i dont go hunting everyday and when i do my hunting i make sure i dry and identify every bit of fungus picked

but again ive been picking since i was 16 not just actives i was a morel hunter in my young days as well

It is never a good idea to pick wild mushies yourself. Always have someone that is an experienced hunter ID the shrooms for you the first time. There are some similarities between edible and poisonous ones that can confuse you unless you know exactly what to look for. The metol test is unreliable.

i am not against picking at all - but as you say IT IS ONLY FOR EXPERIENCED PEOPLE WITH SUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE.

i will say it again - it is a lot safer to grow your own.
by the way - i wouldn't say it is a hard work to grow shrooms, unless you count waiting as hard work because there is a lot of that
first about 15-20 mins work when innoculating the substrate - if you bought ready sterilised kit as i do to save time you have just save yourself few hours of work
then you wait until mycelium colonises your substrate (depending on type/size 2 to 6 weeks aprox) - no work at all just waiting
then move the substrate to your fruiting chamber - 30 mins tops
now the hard bit - make sure you spray your fruiting chamber with water few times a day and ventilate to replace the air few times a day and watch them grow - no hard work at all (you can invest in ultrasonic humidifier and a PC fan on timer as i did - then last bit is just waiting and watching
no lamps or heavy electricity bills or hard work - just pleasure of watching them grow
if you have done it right after few flushes dry your shrooms and voilla - you have just grown enough to last you for a year - unless of course you have few shroom hungry mates then just start another farm

Growing a pound of mushrooms doesnt even cost $10. No reason to pick em. But, if you really need $10, there's probably some Johns that need suckin!