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i'd be very interested to see how naja naja's attempt is going 6 yrs on from when it began i can confirm that there has been success in outdoor cultivation much further south than bailingup im not going to give out any locations (sorry guys) but yes they will grow spawn was taken from the b-town and relocated to another area further south a small amount of stem buts and a very small amount of wood debri covered in mycelium was used stem butts were placed in some containers with some woodchips and sawdust (never heard of the cardboard technique at this point) the small amount of myc covered wood was placed outside with some more woodchips over time the mycelium spread from the stem butts to the wood chips and sawdust some small pine logs had some holes drilled in them and some of the myc covered woodchips were placed in the holes holes were then plugged with cardboard and log placed half buried into outdoor woodchips (the log now gets moved around constantly within 1 -2 months the woodchips under the log become a mass of extremely rhizomorphic mycelium) i will post some pics of this sometime i had some but computer fucked up an i lost all my pics and the log shouldnt be moved again this close to the season anyway there is now masses of extremely aggressive and extremely rhizomorphic mycelium all over everything everywhere since i stepped it up in the last year after it fruited last season so basically this all started in 2007 or possibly 2008 hahha im not sure the process began after picking one season there was then 1 or 2 seasons with no sign of fruits (they may have been there but werent noticed) and last season it finally happened patience is key but i can confirm for you all that they seem to love the conditions and popped up in many more places than expected and this is MUCH further south than the B-town so goodluck all

im still saying there all foes they look exactly the same as ones i picked and checked out last week i have hundreds of em growing in the lawn and i have hundreds of photo's of em some are alot chunkier than others some are very small and weak but they all appear to be foes heres a link to my post in the shroomery http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/14423344#14423344

check the spore print colour first im surprised people said subbs straight out with no spore print i say they are foes they look exactly the same as the foes that are growing in my lawn spore print needs to be JET BLACK it shouldnt have any colour in it just complete black if you search the shroomery forums there is a good pic somewhere with the difference in spore prints between foes an subbs a foe print looks pretty black but its not it can be hard to see the difference without a comparison

thanks for the link mycot some good info there i'll definately be on the hunt for gyms a bit more this season

haha sorry man but unfortunately its just the way it is the odds of finding anything are virtually nill as i said you could do some research on gymnopolus you might have some luck but chances of finding anything are still pretty slim otherwise you can always just keep your hopes up an just keep hunting there's alot of unidentified and undiscovered mushrooms in the south of w.a. just always make sure you do alot of research and i mean ALOT mushroom hunting and identification is not an easy task so alot of research is key goodluck

i find that pretty hard to believe anyone who tells you that is probably lieing or has made a patch somewhere but as far as i can tell noone has the brains to even try it from people i no an talk to

there are no active mushrooms there and you will more than likely not find any in the great southern unless you find some gymnopolus in western australia you will be looking for psilocybe subaeruginosa wich you will NOT find in the great southern unless you stumble across a patch someone has created wich is NOT gonna happen if your in the great southern and want shrooms your gonna have to either buy them or drive to the infamous B-TOWN and pick em yourself wich is not advised unless you have someone who actually knows wat theyre looking for even then its not advised to to the police presence so if you really want to look for magic mushrooms down south try doing some research on active gymnopolus

what camera you got lord mayo ???

well im no expert but wat i can see in your first pic looks to be the good stuff very rhizomorphic with all the stringy looking bits goin everywhere thats what you want

i wouldnt worry to much man just stick it outside the mycelium looks pretty hardy in there so a lil bit of green mould wont do fuckall just get it out of the box leave the box outside for a while and it will be all good i've seen this stuff alot it grows quickly but also dies easily so you wont have much trouble getting rid of it if your attempting an outdoor patch it will be fine if your really worried you can always just get some of the good mycelium out and transfer it to some new chips good luck

hey all i was just about to order some loph seeds from seedsaustralia and i see they now dont send em to W.A. i want some loph seeds or plants where the hell can i get some does anyone in W.A. have any they would willing to sell somebody help please

hey all dont want to ruin this whole trading thing you got goin here i would love to trade some stuff but have nothing to trade is there anyone that would like to sell im looking to get a whole bunch of prints i want cubes and some of the eastern states variety of subs and some azurescens again i apolagise for jumping in on your trading you got goin on here any help would be much apreciated thanks

hey all i found these in a nursery 2day i had a few lophs yrs ago they were alot more healthy than these though im not to sure wat they are to me they look like peyote any help id these lil ones would be great thanks

well it seems like they cant really be positively id'd at this point so i guess only time will tell i'll do my best to revive them and see wat happens i will hopefully be getting some lophs soon and would like to try some grafting so if they turn out not to be lophs maybe they'll be some good grafting practice if there is any west aussies that have some lophs for sale please let me know i was contacted by someone a while bak but havent heard from them in a while so yeh i will message them an see what happens but if anyone has any for sale (WEST AUSSIES ONLY PLEASE) send me some pics and prices thanks for the help all

thats what i thought the nursery i found them at they were outside with no cover im assuming they have been there all winter and thats why they look so unhealthy

hey just checked some pics of Turbinicarpus they do look similar but they all seem to have spines in the pics im seeing even the smallest ones while the ones i have dont have any spines not a single one is there any spineless Turbinicarpus or do they not have spines till they get older maybe???

that fence looks extremely familiar if im right about where that is i didnt realise they were so close to town b-town w.a. i suspect found a shitload like that one morning completely frozen solid

anyone know wat the hell these are found em on a walk yesterday never seen em before temperate region of western australia i wont go to much into explaining em the picks say it all but these are the main features red gills (they look more orange in the pictures but looked very red to me) yellowish stems and flesh i didnt bother taking a print or anythin anyway check em out

im gona spill the beans an say those subs werent actually found in b-town they are the result of some guerrilla farming ;) they are originally from the b-town i to dont like to risk running into the fun police i have on a few occasions over the years but havent been for the last couple of yrs my advice to all is to take the risk if you dare and then use wat you get to create your own patches so you dont have to take the risk of going to b-town theres a million people who go there every season so the boys in blue are all over it however i no alot of people who go there every year and never get caught but if you dont want to take the risk at all then find a source for fresh ones you can use the stem but method without even having the stem buts if you get some and theyve been chopped off at the base already you can still use them AS LONG AS THEY ARE FRESH ENOUGH simply pull the cap off the mushroom place the cap and the stem into wet cardboard and away you go mycelium will start to grow from all over the stem and the cap also within a few days its a foolproof way and its garaunteed to work TRUST ME and the best thing you dont need to be making sure everythings sterile anyone can do it ANYONE happy hunting people

hahaha yeh those damn shroom bugs (sorry i dont no wat they are tiny lil bugs that are always on shrooms so i just reffer to them as shroom bugs) wtf are they and how can you stop em???????????? anyone know???? theres millions of em im seeing the completely cover the tops of pins and devour them within a day im talkin lil pins when theyre only like a millimetre in size if they survive past that they dont usually get very big and they just get hammered by em constantly any ideas or help on controlling this would be great thanks

here you go people sorry its not mutch but its something hope you like psilocybe subaeruginosa W.A.

hey all im in perth till tuesday and am looking for someone with some cacti for sale prefferably some lophs but interested in anything else you got to i posted a message a few weeks ago and had a few replies but havent heard much else if anyone can help message me asap not lookin to spend up big but yeh we'll work somethin out with wat ya got

wtf is goin on with the w.a. season the season is definately on we may not have had the best weather for it and there may not be alot of shroomies but its definately on why doesnt anyone post thier finds or anything it seems like either everyone is paranoid there is some pigs watching these forums or noone wants people to no theres anything there so other dumbasses dont ruin it for us wich makes sense but hey i wanna see some finds i havent checked out b-town myself yet but have had some subaeruginosa finds elsewhere :D in w.a. nets bein a bit slow right now so i'll post some pics later when its workin properly and see if i can revive this damn thread and get people to start posting again until then fucken post some shit people :D

has it been to dry lately for gyms around the perth area i dont have any experience hunting this species i see they have been reported in yellogonga park thats just around the corner was thinking bout goin for a bit of a hunt sometime in the next few days

god damn if i was in vic i'd be on my way over with a wad of cash to pick that thing up right now