So I'm pretty much a rookie, having only two seasons under my belt, and last year netting me absolutely nil, but have high ( )hopes for this one. I've heard rumours of cyans sprouting around my area, although we've really only had a few wet days and temps barely below sixty at night.

I'd like some advice and opinions from folks familiar with the pacific northwest, particularly the northern Willy valley area, I'm thing of taking a little mycovenatorial excursion around my town this weekend.

Anyone had any sightings so far this year? I know it's really early but these tales of fruiting cyan patches have me just a tad curious. Like i said, I'm a mere rookie and don't know if it's all just wishful thinking.

On an aside, the first year i went out, i found enough cyans in a local park to experiment with psilocybin microdosing for almost the entire year, and the anti depressant and mood stabilization i experience gave me one of the most productive years in recentmemory. Having discovered such an effective medicine that i can pull from the earth really excited me and i really want to continue the experiment. Anyway, thanks for reading, and thanks for you input in advance.

Happy trails, and happy hunting.

I've only gone huntin once and that was for azzys on the coast. Im going to have to do some reading, as picking cyans seems like something i really should do this year.

Aren't cyans a wood lover?

Yes, P. Cyanescens are woodlovers. I was taught, and tend to go by still, that the best flush is the one during the first rain after the first frost.

Natures cold shocking I guess, eh?

Wait, huh,wait. First rain AFTER the first frost? I've always heard after a week of rain and sub sixty degree temps PRIOR to a frost. And from my limited experience, frost basically kills (fur lack of a better term) the mycelium. That's why we had such a crap year up here last season, the frost came early and the rain came late, leaving a very short mycovenatorial window.

And that's why i have hope for this year. I'm relying on my weather forecasting instinct and experience in this region which tells me just the opposite, that we will have above freezing rain for a good month and a half to two- through mid to later November.

Again, that's all hope and conjecture.

From experience I've seen multiple flushes each one occuring after each sucessive frost, so I'm pretty sure the psilocibe cyanescens mycelium survives freezing.

Really? Wow, okay then. I'm not trying to be contrary or whatever, and you're the senior authority in this thread so right on.

And frankly, that advice came from semilance hunters, perhaps libs are more susceptible to cold than the cyans that are my present quarry. I do know that freezing temps destroy any fruiting bodies above ground, the cell damage turning them into frozen blue mush, and that the myc stays dormant underground until it fruits next season as long as it's nutrient source, in this case decaying hardwood, remains in place. I've just never heard of post frost fruitings around here, long before i ever ventured out, that was the oft repeated rule of thumb.

But worst of all, if you are indeed correct, i hung up my hat far too early last year.

Yeah, freezing does destroy the fruiting bodies.

i have also heard of the first frost thing. usually even after a frost theres some warmer weather afterwards. I wonder what is going on there for that to make a difference.

Today Between Seattle in Vancouver B.C. I'd say Tis the Season. Happy Hunting y'all.

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