Re: Psi. Cubensis on Horse Manure?

[Max]

I'm no scienctist, but I've seen thousands of Cubensis growing on thousands
of piles of dung, on tropical cattle grazing areas, and some things I can
say:
They grow on dung, not on the ground. You can carry the piece of dung to
your backyard and it'll keep growing mushrooms if the conditions are ok.
They grow on old dung, that has been there for longer than a month. It's
just like this, seen lots of places were the cattle passes constantly, with
thousands of piles of dung, and mushrooms grow only on old ones (already
been dryed up by the sun and rained on sveral times).
They start growing three or four sunny days after heavy rains.
Never saw any growing on dung other than cow dung (not horse, not tapir, not
capivara or anything else)
Only on dung from cows eating grass, not suplemented with grain or anything
else.
The same pile of dung could grow mushrooms, go through a complete dry season
and grow mushrooms again on the next rain.
When the rain/sun/temperature timing is right, yo see the mushrooms all
around, growing on every pile of dung that has the previous conditions., not
related to an area or particular herd. I't's just floating arround, waiting
for the right conditions to happen.

"Serveitupbrah" <serveitupbrah@aol.com> escribió en el mensaje
news:20030617025852.02070.00001252@mb-m23.aol.com...
> i've read many places that psilocybe cubensis grows on both cow and horse
dung.
> there are a few public horse fields around here and i was wondering if
cubensis
> really can grow on horse dung? i've also heard that cubies can grow on
horse
> dung but do not contain psilocybin (aren't potent). can anyone clear this
up?

[liteage1]

boy, i was really wrong!
i read that info, somewhere in my past. that it grows up under the dung.
your statement has to be true.
thanks
lite

Max wrote:
> I'm no scienctist, but I've seen thousands of Cubensis growing on
> thousands of piles of dung, on tropical cattle grazing areas, and
> some things I can say:
> They grow on dung, not on the ground. You can carry the piece of dung
> to your backyard and it'll keep growing mushrooms if the conditions
> are ok. They grow on old dung, that has been there for longer than a
> month. It's just like this, seen lots of places were the cattle
> passes constantly, with thousands of piles of dung, and mushrooms
> grow only on old ones (already been dryed up by the sun and rained on
> sveral times).
> They start growing three or four sunny days after heavy rains.
> Never saw any growing on dung other than cow dung (not horse, not
> tapir, not capivara or anything else)
> Only on dung from cows eating grass, not suplemented with grain or
> anything else.
> The same pile of dung could grow mushrooms, go through a complete dry
> season and grow mushrooms again on the next rain.
> When the rain/sun/temperature timing is right, yo see the mushrooms
> all around, growing on every pile of dung that has the previous
> conditions., not related to an area or particular herd. I't's just
> floating arround, waiting for the right conditions to happen.
>
> "Serveitupbrah" <serveitupbrah@aol.com> escribió en el mensaje
> news:20030617025852.02070.00001252@mb-m23.aol.com...
>> i've read many places that psilocybe cubensis grows on both cow and
>> horse dung. there are a few public horse fields around here and i
>> was wondering if cubensis really can grow on horse dung? i've also
>> heard that cubies can grow on horse dung but do not contain
>> psilocybin (aren't potent). can anyone clear this up?

[captainmaxmushroom@sporelab.com]

It's good to hear from some people who have experience collecting this
mushroom in the wild....I wish they grew in Canada!

Almost all mushrooms end up getting infested with some kind of insect.
In fact, some studies have shown that certain mushrooms are always
hosts to certain insects. I imagine mushrooms that grow near fruit
trees would be especially prone to fruit flies.

www.sporelab.com







On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:12:25 GMT, "liteage1" <liteage_1@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>boy, i was really wrong!
>i read that info, somewhere in my past. that it grows up under the dung.
>your statement has to be true.
>thanks
>lite
>
>Max wrote:
>> I'm no scienctist, but I've seen thousands of Cubensis growing on
>> thousands of piles of dung, on tropical cattle grazing areas, and
>> some things I can say:
>> They grow on dung, not on the ground. You can carry the piece of dung
>> to your backyard and it'll keep growing mushrooms if the conditions
>> are ok. They grow on old dung, that has been there for longer than a
>> month. It's just like this, seen lots of places were the cattle
>> passes constantly, with thousands of piles of dung, and mushrooms
>> grow only on old ones (already been dryed up by the sun and rained on
>> sveral times).
>> They start growing three or four sunny days after heavy rains.
>> Never saw any growing on dung other than cow dung (not horse, not
>> tapir, not capivara or anything else)
>> Only on dung from cows eating grass, not suplemented with grain or
>> anything else.
>> The same pile of dung could grow mushrooms, go through a complete dry
>> season and grow mushrooms again on the next rain.
>> When the rain/sun/temperature timing is right, yo see the mushrooms
>> all around, growing on every pile of dung that has the previous
>> conditions., not related to an area or particular herd. I't's just
>> floating arround, waiting for the right conditions to happen.
>>
>> "Serveitupbrah" <serveitupbrah@aol.com> escribió en el mensaje
>> news:20030617025852.02070.00001252@mb-m23.aol.com...
>>> i've read many places that psilocybe cubensis grows on both cow and
>>> horse dung. there are a few public horse fields around here and i
>>> was wondering if cubensis really can grow on horse dung? i've also
>>> heard that cubies can grow on horse dung but do not contain
>>> psilocybin (aren't potent). can anyone clear this up?
>