Drug info - Liberty Caps - UK - August?

[el burgo]

SWIM is readily anticipating the arrival of the Liberty Cap, SWIM found a field full of them one year late august early september. SWIM has heard rumours that people are finding a bunch of them at the moment. Is it possible they are growing already and what is the best conditions for shroom hunting? Thanks

el burgo added 1 Minutes and 30 Seconds later...

by the way SWIM is skilled at safe picking!

[bennett211085]

swims off to check his patch out in the morning. Will let swiy know.

[el burgo]

any word on the shrooms bennett?

[b3ni]

SWIM has had found a fair few already, in the Yorkshire Dales.

[bennett211085]

Swim found f all 2 days ago. Swim will go check it out in the morning.

[bennett211085]

found about 30 this morning in 10 mins of looking.

[teagy]

swim likes misty early september mornings
its been a long time since swim went shrooming
swim thought some fields were sprayed to prevent
there apperance

[bennett211085]

Originally Posted by teagy

swim likes misty early september mornings
its been a long time since swim went shrooming
swim thought some fields were sprayed to prevent
there apperance

Swims originally from Northampton and in the fields were they would appear orange stuff had started to be sprayed to stop them. It used to stain swims shoes orange.

[NothernHighlander]

SWIM has found some in his garden today, after heavy rain this evening he hopes that there will be a flurry mushrooms. He stays in the highlands of scotland.

[cannabis-sam]

Well SWIM will definately try today he thought it would be far too early but off into the countryside he will go with an ice cream tub and some ready rolled joints.

[Junkhead23]

Do SWIY peeps actually go through cow pats to find them?

[Tony Williams]

What kind of place would SWIM look in for mushroom goodness? Any field where there is a cow?? The woods?

[Garethn]

went to my best spot... none there yet.... (hope the below answers junkhead23 and tony williams questions...)

liberty caps grow on grassy meadows and similar; particularly in wet, south-facing fields and other habitats well fertilised by sheep and other cattle faeces, although unlike psilocybe cubensis it does not grow directly on the dung itself. It is found throughout the cool temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

[cannabis-sam]

SWIM didn't have any luck today, although it was a beautiful day, so SWIM is going to try his luck after the next heavy rainfall.

At tony williams, if you're asking questions like that you're obviously not ready to go out picking, either find someone who has been doing it for years or grow some cubensis. We don't want any poisonings now do we.

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good advice for the beginer!

[Garethn]

Originally Posted by cannabis-sam

SWIM didn't have any luck today, although it was a beautiful day, so SWIM is going to try his luck after the next heavy rainfall.

At tony williams, if you're asking questions like that you're obviously not ready to go out picking, either find someone who has been doing it for years or grow some cubensis. We don't want any poisonings now do we.

good point identification is key when picking and swim would deffinetly adivse this to...

[Phungushead]

Indeed - mushroom hunting and identification is serious business, especially
if SWIY is planning on ingesting them.

Like the Croatian proverb goes:
All mushrooms are edible, but some only once.

[Garethn]

get a realy good book thats always a start swim also found this on Erowid http://www.erowid.org/plants/mushroo...safe-pik.shtml

good luck people swim still thinks going with someone you know who goes hunting every year is the best but this guide should help a bit...

[GreenMan]

swim and sewim checked one of there spots yesterday no luck yet.........
think it was mid sept last year it began up here
how the years fly buy: - )

[hairy-pothead]

swim has'nt found any Liberty Caps yet but swim has found some haymakers mushroom but swims trying to find some hyphaloma cyanescens and fly agaric no joy yet thow swim cant wait for the next rain good look hunting

hairy-pothead added 5 Minutes and 34 Seconds later...

i found this early this year i no that the fuzz go's to fox house in unmarked cars so they may go to the rest of these but if u live close to any this may give you a lot of joy

Rumours Of Magic Mushroom Locations in the UK

Edinburgh
Penicuik :From Edinburgh, take the A702 towards Silverburn. As you near Penicuik (which lies on the A701, which runs parallel to the A702), be vigilent for small roads signposted for Penicuik. Now slow down. Look for a pub (I can't remember the name, but it's a hiker's pub!!). It is on your right. This may be a good place to park your car. Cross the road, hop the fence and start looking in that field. It is worth scouring the entire area around here. However, the best field we found was further up the road. So, from the pub, cross the road and walk in the direction you were travelling in the car. You will come to a farm house/building on the right. The field to the left of the road is the one. We found some monsters in here - in fact, they were all monsters!!! Some 15cm high, and that's no lie!!! Also, extremely potent - 20 would be a strong experience. Not exactly carpets of mushrooms, but very frequent in large troops. Truly outstanding!
Ayrshire
Kilwinning in Ayrshire - there are quite a few well known magic mushroom fields around - one of the best is in the cow/horse field to the west of the railway line between Kilwinning and Irvine - on the Irvine side of the River Garnock - thousands guaranteed.
Merseyside
St Helens : in Ecclston at the back of Ecclston Mere, there is a sheep field and a horse field. There you will find as many mush as you can eat. There are 100's of thousands of liberty caps. This field is just off Burrows Lane and if you follow the lane up towards Prescot there will be a sign for Prescot Cricket Club. There you will find massive libs.
Widnes

The playing fields shared by both St Peter & Pauls and Wade Deacon High Schools hold an absolute abundance of our friendly little fella Mr Liberty Cap.The fields are located at the back of both schools and if you can find tiny smelly Widnes then I'm sure you can find this lucrative site. St Peter & Pauls is situated on the bend of "HIGHFIELD!" Rd, witch is straight up the road from the Halton community stadium [just thru the traffic lights] [Widnes RLFC ground], and Wade Deacon is sat on Birchfield Rd bang opposite The Crown pub, if you are disabled or too stoned to climb whatever entrance can be gained 500 yards up the road on the left - bang opposite the top corner of VICTORIA PARK where the roads forks off for Widnes train station there's a path, cant fail to miss it . If you are coming by train get out of the station an be sure you are on the station side walk about 200 yards and turn right - And voila, same entrance!


Runcorn
Runcorn ski slopes 2nd pillar up - up pops the little fella again.


West Yorks
Just outside of Sheffield:

On the A625 Eccleshall Road going out of Sheffield towards Dore and the Fox House Pub. The field is about 1 to 2 miles after the housing stops on the A625 and is opposite the Dore Moor Pub. Park in the pub car park and cross the road so you are on the left hand side still walking away from sheffield. It's the first field after the little side road which runs away from the pub down the hill. Make sure the pub is behind you on the other side of the road and the little lane is on your left as you walk down the field towards a brook. Near the fence, at the lowest point of the field near the farm is the best place to look for liberty caps. There is a bus stop right outside of the pub so those without cars can find this place too.
East Yorks
Beverley, East Yorks : Any of : Beverley Beck, Swinemoor, Beverley Westwood - don't know what sort, have never been successful myself, but there are certainly plenty of species there. Cows grazing is usually a good sign & is much in evidence.


Hull, East Yorks : Priory Road, near Cottingham (just down the road from Beverley) - legendary site opposite the Cop shop (!) and a few fields back. Cattle fields again, difficult access tho - you have to go round the back thro a housing estate & cut thro the Adult Education grounds. I've also been told that East Park and West Park are worth a look, though I've never found much.


North Yorks
Goathland, near Whitby - one look at this place & you just KNOW it is going to be interesting. We are talking back of beyond, lost in time shroom-fest man! There are heaps & heaps of lots of different species, I am told some are the right ones. I wasn't sure which were the right ones, so an unsuccessful mission for me. Watch out for the goats!
Anyone Know These Coordinates? :
There are *definitely* p.semilanceata here ( N53:27:?? W1:31:??) last time
I looked.
Rosedale Abbey - 20 miles inland from Scarborough, a short distance from Goathland. I don't have much info on this, except for one report that there were some quality shrooms found here a few years back.

Leicester
TO FIND 1000's of liberty cap shrooms in Leicester, simply go along the A50 towards Markfield ( near the M1 ) then between Markfield and Groby off the A50 is a site called RED LAND, the fields adjacent to this place are filled with mushies.

East Anglia
Christchurch Park, Ipswich - strange, last year we did manage a decent trip on what we think to be psilocybe semilceanta here, but this year only inactive shrooms as far as we know.
Thetford Forest - Seems to be full of shrooms of many varieties (as are probably most of the forests in England). In fact, I just visited an exhibition that was mainly sourced from there. The forest has plenty of silver birch in it, so fly agaric is a strong possibility.
Nottingham
Nottingham Center Parcs - I know for a fact that fly agaric grow in this forest. This forest is almost excusively silver birch, which fly agaric loves & I actually read of its prescence in a nature book when I was there. Go in Sept/Oct & you should get lucky!
Mansfield

Mansfield and there is a golf course near here and last year we must have picked about twenty thousand in the space of a couple of weeks and
we had a good few trips off of them. The thing is though you won't find any until the sun is just rising and as soon as the sun hits you will be able to marvel at the little buggers as they seem to rise out of the ground. I can't give you the exact details of where to find them coz it's a bit of a secret place between a small circle of friends, but I can tell you it's in Huthwaite.


Midlands
1/ I advise a trip to Frankley Beeches. This is a little known service station on the M6 north of brum. If you have a look at an O.S. map of the area you'll see a small country road that runs along the top of bank behind the services. Somewhere along there, again 20 years ago, I found carrier bags full of the largest mushrooms you've ever seen, BIG like an inch across the cap!! What were they like? 12 reduced me to a gibbering heap, Ok no change there but they were GOOD!!!
2/ In the little town of Kenilworth, 5kms south of Coventry. Head to the leisure centre. A horse field runs alongside the soccer fields. Access is from the far end of the furthest soccer pitch where a public footpath runs across. The field is large and many pickers use it, but in season there are plenty to go round. Farmer and horses seem quite relaxed about the whole scene - guess they're high as well...

Sutton Park in the West Midlands in the heathland / grass areas.
Bristol
Along the Avon River in the Bristol / Chipping Sodbury region there are lots growing from mid-august until october. It's the low climate that makes them grow really well there.
Stafford

1) Stafford Castle off the A518 - All around the Mott & Bailey, usually plenty in the fields surrounding esp. if cows have spent the year on there.


2) Hopton Pools - Opposite the Staffordshire County Showground - All fields used to have huge yields until the pasture was dug up and fertilised,
however the area around the pools themselves still produce between 100 - 1000 per day when it kicks off.

3) River Penk Floodplains - Between the Radford Inn (Stafford) and Penkridge Market (Penkridge) check all fields as they have cows all year round...
different years produce varying amount anywhere.. (this stretch is approx 5 miles long)
Buckinghamshire
Liberty caps found in Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire 100 yards down from the Stag and Hounds pub. Best time : november. Cannot be seen from road, never in 11 years of picking have I seen anybody else in there picking or otherwise, so its about time I gave out this info. 1 hour picking can get you about 40 to 50 mushrooms. Good luck!

Berkshire

Here is a location for shit loads of fly agaric's :Take a train to Crowthorne station. Come out of the station and turn left. You will see a very large (8 football pitches) field running down one side of the track. Walk across the field leaving the railway line to your left, heading for the line of trees at the other end. There are 7 acres of pine and more importantly silver birch trees (required for Agaric growth) and general scrubland. Many hundreds of Agaric's grow there at the right times of year. When I last checked, the land was owned by property developers and is quite legal to go on.

Streatley (Berkshire/Oxfordshire Border) OS: SU 587 803

From Didcot on the A417 go towards Goring/Streatley. Turn right where Streatley Village centre is indicated. Follow the road through the village until you come to a cross- roads which has traffic lights. Go straight over, and up the hill. Near the crest of the hill is a small, but sharp turning to the right. This is the car park to a National trust stretch of land called Nunney's Hatch (I think!!). Go through the gate, and follow the path. Start looking around here, as you never know! If the follow the path, you eventually come across a gate on your left. Go through this gate. This field supposedly contains Liberty Caps & Panealous Sphinctrinus.
Surrey
Runnymede (Brunel University Ground) : I used to go picking there while at Brunel Uni in Uxbridge at around the end of Sept/beginning of Oct : Afternoon or early evening usually and the most mushies were around if it was drizzling, or had been quite wet. The area is a little hilly so you get pockets of them all about. ( The type is liberty cap). The Runnymede campus is quite well known for good shroom harvests. When you arrive on campus, go through the main gates and veer to your left. There are lots of prime fields there, but watch out for students in the halls getting arsey about nicking all the mushrooms!!
To get there you can take the train from Waterloo to Egham, Surrey. The campus is a bit of a trek from the station, so it'd be worth consulting your map for the quickest route. On Sunday I got a cab there and walked back!! The cab was about £3. The Runnymede campus is on the A30 and is the site of the old St Trinians films. As I said, the fields on the left were usually fruitful - don't worry about wandering round, no one cares. All round the back edge of the campus is a wood. If you go through that you come to a path with a stile. Cross over the style into a cowpat/rabbit dropping field with a little hill.
Worcestershire
Try Broadway Towers near Broadway in Worcestershire. The fields around there are full of caps.

Oxfordshire
I've found what could be a really good picking site at White Horse Hill in Uffington (Near oxford). I went to a free party there and in the morning walked up to the white horse. Between the car park and the white horse are acres and acres of prime semi ground.
North Wales
Recent e-mails have been singing the praises of Wales indeed! They seem to grow almost everywhere in Wales, I guess it must be the valleys or something! Specifically though : Check out the Preseli mountains near Cardigan
Hay Bluff near Hay on Wye :
Libs have been reported to be out from around the first week of Sept. Look on the open area below the actual Hay Bluff mountain.

From Hereford on the B4348 :

As you get into Hay, look out for the signs to Capel-y-Ffin. Take this single track road, and continue your journey. You will eventually come to a fork in the road. Take the one on the right. Go over the cattle grid, and up the hill (the field to the right of the cattle grid is supposed to have them, but we found none in there when we went). Carry on up the hill. You will come to a plateau of short pastures. Check these out. Further up the road is a small car park which is at the foot of Hay Bluff. Start an ascent of Hay Bluff following the main track. Keep looking all the way. When the bracken and gorse thins out, start looking even more. You should find them.
Tip: Look around the natural water course gullies - that's where most of them are. Also, don't bother going too high up Hay Bluff, as there is a sudden 'drop-off' zone of mushrooms. The whole area is worth checking out. Carry on up the road, park up at the small car parks and explore.

The mushrooms here are all small, as the grass is so short. They're not carpeting the place, but we found about 700 in three hours (2 of us).

South Wales
1/ Beyond Travethin golf club theres a dry stone wall - all around the area is loads of shrooms, the location is:

Travethin Golf club
Travethin
Pontypool
Gwent
Note : they grow on the 12 hole as well but not recommended unless u want a golf club shoved up ya arse by the owners!
2/ I recently (10/8/99) found specimens of Panaeolus Campanulatus and P.Semilanceata growing in Wales. The site was a small mountain, (
Mynydd Caerau) above my home town Maesteg in the Ogwyr region. The site had sheep grazing on it (obviously, this being Wales) and a mobile communications booster tower. Also (26/8/99) found a small stand of eight P.Semilanceata in a field five or ten miles south of London.

3/ A brilliant site with thousands of liberty caps is by the wind turbines in the
Ogmore Vale area in South Wales... There are about 8 or so large turbines on top of a large hill. Get to the top of the hill about 200-300m behind the turbines and there are those babies !

Brighton
Ditchling Beakon near brighton

Somerset
Cheddar Gorge : Millions of Liberty Caps down here-mainly in a small village called Priddy, but there'' rakes of the buggers and thats what you need with Liberty Caps!

Dartmoor
Go to Badgers Holt / Dartsmeet in South Devon on Dartmoor. Fields on the left hand side along road towards Princetown.
Also near Ashburton, apparently Also try near Dartmoor prison (!)
Cornwall
Try below Carn Brea on the Camborne side, below the castle.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/shroommap/rumours.htm

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Good info on where to find mushrooms, thanks for that.

[Cybi]

My cat is hoping that the torrent of rain in the last 24 hours will encourage an early local crop. My cat has said hes going to check his favorite spots over the weekend if the rain has eased up by then. I'll post if he finds anything ...