ok i live in delaware..and theres a horse farm with a huge field with their shit all over it and whatnot..think if it rained during the summer it would be a good spot to look for shrooms? or do they not grow in this area?
almost surely not. its not that the environment couldnt support them in the summer, but its too far north for them to really be there naturally. the winter would kill off the fungus. they generally grow in tropical regions and sub-tropical areas (extending into the deep south)
yeah when i was a kid a lived on a farm in the south and i would see them all the time (too bad i didnt know what they were then)
i neglected to mention that i was referring to P. cubensis, first and foremost, along with a few other dung-loving, grain-loving and compost-loving species (P. mexicana, for instance). cubensis is the easiest and safest to identify. cubensis do NOT grow in the pacific northwest, however the northwest does have an abundance of, often stronger, woodloving psilocybian mushrooms. such as cyans, azures, etc. these are much more difficult and dangerous for novice wildcrafters to seek out, and should be dealt with only by competent individuals - not people who need to ask on a forum if there even are mushrooms growing in their region (not a jab at the op - everyone must start somewhere) further, i'm not sure if you're familiar with plant hardiness maps, but these break up the us (and the rest of the world) into zones according to climate and weather conditions and help guide gardeners in determining what plants they can grow in their area. the zones are determined by average annual low temperatures, which play a MAJOR role in determining what organisms can thrive there. while mushrooms are not plants, the climatic implications remain important in determining how well certain species will thrive in a given area. the pacific northwest, at least in the US coastal regions of this area, is mostly zone 8, with a few sprinklings of zone 9 until you get very far north. even washington state has a few tiny zone 9 pockets on the coast. for a frame of reference, zones 8 and 9 most prominently include the us sw, the gulf of mexico, deep south, and so on. the reason the woodloving species of psilocybian mushrooms are so plentiful in the pacific northwest are threefold: a climate which rarely falls very far below freezing for very long, abundant humidity and precipitation, and abundant forests providing plenty of habitat. its true that the northwest rarely gets very warm. one 5 day vacation there at the end of june required me wearing layers at night - the highs during the day were in the 60s. but neither does it often get too very cold for too very long. but these are not the dung loving mushrooms of the tropics and subtropics, and he specified looking for mushrooms on a horse farm. not a good plan for deleware at all. bitter cold in the winter, for starters. in deleware you may find a few species in forests that will be quite low in potency and likely to carry unpleasant body loads, such as Pan. subbalteatus, or Gymnopilus spectabilis. neither are what the OP was asking for, and both are considered somewhat lousy in terms of worth for human consumption. further, both would require a lot more knowledge about mushroom taxonomy and identification to properly find than would cubensis. its dangerous, and the possible payoff isn't that great to begin with. home cultivation of cubes on grains is a FAR better idea.
that explains it then :cheers2: looks good, i bet they're potent. naturally grown mushrooms on dung and such are supposed to be far more potent than the grain-grown mushrooms i'm used to having come out of a closet
