Little Brown Mushrooms & Public Myco-Remediation
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2022
- In this episode Alan Rockefeller shows us how to turn wood chips in public landscaping beds back into dirt with the help of a little caramel colored mushroom that bruises a beautiful blue color when touched. A number of wood-decomposing species in this same genus will grow in places with colder winters (like Ohio) such as P. ovoideocystiadata.
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What a nice PSA. Teaching people how to help improve their communities’ soil quality is such a wonderful service.
WOW, man! That's far-out!
My soil is breathing and following me around town.
@@nickauclair1477 maybe you just need to add more mulch/ water :o
all joking aside, i think making stuff like this public access is important and informative
Mushroom hunting kept me alive during a really depressed stage. Gor some reason I convinced myself that I can't die until I find one. And I managed to get myself to therapy because they don't grow in my area it turns out and I spent 6 months actually teaching myself local ecology and then went to get a degree in mycology
And you have a nice profile picture too! ;) What a wonderful story though, thank you for sharing.
Yeah, what is that profile picture of?
Loved this! I got laid off my job in 2020, and got back into gardening & growing mushrooms; particularly P. cyanescens. Got 6-7 patches going. I was a failed scientist, but spreading P. cyanescens mycelium, and spores gives life new meaning. I want to give back to them as much as they give to us! Win=Win. Met Alan Rockefeller last year in the Tolowa Dunes.. amazing mycological diversity there. Thanks so much for this! Blew my mind hearing you can use Doug Fir.. I use alder. Cheers, from the Southern Oregon Coast. ❤🙏🍄
I've found quite a bit of p. cyanescens growing in the wild in the southeastern US. I wasn't aware they did well in the PNW.
Keep up the Great work Dave we appreciate it good sir.
Noob! Lmao 😄
How do you become a failed scientist? Did you mess up an experiment XD
@@TheYoungtrust hi! I got my degree in biological sciences.. got some work published (Gammarid amphipods moving into a sewage treatment plant in the UK) but never got a job with it. Ended up on the Oregon Coast running a printshop with my brother, & doing gardening on the side. Growing mushrooms is a bit of a redemption though! Thanks for asking.. cheers!
My favorite thing about Allen Rockefeller is how much he says "I don't know". Wisdom and intelligence rarely meet but they do in this fun guy. Thanks for the video yous guys.
He's a bloody gem!
Its always great when someone admits they don't know something, especially experts since our brains (at least for most neurotypical people) are wired to forget things so long as they are not refreshed upon, what we desire from experts is their ability to effectively understand the information they are an expert in even if they require refreshing on old or new information. Because they understand their expertise, they are able to look for key information among the unnecessary ones or outright incorrect ones, comparing their current understanding to any new kind of information given to them and formulating a informed conclusion. The communication between other experts is also key as a consensus can be made on any hypothesis to form a solid theory, especially if everyone comes to the same conclusion given that experimentation and research are not biased.
@@themushroominside6540 In other words ... He's a bloody gem. 😜
Allen's my favorite guest on these Crime Pays videos. Innocent knowledge - easy to listen to the guy speak.
That's why when you find someone claiming to be an expert that refuses to ever admit they don't know something. And you watch them over 3 years slowly become one of the most influential people in your area but he's talking about stuff he has no idea about and his opinions on stuff he is not educated in start causing issues in the area because his ideas actually hurt people. But they he starts blaming certain ethnicities because they must hate him and are going around messing up his work. And then an entire family of that ethnicity is murdered and the police just say another of the ethnicity did it and have a basicly fake 1 day long trial.
You call that guy up as you used to be friends and go out drinking at a bar and you lean into him and agree with the shit he says and spend the next 6 months becoming close again until he trusts you. Then you invite him over for drinks at your house. And you inject carcinogenic compounds into the bottle of champagne through the cork. And you give it to him as a gift knowing he loves champagne. And them you watch himself lowly die of multiple aggressive cancers that just start popping up in him 6 months later and you laugh 2 years later when he died
Been following Alan for years not all Rockefellers are bad fellers.
Does he have a UA-cam channel?
Hope he got some of the Rockefeller green bucks
@@DG-iw3yw what makes you think that?
@@zhou_sei the crime pays guy said that in one of his videos that it wasn’t a real name but he uses it everywhere even in papers so…
@@joshuawayne8405 whoa!!! all these years hahaha i, interesting. thanks!
Its a real treat when you two get together
Found my first batch of Cyanescens in a park in Portland and it made me so happy.
If Alan had a UA-cam channel like yours where he shows us all types of mushrooms in the wild, I'd never miss a video!
Honestly!
I love learning at 6 AM.
7 here
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its ten here
I love the urban-based videos 😊
I got a nice little seedbank im growing with native Tennessee plants. Do the same in your local areas. I see waaaaaay too many natural environments getting paved over and it kills me.
It doesn’t just kill you, it kills us all :o
We all need to do our part to fix our world.
Here in the WA State Pacific NW natural/wild landscaping is catching on too.
@@whysocurious7366 so true, I'm rewilding my quarter acre in the Sacramento valley, it's a crying shame than 90% decline and insects and birds here
I hope we run out of concrete soon
7:10 Perhaps they lost their shoe cuz they "tripped"
These is some of the most high quality content on UA-cam
Happy HollyDaze to my friend and Tattooed Love Dago extraordinaire, as well as his good buddy mr Rockefeller, the Marquis de Mycology!
Y’all ROCK.
I always worry when I find a random singular slip-on shoe in an odd place in my neighborhood/city, that someone lost it running from something (or someone).
JJ McCullough did a video about why it’s so common to find random single shoes along roads. ua-cam.com/video/k5XYEc2fqSk/v-deo.html
Looks like someone may have been a little over served on the shrooms.
Is so good seing this videos😊Is so good to see people that cares about mushrooms, native plants, and teaching all. Thanks. People please forget the movie Avatar ( is in my country now), pay attention to the native plants that is the best thing✌️
Used to pick up blue ringers everywhere in Washington before the first frost and replant them all over. Didn’t always spread but kind of worked.
"Blue Ringers" are _Psilocybe stuntzii._ I used to run into those somewhat regularly in the Willamette Valley, in Oregon, but haven't seen one in many years.
Love seeing anything with Alan!
I have a thick bed of Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata which fruits without fail between my silver birch trees behind my house each autumn (June) here in Australia.
I'm only 4hrs west of Sydney but I'm at 1,000m altitude, so cool and wet. 👍😎🎄🇦🇺
ovoids in australia! that's pretty cool. it'd be fun to check out the different psilocybes in your country (and nz) one day.
@@zhou_sei Thanks for the reply. I was surprised to find these here too. I've only tried these twice and they were surprisingly chill and disarming. They pretty much put you on your butt (or in bed) forcing you to relax and close your eyes and organise your thoughts. I know how contradictory this sounds but it's INTENSELY RELAXING. Helped me hugely with self esteem and motivational issues for up to six months after and I never reverted back to my previous depressed state of mind and it's been a year since my last dose. Happy new year from Down-Under! 👍😎🇦🇺
It's Allen! 💜
I love the contrast between the last location and this one with elevation 60' at the beginning 🤣
Alice was sampling mushrooms and stepped out of her shoe🤫
YES!!! Thanks for da mushroom knowledge!! Keep it coming boys!!!!
I cant say enough about high quality soil
Looks like a funguy ;)
This is awesome, Alan and Tony are awesome together!
One spring in my childhood on the Washington coast my mom decided to remulch her backyard garden. That fall it absolutely exploded in little mushrooms that turned blue when you pinched them. That one find lasted my brother and I until the end of high school. Good mulch is what the forest needs
Holy psathyrella, it's Alan Rockefeller on my favorite botany channel! Hey, Alan.
Don’t pick the roses! Don’t pick the roses 😂😂
In 2015 I found this species about ten feet from my own back door. They were growing in a straight line about three feet long, which seemed awful strange at first. But I found an old 2x4 just under the moss, covered in mycelium. The mushrooms had sprouted along the board. There are no wood chips anywhere on my property so it's unclear how Ps. cyanescens got there. Windblown spores I guess?
That's an awesome find. I wonder if a bird's wing or someone's shoe dropped spores or something
If there are wood chips around my house they are inoculated with some kind of mushroom. I don't even pick 90 percent of them, they break stuff down so quickly and the plants love it. The mushrooms are my garden helpers.
This video was my carrot for getting my ass outta bed instead of sleeping through another alarm. Last week, I keyed some southern Oregon psilocybin I found in my friend's yard and nibbled them just to make sure. If you come through the Siskiyou region again, let me know ...
"nibbled them just to be sure" is not a great idea.
granted, you'd prolly have to eat more than a nibble to die... but mushroom poisoning deaths are (from what i understand) pretty painful and terrible and drawn out.
I think that was a ;-) wink-wink nibble comment, not literal
I really love magic mushrooms 💚🍄
I love both of you so much....
you always did strike me as someone who might be interested in the odd bit of soil myco-remediation... love it haha
Was picking them outside a rural school once with a friend of mine and the office lady came out and asked if there were magic mushrooms growing there. Told her the truth and also mentioned that we were interested in the P. stuntzii and P. angulospora that had somehow ended up in the soil mix a LONG way away from their native habitat and promised to remove the mycelium of any poisonous fungi growing close to the fence line for the safety of the children. She was great about it, told us one of her family members had their life saved dealing with quite severe depression after being diagnosed with cancer and anything we could do to ensure their future growth there would be fantastic 😅
Thank you for this work. Exquisite!❤
With out the wavy caps, I would've identified as Ovoideocystisdiata. But, Alan was there, so this is interesting to see how close they are.
When I was 17 I tried the _psilocybin cubensis_ for the first time. I dint know the dosage, so I axxed my 'friends,' "So, what's the dosage?" They told me, "An eighth is about enough to get you into a small buzz."
I spent the rest of the evening watching UFOs flying over with a pair of binoculars and listening to Bigfoot crashing down in the streambed below us. Oh, and I saw a meteor burst into a million pieces over our heads, with the incredible Rocky Mountains looming up in the bright full moonlight behind us.
Except I was in an apartment in Boulder the whole time. Fucking college, man.
I just picked a ton of these in Oakland. Found them in similar environments.
you have a great channel, so cool to dive as deep as you do
Lol, today I learned I’m not the only one who calls the big orange DIY store “Home Despot.” Both nature and I have been inoculating the wood chips next to our ephemeral wood pile (where so do the chipping) with some
random mushroom spores and we get all sorts of different mushrooms popping up once conditions are right, but so far I don’t think any are psilocybin, just mostly white Agarics (californicus), but also some yellow or light brown ones, but no cyanescens that I’m aware of, but I’ll keep looking. You just never know what’s going to pop up, but mostly I’d like to find a variety of human Cordyceps that causes people to move away. I grew up in a town of under 2000 people that suddenly turned into a city of over 100,000 suburban exodites looking to escape the city by bringing strip malls, a sea of red-tiled rooftops and belching cars, constantly snarling the mean streets alongside their beloved beds of invasive, decorative palms, and I feel the entire region could use a bit of a break from all the people… Alas, we there is no (known) form of entomopathogenic fungus that affects humans like Cordyceps does arthropods, so maybe the next best thing would to be to inoculate the miles of wood chips between here and the nearest Home Despot…
You could try cultivating some that put off a real funk and the smell would surely deter the most suburban of them
Yeah Eric the overgrowth of the wise guy species is foetid, the Sacramento Valley only has 10% of insects and birds remaining, from what I have observed. I remember when frogs and salamanders were easy to find in the Green hills the Bay area, now they're paved over. And the little mountain town I fled to dash dash corrupt to the Bone and growing fast. Well many learned scientists believe it's all over for the human race and the planet itself so just be grateful to the wildlife you have around you, drink it in,
Always awesome info, thanks!!!
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Always enjoy your videos!
Very Interesting !! ✍🧐
Cool. I've had 2 truckloads of wood chips on my garden for about 9 months. I sure would like them to break down fast. Piles are too big for this old lady to spread as they are. Broken down would be most helpful! 😜
Informative!🖤
This is so cool, I love this.
Great video! No roses picked 😜😅🍄❤️
Man, nothing like that occurs where I live. We have small desert puffballs and a mushroom I only find dead in the dried up ditches. Then whatever is growing at the parks if it rains are LBMs. One of these years I want to go to the PNW and hunt mushrooms.
Take a trip to an area that has some more desirable types of mycelium? If you do your research, you might be able to improve your whole community’s ecosystem :o
"Don't pick the roses" - *bitchslaps the roses*
These guys take eso-freakin-teric to a new level
Awesome vid ty
I'm glad I clicked on your Bonfire, I didn't know you had hoodies in there! Those of us up north need them!
The magic of the mushrooms
You and Alan ought to come by my area in PNW next year and I'll blow your mind with a cyan patch!
if you're ever in the general harpers ferry, wv area when the ground is about 60 degrees and it's been raining for a week, and you have a day to spare... ovoids abound.
@@zhou_sei what time of year do they usually fruit? thanks.
@@ibtarnine any time it's humid and rainy for a week straight, and between about 55-75 fahrenheit... typically april-may, but sometimes fall, or even in the middle of a mild and moist winter.
riparian zone environments, flood zones of lazy rivers that flood once or twice a year, and have lots of woody debris and rich soil full of decayed organic matter on the banks.
they also apparently have showed themselves in australia, so whatever their spring months are where the environment roughly meets their liking.
High quality soil, lol. I found some Ovi’s in college along the river. They made high quality soil too.
- _"You think people should do that?"_
~ *"Definitely"*
Johnny Psilocybe is a good phrase
Psilocybe is a tricky genus because it's not monophyletic. Other genera that are often considered synonyms or to be paraphyletic with Psilocybe include Stropharia, Deconica, Galeropsina, Geophila, Hypholoma, Pholiota, and even some Agrocybe!
The whole taxonomy is a mess. But the good news is that none of the Psilocybe species that are traditionally classified in that genus are poisonous. LBMs are tricky to identify but the bluing property of psilocybin containing species makes Psilocybe an exception here
If you let me know where to find that patch. I would happily volunteer to do my part and provide fresh wood chips and aid in the creation of new soil.
It's crazy how a spore can organize dead matter into a mushroom
Love u guys
Still waiting for my wood chips to give me a present. The "dog puke" fungi were there the first year, different shrooms coming up now but nothing terribly interesting. Joey & Alan making soil & content, thanks guys!
interesting tidbit, dog vomit is not fungi; closer to a single celled amoeba, iirc.. the slime molds in general are.
slime molds are every bit as fascinating as fungi, imo.
i am waiting to see if the ones i transplanted earlier this year will take over this summer coming up.
It's always easy to shit on urban spaces, but urban spaces can be amazingly diverse in wildlife and feed the ecosystems when done right.
Too be honest not really urban spaces are kind of inherently destructive how ever they can be improved by planting native species of plants in your yard or patio but it's still destructive and depressing
@@caidenmurphy9486 I'd argue that it's not the urban space that is destructive but cars and the infrastructure they demand that are. Suburbanism that's built around cars as the only mode of transport with copy-paste, pesticide-required landscaping is a far greater threat to this world than a high-rise that's had it's parking lot replaced with a conservation park.
@@TheSamba37 basically I'm saying that infrastructure is un natural and therefore it takes space away from nature and it produces light pollution often sound pollution so even if we stopped climate change if humans continue to build more dumb shit more things will go extinct I think the old tribal way of life is perfect because people were just another animal in touch with the eco system now are society is depressing and destroys everything around it and itself but tribes can sustain themselves and the surrounding environment for well ever their trash and houses are natural and break down and they are smaller so they take less resources and humans would not over populate plus the fact that mental health would be better without social media plus those people get lots of exercise and eat a healthy balanced natural diet it's the perfect way of life
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That pronunciation is fantastic!
The cyanescens here are a beutiful cinnamon colour found a small patch when i was young & ate them, real nice.......
I used to pick those along with cubensis in the late 70's in downtown Vancouver while my buddies were killing themselves picking semilanceata in 4 foot tall grass in pastures...lol
Johnny Psiloby ! good One Railroad man👾
Aw yay, mushroom friends. I was just inoculating some grains today. Those guys are cuties :*)
omg, you rock! pan Cy are my local spore. Thank you so much for this video. I live in OR on the coast and if you find rhododendron and wood chips, you will find pan cy :D Happy hunting!
looks like Gerald's old place. Found a really nice patch in front of my therapist's office a mile from there.
"I gave one to the lady" - poor unsuspecting soul
I used to find huge patches of these in seattle, like freaking trash bags full it was no joke how many cyans we woild get from some patches. Most of the huge patches were in public parks but sadly they dont uae the maple wood chips anymore so those patches were gone years ago. The city figured out and started using ceder and pine wood chips which they dont grow from.
Ayyyy more fun guys
Omg 🤣🤣🤣 don't pick the roses. Dude just man handled the shyt out of that rose
Would love to have some of those woodchips for my garden ;-p
Just found a handful of A. muscaria growing within a foot of the highway the day after Christmas. Never seen them up in the Santa Cruz mountains before! One was huge and they were all beautiful specimens. On the face of it a shitty location, but hopefully their spores get blown around by the traffic or hitch a ride!
Spread em 🤘
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Brings me back to my highschool days
fungi can spread to far away places due to the transporting/trading of wood chips and composts
Don't pick the roses, but you can slap them around a little.☮
Hey what's up. Another great video from my favorite you tube botanist! Are you continually repeating don't pick the roses so the people who are watching knows that you aren't picking them?
Anyway great shit!
Happy holidays my friend 💚🌿💯
MUSHROOMS ARE SO CUTE😄 TILL YOU TAKE TO MANY THEN THEY TURN SINISTER!😱🤣🤣✌️
i ate cyanescens once. good stuff
As a PNW resident, those are TINY
3:43 lol
I would pick the roses. Because they told me not to. I'd knock over the sign and put the picked roses on it. And step on the sign leaving a dirty shoeprint. I might have control issues.
For science, of course
based
Gleaming the cube lol
The ones up here in Oregon have wavey caps and a fine snotty film.
I need some. Just to help break down my wood chips. I have lots of wood chips.
Can you ask Alan for me whether he thinks Ovoids could be bed-cultivated in urban areas in Ohio? I've rarely ever managed to find them in the woods but it would be sweet to get them propagated in wooded areas and small garden beds around town.
I've seen them accidentally propagated in woodchip beds in California so I'm sure they can
From what I understand they do best in areas disturbed by humans ie. wood chips or mulch. I imagine they'll do better in a flower bed than in the woods. And ovoids are native to the Ohio River Valley so you should be able to get them to grow pretty much anywhere in Ohio rather easily
they absolutely can. i've seen someone grow them on a solid block of wood, and i've seen them in flower beds and random wood- chipped trails far from the riparian zone.
i have had no success with them in the past, and i gave up... they might be more difficult than other woodlovers to propagate artificially. BUT it is doable.
i'd LOVE to visit the ohio river valley, it seems to be the mushroom hunting capital of the east- ish u.s. (aside from the gulf coast).
Yummy
I'm in NW Washington and been looking all over for these this year, but after it not raining for over 2.5 months during the summer we only had about 2 weeks of rain before it started snowing and got super cold. There's about 6 to 12 inches of snow here right now so I'm assuming I'm not going to find any of these this year, am I right?
...do not poke the roses either.
But I admit I would have done the same thing!
Just had to ruffle up that rose, huh. Had to make some pedals drop without picking them, didn't ya! Hooligan. 😆
"Don't Pick the Roses" he says. Then he goes and beats the shit out of one.