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@norfolk-partier 496543 wrote:

my mates get them every year, apparently theres a fair few places round me. ive heard that fields with cow shit in are good for mushys?!? but hey, could be bullshit 😉

I’ve also heard (that in the line underneath where the electricity pylons are (the big ones for the Grid, not smaller UK Power Networks ones) you get more shrooms. This might be partly because the area is often left more wild but also some electric leaks away you can hear it if you stand below the wires, so it must do something to nature). There are also small currents of electricity in the earth below. The folk what told me this are very brainy no nonsense Scottish people who tend to know this sort of random stuff.

When you do find your shrooms, make sure your friends avoid the obvious exclusion zone bits of the leccy infrastructure. I know you are smart enough to treat leccy with respect but some young people in rural areas aren’t, or think the pic of the stick man being knocked flat by a lightning bolt doesn’t apply to them. its not smart to try and climb the pylon even if the view looks better from up there, there is also a great deal of barbed wire and its there for a good reason. Also strongly discourage people from jaywalking and even standing in the middle of the road listening to the noises of the pylon and the nature etc and thinking “wow, thats cosmic” – easy to forget that traffic comes out of nowhere at speed!

Better to bring the shrooms back to where you can inspect them in good light, remove and dispose of any non target ones, share them out fairly and equally (so the greedy folk don’t end up freaking out and in the NNUH or James Paget being calmed down) and then go on your mission. Plus as these are class A though its unlikely you would meet a bobby way out on the sticks (unless other youths have been caning them and behaving like oafs in the surrounding village), worth having a cover story ready (like you are listening for owls or exploring for other creatures for your college project or even out of curiosity). In many cases even if the bobby thinks you are collecting shrooms, if you aren’t being anti social they might not be up for obtaining multiple extra units to nick all of you and take you back to the arse end of nowhere where them new police centres are based and then have to do fuckloads of paperwork for substances what would only get you a caution anyway..

@NN~Gazatryptamine 496573 wrote:

The fields I and my cronies go to is a sheep pasture (if that’s the correct terminology)

yep thats correct for sheep, cattle, horses, swine and all other grazing livestock. Not sure if the pylon trick works round your way as SE England is geographically denser, there aren’t as many Grid pylons until you go way further out into the sticks.

There are a fair few SSE Power distribution ones at 33 000 or 66 000 V which might not be enough for shrooms, as it may be the leakage current of the 132 000V or above causing this phenomenon.

These days I have a professional interest in power quality as I look after critical communications systems in healthcare environments and its “power cut season” (the change in weather causes fluctuating demand and unearths weak points at the Grid) – ironically this is why I can’t spare 12 hours for a trip these days as if I get a “off supply” warning even if I don’t have to attend the sites I have to at least coherently explain to staff (who are often in a state of alarm and might not even speak English as a first language) how to get things back on line and we’ve already had one big power cut at a rural site this month…

investigating the effect of the grid leakage current on the mycelium this would actually be a really interesting final year or maybe postgrad project for anyone brainy enough to be going up to Uni to study a science based degree but you’d probably need a fuckload of Home Office licenses to do it – though if it also encouraged growth of champignons and other beneficial fungi that might be a good thing…