OK Off topic, I know. But:
A couple of teenagers were shot and killed in a
Florida pasture for picking magic mushrooms in the 70s when they ran after a cop
demanded that they stop. Check it out.
Yearly warming is bring the species north.
The penalties are severe for possessing this
non toxic and non addictive mushroom. It's not the only "magic"
mushroom that grows in manure.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 11:26
AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] leachy
phosphate?
Yes. It is one species (a lesser, but possibly most well known type) of
Psilocybe mushroom that is indigenous to the Gulf coast. They don't actually
cordon off the cow pastures. they spray them with fungicides and (I'm told)
require fungicide in all the cattle feed sold here. The species in question
grows on ruminant manures and as far as I know, does not form large mycelial
colonies in the soil. There are far more potent species and those are
generally Saprophytes that are far less likely to carry pathogenic bacteria
such as E. coli, but they are less well know, especially by local law
enforcement. I must say, I know this from talking to local farmers and
gardeners, not from taliking to law enforcement. (Such questions are likely to
invite some undesirable "quality time" down at the station.)
From: S & E Hills
<ehills7408@wowway.com> To: North American Fruit Explorers
<nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:05:27
AM Subject: Re: [NAFEX]
leachy phosphate?
An outlawed
Fungi? Are we talking about the infamous “magic mushrooms”? Has
anyone clued law enforcement into the fact that fungi live promarily
underground and only poke up to fruit? I read an article years ago about
a super colony of fungi here in Mi that was possibly the largest living
organism on the planet.
You’re lucky they
don’t declare working the soil in general as working to support the illegal
fungi.
I can just imaging
law enforcement cording off an area with caution tape after finding suspicious
mushrooms. Isn’t there real crime in that area?
Lol
Scott
Hills
Zone 6b
Michigan
From:
nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]
On Behalf Of Kevin
Moore Sent: Thursday, June
18, 2009 6:03 PM To: North
American Fruit Explorers Subject: Re: [NAFEX] leachy
phosphate?
It certainly leaches into the subsoil here in the
Southeast, but we have almost as much rain as the Pacific Northwest .
Phosphorus deficiency is a common problem in this area. Water soluble forms
only last for a season or two. Yes, Fungi can be great allies in growing
plants. Too bad we have an indigenous fungus here that is outlawed by
international treaties and is sought out and destroyed by law enforcement.
Their methods do not distinguish between one fungus and
another.
From: Alan
Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:57:42
PM Subject: [NAFEX] leachy
phosphate?
Kevin wrote, "That's too bad. Rock phosphate is
more slowly available than the others. That's why it's so good. It doesn't
leach out of the soil the way the others do. If you have a rich, biologically
active soil, it should be available to the plants shortly after it is applied.
If you have dead, chemically burned soils, it may never become available."
Phosphorus doesn't hardly leach at all- even
tripple superphosphate, but quickly forms nearly insoluble precipitates
with other minerals becoming mostly unavailable to plants when applied to the
soil. Where phosphorous pollutes water is when the soil itself erodes
into the water. Anyway, that's how I understand it. As a
fruit grower and a gardener I have never experienced phosphorous
deficiency. Hooray for our fungus friends.
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