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 Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: CureCat]
#11396968 - 11/06/09 09:26 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Just returned from a one and a half day foray along the northern California Coast.... Boletus edulis var. grandedulis is EVERYWHERE. More than we could pick, much less carry or fit in the car. We saw other hunters all along the side of the road in Salt Point. And that was just a Thursday, in the rain. I can not imagine how many harvesters will be out during the weekend!
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 CureCat
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 Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: sui]
#11398197 - 11/06/09 12:19 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Sui, it was not an event. It was a last minute camping trip with a friend of mine. Well worth it! Here are a couple of photos that my mushroom hunting friend took.
This one was (these ones were?) my favourite.
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: CureCat]
#11398283 - 11/06/09 12:28 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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WTF..... there huge  
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: CureCat]
#11398284 - 11/06/09 12:28 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Lol, nice freak. Looks like a fantastic hunt.
I was thinking about heading up that way this weekend, although I already have more kings than I can handle.
Anything else interesting popping up?
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notapillow
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: scout24]
#11398299 - 11/06/09 12:31 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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WOW
i wanna go hunt down thar!
i got like 2 more weeks up here tho then im off. CC
come up here! or im coming donw there
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Twiztidsage
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: notapillow]
#11398533 - 11/06/09 01:02 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Those three fused caps are awesome. Nice hunt curecat!
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scout24
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: CureCat]
#11407426 - 11/07/09 06:54 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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CureCat said:
Just returned from a one and a half day foray along the northern California Coast.... Boletus edulis var. grandedulis is EVERYWHERE. More than we could pick, much less carry or fit in the car.
Wow, you weren't exaggerating. Today was epic.
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cyanophilus
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: scout24]
#11407595 - 11/07/09 07:19 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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agreed, today was epic.
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cyanophilus
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: cyanophilus]
#11407756 - 11/07/09 07:40 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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  boletes by the ton
 
lots of beautiful amanitas
  
gymn lutes
 
gymn junonius
to name a few... cant wait to see some of the other photos from today
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: cyanophilus]
#11407779 - 11/07/09 07:43 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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that's big! i mean damn.
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: canid]
#11407915 - 11/07/09 08:00 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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everyone including me seems to be finding lots of Boletes and Amanitas... well I might as well post what I found here in Humboldt:
      
Still looking for actives but we haven't had very much rain... I hope we get a big storm soon. Anyone else having any luck in my area?
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CaliforniaLove
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: froginthefog]
#11420768 - 11/09/09 04:57 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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hey guys i am fairly new to this sub-forum and i do not want to break any rules if i do feel free to scream shout and throw things 
wat are the best locations in sf bay area to look for actives? pine forests? parks? oak forests? any specific places that you mind mentioning haha...looking for some pointers here
with the rain coming mid week i plan on a long hunt this sun so i dont want to be searching in the wrong places and waste a day...have done that far too many times
thanks in advance!
Edited by CaliforniaLove (11/09/09 04:58 PM)
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: CaliforniaLove]
#11420825 - 11/09/09 05:05 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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wat are the best locations in sf bay area to look for actives?
In wood chips, helps if they are irrigated.
If you look in one thousand wood chip beds you will find a handfull of patches.
http://www.mushroomobserver.org/name/map/5353
http://www.mushroomobserver.org/name/map/1036
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fliped
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: CureCat]
#11421010 - 11/09/09 05:30 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
CureCat said:
Sui, it was not an event. It was a last minute camping trip with a friend of mine. Well worth it! Here are a couple of photos that my mushroom hunting friend took.
This one was (these ones were?) my favourite.
Wow, great find CC> Beautiful pictures also!
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: fliped]
#11422147 - 11/09/09 07:44 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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The porcinis were popping this past weekend. We saw hundreds in the short time we were out, only selecting the best for the kitchen. It was awesome.
Unfortunately, the pictures don't do the experience justice.
   
This one had the diameter of a basketball.
We pickled some of these just for the hell of it.
 
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: scout24]
#11422384 - 11/09/09 08:08 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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B. satanas:
    
Amanita pachycolea:
    
 
B. edulis:
    
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canid
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: quadracer]
#11422394 - 11/09/09 08:09 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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oh i hate all of you.
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: canid]
#11422880 - 11/09/09 09:13 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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wish I had the time and the car to go up the coast. Man, I don't even have anyplace to store all that even if I did get a pile 'o' porcinis
there is something pretty neat happened here in SF tho, and it's oysters at an urban guerrilla garden near Potrero Hill in SF. The place is watered somewhat. I know Curecat isn't too far away, and the location is listed on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art blog (hooper street garden)
  
I don't usually mess with wild oysters, so not 100% on this, so I'm hoping somebody can get there soon and positively ID them, so I can let some of the gardeners know. the photos are from today, and these are biggies, maybe a little beyond maturity, so maybe the next fruiting somebody can use them
any problem with edibility in chips like that?
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: auweia]
#11423852 - 11/10/09 12:16 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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That's pretty cool, though a lot of people have issues with eating "wild" foods that are grown next to roads....
In any case, after reading a bit of the article, I am pretty sure they know exactly what mushrooms those are:
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The garden is growing strawberries, raspberries, chard, spinach, thyme, lavender, and marigolds while simultaneously using bioremediation techniques to remove toxins from the soil.
As you know, Paul Stamets popularized the idea of using mushrooms as a tool for bioremediation. He recommends using mushrooms, namely Pleurotus ostreatus, to leach toxins out of contaminated substrates. He also cautions against consuming mushrooms produced in the substrate, noting that the reason he believes that the mushrooms do such a good job of rejuvenating polluted grounds is that they transfer the toxins from the substrate into the fruiting bodies...
Though judging by those mounds, it looks like most of the material used for growing was brought in from a different, likely less polluted source. So it might not be so bad to eat them, though the people who spawned the mushrooms might think it is a sinfully toxic idea, perhaps citing Stamets as their reference.
The garden is not far from me (a little over 3 miles distance), though you are much closer.
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Twiztidsage
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Re: Official Fall 2009 Winter 2010 San Francisco, Bay Area Thread. Post your finds here! [Re: CureCat]
#11423895 - 11/10/09 12:28 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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I thought that the mushrooms contained no gnarly chems, but may have had heavy metals.
At least in the first experiment.
When tested for harmful chemicals, there were no petroleum residues found in the fruit bodies when they were grown in diesel and oil saturated soil, but they were not tested for heavy metals.
Not trying to argue, just clarify things a bit. Here is a link to where we have talked about this before on The Shroomery.
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