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Chuck H
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A good year!!!
#19054178 - 10/29/13 08:45 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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New here, but I've been picking for about seven years. I'm starting this thread so the foragers among us can do like me and get exited about what a good harvest this year has brought! The last two years have been a little sparse for me, but this year has been great. I'm just picking for personal use, not commercial or sale. I forage when walking my dog (good boy Benny) and some evenings or a day on the weekend. So, not that hard core. I admit to having some pretty good spots and patches already keyed in but so far I have picked:
3lbs. of morels in April 2lbs. prince in late summer. The rest are fall 10lbs. white chanterelles 7lbs. chlorophyllum olivieri (gray shaggy parasol, and my favorite) 4lbs. hedgehogs (hydnum umbilicatum, the little ones) 10lbs. matsutake (I like to use them fresh so I've given most of them away!) And maybe 10lbs. of lobsters. Which I don't usually pick, but there were so many good specimens this year that I had to get some.
I was disappointed in the prince (agaricus augustus) and fairy ring (marasmius oreades) harvest this year. I usually have those in abundance. But I've been really happy for all the others that have come up in good numbers. I've found exactly one blewit this year!?! Maybe they'll come up late.?.
How has everyone else done?
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skullphuxxx
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Re: A good year!!! [Re: Chuck H]
#19054270 - 10/29/13 09:02 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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congratulations! that's sweet man! i had a good year to 15 lbs of chicken of the woods over 70 lbs of hen of the woods 10 lbs of giant puff balls and 2 big plate fulls of shaggy mane been eating mushrooms every day.and love it!
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Aleon
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skullphuxxx said: congratulations! that's sweet man! i had a good year to 15 lbs of chicken of the woods over 70 lbs of hen of the woods 10 lbs of giant puff balls and 2 big plate fulls of shaggy mane been eating mushrooms every day.and love it!
If you ever want a hunting partner, I'm in southern WI.
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B_BOY
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Re: A good year!!! [Re: Aleon]
#19056534 - 10/30/13 07:58 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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ehh i mainly only hunt Morels.
found aprox 20 lbs or so this past spring.
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nanncee



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Re: A good year!!! [Re: B_BOY]
#19056572 - 10/30/13 08:33 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don't do a lot of foraging(to busy trying to grow) but we have found probably 7 lbs of reishi this year. If I had more time to get out I could easily double/triple that.
Sounds like you all are finding a bit more than I in the gourmet department. Super jealous on those hen of the woods, wish those grew here in Utah.
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Re: A good year!!! [Re: nanncee]
#19056774 - 10/30/13 10:01 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I did not do much hunting this year either due to growing so many. But i did find a little Trametes cinnibarinus (rare orange polypore), wild enokitake, wild turkey tail, and today just found some wood blewits on my compost pile. I have cloned them all 

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Forrester
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Re: A good year!!! [Re: nanncee]
#19056850 - 10/30/13 10:19 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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nanncee said: I don't do a lot of foraging(to busy trying to grow) but we have found probably 7 lbs of reishi this year. If I had more time to get out I could easily double/triple that.
Sounds like you all are finding a bit more than I in the gourmet department. Super jealous on those hen of the woods, wish those grew here in Utah.
I'm jealous too, I didn't really find much this year, didn't get out in the fall as much as I had hoped to 
Did get a few good edible lobsters (which is rare here, they always seem to be filled with mud and bugs). A pretty nice chicken find. No hens. And like 7 chanterelles 
I did find a shitload of reishi spots though, unfortunately most of them were too late to be of use but next year I'm set for TONS of reishi when summer comes!
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Chuck H
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I'm jealous on the morels. I have a spot here on Whidbey but it's a large, wooded unincorporated area that takes a lot of stomping to cover. Most pickers don't know they grow here and I don't plan to share my spot. Fairy rings and princes are very common here but this year I was only finding them in potentially poisoned environments. I would rather eat a poisonous species than an edible soaked in man made poisons. So I got very few princes and no fairy rings. Fairy rings make the best omelet on earth!
Oh, I didn't mention above but I also picked a couple of pounds of leccinum scabrum (birch bolete) You just look for birch in September and there they are. I always knock and ask about chemicals before I pick. I like this mushroom sautéed and finished with sour cream on toast points...YUM!
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Forrester
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Re: A good year!!! [Re: Chuck H]
#19061181 - 10/30/13 11:46 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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^ Never heard of that one, I usually look for birch for the chaga, which I have been lucky enough to find some of just this past weekend. Awesome stuff.
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Chuck H
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That's alright. I just looked up chaga myself. My wife is more inclined toward the medicinal mushrooms. I'm more inclined to the edibles. And, of course, some mushrooms are said to be good for both.
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Edited by Chuck H (10/31/13 07:30 AM)
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mycelium maniac
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Re: A good year!!! [Re: Chuck H]
#19063770 - 10/31/13 02:35 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I had a really good year so far, (actually the season is mostly over), found several pounds of Black Trumpets, dried most of them. I also found many pounds of wild oysters, and some Chickens. It seems to have been a good year for mushrooms here in Southern Maine. Right now I'm trying to "domesticate" some of the Oysters I found in the woods. Oh yes and by the way, also a couple of nice finds of Hericium!
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Chuck H
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I'd love to find some trumpets. Hasn't happened yet. Regarding oysters... That's an easy one. Just take a piece of the log home and keep it cool and moist. It'll make oysters until the wood is gone.
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Forrester
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mycelium maniac said: I had a really good year so far, (actually the season is mostly over), found several pounds of Black Trumpets, dried most of them. I also found many pounds of wild oysters, and some Chickens. It seems to have been a good year for mushrooms here in Southern Maine. Right now I'm trying to "domesticate" some of the Oysters I found in the woods. Oh yes and by the way, also a couple of nice finds of Hericium!
By domesticate, you mean you cloned them yes? That's awesome I've been trying to do that but haven't gotten out enough to find any big enough to clone! Did you get clones of the Hericium too?
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nanncee



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Forrester said:
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mycelium maniac said: I had a really good year so far, (actually the season is mostly over), found several pounds of Black Trumpets, dried most of them. I also found many pounds of wild oysters, and some Chickens. It seems to have been a good year for mushrooms here in Southern Maine. Right now I'm trying to "domesticate" some of the Oysters I found in the woods. Oh yes and by the way, also a couple of nice finds of Hericium!
By domesticate, you mean you cloned them yes? That's awesome I've been trying to do that but haven't gotten out enough to find any big enough to clone! Did you get clones of the Hericium too?
just FYI Oyster is the easiest to clone that I have done. Get a good spot for the transfer and that shit will outrun most contams.
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Re: A good year!!! [Re: nanncee]
#19072737 - 11/01/13 11:00 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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nanncee said: just FYI Oyster is the easiest to clone that I have done. Get a good spot for the transfer and that shit will outrun most contams.
Yeah despite my noobishness I've been pretty good at cloning so far.
Oyster attempt failed because they were really small and water-logged. Combined with my too-wet agar dishes and bacteria won before any mycelium could grow.
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Chuck H
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Just what are you guys calling "cloning"??? AFAIK that is a term used for the genetic reproduction of an individual chromosome set!?! This seems more like growing mushrooms from wild spores. Please clarify. I feel like I'm missing something.
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Forrester
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Re: A good year!!! [Re: Chuck H]
#19073803 - 11/02/13 06:56 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Chuck H said: Just what are you guys calling "cloning"??? AFAIK that is a term used for the genetic reproduction of an individual chromosome set!?! This seems more like growing mushrooms from wild spores. Please clarify. I feel like I'm missing something.
No, it's not growing them from spores - it's cloning from tissue inside the mushroom, i.e. "genetic reproduction of an individual chromosome set" just like you said
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Chuck H
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You mean to tell me that I can pick a particularly tasty example of any clone-able mushroom and make more of it!!! I've been missing out! Not that I have time or space for another hobby, but I have to look into this. I have searching to do!!!
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Re: A good year!!! [Re: Chuck H]
#19075660 - 11/02/13 03:23 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Exactly! Mushrooms have very little in the way of cell differentiation, so when a piece of a fruiting body is put on a new growth medium it goes straight back into colonizing mode. Sometimes they do this when fresh air is restricted, too; this is why grocery store oysters in plastic packaging are usually fuzzy in places.
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eagel774
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Re: A good year!!! [Re: Aleon]
#19075721 - 11/02/13 03:38 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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is that turkey tail??I have a 6' log with 50% of it covering the one side next to our barn growing on a box elder..
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