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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: koods]
#27311669 - 05/16/21 08:05 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Not a wild find, human influenced outdoors, but felt like sharing the picture. They have a different look than the wild ones I find like in my Avatar pic. I got some nipple tops on a few of them.  

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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: koods]
#27311742 - 05/16/21 08:39 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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koods said: We had a seriously good day today
That's more like it koods
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: Shroomhunts]
#27311988 - 05/17/21 12:39 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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A lot of this stuff today was buried deep in nettle patches and I’m still suffering. Tomorrow I will come armed for battle.
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: koods]
#27312141 - 05/17/21 05:42 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Nettle is a bitch man i don't even fuck with the voids in the nettle anymore cause I be numb the next day. If I do I wear thick fabric gloves and long pants long shirt etc
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: koods]
#27312189 - 05/17/21 06:34 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Damn guys making me jealous. Stuck at work. Some rain rolling through Central Ohio.
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: Fybliss] 2
#27312332 - 05/17/21 09:45 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yesterday was legendary, and contained a potent lesson I think all here would do well to hear...please read this.
I had basically given up hunting after a solid ten days of hustling all over SEPA getting marginal harvests, driving hours around the area for less than a half ounce total. By this time last year, I had nearly 1000g dry already.
I love the hunt for the thrill of it, but clearly the mushrooms were not doing as well this season, so I wanted to give them a bit of a break.
At the end of last season, I gave some ovoid spore prints to a commercial cultivator in my area, and this week they hooked me up with a 10lb bag of ovoid sawdust spawn. Fuck yes.
This was a big step in my mission to help this species propagate, to thank it for the gifts it's given me. Last weekend, I decided to shift my free time efforts from seeking mushrooms to serving the mushrooms. So instead of rolling through floodplains, I went out to find some good natural mulch to expand the sawdust spawn into a mother patch at home I could use to propagate even more next year.
The first spot I hit was 15 min from my house, behind a local school where I knew they chipped some hardwoods early last summer...and what I found actually blew my mind...hundreds and hundreds of ovoids, all completely dried up:

My friend and I picked for almost two hours straight. It was tough since they were basically cracker dry already:


The total from the spot was nearly a half pound dried.

For context, the top container was my harvest prior to Sunday, for the whole season, and the container on the bottom is just the harvest from the mulch patch on Sunday:

To me, this last image represents the impact of shifting from taking to serving. You get far more than you give when you serve others, including these mushrooms.
This is just the start, too...by next year this patch will be 2x as big, plus the patches I'm starting with the spawn and the mulch that came up with the mushrooms. I will have more than I could possibly use without needing to seek a wild shroom again for years.
I'm blown away by this experience, and hope it inspires others to take up the role of becoming an ally to these mushrooms, and begin to cultivate & propagate as well as consume and hunt them.
They are generous beyond measure, and when we show up with a spirit of service, they absolutely take notice...
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: atothedam2]
#27312349 - 05/17/21 09:59 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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atothedam2 said: Is there a way to spread a patch to nearby areas for future seasons? It's kind of sad seeing my first found patch start to dry out from lack of rain. There are boxelders and fallen pieces of them all over this place but only found the ovoids in one particular area. There's a massive pile of woodchips from a downed tree like 10 meters up the path from the ovoid patch so would that be a good spot?
Yes, totally. Take some mycelium from that patch that dried out and jam it down into the wet part of those chips, especially on the side that gets more shade or has vegetation on it. They'll expand into those chips aggressively.
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: gKid_A]
#27312460 - 05/17/21 11:56 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Nice haul, I actually prefer picking them when they are dried like that because they dry faster and you can fit more in a bookbag, also less messy as far as spores go. But also less potent as they are past peak ripeness. Good job finding that spot
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: gKid_A] 1
#27312545 - 05/17/21 01:03 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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gKid_A said:
To me, this last image represents the impact of shifting from taking to serving. You get far more than you give when you serve others, including these mushrooms.
This is just the start, too...by next year this patch will be 2x as big, plus the patches I'm starting with the spawn and the mulch that came up with the mushrooms. I will have more than I could possibly use without needing to seek a wild shroom again for years.
I'm blown away by this experience, and hope it inspires others to take up the role of becoming an ally to these mushrooms, and begin to cultivate & propagate as well as consume and hunt them.
They are generous beyond measure, and when we show up with a spirit of service, they absolutely take notice...
Absolutely!
Evryones first objective should be to find the mycelium and start setting patches.
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: koods]
#27312669 - 05/17/21 02:48 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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koods said:

A lot of this stuff today was buried deep in nettle patches and I’m still suffering. Tomorrow I will come armed for battle.
So what changed? Did you switch up your strategy? Looks like you found a mountain of wood chips.
Rain just missed us here but the Ohio valley got some.
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: Fybliss]
#27312839 - 05/17/21 05:46 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Since we are on the topic of taking mycelium and starting new patches...Any advice on how to do this? I snagged some a colonized piece of bark when I found my first, but I'm worried I killed the mycelium.
I've had it in my garden lightly resting in some soil and on top of a bunch of cardboard that I'm trying to keep wet, but I'm not sure it's working out so well. I tossed in a few stem butts too, but I don't see much happening beyond a few pins withering away. I'm not worried about them, but is there any way to assess the health of the mycelium? How long should I expect it to take to show signs of colonizing the cardboard? Other factors I should consider or any good Shroomery forums on the topic?
Thanks y'all! I'm feeling very inspired by that post gkid! Maybe we'll see each other out there one day.
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Get a cardboard tray, the kind pop comes on in bulk, and transplant the entire mycelium network in tact with pins. Plant in New mulch bed and water daily, instant fruits, let them complete their life cycle The spores + existing mycelium network will ensure vigorous growth for years to come
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lilpieceofsunshine said: Since we are on the topic of taking mycelium and starting new patches...Any advice on how to do this? I snagged some a colonized piece of bark when I found my first, but I'm worried I killed the mycelium.
I've had it in my garden lightly resting in some soil and on top of a bunch of cardboard that I'm trying to keep wet, but I'm not sure it's working out so well. I tossed in a few stem butts too, but I don't see much happening beyond a few pins withering away. I'm not worried about them, but is there any way to assess the health of the mycelium? How long should I expect it to take to show signs of colonizing the cardboard? Other factors I should consider or any good Shroomery forums on the topic?
Thanks y'all! I'm feeling very inspired by that post gkid! Maybe we'll see each other out there one day.
Rad! You just might...I'll be the one with the backpack full of colonized mulch haha!
There's plenty of threads in here on how to do it, just search woodlovers in here and you'll find tons of info.
Honestly in my experience the simple approach of burying the stem butts and myceliated wood debris 1-2 in deep, directly into a mostly shaded mulched spot in your garden will keep it healthy and it will spread. If you water it. If you do nothing else, this could work to get a strong base of myc established. You could take the additional steps of cold pasteurizing/soaking wood chips and doing a lasagna stack of spawn and chips on a base of wet cardboard if you really want to ensure full blastoff. Healthy mycelium will look like it did where ever you first found the mushroom fruiting...thick white rhizomes running all over, with that fresh shroomy smell!
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: Fybliss]
#27313048 - 05/17/21 09:34 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Fybliss said:
Quote:
koods said:

A lot of this stuff today was buried deep in nettle patches and I’m still suffering. Tomorrow I will come armed for battle.
So what changed? Did you switch up your strategy? Looks like you found a mountain of wood chips.
Rain just missed us here but the Ohio valley got some.
Nothing changed. One spot out of two dozen fruiting marginally is exactly what a terrible season looks like
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: koods]
#27313318 - 05/18/21 06:25 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: evlyshrooms]
#27313368 - 05/18/21 07:07 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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My phone battery is worthless so no pics from the field, but yesterday’s haul was redeeming. Picked up a lone star tick and the cicadas have taken over the trees.
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: koods]
#27313456 - 05/18/21 08:40 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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EGADS! Lonestar ticks are my nightmare. I hunt for nearly all of my meat and the thought of not being able to eat venison again is terrible.
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: Mr Piggy] 1
#27313699 - 05/18/21 11:37 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'm living out that reality right now. It's not so bad, honestly
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: Moria841]
#27313729 - 05/18/21 11:59 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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what reality?
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Re: East coast 2021 ovoideocystidiata thread [Re: Fat Chonkerz]
#27313734 - 05/18/21 12:05 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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Get bit by a lonestar tick and you may become allergic to red meat for a couple of decades. They're expanding their range around the US very rapidly.
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