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notapillow
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SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos!
#7670915 - 11/23/07 03:00 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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checked my patch today and just as i thought the last 2 days of frost had caught up with the cute little guys so i preformed an emergency patchectamy. picking pretty much everything standing.
might be the last flush for this poor patch. the ground was frozen solid

and this brings me to my question. hopfully macro psilygirl or someone knowes this, does freezing the fruit effect potency severly? iv noticed faster and more wide spread blueing. but they should still be ok right?
also dring them? any extra thawing steps or anything or just check on them turn them ect?







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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: notapillow]
#7671009 - 11/23/07 03:33 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't know if freezing will effect the potency, but in my experience, it will effect the texture. I froze a crop a morels once thinking that I could thaw them out and chop them up to put in eggs (after the season ended). Well, when I thawed them( I put them on a window screen and used a small fan to circulate the air), they were limp and slimy,instead pf firm and dry. The texture was so bad that I had to throw them all out, which really sucked because the season was already over and I couldn't get any more. My advice is don't freeze them but dry them out instead. Drying doesn't effect potency, as far as I know.
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notapillow
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: gandalf579]
#7671040 - 11/23/07 03:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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no i mean will them being frozen on the ground effect there potency  im not putting them in the freezer they are drying right now
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: notapillow]
#7671087 - 11/23/07 04:03 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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If they're frozen on the ground, in the mature or slightly immature stage, it shouldn't effect the potency but it may effect texture. They may be on the leathery side when you go to eat them. Then it's just a matter of what type of texture you can stomach. Personally, if something is slimy or too leathery, I ain't eating it.
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: notapillow]
#7671186 - 11/23/07 04:27 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well... If you haven't noticed any problems yet (such as the juices leaking out of the thawing mushroom, like a sponge) then I would not expect any significant loss in potency.
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notapillow
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: CureCat]
#7671201 - 11/23/07 04:29 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i have noticed some blue stains left by the mushrooms i dry on paper towels its not spores. its bright can blue, not purple and it always manifests where the wet areas dry
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: notapillow]
#7671224 - 11/23/07 04:34 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Pictures??
A little bit of liquid seeping out is okay, however, not ideal. The blue liquid is active, obviously. So hopefully it is not much. But if the mushrooms are going all soggy and limp, and the liquid is soaking the paper towel, that's bad. They will lose a lot of potency if they lose that much water.
Let me know how it goes. If they get soggy and don't dry well, next time you pick frozen mushrooms, get them into the freezer asap, and when you want to use them, make tea with the frozen mushrooms.
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notapillow
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: CureCat]
#7671239 - 11/23/07 04:37 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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hmmm. thats a good idea. well they arnt tottaly frozen infact they would have thowed on there own by the end of the day. but the last 2 frosts have all but halted growth so i yanked up most all of them. if it gets wet in the next 2 weeks they may start going again ut i dunno.
they seems to be drying quite well ill update this when i know for sure
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: notapillow]
#7671261 - 11/23/07 04:40 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Awesome.
Suimish and I miss you Pillow.
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notapillow
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: CureCat]
#7671278 - 11/23/07 04:41 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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then both of you need to make it out to the big sur gathering  woop you guys into shape on the trail 
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: notapillow]
#7671319 - 11/23/07 04:49 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Whatever dude. We've been hunting mushrooms on roof tops, we'll show you a thing or two!
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notapillow
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: CureCat]
#7671339 - 11/23/07 04:55 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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 i hope so ill be down in the bay around dec 15thish for serious tho check out the gatherign page. it is an 11 mile hike one way tho. then 11 miles back 3 days later. can you meat the challange cat???
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: notapillow]
#7671360 - 11/23/07 04:58 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ooooh.... i dunno.
I see myself complaining a great deal.... the distance I can muster, but if there are mushrooms along the way, i dunno. Or if it is sunny, FUCK!!! I would need a lot of drugs.
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notapillow
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: CureCat]
#7671451 - 11/23/07 05:17 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i dont think the drugs will be a [problem hopfully its raining  that would make the hike funner and there are plenty of fungal freinds in the mountains where we are going. i can see you complaining a great deal too  but i still think you should come, its gonna be a barn burner fo sho
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notapillow
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: notapillow]
#7672884 - 11/23/07 11:06 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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they are drying nicly. soem are almost comletly blue  but i suspect they should be just as potent as others
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: notapillow]
#7679975 - 11/25/07 09:32 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I wonder if you could apply some kind of cold pressing techniques they use to harvest some frozen grapes too active fungus.
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notapillow
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Re: SHROOMCICLEs! oh nos! [Re: snoot]
#7680008 - 11/25/07 09:47 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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whats that. and on a side not they all seem to have dryed fine 13 grams dry
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