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This year has been lacking in tasty shrooms due to zero rain but one of my other favs came back, bigger than ever.
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Sep 10, 2022 19:01
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For those of you who are getting a bit of cool weather lately, now's the time to start inspecting those big old oak trees for hen of the woods, Grifola frondosa
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Sep 13, 2022 17:56
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Found a couple big ol porcini/king bolete literally right in the big flower garden in front of my office:  I've seen several mushrooms growing in that much, some I think are a variety of milkcap but was never confident enough to gather them. But these I was. Obviously with boletes there's a lot of variety, but even if they're not officially porcini, they're edible. Passed the basic bolete test of white pores, no discoloration when cut, and a tiny nibble tasted just fine.
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Sep 21, 2022 01:23
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the yeti posted:For those of you who are getting a bit of cool weather lately, now's the time to start inspecting those big old oak trees for hen of the woods, Grifola frondosa i'm so excited to get a cooler/wetter week here in the southeast sooner or later just to see if i can find some of these beauties. it'll be my first official fall for mushroom hunting coming up soon enough, and while I can't stand the summer heat i'll have pretty much the rest of the year to find things if i'm lucky.
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Sep 21, 2022 02:28
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Soukuw posted:I did look around a bit and couldn't find anything. There were two patches about 100-200 feet apart. So karma bit my rear end. I gave you poo poo for only finding a couple and then my black trumpet spot only put up 5 mushrooms and about 20 pins that didn’t get enough water to be worth picking.
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Sep 24, 2022 02:57
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I'm not big into mushrooms, but I went to a friend's house last week and his roommate had picked a massive chicken of the woods from somewhere in the Olympic peninsula. He stirfried it and holy poo poo it was the best meal I've had in a long time. I did not know mushrooms could taste that good.
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Sep 25, 2022 20:23
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:I'm not big into mushrooms, but I went to a friend's house last week and his roommate had picked a massive chicken of the woods from somewhere in the Olympic peninsula. He stirfried it and holy poo poo it was the best meal I've had in a long time. I did not know mushrooms could taste that good. it's genuinely kind of depressing that a lot of people's only exposures to mushrooms are either the lovely, slimy canned ones (utterly disgusting) or just super basic button mushrooms from the grocery store (bland and frequently not used well in a dish), because proper culinary mushrooms are a real wealth of flavor and there's a lot of value you can extract out of them in terms of their versatility. probably the most basic introduction i can recommend to developing a taste for mushrooms is checking out either oyster or shiitake. they're very 'standard' flavor profiles and also aren't super expensive usually. a lot of recipes exist that take advantage of them! the one bit of advice i'll give for shiitakes, though, is you always want to remove the stem if you plan to directly eat them. the stems very much aren't edible, mainly in the sense that they're chewy as poo poo instead of something like being poisonous.
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Sep 26, 2022 00:45
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 Found a dyers polypore the size of my ribcage today. Also 19363184902 chicken of the woods logs, all well past eating prime.
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Sep 26, 2022 02:11
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I found exactly one chicken log in my woods last year so I've been watching it like a hawk since the beginning of the month, and it's only fruited once. I made an omelette with it and it was one of the most delicious things I've ever eaten. I really need to join a club because I'm not exaggerating when I say there are hundreds of various mushrooms within 50 feet of my front door and I have no idea what they are.
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Sep 26, 2022 03:09
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Everyone should check out their local club and join if they’re not lovely
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Sep 26, 2022 04:23
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Welp. It's officially been the driest summer on record here, and it's starting out as one dry rear end fall. Besides finding a random chicken of the woods and a nice haul of summer chanterelles, I am feeling rather pessimistic about fall season at the moment..... .....gently caress
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Sep 27, 2022 00:26
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Found a few small hedgehogs that were just a tad past their prime.
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Oct 1, 2022 03:32
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I've started growing lions mane mushrooms at home for medical reasons. They heal nerves and neurons. Good medicine.  This one is almost ready to harvest  Here's some babies  I messed up with this one. I didn't cut the bag open soon enough. It will still grow into a very pretty lions mane mushroom I also have a black walnut log in the back yard that I inoculated with lions mane. But it's a huge log so I probably won't see any mushrooms from it until next fall. And now that I've figured out how to grow lions mane, I just ordered a syringe of reishi liquid culture so I can start growing reishi too. The combination of reishi and lions mane mushroom extracts has pretty much given me my life back. For the first time in something like 6 or 7 years now, I can actually leave the house on my own. I can drive again, I have most of my vocabulary back, most of my chronic pain is just gone. I still have some long and short term memory issues and I'm still pretty weak, but I can do things now! I've taken over doing most of the house cleaning, I volunteer at the animal shelter for 2 hours per week. It's freaking wild. I've only been taking the extracts for about a year now and I think I'm eventually going to be strong enough to be able to get a part time job.
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Oct 4, 2022 09:39
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Haji posted:I've started growing lions mane mushrooms at home for medical reasons. They heal nerves and neurons. Good medicine. That's wonderful! I hope you continue to improve! As a friend of a multiple stroke sufferer, i've noticed the instant the various phantom pains are gone the brain has free rein to say "gently caress this" and take over everything again. But more importantly... Is it good? Do you have to eat it raw to preserve the healing properties or can you do some cool poo poo with it?
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Oct 8, 2022 17:49
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Tafferling posted:But more importantly... In order to benefit medically from it, you have to break the cell walls in the mushrooms and lions mane has some tough cell walls. So you can dry it and grind it into a powder, do a double extraction (alcohol & water), or cook the heck out of it. I make extracts and delicious dinners. I like to saute it and the add it to a white sauce and put it over pasta. It tastes so good, but I hear that the wild grown tastes even better.  This is the one I accidently didn't let out of the bag fast enough. It's growing just fine now Haji fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Oct 9, 2022 |
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Oct 9, 2022 17:56
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My dad brought one home from a farmer's market and we had it with lunch fried in butter. Truly magnificent.
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Oct 9, 2022 20:40
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How do you all feel about eating graveyard-mushrooms? I went for a walk there yesterday and there was plenty of Coprinus Comatus, which so far is the only edible mushroom I'm confident I can identify. There was also a patch of some kind of Lactarius that I couldn't figure out. L. Quietus maybe, but the seemed too orange for that. This is in Denmark.   And plenty of Amanitas:   
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Oct 10, 2022 11:43
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Pondex posted:There was also a patch of some kind of Lactarius that I couldn't figure out. L. Quietus maybe, but the seemed too orange for that. This is in Denmark. All Lactarius are mycorrhizal so nearby trees can help with ID. I don't see any oak leaves so probably not L. quietus. Did you observe the milk change colour or stain the mushroom?
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Oct 10, 2022 13:00
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big scary monsters posted:All Lactarius are mycorrhizal so nearby trees can help with ID. I don't see any oak leaves so probably not L. quietus. Did you observe the milk change colour or stain the mushroom? No color-change, it stayed white for at least a minute or two. It was under a birch and next to a hedge of beech.
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Oct 10, 2022 13:10
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Looking at the Norwegian mushroom lists, maybe "duftriske", L. camphoratus? Seems to grow with a variety of trees and while some photos have much lighter gills others look quite similar to yours. I have to admit I'm just guessing, I'm not personally familiar with that species.
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Oct 10, 2022 14:21
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I think I've landed on L. Volemus, but I'll have to ask a local expert.
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Oct 10, 2022 15:52
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NSNF runs a really great app where you can upload mushroom photos and trained experts will ID them for you for free. Maybe it works in Denmark too? https://soppkontroll.no/
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Oct 10, 2022 16:20
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Thanks, I might try that. According to my local fb-group L. Volemus smells like shellfish so that's out as well.
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Oct 10, 2022 16:42
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Pondex posted:How do you all feel about eating graveyard-mushrooms? Hej dansk person! Du vil gerne hoppe på Svampeliv/Mycokey-databasen inde på https://svampe.databasen.org/ - hvis du bruger appen kan du endda få forslag til ID i felten. For everyone's benefit I will now cease herring/viking-speak  :Does the milk you pressed out keep being white? If it dries white or sort of greys you have one of the "foxy lactarii" that are hard to ID. Could be l. subdulcis if milk stays white and l. tabidus if the cap centre is wrinkled and dries sort of yellowish on paper. If it turns more brown upon drying that would look a lot like a "fishy lactifluii", specifically Lactifluus volemus. Those would, correctly, have a shellfish-like smell and so are probably not it. I definitely don't mind graveyard mushrooms. It's been pretty extensively studied if fruit bodies maintain some part of the host they grow on and they don't, so you're not 'eating dead people' in any meaningful sense. I will however never go picking near any grave that's being visited, nor walk over graves to do it, that's just common courtesy. Tias fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Oct 12, 2022 |
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Oct 12, 2022 14:47
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Tias posted:Hej dansk person! Du vil gerne hoppe på Svampeliv/Mycokey-databasen inde på https://svampe.databasen.org/ - hvis du bruger appen kan du endda få forslag til ID i felten. Jeg er derinde allerede :-D. Kun en enkelt observation anmeldt indtil videre dog. Vidste ikke der også var en app. No color-change on the milk at all. But from what I hear there's a lot of nearly identical red-brown, white-sapped lactarius. So I think I'll just leave it at that for now.
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Oct 12, 2022 16:02
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Pondex posted:
Yeah, don't overthink over lactari, there are a ludicrous amount of variations even among the same species.
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Oct 12, 2022 18:30
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  Any idea what this is? My best guess is an old hericium abietis but I'm very dubious I'm in the PNW and I have no intention of ingesting it either way so don't worry that you might kill me
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Oct 13, 2022 04:30
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cute little birds nests in some flower pots: 
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Oct 13, 2022 04:58
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Xand_Man posted:
I found some of those recently, very juvenile, and thought they might be a sparassis or hericium too. Turns out they’re Pycnoporellus alboluteus and they are SUPER cool looking at full maturity. The ones I found:  The mature examples I found online:  
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Oct 13, 2022 16:26
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Finally, some success in Rogue River Forest. We found a couple of matsutakes and a huge swath of white chanterelles. I took what we could reasonably eat in a couple of days but left probably 30 more in the ground. That was a fun find!   
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Oct 26, 2022 21:40
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Congratulations! Have a firm but friendly reminder that matsutakes rate as "vulnerable" on the international redlist, so consider leaving some or all of them there, though.
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Oct 27, 2022 09:00
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Cladonia I think Tremella 
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Oct 28, 2022 17:33
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I don't know if this is the thread or if the TCC thread is the de facto cultivation thread but I've been growing oyster mushrooms from a kit in my basement. I threw some crumbled off sawdust from the first flush in a jar with some shredded cardboard as a project with my 4 year old. (5 in 10 months, he wishes to inform you) I think this is contamination but I'm new to mushroom cultivation so this might just be what mycelium looks like on cardboard. Thoughts?   Edit:Didn't realize pictures were so bad, it's white fuzzy hairs
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Oct 28, 2022 17:53
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So apparently grey cobweb mold, or to trich, is the main culprit of failed grows. Can't tell from your pictures though, but I'd Google that to start.
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Oct 28, 2022 19:13
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Tias posted:Congratulations! Have a firm but friendly reminder that matsutakes rate as "vulnerable" on the international redlist, so consider leaving some or all of them there, though. Leaving mushrooms to rot in the forest probably won't do a heck of alot to boost numbers as long as you aren't damaging the mycelium when you harvest. Habitat loss is probably the main culprit.
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Oct 28, 2022 19:57
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Picking mushrooms and carrying them in mesh bags actively increases spore spread. Matsutake are in trouble because of climate change, not because people are picking their fruits.
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Oct 29, 2022 04:20
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Xand_Man posted:I don't know if this is the thread or if the TCC thread is the de facto cultivation thread but I've been growing oyster mushrooms from a kit in my basement. I threw some crumbled off sawdust from the first flush in a jar with some shredded cardboard as a project with my 4 year old. (5 in 10 months, he wishes to inform you)
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Oct 30, 2022 00:26
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I moved the container outside away from the other kit; the mushroom strain is very cold tolerant so hopefully it will outcompete any competitors
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Oct 30, 2022 18:14
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I made a trip un the woods and it's extremely dry but apparently it's the perfect weather for some Leccinum Rufus. The ones I find are always spongy as hell, but today these were the only fungi to be found and they were almost boletus quality.     Lots of stuff for the dryest end of october ever in Italy. Tafferling fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Oct 30, 2022 |
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Oct 30, 2022 18:46
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Weird bread
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