Let's Discuss.......Mushrooms.

[FishDFly]

Wife's family use to get mushrooms from Penn. that were sent to them.

They made mushroom soup, nasty stuff, would take paint off doors and then stain them an awful color.

 

[2 shots]

Back in the sixties a lot of people liked Psilocybin mushrooms . I don't think I will try these!

i think, maybe ah maybe might have heard of these....what? i dont no. daves not here man

 

[TGJaeger]

We always had lots of big puffballs around our farm and if the weather was right morels…really enjoyed those. One day I was out by our calf pasture working on the fence and I saw the most remarkable mushroom. It was 8-10” across the cap. The cap was a velvety maroon color with a gold filigree around the edge. I picked and took it to the house and showed it to my wife. I’ve never thought of a mushroom as being beautiful before, but this one was. I threw it away and never thought about it again. One day my Nebraskaland magazine showed up and it had a spread on mushrooms. There was my pretty ‘shroom - right above the name “Death Angel”. Very toxic apparently.

 

[Golden Child]

Theres two types of mushroom hunters. Old cautious ones, and young risk takers. Theres never an old risk taker. Find a local individual who harvests wild mushrooms and learn as much as you can. Most foragers are more than happy to share their knowlwdge. But BUY A MUSHROOM BOOK and double check everything until you are comfortable. I forage maybe 5-6 types of wild, got 4 different types innoculated, its a hoot. But be smart.

 

[3 trees]

Here in WV my favorite is a fall mushrom. The Leather Back!

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Puffballs are the only wild mushroom I feel confident in eating.

 

[Newaygo77]

Shiitake spores are available on Amazon and other online retailers. The ones I’ve used are plug spores, short dowel plugs inoculated with spores. Drill holes in green oak logs, tap the plugs in, cover with a thin layer of paraffin wax over the hole, place in a very well shaded spot and wait two years. Mine bear mushrooms in both spring and fall.

 

[user 31257]

Half the problem with mushroom foraging is that there are all these local common names and no one really knows which mushroom you’re talking about. A friend of mine used to pick “brown tops” but I have no idea what it was. My Italian in-laws call Hen of the woods, “paparazzi”, god knows why.

 

[gunnyr]

We always had lots of big puffballs around our farm and if the weather was right morels…really enjoyed those. One day I was out by our calf pasture working on the fence and I saw the most remarkable mushroom. It was 8-10” across the cap. The cap was a velvety maroon color with a gold filigree around the edge. I picked and took it to the house and showed it to my wife. I’ve never thought of a mushroom as being beautiful before, but this one was. I threw it away and never thought about it again. One day my Nebraskaland magazine showed up and it had a spread on mushrooms. There was my pretty ‘shroom - right above the name “Death Angel”. Very toxic apparently.

Isn't that always the way it goes , mushrooms , women , guns and most good and beautiful things in life are toxic for us.
GunnyR

 

[TGJaeger]

Isn't that always the way it goes , mushrooms , women , guns and most good and beautiful things in life are toxic for us.

GunnyR,

That right there is not only accurate but downright philosophical!
The only thing I might argue is the gun being toxic, but I suppose it depends on the circumstances. If my wife caught me in a new Corvette, with a beautiful hooker, doing Psilocybin mushrooms,
The gun would certainly be deadly but not necessarily toxic.

 

[gunnyr]

GunnyR,

That right there is not only accurate but downright philosophical!
The only thing I might argue is the gun being toxic, but I suppose it depends on the circumstances. If my wife caught me in a new Corvette, with a beautiful hooker, doing Psilocybin mushrooms,
The gun would certainly be deadly but not necessarily toxic.

TG , Guns for me are toxic. I grew up with two people and have had a long relationship with both of them.
I valued their friendship through the years. However just in the last few years they have distanced themselves.
When I asked why , their answer was that my love of firearms and teaching kids safe handling and marksmanship
was wrong and that all firearms should be out lawed. Said I was teaching kids to become killers. These two people
are well educated , but are so narrow minded. Something I hadn't noticed before. If they think I'll stop they are
wrong. I recently bought a Traditions Kentucky Rifle kit flint 45 cal for the kids in Hunter Education to shoot.
They now can shoot IN Line, percussion and flint. I guess you can say I value the smiles on the kids faces and
won't miss their friendship going forward. So you see guns can be toxic.
GunnyR

 

[Golden Child]

Here's me with a ginormous variation of the chicken of the woods. Mushroom book isnt near me, but if memory serves, the second part of the scientific name is cincinati or cincinatus... zero sulphur smell or taste in this variety. Delish! This thing was growing on a 1' oak stick that was maybe 3/8" diameter. Lightly Sauteed with thin cut green and red peppers, and onion, carmelized with honey. Perfect burger topper and even my wife, daughter and super picky 7 year old gobble em up!
Forage away! You'll love it! MN's forage season is cut short by 11.8 months of mosquitos, deer flies, horseflies and gnats from the pits of hades, but i manage to find some doosies every year.

 

[Golden Child]

TG , Guns for me are toxic. I grew up with two people and have had a long relationship with both of them.
I valued their friendship through the years. However just in the last few years they have distanced themselves.
When I asked why , their answer was that my love of firearms and teaching kids safe handling and marksmanship
was wrong and that all firearms should be out lawed. Said I was teaching kids to become killers. These two people
are well educated , but are so narrow minded. Something I hadn't noticed before. If they think I'll stop they are
wrong. I recently bought a Traditions Kentucky Rifle kit flint 45 cal for the kids in Hunter Education to shoot.
They now can shoot IN Line, percussion and flint. I guess you can say I value the smiles on the kids faces and
won't miss their friendship going forward. So you see guns can be toxic.
GunnyR

Yeah... nothing worse than teaching the next generation how to properly and safely handle a gun... its pathetic how divisive guns and politics can be. I misplaced an Aunt over my refusal to take the covid shot. She says im the most narcisistic person she knows... while she stays tucked up in her house and refuses to see her own grandkids because its too risky.
"Never underestimate the stupidity of the general population". Dunno where i heard it, but it rings truer every day.

 

[bobbymoon]

All mushrooms are edible...some only once.

 

[BlackRock52]

TG , Guns for me are toxic. I grew up with two people and have had a long relationship with both of them.
I valued their friendship through the years. However just in the last few years they have distanced themselves.
When I asked why , their answer was that my love of firearms and teaching kids safe handling and marksmanship
was wrong and that all firearms should be out lawed. Said I was teaching kids to become killers. These two people
are well educated , but are so narrow minded. Something I hadn't noticed before. If they think I'll stop they are
wrong. I recently bought a Traditions Kentucky Rifle kit flint 45 cal for the kids in Hunter Education to shoot.
They now can shoot IN Line, percussion and flint. I guess you can say I value the smiles on the kids faces and
won't miss their friendship going forward. So you see guns can be toxic.
GunnyR

Unfortunately that attitude is becoming more and more prevalent

 

[1950DAVE]

Can any of you mycophagists identify this. Fleshy, smooth, veiled, somewhat sunken top, most are about 1 1/2", so far all, not many, are growing in decaying pine straw mulch.
Taste is excellent.

 

[Buckskinn]

I would not trust anyone who identifies a gill mushroom from the top and the fact that you've eaten them without knowing what they are is borderline insane...

 

[Cliffdweller]

I love 'em. I'll eat anything with mushrooms in it, or on it, or with it. I just ate a whole side order of deep fried on the way home because I couldn't stand it any longer. I just love mushrooms.

But I don't know jack about 'em. My knowledge base is, go to the store, buy fresh mushrooms, go home and cook 'em. I wouldn't know what to pick in the woods, and I've heard bad things can happen if you get the wrong ones. So, I don't fool with it.

That's not this subject though. Growing them is. It just seems another natural part of walking away from store bought food, to grow my own.

Recently I've watched a couple ad videos of a guy drilling holes in an oak log, pounding some sort of seed thing into the holes, and growing 'shrooms. Is that legit?

Who here grows their own, or knows how?

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Damn, now THAT picture just made me hungry!!!

 

[The Appalachian]

Shiitake spores are available on Amazon and other online retailers. The ones I’ve used are plug spores, short dowel plugs inoculated with spores. Drill holes in green oak logs, tap the plugs in, cover with a thin layer of paraffin wax over the hole, place in a very well shaded spot and wait two years. Mine bear mushrooms in both spring and fall.

Thank you for the response @Newaygo77. I've watched a couple of random FB video advertisements of this, and it's good to see some sort of validation. That's what I was after with this thread, and I'm going to try it.

As far as everybody foraging mushrooms. Have at it. It's on my list for learning someday, but not my short list for now. I was asking about growing mushrooms and specifically said I didn't forage for them.

 

[1950DAVE]

I would not trust anyone who identifies a gill mushroom from the top and the fact that you've eaten them without knowing what they are is borderline insane...

First small bite,raw, no issues. Next day a half cap, no issues. Two days later a whole cap. No issues.
A few days later a half handful sautéed in butter, a week later and still no issues. Delicious.
You'll never know until you try.