Old thread hit bump limit >>2763444Fresh breadcollybia odora, anise mushroom. This was my first time finding one. It was very fragrant!!
>>2790568I was hoping to find oysters but found oysterlings instead.
>>2790570They were all over
>>2790571Lots of suillus pseudobrevipes
>>2790572stropharia ambigua, I see why they call it ambiguous now, the mature ones lose all of the bits of fluffy mycelium on the stipe and cap, leaving them a rather plain looking mushroom.
>>2790573Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis, the goblet mushroom. They were growing out of some leaf litter on a moss covered rock!
Has anyone tried growing king trumpet oysters?How does the process compare to normal oysters?
>>2790592They can be somewhat challenging. They need a fairly consistent 80% humidity with lots of fresh air exchange to make sure the CO2 doesn't build up. The real challenge is temperature. They like a temperature around 60F and will not fruit above 68F. So unless you have unlimited AC budget, you're going to only grow them in the colder months. Other than that. They're easy to culture, fairly robust and mold resistant and will grow on supplemented HWFP like oysters. I've mostly seen them fruited from bottles or 5lb blocks with one quarter size hole but into the top. I've also seen a couple "cube" style monotub grows with varying success.
This one was a little dry
>>2790592Here are some that I grew. I tried two different methods, one was open top fruited the other , I pulled the bag through a small mouth mason jar lid to restrict the fruiting area. I struggled with temps the whole time. I got a couple flushes out of the restricted bag and only one out of the open top. About the same number of total mushrooms from each though.
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Still just beginning with the whole mushroom thing. I think they look neat
>>2790507Looks like a big blown out lobster mushroom. I'd need to see the underside to confirm. They're about a month out of season, but where you find one you'll usually find more. If you can find any that are firm and not buggy, they're choice edibles....assuming they are indeed lobsters.
>>2790728Rotting lobsters can be used as protein fabric dye too
Took these gymnopilus I picked back in july, had a weird experience that I would describe as the delta of shrooms, then got the flu or something and was sick in the following days, and was super paranoid that I mistook them for galerina and was dying of amatoxin poisoning. 3/10 would not recommend I'm sticking with cultivated cubes
I'll post another of the side and top
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I bought some oyster mushrooms at the store (at $28/lb!!) and some of them had rosecombingKind of neat
>>2790978https://www.americanmushroom.org/grower/disorders/#:~:text=Rosecomb,leading%20to%20the%20name%20rosecombBad.
These Bois are sandy & dirty from the flooding.
I live in Poland and while looking for Tricholomas (did find some but sadly most were old or eaten by bugs) i found wild enoki! I am very proud and happy, as it took me years. Sadly, the stump they're growing out of is old and probably has been infected for many years, its falling apart, full of those strings, i think its mycelium. I only harvested a dozen caps, but i split the stump (its very brittle, falling apart) and i took two cuts of it home. You can see 2 tiny mushrooms fruiting from it. How do i farm it? Should i "feed" it a bunch of logs? I'm pretty sure only some species of wood work, enoki doesn't grow on conifers, which make up 90% of nearby forests... should i go to a nearby river looking for logs of poplar and willow?(i wish i could show you the fruiting bodies but i've already consumed them!)
>>2791688You missed matsutake season by almost two months. You'll still find a few now and then, but the big flushes are done for the year.Get a tissue culture from one of the actual mushrooms and place it in a dish of agar. Clean up the culture of any contaminants and then send it to grain. You can then use that grain to make some plug or sawdust spawn. You can use that spawn to inoculate logs. Fresh logs are best as fallen wood will likely have something else already growing in it. Now is the best time to harvest some nice thick branches to turn into logs. The trees are sucking all the sugars into the branches to use for energy over the winter to produce fresh buds in the spring. This will make very nutritious food for your mushrooms. You're looking for stuff that's around 6-8in in diameter. You can expect 1 year per inch of wood. So you don't want to go too thin, but also not so large that they're hard to manage. They prefer elm but ash, beech and oak will also work.
How do you distinguish between wild enokis and galerinas without a spore print? Obviously if I was planning on eating something I'd just do the print, but clearly there are people who can tell by sight alone (in those emergency ID groups for example), and I'm curious how.
Found these in some mountains in Romania. I'm not gonna do anything with them (I'm retarded and would probably die if I tried eating stuff I found in the forest) but posting in case someone wants to flex their mushroom knowledge and identify them.
>>2791785Numbers added for easy distinction.I'm not familiar with your particular part of the world but a couple of these are ubiquitous.I'm not sure about 1 or 2. Pictures of the gill would help, but even then, they aren't ones I'm familiar with. 3. scurfy twiglet, Tubaria furfuracea4. oyster5. oyster6. probably trametes versicolor, but I'd need to see the underside for sure.
>>2791741>matsutakeOh no, i meant equestre and portentosum! In Poland, they grow until December, even under snow. Sadly we don't have matsutake here. Damn, this seems complicated! I'll look into it. I don't even own a petri dish. Sounds like doing a science experiment. >>2791775They're totally different! It's hard to explain... maybe i just have good instincts, since my whole family are avid mushroom-pickers and ive been going on mushroom hunts for 20 years straight
>>2791796>Oh no, In Poland/facepalm....I read Portland, that's why I assumed you meant matsutake. Crazy what a difference a couple letters makes :P>Damn, this seems complicated! Sounds like doing a science experiment.You're not wrong. It can be a bit overwhelming at first. I'm already set up for mushroom work, so it's not nearly as complicated. You'll want a still air box to do sterile work in. That can be a simple as a ~50L clear tote with a couple holes cut into it so your arms can go in. A short list of items you'll need: a tote, premade dextrose agar petri dishes, scalpel and blades, 70% isopropyl alcohol, flame source(preferably one that doesn't leave carbon residue). This will get you started. You'll also need grains to inoculate once you have a clean culture. You can buy them pre-soaked and sterilized, but if you want to do more than one type of mushroom, you'll want to look into making your own, which will require a pressure cooker capable of reaching 15psi.Whatever you choose to do, head over to shroomery.org and take a look at their newest teks for outdoor cultivation of gourmet mushrooms. I'm sure you'll find some info on growing wild enoki.
>>2791962Oh! and something to wrap the petris. Parafilm is what the pros use, but it's pricy and can be annoying to use. Cling wrap works well too, and it's cheap! But you'll need to cut the roll down into 3/4in rolls. I find a ratcheting bladed pvc pipe cutter works super easily and safely for this. $3 for a roll of cling film and $20 for cheap pvc pipe cutter vs $30 for a roll of parafilm.
>>2791962>shroomery.org Another note... You'll be looking in the "Gourmet and medicinal mushrooms" Sub-forum, not the "mushroom cultivation" section, which is for growing active(magic) mushrooms.
>>2791962I'm really envious of you americans, so much land and so few people exploring it, here everyone and their mother picks mushrooms, i think Matsutake have gone extinct ages ago, even though we have the perfect environment for them...>>2791968Thanks, i'll bookmark the site. I don't have the energy for such an experiment right now... how long can i keep the original logs before they decompose? I assume they'll endure a couple of years.
>>2791969>how long can i keep the original logs before they decompose?The one you posted looked pretty well decomposed. I'm not really sure. I only know the estimates for fresh logs. And those are just estimates, you could get more or less time if the mycelium is eating faster or slower and depending on how humid it is. There are so many factors that go into a fresh log. And too many unknowns with a found one.If you want to roll the dice on something that might work.... grab that log you found and some fresh logs of the same wood if possible. stack them into a pile with plenty of surface to surface contact with the fresh logs to the mushroom. For example, lay down 4 logs. place the mushroomy log on top with two fresh logs on either side. two more on top of that. Then throw a trash bag over it loosely to keep the moisture in while still allowing for fresh air exchange.That's what I'd try if I didn't want to do any sterile culture work. I'm not saying it'll work, but it might.
>>2791973The trashbag idea is good, because i have lots of agrotextile for gardening that just lies unused in winter. It doesn't need light, right? Agrotextile keeps it warmer but lets water and air through.
>>2791975>It doesn't need light, right?No, not at this point. All you're doing with this is trying to get the mycelium growing on the mushroom log to jump onto and into the new, fresh, logs. A good humid environment with enough fresh air that it doesn't suffocate is what you want. Mushrooms breathe in oxygen and out CO2, just like us. If the mycelium jumps and infects the fresh logs, you'll want to place them in a shady spot. Mushrooms use the air and sun to tell when it's above the dirt, leaf litter or bark and time to cap out. So you will want some light eventually but not now.
>>2791796>It's hard to explain...can you try? I keep looking at example pictures and it seems like there's a lot of overlap in what they can look like. If a galerina had an annulus I could tell, but it looks like they're missing it half the time.
>>2791796Try this for cultivation http://jontrot.free.fr/champignons/culture-eau-oxygenee-Vols1-2new.pdf
>>2792031Enoki is slimy when wet, has a velvety stem, no ring, brighter orange cap, whiter gills, and usually grows in bunches out of the base or wounds of treesFuneral Bell is not slimy, has a snakeskin-like stem, a ring, has more a sickly orange cap, brownish gills, and grows more singly from anywhere on the tree, especially mossy patcheshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrgJYPbjVoM
>>2792192Thank you! In looking up more examples I've found that I also apparently need to study Hypholoma, though... maybe I should just stick to things with no real lookalikes until I can take an in person class or something, lmao
>>2792193This is one of those moments where even as a white man I detest my own people's "ingenuity"...
>>2792193What did that poor mushroom do to deserve this
>>2792265Ethnic genocide, sex trafficking of minors, and running a covert nuclear weapons program.And those are just the crimes we know about.
Lads I know it's winter in the Best Hemisphere but this thread can't be on page 8
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I got 5 different mushroom books for Christmas... I guess everyone picked up on how much I talked about my new interest. Most of them are rather unscientific, but at least I have something to read over the winter when there's not much to do outside!
>>2796439Nice! It's always fun when others are excited about your new interests. That's how I got my start! I found mushrooms all over a new spot I found and wondered which were edible and which were deadly. I started taking pictures. Then I started sharing them with my friends and family. Then my dad gave me the rain book and I read it cover to cover, then read it again. Soon after that I started uploading my photos to iNaturalist and started getting confirmation on my id's. That Christmas I got 4 more mushroom books along work two general foraging books that also had mushroom sections. Now I've been doing it for several years and if I don't know what something is, I at least have a general idea of the family they belong to and can do a little research when I get back from my foraging trips. Here are some funeral bells(galerina marginata) from my parents backyard.
