Mushrooms, ya gettin any?

[Foul Mike]

Today I got a couple pounds of oysters. That was it.
Ticks, mud and cowshit. but, I did find a few.
I found one morel 2" or 5 Cm. and was happy as hell. Did not disturb and watching for more. EXTREMELY rare in my neck of the woods.
Meanwhile there are some of you out there getting basket loads of morels.
Should be some nice mushrooms in our mountains this year. Lots of snow. etc. Happy hunting, Regards, FM

 

[Sean the Nailer]

I do miss living in B.C. There were a lot more mushrooms there, than here.

 

[Maggot]

Its been raining so much locally that I'm beginning to feel like a mushroom.

 

[woojos]

My buddy got a bunch of morels in Northern Ohio and we're headed up to French River, Ontario in a couple weeks to fish. He'll probably try and get more up there to go with all the fresh river walleye we're going to catch.

 

[_Windrider_]

I wish I knew more about this subject. Always been interested.


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[Unknown]

Those Morels look tasty! I knew a fellow who trained his Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever to smell out truffles. They would go for a hike, and he would often return with a small bag full. I asked him if he sold them, and he said that he had a better deal....he knew a few restaurants that would swap him dinner for himself, his wife, and friends for the truffles, depending on how many he had. That way, neither of them had to figure out how much per pound, and they were all happy.

Try some of the little mushrooms that often grow on cowpies in pastures.....(just kidding, unless you like psychedelic mushrooms).

 

[Maser]

I have been seeing so much talk about morels at other sites and I wish I could find some to try out. Now that it's warm out I plan on looking extra hard with my kids at our fishing spot. Maybe I should mention something at their next Scouts meeting about finding them.

 

[Geronimo]

A buddy picked 300 morels last weekend, I need to get out.

 

[Victory]

Ohio is blowing up, all my buddies back home have been posting pics.

 

[Victory]

Tacticaldillhole

The first rule of mushroom hunting is you don't talk about where or how you find yours, because mushroom poachers with snag your spots. I will tell you to use a mesh bag to hold your mushrooms in when you find them, that way you release the spores back on to the ground you are hunting. I'm not sure if that really works or not, just something my grandpa told me when I was younger and I was learning.

 

[diverdon]

Other than Puff Balls, I do not know 100% for certain how to know which are safe. I did just get two Bushels of wild Leaks.

 

[Joea132]

What a great idea. I never thought about mushroom hunting but I love morels. From what I understand, the season in CT is a little past but I might to out tomorrow while I walk my dog to see what I can find.

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[LanceS4803]

Morels in middle TN have a very short season, like 1-2 weeks.
I picked mine this year while turkey hunting the first week of May.
Growth is totally dependent on getting rain at the right time when daytime and nighttime temps hit certain marks.
You miss those 5 days or so, and you are SOL until next year.

Those that aren't cooked and eaten fresh, go in the dehydrator.

 

[Sledge1]

I normally find 1 mess a year. That's all I ever eat. Had so many growing up I guess I got kinda burnt out. My bunch this year looked like this:

 

[mpnv]

I normally find 1 mess a year. That's all I ever eat. Had so many growing up I guess I got kinda burnt out. My bunch this year looked like this:

How many times did you have to shoot it before submission? .....just kidding..nice pistol!!!

 

[Sledge1]

Ha. Thanks. That thing's been with me for a long time. You can see the finish wear on the muzzle end. Lord knows how many snakes it's killed, but I don't remember ever shooting a mushroom with it.

 

[Sharpsman]

I think there's a few folks.....knawing on the wrong kind!!

 

[Sixfivesavage]

Lol, funny I should see this thread today. I just ran a whole bunch of these things through the lawn mower. I remember thinking to myself "those things are strange looking, whole bunch of em there too". Then they went under the deck for the next few passes.

 

[sentry1]

I've seen mushroom kits for sales, basically wooden dowels that have been coated in spores. You're supposed to drill into a log, stick in the dowels, cover in wax or something, and wait a few years.

Anyone ever tried something along these lines? I've been thinking about doing this with a few logs at a relative's property.

 

[Switchblade]

I found some funny looking grey ones in the cow pies. Someone said they really carry a wicked punch, but I ain't eatin them. I'll stick to the good ones I can find under the Chestnut trees. Most of you know them as Porcini's which now go by Baby Bella's in the store

 

[Sean the Nailer]

Porcini's are absolutely fantastic once they are dried, and then re-constituted. Something about the drying of them, changes their flavor. Haven't found any of them around here though. Used to pick/gather "Bearded Sam's" in the Kootenay's and the Coquihalla's. A long time ago.

 

[cav has been]

Porcini's are absolutely fantastic once they are dried, and then re-constituted. Something about the drying of them, changes their flavor. Haven't found any of them around here though. Used to pick/gather "Bearded Sam's" in the Kootenay's and the Coquihalla's. A long time ago.

Would the Bearded Sams be the same as Shaggy Manes? Sumbitchin snow still messin with the 'shrooms here.

 

[Foul Mike]

I found 38 morels today and a couple more pounds of oysters. Very happy.
Sixfivesavage, if those were morels you mowed and I had been there you would have seen an Old Fart in tears. If you have one of those Yuppie stores, fresh markets near you go check the prices on them. I would bet you will be gathering and selling rather than mowing. The $$ will buy bullets and powder rather than going to waste.
Sentry1, I have not heard of the dowel thing before. I take wormy mature oyster mushrooms and put them in cracks in the bark or pockets I have chopped in on downed willow trees in a wet area with lots of willow trees. There needs to be some sap still running to provide moisture for the mycelium to grow. That or downed logs that are far enough in the dirt to keep it moist.
I have an old cottonwood log at the farm that I 1/3 buried and water it with my flowers that I did that to and got mushrooms in 3 years and lots of them in years after.
The next time I go to the willow trees I will take a cordless drill and drill a few holes in the sides and stuff them full of gills from the wormy ones. I think it might work. Regards, FM Cav has been too E 5/7 Cav 69-70

 

[ArcticLight]

We have Chanterell's in my neck of the woods.

Fry em up until the water stops bubbling out, THEN add oil, a slice of bacon - nothing finer.
There is a nother one that my daughter always brings home called Chicken Of The Woods and damned if it doesn't taste like chicken!
Daughter knows more about mushrooms than most shroom experts, but her mom has a degree in that stuff..

The Chicken of the Woods Mushroom

 

[g2gjoe]

Tacticaldillhole

The first rule of mushroom hunting is you don't talk about where or how you find yours, because mushroom poachers with snag your spots. I will tell you to use a mesh bag to hold your mushrooms in when you find them, that way you release the spores back on to the ground you are hunting. I'm not sure if that really works or not, just something my grandpa told me when I was younger and I was learning.

I was always told to touch the tip to the ground everytime we picked a shroom for the same reason, to leave some spores. Don't know if it was true or not, but did it anyway.

 

[Advokaten]

The spores are released from the underside of most shrooms, even morels, so that sort of action is not going to help, still we have had they same sort of misguided ideas back here, Always try to clean the shrooms at a spot were you like them to grow, completly useless advice.

I really like this thread. /Chris