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Maniac71

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  1. i live in n. maine and i can pick 50lbs. in one 4hr. outing. its everywhere. i just ride around in my truck on the logging roads. even the loggers pick it for me. funny i havent seen the fruiting body yet. i make my tea by putting small chunks in a crock pot on low for 24 hrs. then strain and drain. refill and do this 5 times or until it starts to get weak. then i put the spent chunks in my raspberry patch or compost heap. i also make a tincture out of 100pf vodka. i fill a half gallon mason jar w/ small chunks. top it off w/ vodka. cap it and give it a shake every few days for a month. i then dump it out into my crock pot. i top off w/ water and heat on low for 3 days. i top off the crock pot as needed. at the end of the 3rd. day i top off one last time. turn off the heat and strain into glass wine jugs. there should be very little alcohol left at this point. i dump a oz. in my drinks 2x's a day plus i drink chaga tea a few times a day. my psoriasis is almost gone. i feel better when i take it. haven't got a cold for 3 years. hopefully it helps w/ the prevention of cancer as its pretty prevalent in my family. like it best strait up w/ just honey as a sweetener. i find mine mostly on yellow birch. sometimes on white. my biggest find was a 20lb. monster growing on a 4ft. wide ancient yellow birch! took some axe work to get it off! if i was any good at posting pics i could put it up here. still have it in my shed as i find its too nice looking to cut up. i also sell some cheap to the old folks and cancer survivors. if they can't afford it i just give it to them. its helped a lot of people around here.
  2. i started a bed of them last spring. hopefully they produce this fall. i mixed composted manure, fresh hardwood sawdust and some worm casing for a nutrient source. spawn was from mushroom mountain. hopefully they make it. the wood blewits i find up here are much lighter with a purple rim. find them in mixed woods but mostly under spruces. good job by the way.
  3. I've only found wood blewits usually in clusters of about a doz. i started a outside bed under some 40 yr. old spruces last spring. hopefully they produce this fall. i also have the northern almond port. wine caps, elms and princes in beds started this spring. looking for horse mushroom and parasols to propagate. you find any of those in your area?
  4. hey folks! just joined the site and thought id introduce myself. I'm a avid outdoorsman , mushroom hunter and grower. i live at the very northern teminus in maine. I'm a rocks throw from canada. i have 7 varieties of mushies growing in beds right now. also have 15 totems going w/ 3 more varieties. just got my first flush of k. stropharia yesterday. 3 lbs. 4 oz.! most common mushrooms i find up here are numerous boletes , lobsters , blewits and tons of chaga. have found parasols, chanterelles. hedgehogs , birch polypores, loins mane, numerous conks, oysters and quite a few others i haven't positively identified but I'm working on it. looking forward to learning more from you all and will offer my advice as well. have a good one!
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