Kevin Hoover

Looks like several different mushrooms in these pictures. The next to last looks like wine caps to me.

Might it be a dyrads saddle (pheasant back to some)?

We got 24 yesterday in Huntington and Blair counties.

A friend in our club got about 15 in Huntington County the other day. The eastern pa club found about 14 last week, but they were all immature. I haven’t had the chance to get out yet.

And this is what some of them look like now. Ready to harvest.

If your oyster bags have fruited for the last time, don’t throw them away! Use them to build new bags or buckets. I recently gave a talk and had them walk through actually building oyster bags. I wasn’t sure how many were attending and I only had one bag of oyster spawn, good to build about 14 bags. So I emptied it into a clean plastic tub, and mixed in the contents of two of my oyster bags that had finished fruiting. Then i filled 35 zip lock bags each with a cup and a half of this mix. I came back with 23 bags of spawn mix left, so i built 23 oyster bags. Have given four bags away. My remaining 19 bags are pinning and it looks like no I’ll have to plan some mushroom dishes for Easter.

Dave, They look to me to be immature Lions mane. The ones I grow start out looking very much like that, and are sometimes slightly pinkish too.

Coming up now in the hardwood mulch in my flower bed. Thought I’d get a pic before the snow starts tomorrow.

If anyone happens to be in south central PA and is interested, I’m presenting a talk on mushroom cultivation to the Somerset County Conservancy at noon. I will focus on oyster and wine caps, getting into lions mane if time allows. Will have enough materials along that 35 people can build their own oyster bags

Johnny,I’m not surprised that the Pholiota species failed. Those both are much more slow growing than oysters and lions mane.

If you look in the “What Kinds of Mushrooms are You Growing” forum on this site, and look at my last post which is titled “Trying Some New Techniques” I outlined one method to grow lions mane. Or just google it

Dave, I harvested one off a bag this year that had half the mushroom looking like a normal lions mane and half looking like that. When it first happened to me, I was on the phone several times to NorthSpore until we figured it out. Since then, I have talked to several people who have encountered it during cultivation. I have presented several cultivation talks and make sure to mention this when talking about lions mane.

No, it’s still lions mane and edible with no change in taste. I ran into the same problem two years ago and it stems from them not getting enough fresh air (the problem is carbon dioxide buildup).

Welcome! A local mushroom club is also a great place to learn.

I’m thinking Cortinarius based on the last photo.