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Kevin Hoover

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Coming up now in the hardwood mulch in my flower bed. Thought I’d get a pic before the snow starts tomorrow.
  4. 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
  5. Johnny,I’m not surprised that the Pholiota species failed. Those both are much more slow growing than oysters and lions mane.
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  8. 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).
  9. Welcome! A local mushroom club is also a great place to learn.
  10. I’m thinking Cortinarius based on the last photo.
  11. If the underside is yellow or white, then I’d say it is
  12. Entoloma mushrooms infect honey mushrooms to become aborted Entoloma or Shrimp of the Woods. Not any mushrooms.
  13. To me it looks like a painted bolete, Sullius spragui. It only grows under white pine trees
  14. It’s Hericium coralloides, commonly called coral tooth or comb tooth. Good find! Pretty and good tasting.
  15. I picked three hens of the woods off a double oak two years ago. I knew roughly where it was, but couldn’t find the tree last year. A friend and I were hunting that area yesterday and I told him that we were right around where I had found a hen previously. He said “I found your tree and hen”. I walked over (this was in thick laurel) to find the tree had blown over. When it fell, it made kind of a V shape. The hen, of course, was where the two trees joined. Also found a number of larch bolete buttons.
  16. I’d second the honey mushrooms.
  17. Dave, Good timing on those comments. I have a friend who just started to get interested in mushrooms. He was over last night helping us unload hay bales. I took him back into the woods and introduced him to chanterelles, then down under one of my spruce trees, so I could explain Aminitas to him. We talked about puffballs. There was a pigskin puffball there to show him. We were fortunate enough to have a Aminita button that he cut into to see the mushroom shape inside, so he knew what to check for if he picked puffballs. He and I are going to check two state parks this morning to see what we can find.
  18. Chanterelles have been up at several spots in the woods behind my house. I’ve talked to several people who have found batch of them here in central Pa. But I’d check for sunny spots and along paths in oaks and mixed woods.
  19. Did you nibble on a bit of it and spit it out? That would tell you if it was bitter (unless you are one of the few who doesn’t taste bitter things). Even if they were edible, I’d never eat mushrooms in that condition.
  20. Looks like chocolate slime mold to me.
  21. Great haul! The only B. seperans I found this weekend were only about 3” tall. We were out in south central PA today. Saw trumpets and chanterelles but most were immature. Got some bicolors, pallid boletes and green Russulas.
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