Kevin Hoover
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Might it be a dyrads saddle (pheasant back to some)?
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We got 24 yesterday in Huntington and Blair counties.
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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.
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Using your spent oyster bags
Kevin Hoover replied to Kevin Hoover's topic in What Kind of Mushrooms are you Growing?
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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.
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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.
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Coming up now in the hardwood mulch in my flower bed. Thought I’d get a pic before the snow starts tomorrow.
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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
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Johnny,I’m not surprised that the Pholiota species failed. Those both are much more slow growing than oysters and lions mane.
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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.
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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).
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Welcome! A local mushroom club is also a great place to learn.
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I’m thinking Cortinarius based on the last photo.
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If the underside is yellow or white, then I’d say it is
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Yes, lions mane
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I’d agree. Compare it to an earlier post
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Entoloma mushrooms infect honey mushrooms to become aborted Entoloma or Shrimp of the Woods. Not any mushrooms.
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To me it looks like a painted bolete, Sullius spragui. It only grows under white pine trees
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It’s Hericium coralloides, commonly called coral tooth or comb tooth. Good find! Pretty and good tasting.
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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.
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I’d second the honey mushrooms.
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Yes it is
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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.