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Hello! I have not been on this site in quite awhile. But I am currently out of work and enjoying every single minute of it!!! I don't think there has been one day since I have not been in the woods. And what a great time of year! It finally stopped raining here about the time I got layed off. Hope you all have been well and I am glad to see the site doing well also. Here is a mushroom that I have found before in the same place but was unable to get a spore print from. Hopefully I will get one this time. So my guess on it is not positive yet and since I will never be 100% positive on this one it will never be eaten. But I do want opinions. Hopefully when I get a spore print and get it under the microscope I will know more. They were growing in the same area under mixed hardwoods. (not shown) I can not say how they smell. I have not real sense of smell. They just smelled mushroomy to me. Nothing strange. Cap width on one that was fully open was 4". Stalk was about 2-3" Surface was dry. Lots of mycelium at the base. No ring.
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Really? I didn't think they did. I wash mine good under running water. But I never noticed that.
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Those are pretty ones. You are doing great out there. I may ride out today for a tiny bit and see what the rain brought (or killed)
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This is only my second year finding hens, so my timing isn't there yet. I am wondering if that rain will blow them out or start more of them. Here are my pics from yesterday. I put up a couple of bags and I took all my mushrooms in waiting and made kind of a mushroom stew to go over rice.
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Since you said you were finding them in Mi Sparky, I went out looking. We found some! Also found milkys and surprising to me, I found some fresh chanterelles. It has been a really good year for mushrooms here.
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Mary, thanks! I forgot about that hen. And not more hikes from h@#$! because I am not walking up that hill alone again!!! and don't forget your boots to cross the creek!!! )
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I was trying to see when I found my hens last year and I guess I didn't take a picture. Either that or it was lost in the great apple crash. What I can tell you Mary, is that we have had an awesome year for mushrooms here with all the rain we got. Things are in the midst of change now. October is beautiful here with the color of the leaves. I would like to get out and do some major hen hunting this year so if we can figure out the best time you are welcome to come here for a weekend of hen hunting. Last year was the first I found them and I only found two but I didn't go out and really hunt. Meaning I didn't walk the woods like I should of. So if you want to come out and do some major walking, let me know.
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Nice Dave! I understand we are still getting good rain at home so hopefully I will get more next weekend. Where are you finding the boletus nobilis? Hemlocks? I have yet to find them. Are they very buggy?
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Looking at yours, reminded me of one I saw this weekend and never went back to. Hydnellum peckii maybe or diabolus. Problem is I didn't smell it or pick it. I forget what caught my attention away from it, until now. Thanks for reminding me Brook.
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I hope so too!
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I'm here.......The first one looks like bicolor to me. I wish the picture was a little lighter though. It looks like it may be a little spongy. And you want to read http://www.mushroomexpert.com/boletus_bicolor.html as there is also bicoloroides which at some point I remember a discussion on the edibility of the bicoloroides.
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I think any day where you have to hike back to the car to empty your basket and go back for more, is a good day. I tried a different area yesterday and was really just expecting to find some different boletes. On my first hike I found a bunch of milkys that I had to take back to the car and some interesting boletes and a few left over chants here and there. Driving out, I spied a couple of chants off the road. When I got in there I found the tons of them! Had to empty that basket and go back. I was really a few days late for a lot of them but I got quite a few. I decided to walk another trail where I had seen some chants a few weeks ago and never went back. On the way in to that spot I found a couple cinnabar chanterelles. The is a very populated path, so I ran in and picked them quick not wanting anyone to know what I was doing. When I got to my spot I didn't find a thing and decided to go back. Just as I was reaching the car I saw a few more cinnabars, and few more, and few more. I couldn't believe that a path as populated as this would have so many great mushrooms. The more I walked around the more I found. Lots of them not really pickable but I still had to dump my basket and go back for more. Everytime someone would walk by, I just acted like a photographer and took pictures. What a day! I was too tired on the way back to go to my own spot. A couple of weeks ago, I had picked a few from my steep hill (Dave, remember the hill next to the road? Those.) I thought I had gotten all of them. But here was another bunch of them up there and they look really good too. Just to tired to make the climb and slide down. Ended up with over 5 lbs and for me that is really good. You usually have to work for what you find here. Tried to get a good picture of the color difference. I left lots behind. Best season ever. I guess that is what happens when you get tons of rain. Thank god it was not snow, but who knows what will happen in a month from now. Had to edit this. We went for breakfast and a quick trip to the store. I wanted to show Larry where I found the chants. We ended up with 7 lbs more! And a cauliflower, milky's and hedgehogs. I am actually getting tired of cleaning chants. Will be making loaf tomorrow.
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Post some more Dave, I love seeing what you are getting there. We have had tons of rain here also and there are tons of boletes. The bugs seem to get to them before I do. I have seen a lot this year that I don't know. A very colorful mix!
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lake Placid area and Adirondack - need advise
zora replied to Ontarioshroomer's topic in General Mushroom Discussion
One place I check weather history is http://www.wunderground.com/ I actually think Dave may have sent me there at one time. Another great one is www.intellicast.com -
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They had not had much rain at all, though people did find enough to fill the species tables. We did not find many. But there were lots of bi-colors and yes they are a pretty mushroom. I went on my own little foray yesterday here at home and brought back 2 lbs of chants, a half a pound of trumpets, hedge hogs which are getting going, milkys and lots and lots of different boletes. I have been leaving boletes mostly alone for the last couple of years since they are always so infested but the foray gave me renewed interest in them. We have had so much rain here this year that trees are falling over left and right. The forest is a real danger zone. My roads have be blocked a few times including yesterday there was a big tree down and the power went out. (I would post some more pics from the foray but all my uploads are failing)
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Went to the NAMA foray this weekend. It was in Clarion, Pa. at the Clarion University. A lot of people stayed at the dorms. We did not, as I like showers and air conditioning when needed and believe me, it was needed this weekend. It was very hot and humid. We could not get there until Friday and I think we must have missed important announcements as it was very hard to find where everything was. The halls were not marked well and there were not sign. I attacked the first person I saw who was getting off one of the buses, just happened to be Walt Sturgeon. He was nice enough to give us some direction as to where to go. With the heat and humidity they all looked very tired getting off the bus. We were able to catch the next bus out on a foray with Mike McFadden. It was a small group but a really fun one. In our company was Claudia Joyce, one of the founders of MOMS. It ended up being her, Larry and myself on a little walk in the hot mostly dry woods. We found a lot of bi-colors and some nice xantheconium saparans which are one of my favorites. If you ever get a chance to meet Claudia, know you are going to have a great time. We did not do the evening activities. The next morning, we were up early and drove to Cook Forest on our own. We saw that they were going to state game lands 72 and 63 and I wanted to see the great big huge pines that I missed seeing many years ago when I was up there horse back riding. So we went in hunt for the Forest Cathdral a National Natural Monument. We found it. Here is what DCNR says about it. The 8,500-acre Cook Forest State Park lies in scenic northwestern Pennsylvania. Once called the "Black Forest," the area is famous for its stands of old growth forest. Cook Forest's "Forest Cathedral" of towering white pines and hemlocks is a National Natural Landmark. The Clarion River connects Clear Creek State Park to Cook Forest State Park along a scenic 10-mile stretch of river which is popular for canoeing and rafting. Now, wouldn't you think that it would be pretty spectacular? I have waited years to get back there to see these grand trees. I have sent visitors from my house to go through there and see them. I was not impressed. I have better hemlocks here. A lot were down or broke. My hemlock forest in Laurel Hill is much nicer. But it was a nice little walk and we did find some fresh chickens that Larry was proud of down the road a piece. I also got to re-visit a little shop where I was on horseback and get a new fringe bag for $5.00. The owner there was still fixing saddles that he was fixing back then! We spent the afternoon in some interesting seminars on spawning mushrooms and I got a few tips on how to bring by fading blewets back. I will be trying to cultivate some oysters this year just for fun and see where that takes us. We left early Sunday to go to Elk county and see if we could catch a bull. Only a few cows but fun just the same. The whole trip was so foggy that I had major issues getting pictures. I think the most interesting thing of the trip was seeing the species table which I had never experienced before. It confirmed some of my guesses. Oh yea, I got to shake Gary Lincoff's hand!
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Better train her not to step on them! Took yesterday off to hunt and came back with a golden chants, smooth chants, trumpets and a couple lactarius. Today we went down to get the hedge hogs. Didn't want to leave them any longer since next week is the NAMA foray. Small one is a Hydnum umbilicatum I would guess but have never seen them get big. The other is the Hydnum repandum.
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I have only found a cauliflower once and most of it was bad, but what I could taste was delicious! I would love to find these again. Congrats.
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Looks like you could be the first!
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Had a pretty good day, but the chants are getting buggy. Found almost 2 lbs of them. Gathered some Craterellus cinereus. The same place that we found them with Dave last year and there are many more I left to grow. They smell soooo good. Found a huge amount of oysters. A couple of L. volemus which I love but never find a lot of. We got out of the woods just in time for a storm which is always a good thing. Lots of the mushrooms where blown from the storm last night I suspect. Strange weather this year.
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The afternoon rains missed us by just a couple miles but we had a storm last night. Lost power. Pressure tank switch is broke and now we are without water. So the mushrooms have water and we don't! Nothing to do but go hunting! Yes, looks like we will get rain for the next couple of days!
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Wow! That is huge!
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oh......I will check on that closer then. So Dave, what is your opinion on how fast chants dry up? and does the dew, like what is in that area, enough to keep them going? We had 4 hours of rain Monday night. I am going out in the morning. i am just concerned that we won't get rain and next weekend may be too late. I want to let them get big, but I don't want to lose them either. This weather this year, has me a little messed up since I don't even usually find them til now and I have already gotten a couple pounds.