Someone showed me this pic, the name cracked me up. The acronym’s APE.
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And they're verrry happy to see you! 🤣 🤣
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I just did a picture websearch. The pic I was shown was leaning towards NSFW.
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Didn't we have a mushroom expert on here? Someone that was showing us how to grow our own? Like with logs and shit?
I want to grow a mushroom.
I want to grow a mushroom.
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Simple as all get out, but it won't work for you for one reason alone.
You have to be able to ID the logs.
Har har!
I'm remembering a tutorial of sorts that was showing stacked logs and maybe covered with some type of cloth.
Was that you and was it on this forum, or was it further back than now?
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It wasn't me, I think like you say, it was farther back.
We do it here. Sometimes on freshly fallen oaks but usually just like everybody else.
Get fresh cut hardwood logs that haven't had time for any other mycelium to take hold.
We like about 6 inches across and 3-4 foot long.
We soak them in a barrel full of water for a couple days.
Drill holes and hammer in the spore covered plugs you can order.
We do cover the plug holes with bees wax. Some folks don't.
Keep em in the dark if you can and damp.
First year not much if any to harvest. Years 2-5 or 6 can be abundant.
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One time I inoculated a pretty huge red oak that fell a couple hundred yards from the house with shitake plugs.
It was a good tree, but high winds got it.
It took a good 3 years for the shitake to start popping out. Maybe 4.
By then I was posting stuff on here about finding wild mushrooms.
I would take folks that wanted to learn on walks looking for them.
I always loved it when I would show them the "wild" shitakes growing in our woods and if they didn't have the nerve to call me on it I would leave it at that.
It was a good tree, but high winds got it.
It took a good 3 years for the shitake to start popping out. Maybe 4.
By then I was posting stuff on here about finding wild mushrooms.
I would take folks that wanted to learn on walks looking for them.
I always loved it when I would show them the "wild" shitakes growing in our woods and if they didn't have the nerve to call me on it I would leave it at that.
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Here's a thread that has some on page 2 that @Cape Fear had done. Maybe he could chime in.
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Here's a thread that has some on page 2 that @Cape Fear had done. Maybe he could chime in.
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I thought there were some mushroom threads floating around, but I must be overlooking them. Anyway, we have been covered up with oyster mushrooms this year. Been getting a few "tree ears" too. Those are the red looking ones. Haven't seen a damn morel all year though. Oh well, beggars can't be...
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@kcult I don't have much to add to what Bill posted above. There is more information than you can absorb on the YouTube.
I bought plugs for Italian Oysters, Pohu Oysters, Lions Mane, Shiitake, and sawdust medium for Wine Caps from Field & Forest Mushrooms. I inoculated the fresh-cut logs with the plugs as Bill described above, in March of 2022. I did use the wax. The only thing that fruited that year was the Pohus, two fruitings. I have mycelium on all the logs.
I built a cardboard & straw bed for the wine caps, inoculated it and covered with shredded hardwood mulch from a local farm supply. Everything looked great until about July, maybe August. I went to water and the whole bed had brown rust mold in it. I looked at the hardwood mulch pile I had bought and it was full of brown rust mold too. So yeah, those bastards killed my mushrooms.
Be careful what you use for growth medium I guess, try to get everything from a known source like your hunting property or somewhere if possible. I just bought a decent 4" chipper/shredder yesterday so I can start making my own hardwood chips for bed-type shrooms & chicken-coop (run) composting.
Also, even though all my logs were fresh-cut, some of the oak has a funky oyster-type shroom on it already that is really woody in texture and can't be any good to eat. It may not be toxic but it would be like eating tree bark. I'm not sure how badly that will hurt the other plug spawn when they start to fruit. This is mainly on the Lion's Mane logs I think.
I bought plugs for Italian Oysters, Pohu Oysters, Lions Mane, Shiitake, and sawdust medium for Wine Caps from Field & Forest Mushrooms. I inoculated the fresh-cut logs with the plugs as Bill described above, in March of 2022. I did use the wax. The only thing that fruited that year was the Pohus, two fruitings. I have mycelium on all the logs.
I built a cardboard & straw bed for the wine caps, inoculated it and covered with shredded hardwood mulch from a local farm supply. Everything looked great until about July, maybe August. I went to water and the whole bed had brown rust mold in it. I looked at the hardwood mulch pile I had bought and it was full of brown rust mold too. So yeah, those bastards killed my mushrooms.
Be careful what you use for growth medium I guess, try to get everything from a known source like your hunting property or somewhere if possible. I just bought a decent 4" chipper/shredder yesterday so I can start making my own hardwood chips for bed-type shrooms & chicken-coop (run) composting.
Also, even though all my logs were fresh-cut, some of the oak has a funky oyster-type shroom on it already that is really woody in texture and can't be any good to eat. It may not be toxic but it would be like eating tree bark. I'm not sure how badly that will hurt the other plug spawn when they start to fruit. This is mainly on the Lion's Mane logs I think.
I've been down to this farm in Easley, SC and talked to Tradd Cotter, the guy who founded it, with his wife Olga. Not sure if they are still together as he is not mentioned on the website. Tradd also has a book that some here might be interested in.
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I kinda zoned out when y'all said two+ years for a mushroom.
I got perturbed when I found out it would take seven weeks for my Coturnix quail chicks to start laying eggs.
Who's got that kind of time?
I got perturbed when I found out it would take seven weeks for my Coturnix quail chicks to start laying eggs.
Who's got that kind of time?
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You can order a mushroom grow bag kit off Amazon. Quicker results and you technically grew something. I guess. Not gonna fruit for multiple years though.
My son figured out how to produce pounds of Lions Mane in the house quickly. This is the 2nd harvest of the same amount in three months.
He’s a smart fella.
He’s a smart fella.
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My son figured out how to produce pounds of Lions Mane in the house quickly. This is the 2nd harvest of the same amount in three months.
He’s a smart fella.
He’s a smart fella.
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I’m getting ready to try it with skrimp.
He grows them in a bag in a bin. It’s a new experiment, this is his 1st attempt.
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He found this 14” Reishi mushroom at Umpstead park.
My SIL decided to try foraging, first time out she brought back 20lbs of Chanterrels from the woods just behind her house. now drying.
Anybody got a list of books they recommend for this possibly new hobby? I love mushrooms but have always avoided wild mushrooms due to the possibility of death.
I would like to learn how to grow these in my back yard.
I would like to learn how to grow these in my back yard.
There's a coupla books dedicated to the Southeast and the Carolina's on Amazon.
Also, watch YouTube "Learn Your Land" for a good general East Coast mushrooming.
Anna McHugh is a great Tuber and she's local to the Triangle..
I also enjoyed a class with Greg The Mushroom Man up near Asheville.. 🤠
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I am in Polk co NC now. I am picking chanterelles , puffballs. No morels yet. Found some chicken just outside my back door. But it was about 2 yards down the wooded hill under the rhododendrons, I found it to late. But I will know where it is later in the year and next year.
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This is the "library" I tote around in the truck or 4 wheeler for ID.
Kris picked up a lil folding laminated ID chart that goes in my pocket for forays.
There were a bunch of shrooms bustin out when I went to the club last week.
This is the "library" I tote around in the truck or 4 wheeler for ID.
Kris picked up a lil folding laminated ID chart that goes in my pocket for forays.
There were a bunch of shrooms bustin out when I went to the club last week.
Mushrooms are one of those things I would LOVE to understand what is safe to eat, but fear of a bad trip or even death keeps me from doing so.
I went to knock this dead tree over and spotted this Lion’s Mane yesterday.
Paul Stamets cured his stuttering and his mothers terminal cancer through his mushroom research.
Due to this shroom being native, my son is planning on breaking up the rotten tree, mix it with moist pellet grill pellets, get the mycelium going, then spread them through our woods.
that is quite beautiful
And tastes even better!! 😋
He’s already figured out how to successfully grow a bunch of it in his kitchen. See post 106