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2004 Mushroom season( Victoria)

Hardicus: I have had the same experience as miss slingshot. The ants (some small kind) crawl into the gill and next thing you know they are pully out a huge larva. I posted this last year in this very same thread. Its prety cool
 
Every shroom i find i cut in half (stem and cap) and scrape/cut out any crustiness before i dry them... i like my babies to be of the freshest quality :D
 
Yeah i amputate any part of a mushroom that looks at all suss, I also have three separate bags when picking. A pristine condition bag, a 'amputee bag and a funky skanky mushroom bag. The funky mushrooms are deposited at a super secret location, close to my house, in the hope of a local and protected patch by next year =D.

The pristine mushies are kept far away from the amputees - dried and 'damp ridded' in separate locations. All too often my 'perfect' mushrooms have been infected by one slightly suspect mushroom AND in the relatively short period of time from picking to getting home.

As you can tell i'm rather protective over my 'pristine' babies (oops i meant finds ;)
 
The mycelia I mentioned that seems to have grown in a garden near by is spreading BIGTIME. Its covered a few square meters and risen to the surface in places. If there any definative way of telling what type of mycelium it is before it fruits?
 
that could be done.... I rember my olds have a biology microscope back at home. Does anyone know much about this?
 
Post the question on the shroomery, they will have a community with more collective knowledge on mushrooms than here.
 
I make educated guesses to what disease is in it's first stages on turf sufaces by the colour of the mycelium ranging from redish pinkish to whites and greys. Probably not much help to shroomers.
 
I think you should all go out and capitalize on this lovely weather. I just got by far my biggest haul of the season

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and a nice amanita...
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Well I tried to capitalise on the lovely weather today and went to my usual spot.

It looked like a herd of wild elephants had totally trampled everything. I was disgusted and pained. There was shit everywhere, beer bottles, baggies, discarded KFC rubbish. . . A bunch of fucking asshole, inconsiderate shroomers had just torn through there with no regard for the environment what-so-ever!!!! I didn't see a single shroom. . .They must have picked every single one. . .even the bad ones and there is normally hundreds of them!!!!

I am soooooo angry! Why can't these cunts have a little respect for the wonderful natural world that brings them the mushrooms!!! I should camp out there with a damn gun! :X
 
yeah, we had the same thing happen to use a few weeks ago. The people are going back and picking anything above ground level!! Hope we bump into them.......
 
Woohoo! I've found my first patch of the season, and enjoyed a VERY lovely trip.
i know wat u mean people trashing areas. In my town theres a big section of pine forest, every single mushroom i saw had scratches in them or had been kicked over...except for the p. sub patch! idiots obviously not knowing what to look for...
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here's my haul, we got about 50g wet, ate them with our stir fry...
our friend says we've been a good patch as they dont normally get as big as the one in the top corner?...eh i dont care. Mushies rock:D
We went back a couple of days later and picked 70g wet :)

i have a couple of questions....

Is washing them after u've picked them a good or bad idea? They turned really dark brown after washing, which i read on here the more rain they get the darker the cap? Yes?

My friend thinks you can put them str8 in the freezer...I didnt, you have to dry them before hand right? Or else they turn into a pile of goo?

Ive been trying them by a couple of diff ways... Fan drying them in a little bag with lots of holes in it... And with them over my ducted heating ontop of a flyscreen. Is this a good way of drying them? The caps have become a really white/light brown colour...is this normal? The lighter the colour as the water absorbs, the darker as more water absorbs?

Peace, Love, Rain 'n' Mushies. %) BlazinMarty
 
yup they will become a "straw" yellow gold sort of colour as they dry out. Try to avoid heat if you can help it as this can make them less potent. If you in a house without parents / straits you can simply lay them out on some paper in front of a fan for a couple of days until realy dry then store with some little silica gell saché's that come in vitamin jars etc.

The browner they are generaly means they have been in nice moist conditions as they grew. If they are more golden in colour it simply means the conditions have been drier. This has no real corrolation to potency, however if moist conditions they do grow for longer and are hence larger / more mature like the one in the top right corner. Potentialy all your specimens could grow that big if they are left to grow for long enough.
 
i decided to just leave those fresh shrooms in my cupboard in a paper bag, it has been 4 days since they were picked and they're starting to go dry. i'm a bit anxious of eating them now though, if some of them are rotting or something is it dangerous to eat them? i was planning on eating some tonight but i decided to double check first, not being that experienced. =D
 
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