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2004 Mushroom season( Victoria)

I'm sure its been debated a thousand times, and the answer is somewhere in the 17 odd pages of this thread.. but I'd love to get a difinitive answer on this.

Is there a difference in potency between dried and freshly picked mushrooms?

I assume the advantage with dried mushies is that the absence of water means that a gram of powder is significantly more than a gram of fresh mushies.

Infact I may have just answered my question myself.....

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WillRave said:
I'm sure its been debated a thousand times, and the answer is somewhere in the 17 odd pages of this thread.. but I'd love to get a difinitive answer on this.

Is there a difference in potency between dried and freshly picked mushrooms?

I assume the advantage with dried mushies is that the absence of water means that a gram of powder is significantly more than a gram of fresh mushies.

Infact I may have just answered my question myself.....

stace.
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I think the potency issues are more to do with some American and other worldly species that lose their potency to oxygen and heat. However, our Ozzy subs are tough little buggers and if there is any potency loss from drying/mild heating/boiling/etc then its more or less negligable.

I have found that 12gram fresh drys to about 1gram dry. So, yeah, obviusly there is a MASSIVE difference between a fresh gram and a dry gram.

ALso, when eating fresh mushrooms if you chew them a bit then generally they will come on much much quicker than swalling a bung of dry powder. But more or less, the potency is much the same, possibly slightly favouring fresh subs, but nothing to be concerned about.

I have found that even when you dry mushrooms and they go from blue to pretty much completely black and dry BLACK powder is just as potent as ever, so no-one should stress much about potency loss when drying.
 
hey dudes,

got a question - have a neat little p.sub patch that i've kept an eye on the past two winters, luckily i'm the only one that knows about it (touch wood). Anyway, about a fortnight ago the mushies returned from their summer hiatus, but as yet i have not picked or consumed any as i'm hanging out for the end of the uni semester. Well, i've noticed that the ones that first popped up are now dead or dying (although there are a few lil' ones coming through), but is it reasonable to assume that more will take their place provided the weather stays cool and wet and the environment goes undisturbed? I know i know, i should've picked them and dried them, but i did that last winter and it seemed to drastically reduce their potentcy, did it over the heating vent. Plus, i'm a lazy ass and a big believer that fresh is best. Anyway, yeah, shoud i expect them to keep growing back provided the conditions are right?
 
Went hunting today again.. didnt find many subs.. however the place i was at had some very interesting fungi.. i took this pic of this shroom.. i think the pic came out well.. interested to know what it is..

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I've seen them lots endlesseulogy. Seen some extremely tall ones too, black cap right, really tough? Cool looking shrooms :)
 
Hi guys,
Been hunting quite a lot, I have found some many different looking P. Subs. tell me what you think of these guys.

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HI RES
 
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Whoa, what's with the red guy!? :O Is that a sub?

But yeah i've found lots of subs like that, even ones that had been picked and discarded because obviously some pickers have a mental image of what a sub looks like and don't realise how different they can look.
 
I dunno, the caps look like sun-dried subs however i'd need to see the stems to know for sure. Don't know about that red one but! Even if it was a sub i'd stay the hell away :P
 
I've noticed in the bush on the more mature specimens the stem actually starts to go a strawy colour. On most its only at the bottom where it is buried in mulch and stuff and gets whiter as the stem goes up towards the cap. However, on some subs nearly the whole stem is a strawy/rusty colour. This doesn't seem to happen though until the sub has been growing for at least 3-4 days.
 
I have attached(hopefully)a pic of some subs. I have circled this specimen that we found, growing in a little clump of about 4 GIANT subs. THis one was the biggest and weighed in at just over 12g fresh !!

THe others weighed around 9g.

Unfortunately this clump was the only of their kind we found by scouring the area :(
 

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Well Just want every one to know that the redish mushroom amongst the subs in the photo in my previous post is not a P. Sub. at all. It was growing from the same piece of wood and even apeared to be coming from the same mycelium.

I posted it here to give an example of how easy one could destroy thier liver, or end up sitting on the toilet for a week.
 
More rain :)

More cold :)

Grow, my pretties!!!! GROW!!! =D

*jumps around excitedly*
 
Same, if I go back to my patch and see that it has been desocrated again I'm gonna have to start laying mines around the place.

Lets see how the theives pick my mushrooms without any legs!! :X
 
You might pick there, but it is public space, first in best dressed as such. They are thinking the same thing when they find it picked clean by you!
 
today we found many many very long stemed subs, will try and post photos at some point with some other photos i have taken.

the bad thing about today was the stinging nettle that was dominant in the area we found all these lovely shrooms. also the leech factor but that just makes things more interesting.

I love shrooming even if i dont find anything.
 
I went on a short hunt in inner-city bushland around a certain Bend and not only did i not find any p.subs i only found one shroom and it was a grass-dwelling toadstool. Now you'd expect to find at least some kind of fungi in typical subs habitat, mulch, woodchips etc? It it possible that where im looking just isn't good for any kind of mushroom due to not being high above sea-level or too close to the city and it's associated pollution? There's creeks and rivers nearby but no bloody mushroom, what's the dealio-yo?
(yes i know it's prolly cause i'm just shit at looking for shrooms)
 
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