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The 2013 mushroom thread

Some of last year's pickings....

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Here's to a plentiful season 2013! %) (most likely October here tho!)
 
Nom!

There are some brilliant groups on Facebook for IDing mushrooms, which are massively handy (for both edibles and psychoactive ones.)
 
I've seen a lot of the ones you've described in the back garden Treacle.
Infact I think they're one of the first to sprout when it comes close to "the season".

I'm not thinking that it's going to be a good year.... But you never know!
 
Acid4Blood said:
Some of last year's pickings....

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Here's to a plentiful season 2013! %) (most likely October here tho!)
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Mate, just been drooling over yer luvverly piccies again, and just noticed something... It looks very much like these have been pulled out of the ground. Please, please, peeps, make sure you break them off just above ground - don't pull them up by the 'roots'. This destroys the mycelium and can prevent their regrowth the following year. The mycelium is the actual fungus and consists of a vast underground network, the mushrooms are just the fruiting bodies. So if you damage the mycelium it can kill the whole organism. I'm convinced this is why our beloved Liberty Caps seem to be on the decline. Once there was a time when they grew absolutely everywhere, but increasing awareness coupled with over picking and application of fungicides on common ground is making them harder to find year after year. Respect yer mushies and consider the whole organism when harvesting. Be kind to the mushroom and she'll be kind to you...
 
F.U.B.A.R. said:
Mate, just been drooling over yer luvverly piccies again, and just noticed something... It looks very much like these have been pulled out of the ground. Please, please, peeps, make sure you break them off just above ground - don't pull them up by the 'roots'. This destroys the mycelium and can prevent their regrowth the following year. The mycelium is the actual fungus and consists of a vast underground network, the mushrooms are just the fruiting bodies. So if you damage the mycelium it can kill the whole organism. I'm convinced this is why our beloved Liberty Caps seem to be on the decline. Once there was a time when they grew absolutely everywhere, but increasing awareness coupled with over picking and application of fungicides on common ground is making them harder to find year after year. Respect yer mushies and consider the whole organism when harvesting. Be kind to the mushroom and she'll be kind to you...
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Yeah, I'm definately guilty of this! :\ (sorry!) :( I try to pinch them at bottom with my nail as much as I can but sometimes when you're out picking with mates it's a case of pick them as fast as u can before someone swoops in & hogs "your" patch! Its all a bit of fun really but can definately lead to pulling them out of the ground in an attempt to bag the most. I suppose I'll know if I've damaged the mycelium in that particular field this season. Hope not! :\
 
I've found them all summer long for the last 6 years, usually starting in late June. But I'm up in the Welsh hills so that helps.
Nothing yet this year though. Guess having a proper summer stopped them.
I think they'll be out soon, conditions are looking good so I'll be checking my early season spots in the next few days. If I get some I'll post about it.
 
Some grow in my work place... so it is easy enough to look out for them during the next few months :)

Might also get some seeds and plant them now
 
Haha, shame they don't exist. What would stop someone from injecting spores into a patch of ground, when the conditions are right? Would this work?
 
Quick look today high in the hills. 20 minutes looking and found 9. A few pins starting to show too.
Wish I'd had longer, might have picked a trip.
:)
 
I found like 3 at work the other day.... didn't even try looking... just noticed them growing.. gonna wait for them to grow alot more... and then I need to successfully ID them :p
 
I used to.do the nail snip whilst picking until a mate who is head of science at a local college told me it was BS that the mycelium was too large and robust to be damaged by picking. There are fields far from any road near my mothers house that I used to pick getting access by a railway line, and to my knowledge I was the only person to ever pick those fields and I did so in a sustainable way yet some years they failed to produce and others were bountiful.

Oh the pookies in treacles pics look like P Spintcher.
 
^ Bit too early here. I expect to see them pop up towards the end of this month. Fingers crossed! %)
 
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