mushroom hunters???

anyone hunt candy cap mushies? ive ate them a few times (way tasty) im not positive with these ones... im good with lobsters, chanties, pig ears , yellow foot,ect. id like to go on a hunt with someone who knows whats up.....i got sour star and sour gunk in the jar if anyone is interested

Good luck man! Wish I could go, I miss those days. Used to get cubensies all the time.

Here is a little video of Paul Stametes w/ some friends. They just found a lovely bunch of Lactarius Fragilis aka Candy Caps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQNItrITfFg

Richard give some identification tips that might help you out.

i like hunting for matsutake mushrooms. the Oriental pay pretty good for them here in southern oregon. the mushrooms are only here for a few weeks though. i would go hunting for other types but dont know much about other mushrooms

There was such a bumper crop of matsutakes this year that the prices plummeted. Personally I like boletes. They are delicious and easy to find.

Fruitbat said:

There was such a bumper crop of matsutakes this year that the prices plummeted. Personally I like boletes. They are delicious and easy to find.

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i did not even know this. i didnt get out to go this year so i did not know. i was wondering why i did not see so many buyers out in cave junction. prices last year were pretty good

rougeweed said:

anyone hunt candy cap mushies? ive ate them a few times (way tasty) im not positive with these ones... im good with lobsters, chanties, pig ears , yellow foot,ect. id like to go on a hunt with someone who knows whats up.....i got sour star and sour gunk in the jar if anyone is interested

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I'm interested in all types of mushrooms. I started hunting this year and have been quite successful with many varieties. I haven't identified the matsutakes yet. Anyone want to meet-up someday soon to have a smoke and walk the woods looking for shrooms. I have some great spores that I would like to get started too. Anyone interested in helping out with this too? I am working on getting a clean-room setup for inoculation. I'm new to this but very motivated to learn as much as I can. Took the coarse with Paul Stamets at his place and he gave us some great spores too. I just finished my second fruiting of shitakes. Now I would like to get some of the cubensis spores I have started. Anyone in the rouge valley that has knowledge and would like to help and share, would be greatly appreciated.

Have a great New Year to all.

I had some mint tea compost(12 yards) delivered about 3 years ago and was going to put it in the garden..Well i didnt like how it was so i just left it where it was dropped and now it is my mushroom compost pile,so many mushroom have started growing its like one of those big logs you can buy and grow mushrooms..now i dont have to look in the woods any more

cazador said:

I'm interested in all types of mushrooms. I started hunting this year and have been quite successful with many varieties. I haven't identified the matsutakes yet. Anyone want to meet-up someday soon to have a smoke and walk the woods looking for shrooms. I have some great spores that I would like to get started too. Anyone interested in helping out with this too? I am working on getting a clean-room setup for inoculation. I'm new to this but very motivated to learn as much as I can. Took the coarse with Paul Stamets at his place and he gave us some great spores too. I just finished my second fruiting of shitakes. Now I would like to get some of the cubensis spores I have started. Anyone in the rouge valley that has knowledge and would like to help and share, would be greatly appreciated.

Have a great New Year to all.

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im from the rogue valley, im from GP.
i love to hunt mushrooms but not really shrooms cuz i dont really eat them any more. i only do once in a great while now. i was gonna start to grow a few shrooms awhile back just for fun. good luck with the shroom grow, if you go hunting in the woods for others types of mushrooms that can be sold legaly then im down

jeffbelize said:

I had some mint tea compost(12 yards) delivered about 3 years ago and was going to put it in the garden..Well i didnt like how it was so i just left it where it was dropped and now it is my mushroom compost pile,so many mushroom have started growing its like one of those big logs you can buy and grow mushrooms..now i dont have to look in the woods any more

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wow that would be cool, are they shrooms or just regular mushrooms?

i hunt chantrels and boleets on mt hood

Bryguy420 said:

i hunt chantrels and boleets on mt hood

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Are all boleets good to eat or are there some to avoid?

I used to go picking for Azurites on the Oregon coast...I have spent a great many years huting the fields and seeing many of the patch sites go into the bay due to erosion...There are king boulettes and lobster mushrooms in Warrenton if you know where to look at the same time of the year (late October). Kaw!

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Are all boleets good to eat or are there some to avoid?

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Most boletes are very good. There are a few you want to avoid but they are very identifiable.

I love looking for mushrooms of all kinds. I've got some shiitakes going on nice oak logs in my back yard. I'll be doing oysters as well. I used to pick cyans and stuntziis back in the day but I think I'm done with 'shroomin'.

Mushrooms in general are amazing.

Fruitbat said:

Most boletes are very good. There are a few you want to avoid but they are very identifiable.

I love looking for mushrooms of all kinds. I've got some shiitakes going on nice oak logs in my back yard. I'll be doing oysters as well. I used to pick cyans and stuntziis back in the day but I think I'm done with 'shroomin'.

Mushrooms in general are amazing.

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Thanks, I'll have to see which boletes to watch for. Yea, I think mushrooms are amazing too. I am very interested in cultivating them as well as hunting. I too have a shiitake (alder) log in the yard and want to add many many more. I would also like to identify many more edible wild mushrooms in my area.

rougeweed said:

anyone hunt candy cap mushies? ive ate them a few times (way tasty) im not positive with these ones... im good with lobsters, chanties, pig ears , yellow foot,ect. id like to go on a hunt with someone who knows whats up.....i got sour star and sour gunk in the jar if anyone is interested

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Wish I would of saw this thread sooner, but my partner bailed on me for this season. I have picked all but the pig ears.

ya dude i go to beach and in the hills above silverton outside salem but the seaon isnt till this comin fall but i would be down to bring you out

Tyc said:

ya dude i go to beach and in the hills above silverton outside salem but the seaon isnt till this comin fall but i would be down to bring you out

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I'd be up for that, if this is an open invite.