Spring is here and that means Its almost mushroom foraging season!

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https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Morchella

http://www.wideopenspaces.com/10-tips-hunting-morel-mushrooms-pics/

http://www.thegreatmorel.com/

Are there any mushrooms in South Florida that are safe to eat? I'm interested in foraging.

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Joy!

Thanks to all posting. Morels are a regional delight here, and a treasured part of our springtime rural culture.

>>2345382

<3

>>2345446
do you think native americans used those as dildos?

also can I get rich by dropping out of college and picking mushrooms for a living instead?

Found a decent amount of magic mushrooms the other week. Started flooding today, will have rain for the next few days. They will be plentiful next week.

In Australia.

Just make sure you know what you're doing. You can super die if you get even the slightest mushroom wrong. Happens all the time. You can't be a novice in mushrooms if you're going to eat them and want to live.

Mycologist anon checking in. If anyone wants to know how to cultivate some of their finds at home, give me a (you).

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>>2345598

Be serious. If you could cultivate morels, you would be in your party jet on your way to your fifth mansion in Bel Aire chugging champagne and using hundreds to light your Cuban cigars, surrounded by models in your gilded-jet jacuzzi.

There may be mushrooms you can indeed cultivate. But if you could cultivate morels....

You would rule the world. Bill Gates, Buffett the Kochs and the Golden Greek would grovel at your feet (and rightly so)

anyone know what I can expect to find in massachusetts? I'm in the woods with some degree of swamp

>>2345600
they have some decent success cultivating morels in china right now

http://wsmbmp.org/Bol13/5.html

>>2345598
If i picked some gold tops or blue meanies, took the shit with me and some spores, put them in my back yard and wet the fuck out of them (its hot as fuck usually in qld), would they start growing?

>>2345600
>>2345602
I have actually been doing some research on this subject. I plan on experimenting with a variety of species, starting with M. rufobrunnea. Another ascomycete I plan on researching is Sarcoscypha coccinea, the scarlet elf cup.

>>2345601
What are your local forests made up of?

>>2345603
Gold tops/Blue meanies? P. cyanescens or P. azurescens or P. cubensis?

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>>2345602
>>2345604


oh my

>>2345604
P. cyanescens and/or P. cubensis.

>>2345607
P. cubensis definitely wont work in a backyard, but P. cyanescens grows very well there. You can't just toss it anywhere, you need to get a hold of hardwood chips, and then inoculate them to form a patch.

>>2345616
Any online guides I can follow? I don't want to ask you to type out how to do that. Would they grow out of season too?

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>>2345618
They would not grow out of season unless you could provide some sort of temperature/humidity controlled tent.

I don't know of any guides available, but here is how to grow a very similar mushroom.

Agrocybe preacox grows in woodchips, has ropey mycelium, and propagates through cardboard pretty easy. Take the stem butt of your Agrocybe, and sandwich it in between moistened fresh cardboard.(wet but not drippy). Place it in a plastic bag and let it sit at room temperature for a few weeks until you notice white mycelium has taken it over.
Then, go out and get a sample of your woodchips (alder works best, but most hardwoods will do. You can buy alder chips for smoking at walmart in small bags, they work great for this step)
Unfold the cardboard with clean hands, and place it like a 'v' in the bottom of the bag. See the photo.
Fill with your woodchips once they are cooled and no longer drippy.
It is better for everything to be too dry than too wet at this point.
Seal the bag with some air inside, and let it sit in a cool dark area until it colonizes. Once that has happened, mix it into your outdoor bed made up of fresh hardwood chips.

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>>2345604
>>2345607
>>2345616
>abbreviating the genus

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>>2345668
>writing the genus when everyone know what you're talking about

>>2345674
>>2345668
Seriously. As soon as you give the context once, it is way more convenient to abbreviate. Try writing a paper on Schizophyllum commune, or Fomotopsis Pini-canadensis where you would have to write it out like 200 times. Abbreviation is standard.

>>2345674
>assuming everyone knows what you're talking about
What a terrible teacher

>>2345698
we're not here to babysit you retard.

are there any species of magic mushroom that can be found in northern ontario

>>2346525
You guys probably have Liberty caps, P. semilanceata, and maybe (very maybe) P. cyanescens. I am not sure if cyans have been introduced that far north. Check wetland grasses and woodchips come fall. Avoid Galerina and Tubaria species, they are extremely similar and will send you to the hospital needing a new liver and/or kidneys.

Seriously, until you can tell the two in this photo apart, don't even think of eating anything you find.

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>>2346991
Attached.

>>2345379

foraging morels is one thing, but trying to find wild psychoactive shrooms is a recipe for disaster. Just by some spore syringes from one of the dozens of reputable vendors and grow em yourself. Its super fucking easy; you can get the necessary supplies from Big lots and Ace hardware for like 50$

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>all you guys talking about growing yummy mushrooms

Somewhere in cramped urban apartment, an anon is lurking this thread, and you are breaking his heart.

Tell me anything about how you grow scrumptious mushrooms. I never et a mushroom I didnt like.

Im sure portabellos are pleb to all you, but you can have your magic mushrooms. I get plenty happy eating mushrooms (even if I dont actually know how much nutrition they actually have)

I could graze on white buttons all day.

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>>2347010
If you want to grow mushrooms indoors, even in a small cramped apartment, you can do it very easily with a number of species. I would recommend Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus sp.), Shiitake (Lentinula edodes), or some Stropharia rugoso-annulata (SRA, winecaps) in flowerpots.

Honestly, Portobellos are trash IMO, when compared to most species of mushroom. They are outclassed in flavor, texture, and quantity by most other species.
If you really like Portobellos, grow some SRA. Imagine portobellos that taste better, on steroids. Pic related.

>>2347024
or use a cumsock

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>>2347024

I will see what is possible, and start small. I dont have a lot of confidence in my ability to do anything technical without screwing it up due to a long history of awful luck. My biggest horticultural achievement was getting a pothos to survive more than two years. I dont even keep gold fish out of the same terror of my own incompetence, desu. I'm that poor schmuck that starts a kitchen fire trying to make a bowl of cereal.

But I will look into it. Oyster mushrooms sound nice. If I have space, I'd like to have button mushrooms.

Thanks again and have a great weekend.

Anyone have a good hobbit hunting season? Bashed and roasted 3 over the winter.

>>2347051
I can give you a little writeup on how to grow some oysters if you want.
Sorry to tell you but, button mushrooms are not easy to grow without a whole dedicated facility

>>2345598
Would anything special need to be done for getting black chanterelles (craterellus cinereus) to fruit using some stem butts? Or can I just follow the directions in your post here (>>2345633) without modification?

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Any of y'all have these where you're from?

>>2347665
Yes tons. They pop up all the time in the yard.
My nephew calls them ground boners.

>>2347051

Bruv, in college I grew edible mushrooms in a friggin plastic Rubbermaid tote under my bed. I think you'll do fine. The initial medium sterilization is pretty much the only part that requires close attention

Why are magic mushrooms illegal yet buying their spores is ok? Wouldn't you get raided if you bought some online?

>>2345674
pls post source

TFW all you find are stinkhorns :(

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>>2347662
Black chanterelles are mycorrhizal, meaning they are symbiotic with tree roots, receiving sugars in exchange for minerals. They cannot survive without the tree pairing, so no, you could not grow them unless you grew an orchard alongside.
Pic related.

>>2347665
Yep, I am actually cultivating some right now.

>>2347681
Those kits come with grain already sterile. Without buying sterile grain, mushroom growing becomes a much more complicated endeavor.

>>2348745
Thanks for your answer. Damn, thought they were saprotrophic (the black chanterelles) Still want to try though, since it was delicious, and field guides keep saying that it is rare in the wild. I have a young coast live oak in my backyard, would that work as a host?

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>>2345379
I wasn't mushroom hunting in a while but I should again. The walks through forests ar so relaxing and finding mushrooms tickles my rpg senses.

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Here's a decent one from last year, can't wait to start hunting soon! I gather all that I can, what I don't eat I dry and jar for use in the winter months.

>>2348793
Oak could work, that is a tree species it is associated with. It is always worth a try, some people do end up getting lucky and having it work out. That's why you'll hear about people in the US "growing morels", where they have just tossed a slurry in their backyard. Yes, there is the small chance that it could work, but you can't say that it is a worthwhile method just because it is 100% unpredictable. The same goes for most mycorrhizal species.

The big reason it is unpredictable is because most of the time root space is already colonized by other species, there isn't any available to other introduced species. People have had success inoculating sterile seedlings, but like I said, that takes devoting an entire orchard over like a 20 year period.

>>2348685
To my knowledge the spores don't contain the chemicals that cause a trip, which is what the DEA regulates.

>>2345379
Are mushrooms happy?

>>2350650
Yeah, they're pretty fun guys.