It's been an excellent autumn for fungi this year. Found and tasted many new mushrooms and learned a lot in the process. A lot are coming to an end now, but there are still a few hanging on.
Came across some false chanterelles, earth tongues, jew's ear and some type of earthball.
This post is about fungi that I didn't spot: BLEWIT BOMBS. I posted on another fungi thread about 'Blewit bombs'. Basically your remove the leaf mold from where Wood Blewit mushrooms have been growing and throw it into a different but similar place and quite often the mushrooms will spring up there. So I tried it last year and I said I would post the results this year. Despite being a different part of the same woodland nothing emerged. I will keep my eye on it as nature is unpredictable. Has anyone else heard of this or indeed tried it? d d x
Thats what I figured Chris. I shall watch and report x
Never heard of earth tongues till now. I will keep my eyes open for them. thanks for that x
You are right and I understand that.. I check every year for a large patch of chanterelle that have been absent for three years now (unless, of course, someone has beaten me to them). The blewit bomb was just something I heard and decided to try and I said on this forum that I would report on the results the following year. cheers for the input and all that cool stuff. xTo be honest DD, the fruiting of fungi is a law unto itself anyway and totally unpredictable (no matter what anyone says). We had Orange Grisettes fruiting months before they were supposed to and places where every year we get waxcaps, parasols, and field mushrooms that have not fruited at all this year
My point being, you won't know if the spore has taken for along time.
