Shroom hunting Mushrooms seem to be disappearing

[madman86]

This time last year swim found loads of shrooms but swim went hunting this morning round all my Madagascar Cenitede's usual spots but it only found 2. Is there any reason any1 knows y this would happen. Also the cow shit was covered in orange fungus is this shrooms in the early stages as swim thought it might be



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[Lunar Loops]

SWIM used to know of living in the fields around Preston before many moves took place. SWIM says that he too has had limited success this year in comparison with other years. This could be due to several factors. It could just be a poor year for the shroom, but more likely is that the fields where SWIY is walking have been walked by MANY others. Not every SWIY is a careful harvester of the fruits (nipping part way down the stalk and not pulling up the whole body, giving a few taps to release the spores upon the ground before taking the harvest....The Sporespank Redemption). Over picking, with no regard to the life giver can only lead to fallow years.

[schismatic]

Hello guys/girls - your definitely right about the lack of our little friends - SWIM has been going to various locales week in and week out and harvested a few (see images) but the weather has been seriously mild and rainfall low - which hopefully means that the availability should extend into atleast late November - what you reckon?

the schis

[Silence_Inc]

hey hey - here to we had trouble finding liberty caps on places where they should grow this time a year ... but we found out (so we think) what is the problem.

we had a very dry season and year ... the earth is warming up ... so the mushrooms have moved this year.


we found 3 places with liberty caps - always near a lake or a pond (within 1/2 to 1 mile) ... all land with animals on them ... and old grass with humps and bumps ... and also with (now try to follow what i'm saying cause i don't know the word for it) ... also with long fat reet on it .. like little humps of hollow green long reet. this points out it is a moister land or land with more water underneed the surface... hence being close to pond so grounwater level is up.

so dry seazons makes you wanna look in more moister land. cause because it was dry - what normally would have been to moisterous is now okay for caps to grow ...

with this knowledge we went looking for other places and followed our own parameters and discovered that every field wich followed our parameters (close to pond and with cowshit and long green reet) - had liberty caps ...

[Nature Boy]

Mushroom season in Ireland has officially ended. The weather's taken a very cold turn within the past week so it's highly unlikely that the shrooms will start sprouting up from now on. I imagine the same goes for most parts of the UK. Shrooms need mild, wet weather to flourish. It's now cold and dry.

[Beeker]

The mushroom season in the sub tropics is still going on. Ps. Cubs. in the cow fields are rather common right now SWIM has heard. Rain every three days and 75-90% humdity plus 65-70f weather. It was an odd fall though as it dropped to 40-50 for a week in October which I guess cold shocked the fields because the last week has been a mycophiles dream come true.

[kiemp4]

does anyone know for a fact what actually brings the season of growth on and what causes the shrooms to stop. swim too has noticed in the last 5 years not only a notable decline in quantities in the area that they usually hunt, but what appears to also be happening is that the season is getting shorter, with there only having been a couple of weeks when the harvest was worthy of further study, or eating as it is better known. swim is sure that the warmer climate is the cause here in the uk, but if thats the case why then do the tropics enjoy such huge crops. and secondly, does the first ground frost signal the end of fruiting or is it still worth hunting even after that. swim used to look forward with anticipation to september, but now all it seems there is to look forward too is a change of heart from the wife so that a little advanced mycology can take place indoors (they wish !)

come on. surely somebody got something else to say on this subject

[Nature Boy]

The season of growth is encouraged by damp, mild weather when the summer sunshine subsides and is replaced by those sticky late autumn conditions. Once the weeks of rain fade away and the properly cold weather begins, the mushrooms will stop growing.

[D.U.M.B]

SWIM knows there's been one or two nights of frost in his area. From the beginning of shroom season up until the first frost is generally the only time SWIM can pick some Liberty Caps. Farewell till next year little buddies

[Wflash]

Originally Posted by kiemp4

come on. surely somebody got something else to say on this subject

Cycles! These things are the fruits of a massive organism growing under the ground in the form of a lot of fibrous filaments called mycelia. The biggest (in terms of area covered) living thing in the world is a fungus called Armillaria ostoyae growing in a forest in North America, that's the size of a city.

One can think of liberty caps (or whatever) like oranages on an orange tree. Most fungi have very definite cycles (3-year, 5-year, whatever) to their fruiting, with some appearing every year, but bumper crops appearing only every so many. Even expert mycologists (and I work with one) haven't even worked it all out yet as it seems to be so complex, with so many factors involved, and they're the most under-studied group of macro-organisms on the planet.

I don't suppose this is very helpful, but it means that when folk say "X is a good field", it doesn't necessarily mean it will be next year. But probably will be again one day.

At the end of the day picking 'shrooms is more down to luck than science it seems.

[vitaloverdose]

On thing you might want to consider as the cause of this is the use of plastic bags. In years gone by people used to collect mushrooms in baskets , as this would let some of the spores out while ya collecting.
Or maybe save the water you use to wash your shrooms before eating them and empty it where you picked them... it might work.lol