mushroom weather

[Pat B]

After a long dry spell we have had nice soaking rains for the last two days. On my afternoon walk with Lucy Brown just a bit ago I decided to look at our shiitaki logs to see if there was a positive effect from these rains. We have been dry for 2 months now and I was wondering if we would get a fall flush as usual. Well, we did!  Here are a few I picked and there are still a few more left on the logs until tomorrow so they can grow some more.
  We may have these for supper tonight! 


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[Catahoula]

Hey Pat,

You sure those are Shitaki?  Look like the deadly rotovarianasianpolititianvirus mushroom to me!!   Ha!

Of course ignore me and enjoy!

Rand

[cowboy]

I hope them are good to eat Pat, I wouldn't know one mushroom from another .

[Pat B]

Rand and Paul, we raised these by inoculating fresh cut white oak logs so we know these are shiitaki. I don't collect wild mushrooms to eat. 

[Postman]

NICE! I did some of those a few years ago, need to get back into it. I let them get to dry, but they kicked butt for two years or so. did you do the drill/plug thingl?

[Pat B]

Yeah Postman. We didn't use the impregnated birch plugs. We just added the spore to the holes then sealed with wax.
  An odd thng happened a few years ago. We hadn't have much rain so everything was pretty dry for a few months. One night we had a thunder storm come through and lightning struck pretty near our house. The next day all the shiitaki logs were all full of mushrooms. It was a tree next where the logs are  that had gotten struck by the lightning. I guess the lightning stimulated the fungi to bloom.