i think, maybe ah maybe might have heard of these....what?Back in the sixties a lot of people liked Psilocybin mushrooms . I don't think I will try these!
We always had lots of big puffballs around our farm and if the weather was right morels…really enjoyed those. One day I was out by our calf pasture working on the fence and I saw the most remarkable mushroom. It was 8-10” across the cap. The cap was a velvety maroon color with a gold filigree around the edge. I picked and took it to the house and showed it to my wife. I’ve never thought of a mushroom as being beautiful before, but this one was. I threw it away and never thought about it again. One day my Nebraskaland magazine showed up and it had a spread on mushrooms. There was my pretty ‘shroom - right above the name “Death Angel”. Very toxic apparently.
Isn't that always the way it goes , mushrooms , women , guns and most good and beautiful things in life are toxic for us.
GunnyR,
That right there is not only accurate but downright philosophical!
The only thing I might argue is the gun being toxic, but I suppose it depends on the circumstances. If my wife caught me in a new Corvette, with a beautiful hooker, doing Psilocybin mushrooms,
The gun would certainly be deadly but not necessarily toxic.
Yeah... nothing worse than teaching the next generation how to properly and safely handle a gun... its pathetic how divisive guns and politics can be. I misplaced an Aunt over my refusal to take the covid shot. She says im the most narcisistic person she knows... while she stays tucked up in her house and refuses to see her own grandkids because its too risky.TG , Guns for me are toxic. I grew up with two people and have had a long relationship with both of them.
I valued their friendship through the years. However just in the last few years they have distanced themselves.
When I asked why , their answer was that my love of firearms and teaching kids safe handling and marksmanship
was wrong and that all firearms should be out lawed. Said I was teaching kids to become killers. These two people
are well educated , but are so narrow minded. Something I hadn't noticed before. If they think I'll stop they are
wrong. I recently bought a Traditions Kentucky Rifle kit flint 45 cal for the kids in Hunter Education to shoot.
They now can shoot IN Line, percussion and flint. I guess you can say I value the smiles on the kids faces and
won't miss their friendship going forward. So you see guns can be toxic.
GunnyR
Unfortunately that attitude is becoming more and more prevalentTG , Guns for me are toxic. I grew up with two people and have had a long relationship with both of them.
I valued their friendship through the years. However just in the last few years they have distanced themselves.
When I asked why , their answer was that my love of firearms and teaching kids safe handling and marksmanship
was wrong and that all firearms should be out lawed. Said I was teaching kids to become killers. These two people
are well educated , but are so narrow minded. Something I hadn't noticed before. If they think I'll stop they are
wrong. I recently bought a Traditions Kentucky Rifle kit flint 45 cal for the kids in Hunter Education to shoot.
They now can shoot IN Line, percussion and flint. I guess you can say I value the smiles on the kids faces and
won't miss their friendship going forward. So you see guns can be toxic.
GunnyR
Damn, now THAT picture just made me hungry!!!I love 'em. I'll eat anything with mushrooms in it, or on it, or with it. I just ate a whole side order of deep fried on the way home because I couldn't stand it any longer. I just love mushrooms.
But I don't know jack about 'em. My knowledge base is, go to the store, buy fresh mushrooms, go home and cook 'em. I wouldn't know what to pick in the woods, and I've heard bad things can happen if you get the wrong ones. So, I don't fool with it.
That's not this subject though. Growing them is. It just seems another natural part of walking away from store bought food, to grow my own.
Recently I've watched a couple ad videos of a guy drilling holes in an oak log, pounding some sort of seed thing into the holes, and growing 'shrooms. Is that legit?
Who here grows their own, or knows how?
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Thank you for the response @Newaygo77. I've watched a couple of random FB video advertisements of this, and it's good to see some sort of validation. That's what I was after with this thread, and I'm going to try it.Shiitake spores are available on Amazon and other online retailers. The ones I’ve used are plug spores, short dowel plugs inoculated with spores. Drill holes in green oak logs, tap the plugs in, cover with a thin layer of paraffin wax over the hole, place in a very well shaded spot and wait two years. Mine bear mushrooms in both spring and fall.
First small bite,raw, no issues. Next day a half cap, no issues. Two days later a whole cap. No issues.I would not trust anyone who identifies a gill mushroom from the top and the fact that you've eaten them without knowing what they are is borderline insane...
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