[ant]

Found 2 dried up ones today.But the good trees havent poped yet.

 

[cooley]

Went yesterday found 10 edible blondes some were already to far gone all mostly around dead stumps. I did see some hens that were young about size of my hand starting to come. It seems those blondes are the first to pop, anyone else's find this to be accurate? We seem to be really behind this year, I'm checking a new spot today I will post picks if I find any today!

 

[jdk32581]

Found 9 lbs on this past Tuesday on one of my dead stumps. One head weighed almost five pounds. I have a freezer full from my finds last week which were much more tender and young than the ones from Tuesday. Sold all nine pounds to a local restaurant. Checked many other known trees but nothing. Going out again middle of next week.

 

[cooley]

Went out Sunday Oct. 11 and checked a few trees that fruited last year out of 3 trees only one was fruiting, I checked one dead stump and one was fruiting both hens were the size of a baseball. Does anyone believe once you find them on certain trees they will fruit year after year? Next 2 weeks should get good for us here in the N. East Part of the state.

 

[005587]

So I'm new to this listserve and posting. This was my first year actually finding a HEN! I'm located outside of Youngstown, in NE Ohio. I have looked in a few local forests and found one on Sat. Since this is my first find I don't know what other trees would have fruited or the timeline but this one seemed a pretty good size. I didn't take very good photos since I was so excited to actually FIND one that I couldn't wait to cut it and get home. Boy was it tasty the last two nights!

 

[005587]

EarthWalker, your photos are fantastic! I'd like to post some for you all to look at but I don't have a Photobucket account. I do have a dropbox account but not sure that I want to make the whole file public. How do you just post one .jpg photo that you don't have hosted somewhere?

 

[cooley]

One of the Hens I found Sunday. 005587 you can get a free Photobucket account, you are near me I'm in Trumbull Co. Keep looking we are behind this year they are just starting, check old oak stumps along with the mature oaks, next 2 weeks should be good especially with the cooler wet weather coming.

 

[005587]

So here is my upload from Photobucket of the hen I found. I still want to figure out how to use a different 'cloud' to post individual photos. &lt;a href=&quot;"&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;" alt="" /&gt;</a>

 

[005587]

Why did that post twice with weird stuff?

 

[005587]

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[sb]

Hens (Maitake) from Tuesday, yesterday, in Central OH

A baby, below which I covered with branches to let grow and keep from drying out as much.

http://i.imgur.com/1QTPZEp.jpg

Mature Maitake. I took enough for a dinner or two from the left one. You can see the spore dusting the leaves around the mushroom. These were 35 feet from a tree which produced 6 Hens/Maitake at one time last year.

http://i.imgur.com/pxYMgdG.jpg

 

[sb]

Oops.

Well, after using Imgur.com problem free for several years for posting pics here, I see today that Imgur.com has changed, hence the links above and not the images.

Homework time again.

While I have a photobucket account, I don't use it because I've not found how to post just a single pic and not have it be an link or open entry to all pictures I have there.

 

[ant]

Well finaly broke my dry spell.Found 3 fresh hens today.Still waiting on my good trees to go off.

 

[sb]

Did my homework. Lets see if images linked above from yesterday post.

 

[cooley]

Nice find guys. I'm going out tomorrow to check a few trees and Sunday I'm suppose to meet my buddy to go to a spot he has were we took close to 200 lbs last year. My baby hens I will check next week. Rained here today and cool temps with more rain coming should get good!

 

[005587]

I'm jealous! After eating up the little hen I found last week my taste buds are whetted and I'm craving more. My father taught me the joy of hunting and he is not able to hunt now due to medical issues. I'd sure like to be able to put some in his freezer. A question I have thought about, do the hens only grow on the South side of the trees where the sun hits or can they grow all around them?

 

[tiffmarie]

I found a huge Hen yesterday. Clean, white and dark. Pretty happy about it. I also found some Lion's Mane and oodles of Aborted Entaloma's. On top of that I have a couple hundred of two edible types of Puffballs, all perfect condition. With that said, if anyone knows of any buyers, I could use the money. Only 34yrs old and already drowning in medical bills due to my Lupus (and that's even with having insurance!). My mom has it, also (passes down the line in females) so at least they caught it early in me...back in my teens. But wow, it's costly. So yep, any buyers, HERE I AM lol. I wear latex gloves when I 'shroom hunt and I do my best to follow as manly cleanliness guidelines as possible.

Now, if I could only find some nice Boletes (havent found ANY in a few weeks) and moreso, some Blewit's!! If anyone has any pointers, I'm all ears. I have a few great spots I go to with a pretty decent array of trees and environments but I can't find Blewits! Nor can I find any winter Chanterelles.

 

[cooley]

Hens I found today 10/15/15

 

[cooley]

These monsters were found around 1 dead tree stump. Here in the NE OH we are finding them around tree stumps.