5kg of the first Porcini mushrooms, 03.06.2017
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Mushroom pickers, hello! In this video I will tell you how we collected the first 5 kg of porcini mushrooms this season on 06/03/2017. As usual, an early rise, on a day off, quick preparations, not a short, not a long journey ))) and around 8 am we were already in the treasured forest, at the first point, where, unfortunately for us, four mushroom pickers had already walked, who could not sleep even more )))
As you know, the earliest porcini mushroom is the Boletus reticulatus, which is also called the oak porcini mushroom, because it grows where there are oak trees, because it forms mycorrhiza with them. There are no pure oak forests in the Kyiv region, there are only small clean areas in mixed forests of artificial origin, where we actually looked for porcini mushrooms that day.
The week before the trip, there were small thunderstorms in Kyiv, and upon arrival at the place it turned out that the ground in the forest was dry as gunpowder, but what is no longer surprising to me is that this land gives mushrooms even in the most severe drought in the area! The mushroom pickers who arrived before us found about 20 white mushrooms for four, we took 2 more mushrooms after them and went to the next places, and they told us on the way that the drought was very severe, it was useless to look for mushrooms, and added that maybe they did not know something. But they did not know something))) Having arrived at the next point, we immediately began to find mushrooms, and realized that no one had been here yet today.
Looking for white oak mushrooms in a drought is a real adventure! They are completely hidden in the foliage, and it is very difficult to find them - you need to be very attentive, precisely attentive, and not behave like a wild pig, raking up all the litter in its path ... The soil in the places where the mushrooms were collected was dry, why mushrooms grow there remains a mystery to me, apparently there are some peculiarities in these places, either the groundwater is close, or the frequent and abundant morning dews in these places feed the mycelium with moisture, but the fact is that there are mushrooms here even when there are very few of them everywhere, or none at all.
By the way, we collected mushrooms in the Vyshgorod district of the Kyiv region, many probably thought when they saw the figure of 5 kg - this is a solid Klondike, not places!!! But I hasten to disappoint you - the mushrooms are very laborious, collected at 4 points, and in general we visited 6 places, 2 of which showed a complete zero for mushrooms. At the same time, we drove several dozen kilometers and were in nature from 8 am to 5 pm. Mushrooms are not our main goal, and we are not that hungry - we just love being in nature!
As for the quality of the mushrooms themselves, all mushroom pickers know that a summer mushroom without meat is nonsense, there were only a few of them, and in general, about a quarter of the catch went to waste.