Recent content by Lee hall

i ran across these the other day and they seem gone black trumpet. I'm very new to this but I find it so fascinating. I live in Georgia and have found many typed of wild mushroom, yet the black trumpet seems hard to mistake. Is this black trumpet? What do you think of them? How do I cook them?

I had good luck by harvesting the fruits or seed, mixing with water, and smashing the concoction all together and straining the pulp and water multiple times in a five gallon bucket. Once you end up with sunken seeds, your good. After that you can spread them by hand, direct seed in tubes...

This one was really small and broken off. Now it's going good.

Here are some pics of a few I grew in pots.

I have a few burrs this year but only a couple. I've never heard of them before the wildlife group started selling them in 2012 so mine aren't but two years old. They do love root maker pots though. Most that I got this year were 1-2 feet but few I got were really small so I've been babying...

I use photobucket. I upload it to photo bucket, copy the image and then paste it here.

Here's another picture of one of my two year old sequins

Here are a few new pics. It's amazing how much growth these things can grow in a months time.

They quit shipping once the trees are no longer dormant. You can place an order for next winter through the wildlife group. You could call and see if they have any more potted plants.

Not that I know of. I ordered mine bare root from the wildlife group.

Those are the Chinese chinquapin or sequin. Almost all my allegheny chinquapin have died mysteriously. I think it must be blight. I've also been planting DCO. Here is a picture of one of mine in its third year. I beleive these are the makings of acorns.

Here are a few pictures of one of my second year sequins with burrs that seem to be filling out Here is a first year sequin with burrs on it already.

Some of my grafts have really kicked off now. Let me see if I can load the pictures. Some are already trying to bloom. I'm gonna pinch them but almost all of these are looking great. I've gotten about 30% survival so far.

I had the same problem with allegenny. They would come up, grow great, then just die. I'm trying the Chinese chinquapin instead now. I'm inter planting them with Chinese and dunstan chestnuts.

I did a bunch last year but they all failed because I harvested the scions too late (after bud swell) and grafted to still dormant rootstock. This was my first year that I beleive I got it right. We are experiencing 90 degree temps now so I figured if they were gonna break dormancy it would be...