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Post by hornharvester on Sept 11, 2007 5:41:57 GMT -5
Since weve had a lot of rain Ive seen a several different mushrooms this week. Has anyone found any puff balls yet? How about paw paws? h.h.
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Post by kennie on Sept 11, 2007 14:03:37 GMT -5
i was at salomonie over labor day weekend and some little boy was walking around the camp sites trying to sell puff balls. he had a sack full of them about the size of softballs..
kennie
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Post by huxbux on Sept 11, 2007 21:39:39 GMT -5
Haven't seen any puff balls in this neck of the woods yet and I know of only one paw-paw patch which I haven't had a chance to check this year.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Sept 12, 2007 6:09:13 GMT -5
Waiting to pick some. Love em!
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Post by raporter on Sept 12, 2007 9:30:33 GMT -5
Hundreds of paw paw trees and no paw paws  |
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Post by Harley on Sept 12, 2007 10:25:07 GMT -5
Are the puff balls really tastey? I have never eaten them and not even sure if I would know what to look for.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Sept 12, 2007 11:58:32 GMT -5
Are the puff balls really tastey? I have never eaten them and not even sure if I would know what to look for. Very rich in taste. Excellent table fare before they start to yellow. |
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Post by kennie on Sept 12, 2007 13:05:23 GMT -5
might sound dumb but what is a paw paw |
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Post by danf on Sept 12, 2007 16:47:41 GMT -5
It's the Indiana  ! Don't have a pic of the fruit (it has a -ish tast), but the leaves of a paw paw tree are very similar to the leaves of a pignut hickory. There was a thread in this forum last year that had a pic of the leaves... The fruit is about as big around as a golf ball, but oblong in shape. Green when immature, when it's ripe its a deep yellow brown, IIRC. Don't eat the skin, and don't eat too many as they are pretty high in fiber!!!  I'm afraid, like so many other things, that the late frost we had in April killed many of the paw paw buds and there will be very little fruit this year. |
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Post by parrothead on Sept 13, 2007 6:54:46 GMT -5
I will check the paw paws in my woods there are about 50 in a patch and it smells like bananas when they start falling and are ripe. Ours are about inches long.
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Post by Harley on Sept 13, 2007 7:01:56 GMT -5
I have a few paw paw trees behind my house and none of them have any fruit.
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Post by hornharvester on Sept 13, 2007 7:08:46 GMT -5
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Post by JohnSmiles on Sept 13, 2007 22:43:24 GMT -5
I have always wanted to try paw paws.
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Post by Harley on Sept 14, 2007 6:55:16 GMT -5
I have always wanted to try paw paws. You can buy them in a grocery store. I saw them in the Super Wal-Mart |
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Post by dadfsr on Sept 17, 2007 8:07:04 GMT -5
Of the several Pawpaw trees that I know of around here I have seen a lot of early fruit drop. They are not maturing but just falling off early. Doesn't seem to be anything wrong or add looking about the fruit just not ripe. But that's just looking at the ground I guess-I haven't bothered to look up in tree for other fruits. Now I'll have to go check the rest of the tree and report back.
What we don't have here in the PU campus is ginkgo fruit(and nobody is complaining!). Apparently the late freeze here hit at the same time as the ginkgo pollination. We have several female ginkgo trees that have been very proficient at producing large crops of fruit every year but I have not seen one fruit yet this year. The persimmons are still producing but don't seem to have as much as they have in years past.
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Post by hornharvester on Sept 17, 2007 10:00:44 GMT -5
I found a few puff balls yesterday but they were too old. h.h.
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Post by JohnSmiles on Sept 17, 2007 12:26:17 GMT -5
Super Walmart?.?.?
Seriously?
I never shop for anything there.
Who woulda thought.
Persimmons are producing so heavily they are breaking off limbs where I hunt.
All the nut trees are producing tons of nuts also, and I saw 4 softball sized puffballs yesterday in a field walking to one of my deer woods.
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Post by dadfsr on Sept 18, 2007 12:18:31 GMT -5
Just checked all of our Paw paws here on campus and there is not the first fruit anywhere.  |
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Post by tskiller on Sept 25, 2007 9:22:12 GMT -5
I grabbed a football sized puffball on Sep. 15th. There was a huge one, like a beach ball, but it was yellow and the coons had started eating at it.
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Post by danf on Sept 25, 2007 19:23:15 GMT -5
Found a puff ball Saturday (9/22) while in the woods. Was planning on bringing it home to eat, but the bottom had already started to darken and stuff was falling out of where it was growing in the ground....
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