Unfortunately I’ve been unable to do any porcini hunting due to distance, dry conditions, work schedule etc. Hopefully more videos sooner than later! Thanks for watching and your comments!

Agreed. Busy spot on the peninsula! Persistence paid off for me. 🎉 Thx for your comments!

Im out there foraging for restaurants daily- i’ll say hi if i see you.

Thanks Max! Glad you enjoyed watching my silly video. Truth be told, I combined some footage from two days of foraging. Most is from the one more productive day tho. Ha! Even when I watch my videos it seems like a dream. Because it’s not very frequent that I find such abundance due in part to our dry autumns here in Central Coastal California. I just returned this year from hunting my favorite spot which produced nothing at all. No rain. No boletes. Ugh! It was pretty disappointing. Good luck hunting!! 👊🏼

boletus edulis, var. gandedulis

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Not once do I ever say ‘Oh my God’. Listen more carefully and quit your judging.

Glad you enjoyed watching! Tap, tap, tap 🍄 😂

Greetings Johnny! Thanks for your comments! Best of luck on your mushroom hunting. I sure enjoy the beauty of Germany’s forests.

Thanks Murray! It’s so rewarding to find and harvest boletes. I use a simple recipe of butter, garlic and light salt. I dehydrate the majority in a food dryer to be used later for soups, pastas, spreads etc. Good luck! 🍄

You live in Carmel Valley and I’m hunting not far from you in a private forest along PCH close to Pacific Grove. As you’re well aware, boletes are found in most of the coniferous coastal forests. However, they’re really elusive and not frequently encountered unless ideal conditions are met (sunny warm weather several days after heavy rain). Look for shrumps under pine trees. G’luck Howie in your mushroom hunting!

Absolutely beautiful! You are so fortunate. I found 1 when I was at point Reyes national sea shore…. I find other Boletes,but,not the porcini….some are pretty tasty….

@@toneenorman2135 I don’t always have good fortune when hunting for King Boletes. Unfortunately I often get skunked. I only share the good stuff. 🤫😝 Good luck Tonee!

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Thanks Annette! More wild adventures to come!

Hi there Johnny! What part of Germany are you from? I love your beautiful country. I’ve been fortunate to have visited Germany several times. Hard to compete with the beauty there! As per exactly which mushroom species these boletes are I am not certain. Everyone has referred to them as King Boletes or just Boletus edulis. They are found in a coniferous forest (Monterey pines, etc) mixed with some deciduous trees as well. Good luck hunting! 🍄 😊

@@WildWorldProductionsTV Hello. I‘m from the south of Lower Saxony, close to the Harz mountains. We have a lot of beech/oak trees. Due to bark beetles the spruce forests are mostly dead (luckily there were only a few parcels in the forests around my home). I find lots of boletus edulis under beech and oak, unfortunately chanterelle spots are very rare.

@@WildWorldProductionsTV boletus edulis var grandedulis

You should be able to find porcini mushrooms if there are pine trees etc. Not sure if elevation matters. I find them near the coastline of central California. Good luck!

Sam, my beautiful son, I’m so glad we’ve been able to forage for these prized mushrooms together! I love being with you in the amazing outdoors. Thanks for your help and support in finding, filming and preparing these delicious boletes!! ❤️👊🏼

Hey Jessie! Thanks for watching and for your comments. If you’re an amateur mycologist then you’ve got much more information than I have, for sure! I honestly generally have pretty bad luck in finding mushrooms. Esp the edibles like King boletes! However, once in awhile I get ‘lucky’ and hit the coniferous forests around Monterey (Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, Carmel) during the perfect window and come across an occasional beauty. My only recommendation to you would be to scour the forest floor wherever ideal conditions match up for Boletes - ie season, recent rain, soil warmth, proper vegetation (pines & other conifers) etc. Unfortunately, I personally have never found Porcini in or around old growth oak forests. I wish I could, however! Always a good idea to ask other mushroom hunters that you may encounter while hunting a certain area to get some better clues. From my experience, most people freely share info and will help you if you’re respectful. That said, these prized mushrooms have a tendency to evade even the well-experienced harvesters. So good luck and don’t give up! And don’t forget to crouch down and look for shrumps. You could be standing on top of one and hardly even know it!

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Where are you studying? You are looking at the wrong trees in Monterey for porcinis

IF YOU ARE STILL INTERESTED WHERE TO FIND THEM LET ME KNOW. I WAS AMAZED WHEN I FOUND A SPOT BECAUSE OF ALL THE VARIATIONS OF THEM.

I had no idea these grew near monterey. I always thought mushrooms were more of a northern california thing, and that monterey was too dry for them.

Lol. Mushrooms mostly made of water, they shrink a lot when pan fried haha

That’s great info! Curious to know what other varieties other than B. edulis var. grandedulis?

@@goodmushroom most are in the process of being described and will be given a name. If you want to learn more about them and the people who are doing the genetic research on them, the north american mycological society(NAMA) damon tighe or alan rockefeller might know who is doing the work currently. Its mostly hobby science so you need to talk to individuals.

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