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Luc Gilgemyn

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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #120 on: November 04, 2009, 09:27:14 AM »
Quote from: Olga Bondareva on November 03, 2009, 05:18:55 PM
Oh Hans my congratulations!

One kind of truffle could be found in Moscow area forests but nobody knows how to find them.

In Piemonte (Italy) they use pigs to find the truffles in the wild...  ::) ;D
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #121 on: November 04, 2009, 09:45:25 AM »
Quote from: Luc Gilgemyn on November 04, 2009, 09:27:14 AM
Quote from: Olga Bondareva on November 03, 2009, 05:18:55 PM
Oh Hans my congratulations!

One kind of truffle could be found in Moscow area forests but nobody knows how to find them.

In Piemonte (Italy) they use pigs to find the truffles in the wild...  ::) ;D

Yes and their owners are usually missing a few fingers!
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #122 on: November 04, 2009, 09:45:35 AM »
Luc ,

In Piemonte they use mostly dogs ...it is to danger with danger with pigs ( they like also truffes )  ::)
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #123 on: November 04, 2009, 10:54:00 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #124 on: November 04, 2009, 11:15:11 AM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on November 03, 2009, 07:57:18 PM
Stephen..... I've heard about the innoculated treees....I think that there is a wait of around eight years for the truffles to begin fruiting...... I'd be awfully thin by that time! :P

I have read that under good conditions 4 years is possible. Manage that?

Inoculated Hazel is quicker at producing than oak, but Hazel production starts falling sometime before Oak, so Oak is usually used commercially.
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #125 on: November 04, 2009, 11:26:39 AM »
Moles are also partial to truffles. Here in Scandinavia we have started to train moles as truffle-hunters, much safer....no one seems to have thought of training moles before (try Googling moletrainer)!



(Just kidding)
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #126 on: November 04, 2009, 11:37:38 AM »
Stephen - very interesting  ;)

The real experts for searching truffles goes without pigs and dogs .....they look for a special fly ....this fly are over the point where truffles are - thats no joke !!!

Maybe better than Narcissus fly  ;D
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #127 on: November 04, 2009, 11:46:02 AM »
Stephen,

I was about to respond seriously to you until I noticed the tiny "Just kidding".  My immediate thought was to wonder how they could get the mole to retrieve it when it was underground and they'd have no way of knowing whether it had found any or not.  I was wondering if some nice enterprising mole was eating two and bringing one back to the surface, just so that the "trainer" thought it was doing it's job.  ;D
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #128 on: November 04, 2009, 05:50:27 PM »
Hi all ,

today is the day to eat the truffles  ;D ;D ;D

I waiting for any comments from our italian forumists  ::)
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #129 on: November 04, 2009, 05:55:06 PM »
Sorry not from Italia but it looks really very tasty! Buon appetito! ;)
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #130 on: November 04, 2009, 06:52:24 PM »
Really good with 'pasta', isn't it Hans?

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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #131 on: November 04, 2009, 06:54:15 PM »
Next time we come to visit you , now you know what we want to eat!

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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #132 on: November 04, 2009, 07:04:54 PM »
No problem Alberto !

....but you have to come in this time of the year !!!
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #133 on: November 04, 2009, 07:09:34 PM »
Quote from: Paul T on November 04, 2009, 11:46:02 AM
Stephen,

I was about to respond seriously to you until I noticed the tiny "Just kidding".  My immediate thought was to wonder how they could get the mole to retrieve it when it was underground and they'd have no way of knowing whether it had found any or not.  I was wondering if some nice enterprising mole was eating two and bringing one back to the surface, just so that the "trainer" thought it was doing it's job.  ;D

 ;)  Apologies...  I was reading an article in the Society of Economic Botany Journal about "Truffle cultivation in rural Spain" and it mentioned there that truffle spore dispersal is dependent on animals like wild boar and moles. True also that Truffles are now cutivated in Southern Sweden.  They train rats, so why not moles.....
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Re: Fabulous fungi
« Reply #134 on: November 04, 2009, 07:23:40 PM »
Quote from: Hans J on November 04, 2009, 11:37:38 AM
Stephen - very interesting  ;)

The real experts for searching truffles goes without pigs and dogs .....they look for a special fly ....this fly are over the point where truffles are - thats no joke !!!

Maybe better than Narcissus fly  ;D

Very interesting!  A quick google tells me that the fly is Helomyza tuberiperda.

Excellent looking truffle dish too (the white flecks in the truffles will be the larvae of Helomyza tuberiperda then?)

Seriously, though, do you often find larvae in truffles?
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