From: carolinasteve681@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, September 13, 2013 1:34:38 AM UTC-4, tree wrote:   
   > My reliable chanterelle patches are turning up just one or two or even   
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   > nothing this year. By contrast the false chanterelles are abundant, as if to   
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   > rub salt into the wound. There have been a few of ceps this year though. I   
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   > was hopeful this year would be a good one for mushrooms as July was very hot   
   >   
   > and then we got a thundery downpour but then August was virtually devoid of   
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   > rain. Worst of all there was a couple of weeks of wind which dried out the   
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   > ground (this happened last year at the wrong time too). There's been some   
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   > rain this week though and an autumn storm is promised for the weekend so   
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   > there's still time for it to turn around. This is Scotland, BTW.   
      
   In the SE US this is the best year in recent memory for chanterelles. Bolete   
   species have been noticeably lacking though.   
      
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