Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: upstatenybowyer on April 12, 2017, 04:29:29 pm
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This is the earliest I've found blacks here in upstate NY.
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Nice find,
I've been out looking here in WA, no luck for me yet. Ed
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I thought I remember reading somewhere that Morels show up at a different time of year in the Pacific Northwest. Is that true?
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By all the reports I am hearing, I had better start wandering around. No better way to kill a few hours than looking for morels and shooting trophy stumps.
Kyle
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It's been slow for me so far but hope it picks up soon.
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Sweet....... I found 20 small greys monday so went on a big hike tuesday and only found 1.
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Cooked them up last night with just a little butter and salt. I like hunting for all kinds of mushrooms but nothing compares with Morels. They are the best!
Happy hunting!
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Cool their just beginning here a little bit.
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Wow!
I love finding morels, I have never found them this early, always find them in May while turkey hunting.
Kevin
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We've lived here in the mountains of Western NC for over 26 years and I've never found a morel here...and we walk all over these woods.
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I thought I remember reading somewhere that Morels show up at a different time of year in the Pacific Northwest. Is that true?
now is about the right time for them here, we just need some warmer weather, still been a little chilly for them, that's my excuse for not finding any..lol
I'm going to have to go out and check tomorrow for some, I got Good Friday off ;D hope you all have a great weekend. Happy Easter. Ed
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I've heard of a few being found around me in Indiana. I'm going looking tomorrow, find 'em or not I'm in the woods with a purpose!
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I've spent an inordinate amount of time searching for the little treasures and one thing I can definitely say is that the two most important things to look for is tree species (live ash and dead elm being the best) and dark rich loamy soil. Both have to be present in my experience or you will not find them. ;)
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when I find them here, they seem to be around orchards, wild cherry trees, cotton wood, old burn piles (even garbage burns). a couple yr ago, I found them growing in the small round river rock in between two drive through lanes at McDonalds. I'm sure the ppl in line behind me at 6am was thinking I was crazy, running around the drive through finding treasures..lol
I will have to go check out a ash patch I have eyed out, thanks for that. Ed
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Here in VA when the Red Buds bloom under Tulip Poplars
where the soil is sweet. A little rain never hurts.
Zuma
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We've had plenty of rain but to cold here yet. Usually around Mother's Day. I think the blacks are earlier but I've never found them. Like Ed and Jeff said, under dead Elm, orchards, burns sometimes pines and sandy ground to. Em they are good
Bjrogg
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Blacks pop up in the most unexpected places. I found these by an abandoned mine pit. They seem to like places where the ground was once disturbed in some way. I also found um once in the middle of someone's lawn. ??? Go figure
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I am insanely jealous😀👹👹!! Haven't had any morels since I left MO in '66. They supposedly grow in some of the bogs and bottoms around here, but most anywhere else is too dry! They are par magnifique in a sauce for steak or pasta😀
Hawkdancer
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Morels dry very well, too. And once they have been dried, they intensify to another order of magnitude. Two or three rehydrated and chopped will flavor a whole pot of soup!!!
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I sure wish we had them down here. but I'm going to content myself with the Oyster mushroom kit I bought at Home Depot last weekend. Got them in my bow/gun room and they are really sprouting.
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I've collected another dozen or so blacks since the first post. I've only got one spot for them, but lots more for greys and yellows. I'm predicting the greys will appear within the next week followed almost immediately by the yellows.
JW, you're absolutely right about drying. I always do at least a pound or two in the dehydrator and put um in the freezer. Then I've got enough until the next year!
Mullet, I inoculated 2 fresh cut Beech logs last spring. One with oysters and one with shiitakes. The oyster log started to produce last fall and I'm hoping the shiitakes will fruit this summer. Maybe we could trade morels for bow stuff or something in a week or two. :)
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I'll be at the Tenn. Classic in a week or two. Let me get back. I'll probably pick up something to trade. I just cut a bunch of Oysters tonight. I'm going to buy more of these kits, you have mushrooms in seven days for $10.
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I'll be at the Tenn. Classic in a week or two. Let me get back. I'll probably pick up something to trade. I just cut a bunch of Oysters tonight. I'm going to buy more of these kits, you have mushrooms in seven days for $10.
Have fun at the Classic. Man, I'm Jealous. I'm gonna make it down there one of these years!
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The greys and yellows are starting to appear now. I only had about 30 minutes to look today, but this weekend should be off the charts!
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Looks pretty good Jeff.
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They look delicious That could be some real trade goods😀👹!
Hawkdancer
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Morels, the mushroom that grows everywhere and nowhere.
My son ended up finding his 1st morels a couple days ago.
These were growing in the crushed gravel on the edge of a two lane paved rd. Yes they were very tasty, hope to find some more. Ed
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Only place I ever found them in the Black Hills was on top of a finger ridge that had served as a logging deck for a ponderosa pine thinning operation. After they pulled out, they left a two foot deep layer of pine chips/mulch all over the ridge. Morels are supposed to be found in the bottoms of draws and under hardwoods! LOL.
I am pretty sure they were morels. After eating them, the pink baboons riding dolphins confirmed they were!
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lol.
Found some more today and I'm taking my 5 and 6 year old with me tomorrow. They're lower to the ground, so they ought to be helpful. ;)
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Always have to get those eyes adjusted. None here yet but we've had plenty of rain and expecting more. When it warms up we should have a good crop of them I would think.
Bjrogg
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BJ, you're in MI if I remember correctly? I've read that all those states in the middle of the county from MN, WI and MI down to AR, MS, and AL have a lot of limestone in the soil which Morels love. Whenever I read the Morel message boards it's guys from those states who go home with pick-up trucks full of them.
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spring is almost here where I am. and we have had a lot of forest fires the past few years so finding a few is gonna happen this year.........
I am told that "after a rain" is when. it is generally very dry in the spring here, so that doesn't happen often.
how soon after a rain??? is best?
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I'd go looking the next day. If you find any yellows that look kinda small leave them a few days and go back. I usually pick them when they're 3" tall or more.
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we got some rain and I went to the burn. grass and these just starting to pop up. leaves on trees the size of quarters.
am I too early?
what signs of spring seem to be concurrent with the morels showing up?
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Willie, there are things folks say to look for like... when the oak leaves are as big as squirrel's ears, and when the redbuds bloom. I usually start looking when understory plants are 5-6 inches tall. It has a lot to do with the ground thawing out.